Dear visitor to my blog-site, So, far, my blog-site has been visited by people from 38 states in the U.S. (This, according to Google Analytics reports.) But, that also means that my blog-site has not received visitors from 12 states in the U.S. If you have reprographer-friends in any of these (‘missing”) states, please tell…

What else would you expect from a very smart management team? Given the tremendous fall-off in ARC’s stock price since 2007, many ARC employees, who were granted options to purchase ARC stock when ARC’s stock prices were much higher than the price-per-share ARC was recently trading at, are holding options that are “under water.” The…

I was in Europe the past couple of weeks, returning home to the U.S. on Saturday night. This morning (Tuesday), I got up early and drove eighteen blocks to my favorite breakfast hangout in St Petersburg, FL. After breakfast, I drove down Central Avenue to the little office I maintain (for my consulting practice) in…

This information was obtained from an article on Reuters.com Finally, some positive news about the AIA’s ABI Index! ….NEW YORK (Reuters) – A leading indicator of U.S. nonresidential construction activity jumped in March to its best level since August 2008, an architects’ trade group said on Wednesday (April 22, 2009) The Architecture Billings Index rose…

As of March 24th, Google Analytics captured and reported the following activity information about visitors to Reprographics 101, my blog-site: Reprographics 101 has been visited by 280 “unique” visitors. Reprographics 101 has been visited by people from 20 different countries. Reprographics 101 has been visited by people from 37 different states in the U.S.A. I…

My retired ex-partner, John Scher Zeller (JZ), whose grandfather founded Max Scher Blueprinting around 1922, wrote what you’ll read below in recent e-mail to one of our “younger” ex-associates who is younger than John and I. When John first started in the blueprinting business, his company was still doing ‘real’ blueprinting. Okay, without further adieu,…

For reprographers who want to know what’s going on in the Architecture business, service-demand-wise, I’m providing a link to the most recent (March 2009) Press Release from the AIA’s Economics guys about the February Architectural Billing Index (ABI). The ABI is supposed to reveal trends in demand for Architecture services – and many follow the…

From time to time, I read on-line publications from the Architecture Industry, just to see what’s going on in their world. What’s going on in their world, of course, affects the Reprographics Industry. If you go to the Architectural Record’s site (see link at end of this post), and then select this article ….. Layoffs…

A couple of previous posts talked about the contest I’m running and about how to enter the contest. In order to enter the contest, you must E-MAIL me your guess at ARC’s Q1 2009 Sales. Do not post your guess as a “comment” to a post. That is not an acceptable way of entering the…

It’s that damn “double-whammy” effect. It’s not only awful that reprographers have experienced (and are continuing to experience) a downturn in business due to the messy economy, but customers of reprographers – A&E firms – are experiencing that downturn as well. In addition to business being down, reprographers are now also facing collections problems, given…