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Want To Succeed in Business And Life? Choose Hope.

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Opening day for Major League Baseball is tomorrow and it marks a brand new start for all 32 teams. Are there favorites as the season opens? Sure. But the games have yet to be played. The results remain a mystery. Hope abounds. As the season goes on there will be surprises. Some players and teams [...]

15 Ways to Be Productive When You Just Can’t Be Productive

This post is the follow-up to my article about harnessing your peak performance. Here are 15 things you can easily accomplish to actually get something done when you just don’t have the juice to get anything done. Clean out your center desk drawer. Do some filing. Call, write, or e-mail someone to say thank you. [...]

The One Thing Every Small Business Owner Needs To Know To Harness Their Peak Performance

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I just couldn’t focus. I knew there was work I should be doing, but I was having a hard time focusing on anything important. I wanted to work on things that required no decision making. Things like filing and entering bills into Quickbooks and cleaning up around my shop. But I’m the president of the [...]

Welcome Back, Melissa

Melissa & Rhonda at Date-Line Digital Printing

Melissa Wood is back! Melissa is a former employee who has been helping us out as a super temp for the past year. When it became clear recently that it was time to add a part-time staffer to help us keep up with the growing demand for our services, Melissa was willing and able to [...]

The Best Small Businesses Keep Getting Better

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I’m a big Yankee fan. I’m sorry if that is going to cause a problem between us, but it’s the way things are. I hope we can still be friends. The Yankees have a storied history of not only winning, but of paying outrageous amounts of money for players to improve their team. Because of [...]

3 Things That Will Help Your Small Business Make A Good Impression

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It’s been said that you don’t get a second chance at a first impression. And while that’s certainly true, you will likely find new prospective customers to make first impressions on, so don’t let past failures get you down. Here are three ways to help your small business wow customers-to-be… 1. LISTEN TO YOUR NEGATIVE [...]

Why We Call Ourselves Problem Solvers

A few months ago I realized we had a problem with our job titles. The words Customer Service Specialist were accurate, but they didn’t really get to the crux of what we do. When I started to really distill the work we do here down to it’s essence I eventually got down to solving problems [...]

How To Change The Graphic In A Banner Stand

We recently produced a video detailing how to replace the graphic in one of the retractable banner stands we sell. It’s about 7 minutes and covers the process from start to finish. Oh, and if you pay close attention you can see our “magic” utility knife.

How to Crop PDF’s in Acrobat

In this 4:41 video Geoff explains how to access the Crop Tool in Adobe Acrobat and how to use it to isolate a portion of a PDF for printing or to focus your audience.

Paper Weights Are Not What They Seem

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Have you ever heard someone say that numbers don’t lie? Well, they do. Especially when it comes to describing the weight of a sheet of paper. When our customers come in to compare papers they usually want to compare them based on pound weights like 20 lb. or 32 lb. or 60 lb. This is [...]