Measuring Success

We at BPI Media Group have a philosophy: We measure our success by the success of our customers. They not only make us as a company successful, but our customers were the key in having a successful open house last week in Boaz. Thank you to all of you who visited us, took plant tours, talked with our team and learned a bit more about our capabilities. Your presence there made the day so much fun and hopefully provided more opportunities for us to be successful together.

Enjoy a few photos that our very own prepress tech, Russ, took for us throughout the day. If you'd like to request a link to view the full photo gallery of our event, drop me a note, and I'll be happy to share with you. The wall, door and floor graphics shown are just a few examples of some of our new capabilities.

BPI Delivers

Being in the South, we got a heavy dose of old man winter this week, but BPI "took a lick and kept on ticking." I don't know about where you live, but my postal carrier hasn't delivered mail since Monday. Yikes! To keep our customer's deadlines and commitments we have to delivering, BPI Media Group's owners personally took packages to the ups hub since their trucks weren't able to pick up at our plant. If you're looking for a print partner that goes above and beyond, I'm personally recommending BPI. I can't imagine our team of dedicated management and production crew not doing whatever it takes to help make deadlines happen. Barring any natural disasters, you can count on BPI. Good job, team!!!

You don't have to take my word for it...join us for BPI's Wide Open House on Tuesday, February 25th from 9 am-3 pm CT and see for yourself all the ways we can help with your print communications. You'll be blown away in a BIG way!

Until next time...Elizabeth

We're Opening Our Doors for You

BPI Media Group will be having an open house in just a couple of weeks. We're really excited about it and not just because it's an excuse to do some spring cleaning. We're excited to showcase our capabilities to those both locally and who travel hundreds of miles to see our facility in Boaz, AL.

We'd love to have you join us, on Wednesday, February 12 from 9 am-3 pm CST (10-4 ET). We'll have lunch catered from a local hot spot (be sure to RSVP, so we have plenty of food for everyone!) and have reps on hand from suppliers such as International Paper and Agfa. Plant tours will be going on all day, and if you've never seen the printing process in motion, it is quite impressive. Our new wide format machine will be running as well as the router/cutter along with our traditional offset and digital presses. We're excited to show you all of what we do at BPI!

Join us, drop me a note and let me know if you can make it, and have your socks knocked off by all that takes place under one roof at BPI: printing (offset, digital, large format), bindery, mailing and fulfillment. Hope to see you there!

Until next time...Elizabeth

All-in-One

If I ask most of my customers (and marketing prospects) what they prefer in a communications partner, the answer is a unanimous "one vendor." It's a good thing BPI Media Group is an all-in-one partner. However, BPI didn't always have the all the tools to help our customers in all their communication media; it took time, excellent leadership and the ongoing evolution of our industry to aide BPI in becoming the one vendor who can help in so many ways.

How exactly can BPI help customers with various media? It takes a skilled, talented and dedicated team. The ways in which we assist customers in executing campaigns and delivering to channel partners are:

• Graphic Design
• Web Design & Development (including SEO, adwords, etc.)
• Cross-Media Marketing (PURLs and custom landing pages)
• Soft Proofing via Insite
• Specialty Products
• Digital Printing w/Variable Data
• Offset Printing
• Wide-Format Printing
• Coating/Finishing Options
• Complete In-House Bindery
• Mailing Services</li>
• Online Portal for Channel Partners (Storefront)
• Reporting & Analytics for Fulfillment Orders
• Pick and Pack Services
• Warehousing/Distribution

We at BPI want to be your one partner. We have the tools, the team and the technology to take your marketing to the next level. Join us as we continue to grow to offer you, our customers, all the tools needed to get your message across loud and clear...and with tools to track ROI.

Until next time...Elizabeth

Busy Times

My apologies for being out of touch on the blog lately, and while there's no real excuse, I do have a few good reasons being being too busy to blog.

1) Recent travels to BPI Media Group in Boaz, AL. With two trips to BPI in the past month, that has keep the wheels on the car going round and round and this print girl on the road (which is a great thing!). The first trip to BPI was for a customer press check for a catalog printing. This valued customer spent 2.5 days with us at BPI. We truly have an open door policy and welcome prospects and customers to do plant tours or press checks any time. The second trip to BPI was last week for our sales team meeting. It always does a salesperson good to have a fire ignited and learn of new things coming (stay tuned for more on that in a week or so).

2) Prospecting and recruiting committee members for a chapter of AMA that I'm working to develop in Upstate has also keep my hands from being anything but idle. Reaching out to friends and colleagues in the marketing arena for help in starting the AMA chapter has proven to be a great opportunity, and I am truly excited about the next few months as our chapter takes shape. Details to come on this as well, so keep reading!

3) A project very dear to my heart, Parkinson's Walk Greenville, was held on Sunday, October 20th. The planning and time spent to help make this first annual event happen was immense and done with such great care, but I have learned invaluable lessons about being a leader, working with non-profit organizations and helping others. I have much to learn in this area, but I will take this experience and what I learned and use it in planning the 2nd Parkinson's Walk Greenville in October of 2014. Here are a couple of photos from the event (and BPI was kind enough to help with the brochures, flyers and banners), so I hope you'll enjoy.

Until next time...Elizabeth