One of the only legal sized heavy duty electric

• One of the only legal sized heavy duty electric comb binding machines available on the market.
• Built on the same platform with the Burberry Sunglasses,same punching motor as the extremely successful CoilMac EPI and WireMac E.
• Offers a high volume all in one solution for binding documents with plastic combs.

Features / Strengths:

• Punches 14" legal sized documents in a single punching cycle. Many of the other machines in this same price range will require a complicated setup and two punching cycles (you have to flip the documents over and punch the extra holes) for legal sized binding. It also has a legal sized comb opener for easy opening and inserting of plastic combs up to 24 rings.
• This is one of the only designs available where the comb opener handle is reversible. This means that if you are left handed you can move the handle to the left side for easy operation. This is extremely helpful in increasing productivity, especially for offices that have multiple users.
• Includes fully disengageable dies and a depth of punch margin control to give you full flexibility for binding documents that are non standard lengths and for use with plastic combs that are as small as 3/16" and as large as 2" in diameter.
• Heavy duty electric punch will punch up to 25 sheets (more like 23) at a time using a convenient foot pedal control. The foot pedal allows you to hold the document with both hands while punching to ensure that all of your pages are punched accurately and are aligned every time.
• Comb opener can be unbolted from the Ray Ban Sunglasses,top of the machine and used as a stand alone device. This can help to improve productivity by allowing two users to take part in the binding process simultaneously.

Although there is a fairly decent selection

• Although there is a fairly decent selection of dies for the Akiles Diamond 1, other corner rounders have a lot larger selection of dies available for them. If you need to round your documents with a larger radius or with an extremely small radius, you will need to select a different corner rounder.
• The cutting table on the Akiles cheap designer sunglasses,diamond 1 is actually a lot smaller than an 8.5" x 11" document. This means that you have to hold the document with one hand and keep it pressed in place while you pull the handle with your other hand.
• The Akiles Diamond 1 uses small blue cutting pads that wear out during the cutting process. These pads need to be replaced on a regular basis in order to ensure the quality of cutting that is achieved. These pads aren't very expensive and come in packs of five. It is worth having a few on hand inside the drawer of your Diamond 1.

Recommendation:

For organizations that need to round the corners on small to medium numbers of documents or items, the Diamond 1 is an ideal solution. It is simple to use and offers an excellent value for your money. However, organizations that need to round a lot of documents or that need special Miu Miu Sunglasses,sized radius corners for their documents may need to consider a larger corner rounding unit.

The Akiles diamond 1 is designed

• The Akiles diamond 1 is designed to help you quickly and easily add round corners to all of your important documents, Police Sunglasses,promotional materials and other printed items. It is perfect for rounding the corners on your paper, PVC, polyester, leather and polypropylene items.
• It uses a special corner cutting die to add a radius to the corner on a small stack of documents at a time.

Strengths and Features:

• One of the best things about the Akiles Diamond 1 corner rounder is the cost. The Diamond one costs less than $150 including a die. This is about $50 less than most other comparable corner rounding machines on the market. However, the most substantial savings with the Bvlgari Sunglasses,Diamond 1 comes in the dies. Dies for the Diamond 1 only cost about $20. Compare that to $70-$100 for most other corner rounding dies and the Akiles is a much cheaper corner rounding option.
• The Akiles Diamond 1 allows you to round the corners on a stack of paper up to 0.4" at a time. This means that you can process a fairly large stack of documents in very short amount of time. There are a few corner rounders that can handle a little bit more paper than this but not very many.
• The Akiles Diamond 1 ships with the tools that you need to use in order to change the dies and with a convenient radius selector tool to help you choose the right radius die for your project. The tools and the radius selection fit conveniently in a drawer that is located in the base of the unit. You can even fit extra radius dies in the base of the corner rounder.
• There are a number of different radius dies available for use with the Diamond 1 including a 1/8" radius die, a 3/8" radius die, a ?" radius die, a 45 degree angle die and a half moon die for thumb cut calendar punching.

