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Orlando Printer Praises New Digital Pricing Study
You did it again, John. The Digital Pricing Study has again proven to be a great tool to help us clarify changing market conditions and how they’re affecting our business in this crazy COVID economy. I was really surprised by some of the data contained in this year’s study and ...
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New Pricing Study Helps Maximizing Profit Opportunities
Eric Van Kerckhove is one of many printers that have written NPRC praising our latest 2021 Digital Color Pricing Study. Read what Eric has to say: Calculating pricing based on overhead, cost of goods and labor is easy enough, it’s just numbers. Figuring out what your service is worth ...
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NPRC Releases Popular Digital Pricing Study
The 2021 Digital Color Pricing Study, one of the printing industry’s most popular studies, has just been released by NPRC and is available in the NPRC Bookstore. This new study features average, median and per unit pricing for products such as envelopes, 8, 16 and 32-page newsletters, envelopes and carbonless ...
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Don’t Blame Covid-19 for Business Closures!
Blaming Covid-19 for all the problems? – While there is no question that Covid-19 has had a dramatic impact on our industry in terms of both profit and sales, there are underlying problems that continue to impact our industry as well. Many firms we surveyed were facing modest to serious ...
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“Excess Earnings” Are Key to High Valuations!
NPRC SPECIAL REPORT – NOV. 2020
“EXCESS EARNINGS” ARE KEY TO HIGH COMPANY VALUATIONS! 5-page valuation report NPRC is offering, for a limited time, a special report detailing real world valuations for 48 printing firms. The report features four special valuation charts. Each chart features key factors used to arrive ...
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“EXCESS EARNINGS” ARE KEY TO HIGH COMPANY VALUATIONS! 5-page valuation report NPRC is offering, for a limited time, a special report detailing real world valuations for 48 printing firms. The report features four special valuation charts. Each chart features key factors used to arrive ...
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Check-out Your Pricing Against National Pricing
Although NPRC has just released its newest report – The 2021-2022 Digital Color Pricing Study, it has decided to continue providing a new, easy-to-use Excel “quickie” spreadsheet that allows you to compare prices for six popular digital products (Example: #10 Reg. Env., 3-part carbonless and postcards) against national averages. After ...
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Covid-19 An Excuse, Not the Cause!
Sure to cause a stir among some printers, one of the paragraphs appearing in the “Executive Summary” of the soon-to-be-released in the 2021-2022 Digital Color Pricing Study reads as follows: Blaming Covid-19 for all the problems – While there is no question that Covid-19 has had a dramatic impact on our ...
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How Does Your SPE and Sales Compare to Others in the Printing Industry?
Jan. 8, 2021 – We discovered some new stuff earlier today that we think you might find interesting! We were checking out our recent study on wages (The 2021 Printing Industry Wage & Benefits Study) when we came across three interesting graphs that we thought might be worth sharing with ...
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