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What’s having the greatest impact on your business at the moment?

In June the Printing Expo Virtual Exhibition opened up online. So, with travel restrictions still a key consideration, is this the way of the future – and to what extent do environmental concerns come into play?  

As your focus moves from survive to thrive, clever marketing is going to be a strategic necessity. Ice Blue Sky works with B2B organisations to deliver higher than average marketing qualified leads and/or sales qualified leads, so what its MD has to say on the topic is worth hearing.

Wish you had a crystal ball to tell you how business is going to look post Covid-19?  Well, we have the next best thing. Having raised some interesting points in his talk at the Future Print virtual summit, I linked-up with Colin McMahon, research analyst with Keypoint Intelligence, and asked him to expand on some of his key messages. It doesn’t all make for comfortable reading.

If the mere mention of colour-matching is enough to raise your blood pressure, you’re not alone - it’s a difficult area. But relax - the process is being made easier. 

What have your systems suppliers been doing to help you keep running in a disrupted working environment? See if yours are doing as much as others…

What’s having the greatest impact on your business at the moment?

An economic re-start over the coming months means businesses will face tough decisions, . As redundancies are neither cheap nor easy, the alternatives to achieve savings yet retain skilled staff are worth examining. Here are some of the options together with the legal issues to consider.

By Jane Rixon, Signage and Decoration Business Development Manager, HP Large Format Printing

Looking beyond the Covid-19 pandemic, Walter Hale highlights some good habits - and principles - that can help you manage cash more effectively as you enter the new normal. 

Wondering when it will be ‘back to business’? Isn’t everyone. There can’t be a single print operation that has not been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, nor can there be a single way of coming out the other side as fit as before, but is there a case for what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger? I asked ImageCo MD and Fespa UK board member Nathan Swinson-Bullough for his take 

On 24 June the Print4All conference ‘Future Factory’ will stream, focussing on sustainability and I4.0 working. The shake-up and fall-out from the Covid-19 pandemic makes the event more relevant than ever, so should it be in your diary?