Although it is possible to use this machine

• Although it is possible to use this machine with 3:1 pitch and 2.5:1 pitch spiral coil, the DuoMac 321 does not include a spiral coil inserter. It is also important to note that these two pitches of coil can be somewhat difficult to find and are usually produced on Chanel Sunglasses,demand. If you plan on using this machine with coil it is a good idea to order your supplies with lots of time to spare in order to allow for production lead times.
• Each of the different binding styles offered by the DuoMac 321 have their own limitations.
  • 3:1 pitch wire is only available in sizes between 3/16" and 9/16".
  • Although 2:1 wire can be used to bind larger documents up to 1-1/2" in diameter, this machine can only be used with wires up to 1-1/4" in size.
  • GBC Proclick binding spines are Carrera Sunglasses,only available in three sizes (5/16", 1/2" and 5/8") and in four colors. They are only available in eleven inch lengths.
  • Three to one spiral coil is available in sizes from 6mm up to 50mm. However large diameter coils can be difficult insert, especially with the smaller square holes that are produced by this machine.
  • 2.5:1 pitch coil is only designed for binding large diameter books and is available in sizes ranging from 20mm up to 56mm. However, this coil will need to be inserted by hand because of the slight pitch difference between the holes and the coil.
• With all of the features that this machine has, it can be a little bit intimidating to inexperienced users. There are a lot of handles, knobs and buttons on this machine that can be somewhat confusing if you aren't sure what you are doing. This machine isn't really that hard to use. It may just take a little bit of experimenting and reading the users manual.

Recommendation:

• The DuoMac 321 is available at such a great price point and offers so many features it hardly makes sense to buy a wire binding machine that can only produce one hole pattern.
• This machine is a little bit larger and can be more intimidating than a normal wire binding machine such as the Oakley Sunglasses,Akiles Wiremac M. However, the flexibility that it offers in terms of document size and presentation appearance are awesome.

In the past, users who needed to buy a twin

• In the past, users who needed to buy a twin loop wire binding machine would have to choose between either 2:1 or a 3:1 pitch machine.
• Most users prefer the tight hole pattern and elegant look of 3:1 pitch wire for their small documents. However, 3:1 Ferragamo Sunglasses,
  pitch wire is only available in sizes up to 9/16". Organizations that wanted to bind both large and small documents either had to settle for the more spread out pattern of 2:1 pitch wire or had to buy two binding machines.
• The Akiles DuoMac 321 changes all of this. It offers the ability to bind documents using both 3:1 pitch and 2:1 pitch double loop wire. This is ideal for organizations that need to bind both large and small documents.

Strengths / Features:

• The DuoMac 321 is designed to punch two completely different hole patterns. The 3:1 pitch hole pattern has three square Fendi Sunglasses,holes per inch and can be used for binding documents with 3:1 pitch double loop wire, GBC Proclick and 3:1 pitch spiral coil. The 2:1 pitch hole pattern has 2 rectangular holes per inch and can be used with 2:1 pitch twin loop wire and with 2.5:1 pitch spiral coil. This means that it is actually possible to bind documents with five different styles of binding using this one machine.
• Both the 2:1 pitch and 3:1 pitch punching throats are fourteen inches wide and offer fully disengageable dies. They also have open throats and continuous punching guides. This means that it is possible to punch any document that is fourteen inches or less using a one step punching process. Sheets that are longer than fourteen inches can be punched using a two step process. All you need to do is punch one side of the document using the punch and then flip it over and punch the rest of the holes. The continuous punching guide will help you line up the holes.
• On the right hand side of the DuoMac 321 there are two small gray knobs. These knobs are designed to help you adjust the depth of the holes from the edge of your paper. For smaller sized books it is a good idea to set the holes so that they are close to the edge of the paper. This will help to ensure that your pages will turn freely. For larger diameter books the holes should be further from the binding edge in order to provide added strength to your bound documents.
• The DuoMac 321 includes a high quality heavy duty wire closer on the front of the machine. This wire closer is made of heavy duty steel components and should have no problem maintaining its accuracy over Roberto Cavalli Sunglasses,time. There is also a wire holder on the front of the machine that will help you hang your documents on the double loop wire in preparation for closing.

