This is the space on our website that is dedicated to the latest news and developments within NPRC. Some of the news items are for members only and others are available for all to read. This is where we will typically post the results of our latest industry and member-only surveys. When you have suggestions or comments we will post them here for all to see, unless of course you want your comments to remain confidential.
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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Look for Lower Valued Companies Says Hunt
Purchasing a company from the buyer’s perspective Industry Expert Larry Hunt Suggests Looking for Lower Valued Companies By John Stewart We recently turned to our long-time friend, industry expert and author Larry Hunt and asked him for his comments as they might pertain to our recent popular blog post titled, ...
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Print Shop For Sale (6th Printing)
Print Shop for Sale, one of NPRC's all-time, most popular bookstore publications, is now back in stock. Quantities are limited, however, and available only as a hard copy. Sorry, no PDFs. Don't put your business up for sale or offer to buy a competitor until you purchased a copy of ...
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Save 18% on Signs & Wide Format Pricing Study
18% Discount on Popular Signs Study The 2018-2019 Signs & Wide Format Pricing Study is one of NPRC's most popular pricing studies, and you can now save 18% - BUT you must place your order by Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Use Coupon NPRCSIGNS18 to save 18%. This study has already ...
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Download FREE Digital Pricing Pages & Save 18%
Act now and save 18% on popular 2019-2020 Digital Pricing Study. This study covers pricing for dozens of the most popular digital products and services provided in our industry. Use Coupon: NPRCDIGITAL18. This special offer expires Oct. 30, 2020. As an example, you'll find useful pricing info for 4 x 9 ...
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The Battle to Recover Sales & Profits
Published Oct. 15, 2020 Printers Continue to Face Covid-19 Challenges As They Battle to Recover Sales & Profits By John C. Stewart, Executive Director, NPRC It’s been seven months since Covid-19 first began impacting our industry (as well as the entire U.S. economy) and NPRC has been surveying fellow printers ...
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NPRC Shares July-Sept. Covid-19 Findings
Although the primary purpose of our recent "Survey of Surveys" was to determine where to concentrate our efforts in the next six months, we couldn't help but ask a few questions regarding Covid-19 and its impact on the printing industry. Based upon survey data we have gathered since early March ...
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Save 18% on Popular NPRC Mailing Study
Use Coupon to Save 18% On Association's Newest Study One of NPRC's most popular pricing studies! Now, for the first time, you can save 16% on NPRC's recently released pricing study - The 2020-2021 Mailing Services Pricing Study. First published in February 2020 and offered at a retail price of ...
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Controller Embezzles $2.8M from Printing Firm
We rarely if ever provide links to outside sources that we are unable to verify, but the following story is worth the exception. Over the years, however, we have encountered a number of stories involving fraud and embezzlement, and not all of them involved multi-million dollar firms. It's amazing to ...
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Calculating Break-even Sales in the Covid Era
Update & revised with corrections as of 8-28-2020 11:00 AM The good news is that calculating break-even sales for a company is actually quite simple. The bad news is that many companies in our industry are having a difficult time meeting that break-even figure, thanks in large part to Covid-19 ...
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100+ Words to Avoid in Email Subject Lines
NPRC sends out upwards of 30,000 or more emails each week. Most of our emails are designed to promote industry studies, research surveys and general articles about the printing, mailing and sign industries. We learned early on that half the battle in getting folks to open and read our emails ...
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