Train Hard for Big Rewards

Training. We all go through training in different areas of our life. There's potty training as a child, college prep training as a high schooler, on-the-job training as an adult and athletic training for those of us who push ourselves physically and run, cycle, swim, etc. We even print a ton of training materials for our customers. What are you training for right now?

BPI Media Group offers training for our customers on a variety of our solutions through BPI University. These trainings are a great resource, but our most important training is that which we do every day, and I bet the same is true for you too.

I was reminded recently that the best training I can get is to work hard and keep doing my job EVERY SINGLE DAY. BY exercising the same activities every day, our skills get sharper, just like our muscles. When I run, I can run farther and faster the next time. When I'm working, I can focus on the projects at hand and work toward gaining new prospects and customers. How are you gaining new prospects?

Here are a few tools I utilize from BPI that help me stay in contact with customers and prospects:

• Direct mail with 1:1 personalization
• Personalized landing pages with dashboard management
• Web portal for ordering campaign pieces to target prospects
• Email marketing to communicate in multiple channels

How can we help you in your training to keep your marketing messages fresh?

Until next time...Elizabeth

Need a Little Insite?

If you are one of the many, super-busy people in this world, you need your print project printed yesterday, and you don't have time to wait hours or days for a proof. If you missed BPI Media Group's webinar last week presented by BPI University, don't fret. You can watch in two short segments (about 25 minutes total)an Introduction to Insite presented by Jan Spears, BPI's prepress director.

Introduction to Insite: Part 1

Introduction to Insite: Part 2

First, let me tell you a little about this proofing system and what makes it so great. Trust me, you'll want to join this bandwagon and speed up your proofing time like many other users have done.

What is Prinergy and Kodak Insite?

• Prinergy—Kodak workflow with full automation with soft proofing.
• Insite is a part of Prinergy where customers can be set up with a custom ftp site. Once their files are uploaded, Insite will perform tasks based on rules-based automation. Rules-based automation is set up for each customer based on their needs and type of product to print.

Why should I use Insite?

• Increase automation and efficiency of the proofing system.
• Take advantage of the state-of-the-art online tools in the system.
• Utilize the reliable, color-accurate soft proofing.
• Allow multiple proofers in your company to review the document before it goes to print.
• Allow for notations to be made on the proof for other reviewers to see.
• Enable the uploading of replacement pages on the fly.
• Be able to proof your document within a matter of minutes after it's uploaded.
• See quickly any file problems that the preflight manager may find (i.e., inadequate bleed, rgb images, low-res images, font issues, etc.)
• View your proof in a "page-turn" format just as if you were turning the pages of a hard-copy proof with smart-review.

If you want to read more about Insite, click here. If you want to sign up for BPI University's next webinar or watch previous webinar's you may have missed, click here.

Until next time...Elizabeth

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Making Space & Going Back to School!

Each time I'm in front of an existing customer, they ask " What's new with BPI?" Well, sometime's it's simply easier to show you than tell you. This week, I'll share some very exciting news as we are continuing to grow, add staff and start a new program for customers and prospects. BPI Media Group is excited about our growth and hope you'll help us keep up the pace!

You've heard the expression in real estate that it's easier to go up that out with your space? Well, that saying is true for the BPI warehouse. Check it out: we've added a new racking system to store inventory. The racking allows us to hold more materials and work smarter. This means inventoried items will be assigned rack and bin numbers, so whomever on our fulfillment team is doing the fulfillment can easily locate the items and fill the orders more efficiently. Music to a marketer's ears!

This system will not only make it easier for our fulfillment team to locate & pull items for orders, but it will also assist in managing any inventory BPI stores for you and further reduce any possible errors in miscounts or potentially misplaced items. Everything will have a "place" and is labeled accordingly to avoid any confusion. This is one of the many great feature of our storefront solution.

Here's what BPI's President, Alan Davis, had to say about this growth, "BPI Media Group has expanded our warehousing and fulffillment capabilities with additional pallet racking system for greater efficiencies. Combined with our storefront solution, we are able to manage marketing assets materials with real time reporting and freight tracking. BPI continues to make improvements and expand our capabilities in our warehouse and fulfillment department. With the addition of 80+ units of racking, we can inventory well over 300 additional pallets of marketing asset materials."

The other exciting BPI news I have to share with you is our continuing education program, BPI University. To sign up for the monthly email notifications about upcoming webinars at BPI University, click here. We would love for you to join us and learn more about the new services BPI is offering and how they can help save you time, money and stress! We'll host one webinar each month, so you will not want to miss the chance to join BPI's knowledgeable and experienced team members as they guide us in learning about these hot topics.

Upcoming webinar topics for BPI University:

• Insite 101
• Web development 101 & 102 advanced
• Storefront 101 & upcoming new features
• Emerging Technologies
• Adobe CS5 training

Of course, if you have any suggestions or requests for webinar topics, please feel free to contact us. We love to hear your feedback and want to continue to be a work in progress. After all, if you stop working, you stop progressing. Until next time...Elizabeth

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