The Dynafold AF-300 desktop electric paper folder

• The Dynafold AF-300 desktop electric paper folder is an easy to use light volume folding machine.
• It is designed for folding letter or legal sized paper and can be configured to fold documents in half, into a letter MBT Tembea Coffee,fold, in a zig zag fold or with a fold out.
• This review will take a look at the strengths, features, weaknesses and limitations of the AF300 paper folding machine.

Strengths / Features:

• For such an inexpensive paper folding machine, the Dynafold AF300 is actually fairly feature rich. It is capable of folding sheets that are letter size, A4 size or legal size and can set to fold custom sizes of paper as small as 4" x 6".
• The AF-300 can be set to do one of four primary folding patterns including a half fold, a fold out, a letter fold or a zig-zag fold. However, the fold plates on the AF-300 are set manually and thus can be configured for custom folds that are different from the four preset folds.
• The folder operates at a speed of up to 4000 sheets per hour or can be set to fold documents manually. It can even fold sets of up to 3 sheets of paper through the manual feed slot.
• The AF-300 has a feed hopper capable of holding up to fifty sheets of 20lb paper at a time. However it is best to keep it to about half that many in order to prevent feed problems and paper jams.
• The AF-300 also comes with a convenient desk stand and a metal paper catch bin that is ideal for setting the machine on your desk or beside your postage meter.

Weaknesses / Limitations:

• The fold plates on the AF-300 need to be adjusted manually. You have to loosen the set screws and move the paper stops to the correct positions. This can be pretty tricky and it can take a while to set the folder up so that it folds correctly. One trick to remember when setting up the fold plates is to use the manual feed knob on the side of machine to feed the paper through the machine. Pay attention to the paper as it hits the paper stops. If the paper stops are crooked the machine won't fold straight. The MBT Sawa,AF-300 can take as long as 10-15 minutes to set up. This makes it ideal for users who just need to do just one style of fold.
• The AF-300 is not designed for folding heavy or glossy paper stocks. It is a great option for folding standard copy papers but will have difficulties feeding heavier stocks through the fold rollers of the machine.
• The AF-300 is really best suited for low volume folding. For users who need to fold a few hundred documents a week this machine is probably a reasonable solution. However, it is important to understand that using this machine you WILL have paper jams and if you try to fold a lot of paper it will be a headache. This is true of all paper folders in this price range. It is something that many users simply don't understand before purchasing this type of unit.

The GBC 16DB is a standalone manual plastic

• The GBC 16DB is a standalone manual plastic comb opener that is ideal for print shops, binderies and other high volume users.
• It is an ideal companion for your GBC interchangeable die modular binding punch or your fixed die modular comb binding punch.
• Using this machine along with a high MBT Tembea Shoes,quality electric punch can help to increase productivity by allowing one person to punch while another binds.

Strengths / Features:

• The 16DB is capable of opening plastic comb binding spines of all sizes. It can be used to open combs as small as 3/16" and as large as 2" in diameter. It is compatible with both round cerlox style combs and oval surelox style combs.
• The 16DB is sixteen inches in length. This makes it compatible with many different sizes of plastic combs. It can be used to open 19 ring combs for letter sized documents, 15 ring combs for landscape binding, 21 ring spines for A4 binding and 24 ring combs for legal sized binding.
• This comb opener is specifically designed to sit on top of your GBC modular binding punch. The 16DB can be used while it is sitting on the top of your punch or can easily be set to the side so that one user can punch documents while another user opens the combs and finishes your books.
• The machine also has a side control knob that allows you to set the comb opener for a specific size of comb. This feature is helpful for increasing productivity when binding numerous documents that are all one size.
• The 16DB is also made completely of MBT Karani,metal. Its heavy duty construction makes it ideal for high volume users and production environments. This machine is the most common plastic comb opener used by printers and binderies across the United States.

Weaknesses / Limitations:

• The 16DB is easy to use and excellent for many production environments. However, for office environments and extremely high volume users the GBC PB2600 offers an electric plastic comb opening option. That machine is faster and easier to use than the 16DB but is also considerably more expensive.
• This machine is only 16 inches in length which makes it ideal for opening combs that are up to that length. However, users who need to bind seventeen inch long documents will find that the handle on this machine gets in the way. For this application, users will either need to insert the last few comb loops by hand or find a different comb opener.
• Like the other pieces of GBC modular binding equipment, the 16DB only comes with a 90 day warranty. Most other comb openers come with a one year warranty. However, I have never seen one of these machines break so this probably won't be an issue.

