This is a rant, unrelated to the Reprographics business and industry. So, if you don’t want to waste your time reading one of my rants, skip this one! I don’t know why people are so fixated on the AIG bonus thing. In “the scheme of things”, the AIG bonus issue is nothing more than a…

My ATF comedian, Lewis Black, would likely say something like this ….. holy-shit, somewhere, someone is getting fucked! Reported in the Saint Petersburg Times on March 23, 2009:OSI Restaurant Partners Inc. got some much-needed breathing room from its debt burden by buying back some of its high-interest junk bonds at about 33 cents on the…

Over the many years, one of the things that’s always bothered me about IRGA Convention Educational Breakout Sessions is when a specific Educational Breakout session covered anything having to do with “how to streamline / improve a reprographics business and make money”, but was led by someone who has never been in the reprographics business.…

On March 3rd, I did a post about the idea of developing and periodically publishing a “reprographics industry” barometer. To date, I’ve had not a single response about that. What that “zero response” means to me: a) that no one trusts that I would keep their sales numbers confidential [Even though I pointed out in…

As of March 23rd, my blog-site has been visited by 100 “unique” visitors! To me, that number is a significant milestone. – European reprographers from Germany, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, The Czech Republic and the U.K. – U.S. reprographers from Maine to Florida, from New York to California, and from Minnesota to Texas…

One of the worst things about a recession, if not the worst, is the fact that people are laid off (softer way of saying “terminated’) when a company “right-sizes” its business. The other day, I received an e-mail from a former associate in the Washington, DC area; he sent me that e-mail to inform me…

After procrastinating for at least two months, I finally got around to registering for the IRGA Convention that will be held in Pittsburgh this year.  I always look forward to attending the IRGA convention; great opportunity to greet vendors, greet friends, make new friends, learn new things (what’s working and what’s not working), and get…

I’m pretty sure I explained in a previous post that my hobby is following the reprographics industry. That simply means that I do my best to follow what companies (reprographers) in our industry are doing and what industry associations are doing, among other things. Today, while surfing the web for reprographics-related information, I came across…

As of March 17, my blog-site has been visited by 85 “unique” visitors. The number of visitors to my blog-site jumped up substantially over just the past few days. I think that’s because I returned from Europe this past weekend and finally had a chance to go through the business cards (i.e., e-mail addresses) I’ve…

The post just before this one revealed the 5 worst decisions I made in the reprographics business. While I had given some thought to writing a post about my 5 all-time best decisions, I’ve decided, at least for now, to talk a bit about the FM business, because getting involved in the FM business was,…