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Westmoreland acquires Printin’ Press in Kings Mountain
The Printin’ Press, Inc. and Robert Bolin are pleased to announce the sale of the company to Westmoreland Printers, Inc, effective July 1, 2021. Wes Westmoreland said of the acquisition, “I was born in Kings Mountain, my grandfather, Jim Hambright, graduated from Kings Mountain High School. I am most pleased to have a footprint in […]
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Is Your Advertising Take You Up or Down?
Marketing and advertising can be quite costly. However, marketing can attract customers and earn you money. So, you need to be asking yourself “is your advertising taking you up or down?” Let’s take a quick look at three of the best ways to make sure your marketing efforts are boosting your sales revenue instead of […]
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5 Meeting Rules You’ll Actually Want to Adopt
Are meetings something that you would consider magical at your organization? No? Why not? Aren’t meetings a place to collaborate, share ideas, dream big dreams and then make things happen? Few business people would describe meetings using terms like actionable, positive, critical and focused . . . yet those are the terms that help define success […]
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4 Ways to Stop Your Team from Falling Apart
There are times in every supervisor’s work life that you can feel everything going off the rails — projects don’t sync up as they should, laughter feels forced within your team, and the energy levels are low. While it may feel like everything is falling apart at the seams, and you’re not sure what you […]
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Post-Show Followup Techniques You Will Want to “Borrow”
Trade shows are one of the most exhausting, yet exhilarating, ways to spend your marketing dollars. You not only get to meet with your customers face-to-face, but you can also see what your competitors are up to, get great ideas for the future, and generally feed off the energy on the show floor. However, if […]
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How to Turn Negativity into Inspiration
It’s easy to look at successful businesspeople and feel jealous of what they’ve accomplished. They make it look so easy that you wonder why you’re not having the same level of success in your life and career. However, what you may not see is the hundreds of times they’ve had their ideas shot down, been […]
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The Dignity of Work
Down But Not Out Albert Serur was just a young man when he passed out cold in his client’s office. Only four months into his job, a previously undiagnosed heart condition might have sidelined him permanently. But Serur didn’t go down without a fight. Rather than recovering from emergency surgery at home, he hired a […]
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Stay in the Game
Finding the Off Switch Do you ever lay awake at night feeling restless about work? Do you take projects home each evening or over the weekend? When the day is over, is it difficult for you to quiet your racing thoughts? You work hard. And you enjoy it. But in this mobile generation, devices meant […]
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Here’s Why Visual Communication Works
According to a recent study, the average person gets distracted in just eight seconds – although, for some people, just 2.8 seconds is enough. When you operate predominantly in the print-based marketing world, you’ve already got something of an advantage over most people: print is something tangible. It exists in the real world. People can […]
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3 Opportunities for Better Customer Follow-up
Have you ever considered an online purchase but been put off by taxes or shipping costs? That’s what a Reddit user (Doug D.) experienced when he fell in love with a sweatshirt from Archrival Clothing. Doug, a UK resident, added the item to his cart, but was disappointed to find he couldn’t get Archrival’s alluringly […]