The GBC 16DB is a standalone manual plastic

• The GBC 16DB is a standalone manual plastic comb opener that is ideal for print shops, binderies and other high volume users.
• It is an ideal companion for your GBC interchangeable die modular binding punch or your fixed die modular comb binding punch.
• Using this machine along with a high MBT Tembea Shoes,quality electric punch can help to increase productivity by allowing one person to punch while another binds.

Strengths / Features:

• The 16DB is capable of opening plastic comb binding spines of all sizes. It can be used to open combs as small as 3/16" and as large as 2" in diameter. It is compatible with both round cerlox style combs and oval surelox style combs.
• The 16DB is sixteen inches in length. This makes it compatible with many different sizes of plastic combs. It can be used to open 19 ring combs for letter sized documents, 15 ring combs for landscape binding, 21 ring spines for A4 binding and 24 ring combs for legal sized binding.
• This comb opener is specifically designed to sit on top of your GBC modular binding punch. The 16DB can be used while it is sitting on the top of your punch or can easily be set to the side so that one user can punch documents while another user opens the combs and finishes your books.
• The machine also has a side control knob that allows you to set the comb opener for a specific size of comb. This feature is helpful for increasing productivity when binding numerous documents that are all one size.
• The 16DB is also made completely of MBT Karani,metal. Its heavy duty construction makes it ideal for high volume users and production environments. This machine is the most common plastic comb opener used by printers and binderies across the United States.

Weaknesses / Limitations:

• The 16DB is easy to use and excellent for many production environments. However, for office environments and extremely high volume users the GBC PB2600 offers an electric plastic comb opening option. That machine is faster and easier to use than the 16DB but is also considerably more expensive.
• This machine is only 16 inches in length which makes it ideal for opening combs that are up to that length. However, users who need to bind seventeen inch long documents will find that the handle on this machine gets in the way. For this application, users will either need to insert the last few comb loops by hand or find a different comb opener.
• Like the other pieces of GBC modular binding equipment, the 16DB only comes with a 90 day warranty. Most other comb openers come with a one year warranty. However, I have never seen one of these machines break so this probably won't be an issue.

The GBC 16DB is a standalone manual plastic

• The GBC 16DB is a standalone manual plastic comb opener that is ideal for print shops, binderies and other high volume users.
• It is an ideal companion for your GBC interchangeable die modular binding punch or your fixed die modular comb binding punch.
• Using this machine along with a high MBT Tembea Shoes,quality electric punch can help to increase productivity by allowing one person to punch while another binds.

Strengths / Features:

• The 16DB is capable of opening plastic comb binding spines of all sizes. It can be used to open combs as small as 3/16" and as large as 2" in diameter. It is compatible with both round cerlox style combs and oval surelox style combs.
• The 16DB is sixteen inches in length. This makes it compatible with many different sizes of plastic combs. It can be used to open 19 ring combs for letter sized documents, 15 ring combs for landscape binding, 21 ring spines for A4 binding and 24 ring combs for legal sized binding.
• This comb opener is specifically designed to sit on top of your GBC modular binding punch. The 16DB can be used while it is sitting on the top of your punch or can easily be set to the side so that one user can punch documents while another user opens the combs and finishes your books.
• The machine also has a side control knob that allows you to set the comb opener for a specific size of comb. This feature is helpful for increasing productivity when binding numerous documents that are all one size.
• The 16DB is also made completely of MBT Karani,metal. Its heavy duty construction makes it ideal for high volume users and production environments. This machine is the most common plastic comb opener used by printers and binderies across the United States.

