The people of PFL send our gratitude this Memorial Day to all who have served. Thank you. Today seems like the perfect time to share the story of a red white and blue remake. Florida insurance broker Hugh Barndollar wanted to stick with his American Flag theme when it was time to print some new [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Leadership: All situational? How to reduce “people problems”
How many times have you heard someone say “this job would be so easy if it weren’t for the people”? How many times have you said or thought it yourself? One thing I’ve found during my career is that if your team isn’t giving you what you want, its probably because you’re not giving them [...]
Cornucopia at Oldfield Gets a Paint Job
Ed Edelson painted the home and barn at his Bed and Breakfast, Cornucopia at Oldfield B&B. He didn’t want to take new photos, but did want to show the new color scheme. Solution? Photoshop magic.
Capturing Creativity – Business Card Inspiration
We are constantly amazed by the creativity and the ingenuity of our customers. Since we have the luxury of seeing so many great designs come to life here at PFL, we thought we would share a few examples of some of our customer’s work. We can all use a little inspiration sometimes, so if you [...]
Marketing a Good Cause
While we print and mail a ton of postcards for our customers, we typically don’t get to see the results our customers generate from their marketing efforts. So it was especially good to hear back from one of our local print customers – The Community Closet – about a campaign they recently ran. But first, [...]
Affinity Commercial Gets a Postcard Makeover
New York City is replete with PFL customers. One of them, Affinity Commercial, leases commercial space in the city. (Need some space? Contact them at: (AC@AffinityCommercial.com) They recently got a makeover of the 4×6 postcards they use as mini-brochures for marketing to potential clients. They added a compelling graphic, spiced the piece up with some color on both [...]
Turning Love Letters into Love Videos
I am of the opinion that when it comes to highlighting what your company does and why someone should work with you, video often speaks louder than words. Here at PFL, we use multimedia in many different ways, but our favorite thing to do is showcase our remarkable small business customers by giving them a [...]
The Lesson List – What I’ve learned
The Lesson List – What I’ve learned I’ve spent more than 20 years working in rapid growth small businesses and recently had a MBA student ask me one of the most interesting questions I’ve had in some time. What have been the 3 most important lessons I’ve learned? It is a great question and harder [...]
PrintingForLess.com’s Newest Puppy
One of the best things about working at PFL is that we can bring our dogs to work. After loving everyone else’s dogs for almost three years, I finally convinced my husband to replace our dear departed Corgi, Sadie, with a new pup. Allie started coming to work with me at 8 weeks old. She [...]
Employee Training — An investment, not an expense
I remember a job from years ago where the training consisted of me filling out some paperwork, skimming a manual, a quick pep-talk from the boss and then getting thrown in, to “learn as I go.” That was not a great experience, and I learned things sporadically, got frustrated, and frustrated my employer. Many of [...]