Weaknesses / Limitations:

• The 16DB is easy to use and excellent for many production environments. However, for office environments and extremely high volume users the GBC PB2600 offers an electric plastic comb opening option. That machine is faster and easier to use than the 16DB but is also considerably more expensive.
• This machine is only 16 inches in length which makes it ideal for opening combs that are up to that length. However, users who need to bind seventeen inch long documents will find that the handle on this machine gets in the way. For this application, users will either need to insert the last few comb loops by hand or find a different comb opener.
• Like the other pieces of GBC modular binding equipment, the 16DB only comes with a 90 day warranty. Most other comb openers come with a one year warranty. However, I have never seen one of these machines break so this probably won't be an issue.

The GBC Accucut A300 rotary trimmer is also being marketed

• The GBC Accucut A300 rotary trimmer is also being marketed as the Swingline Smartcut Lite. Although these two cutters have different names, they are identical.
• The A300 is a personal rotary trimmer that is designed for trimming paper, scrapbook pages, presentations, desktop Nike Shox O'Nine,publishing projects and more.
• It is designed to be an economical solution for home offices and small offices that are looking for low volume paper cutter.

Strengths / Features:

• The Swingline Smartcut Lite offers a 12" cutting length that is ideal for trimming documents as large as 11" x 17" in size. It can also be used to trim 12" x 12" scrapbooking paper.
• The Accucut A300 has a ruler along the top of the trimmer that offers both imperial and metric measurements. It also has an alignment grid printed on the base of the cutting unit. This alignment grid is ideal for helping to ensure that you get straight cuts every time.
• The cutting blade on the A300 travels along a transparent cutting guide that allows users to see exactly where the blade will travel. This helps to ensure the most accurate cuts possible.
• The Smartcut Lite comes equipped with a stainless steel round cutting blade that is capable of cutting up to 10 sheets of paper at a time. However, the trimmer can also be equipped with a perforator Nike Shox Sale,blade for perforating paper or with a wave cutting blade for adding decorative edges to your paper.
• The Accucut A300 has a convenient easy grip handle that travels along a metal rail. In order to cut a document you simply need to press down on the handle to engage the blade.

Weaknesses / Limitations:

• The GBC Accucut A300 is made primarily for personal and home office use. For this reason, it is made almost entirely made of plastic. The GBC Accucut A400pro is the same size and offers the same cutting length as the A300 but utilizes metal components instead of plastic ones. The plastic components make the A300 far less durable than larger professional grade rotary trimmers.
• Although the Smartcut Lite is rated to cut up to ten sheets of paper, it is really not ideal for cutting more than a few sheets of paper at any given time. It is really more of a trimmer than a cutter. A guillotine style paper cutter is better for cutting small stacks of paper while a rotary trimmer is best used for trimming laminated documents and other materials.
• The A300 uses a special cutting mat that is placed underneath the rotary cutting blade. The cutting mat helps to ensure the quality of trimming provided by the trimmer. The cutting mat needs to be Nike Shox OZ,replaced or reversed on a regular basis in order to ensure high quality cuts. It is always a good idea to keep an extra cutting mat on hand in case you need to replace the mat on your cutter.

The GBC Accucut A400pro (also known as the Smartcut A400 pro) is a heavy duty

• The GBC Accucut A400pro (also known as the Smartcut A400 pro) is a heavy duty high performance 12" rotary paper trimmer. It is designed for trimming signs, presentations, photos, labels and more. It MBT Shoes Cheap, even works with laminated items and matboard.
• The A400pro rotary trimmer is the introductory model for GBC's line of professional rotary trimmers.
• The A400pro even has optional cutting blades that are available for decorative cutting and perforating

Strengths / Features:

• The Smartcut A400pro is a professional grade rotary trimmer designed for trimming all types of materials. It is rated for cutting up to 10 sheets of 20lb paper at a time. However, it is not the ideal solution for cutting large volumes of paper. Instead, it is designed for the precise trimming of laminated materials, signs, presentations and photos.
• This cutter has a metal cutting base that offers stability and strength and the base has a printed alignment grid that helps to provide precise cutting of all different formats of paper. The cutting length of the A400 is twelve inches and the width of the base is nine inches.
• The A400 has a transparent cutting guide that makes it simple to see exactly where the cutter will trim. The rotary blade travels along the edge of the transparent guide allowing you to precisely judge where the blade will travel.
• The A400 uses a high quality stainless-steel rotary blade that cuts in both directions. The blade can easily be replaced if it becomes dull. There are even optional blades available for the A400 that allow you to use it for perforating documents or for adding a decorative edge to your paper using a wave cutting blade.
• The A400pro also has a convenient storage department in the bottom of the cutter that is designed for holding extra cutting blades.

Weaknesses / Limitations:

• Although the A400pro has a metal rod for the blade to travel on, the blade mechanism still seems to have some play in it. This can make it difficult to make the most precise cuts when accuracy is absolutely essential.
• The A400pro uses a cutting mat to help ensure high quality cuts. However, over time the cutting mat will become worn MBT Chapa Shoes,and the quality of the cutting produced by the A400 will degrade. The cutting mat can be reversed and then fipped over for a total of four possible positions. However, it is essential to replace the cutting mat as it becomes worn. This helps to ensure the quality of your cuts.
• The cutting base of the A400pro is only 9 inches wide. This makes trimming larger documents difficult. Documents with more than 9" to the left of the blade are not able to take advantage of the rulers or guides on the machine making them extremely difficult to cut.

The Accucut A425 looks like a traditional rotary

• The Accucut A425 looks like a traditional rotary style paper trimmer. However, the A425pro has a special four in one blade mechanism that allows you to quickly change cutting styles for all types of projects.
• This inexpensive cutter is ideal for use in MBT Sawa Shoes,crafting, scrapbooking for for creating thermal binding covers for your documents.
• It is extremely simple to use with a quick blade change system that allows you to switch cutting styles within seconds.

Strengths / Features:

• The A425pro allows you to quickly and easily choose between four different cutting styles including straight cutting, wave cutting, perforating and scoring. You can use the straight cutting blade to cut or trim your documents, the wave cutting blade to create decorative edges, the perforating blade to add a perforated section to your forms and brochures and the scoring blade to prepare items for folding or for creating your own thermal binding documents.
• The dial-a-blade mechanism on the A425pro allows you to quickly change cutting styles by simply turning a dial on the blade unit. No other cutter makes switching between cutting styles so easy.
• The trimmer has a 12 inch long cutting length that can easily handle scrapbooking paper, letter sized documents or other sized items.

Limitations / Weaknesses:

• Although it is great to be able to quickly and easily change cutting styles the design of the dial-a-blade unit requires you to replace all four cutting blades at a time if one blade becomes dull. Replacement blades for this unit are somewhat expensive because the entire MBT Changa Shoes,dial-a-blade unit must be replaced. This is something to keep in mind if you plan on doing any volume of cutting, scoring or perforating with this unit.
• The unit is rated for cutting up to ten sheets of paper at a time. However, I had difficulty cutting more than 6-8 sheets of paper. Additionally, it is difficult to cut a single sheet of thin paper with this unit since the paper can bend over during cutting. This is a common problem with rotary trimmers but is something worth noting.
• The base of the unit is somewhat small. This means that it is a little bit difficult to use for scoring, perforating or cutting large format documents.

The P2000 does not include a punch

• The GBC Proclick Pronto P2000 is an automated binding system designed to finish documents with GBC's new Proclick binding strips.
• The P2000 does not include a punch. Instead, it is designed to be paired with one of GBC's modular interchangeable die punches or automated punching systems.
• This system is designed for large volume users who are looking for a fast way to bind documents that are editable MBT Chapa GTX, and contemporary.
• The Proclick Pronto P2000 is ideal for printers, copy shops, in plant printers and large corporations who need to bind large numbers of documents quickly and either already own or have the budget to purchase a modular binding punch.

Strengths / Features:

• The Proclick Pronto P2000 is incredibly fast as far as binding systems go. All you need to do is insert the document into the sizing channel and it will tell you the size of spine that you need. Once you are sure that you have the right size cartridge loaded into the machine you simply place the document into binding slot. The machine will make sure that your holes are lined up and will then insert and close the spine onto your document. The bind cycle takes about six seconds. This means that you can finish as many as 450 documents per hour using this system. That is incredible.
• The P2000 is the size of desktop laser printer and it looks like it belongs in an office environment. Many pieces of binding equipment look industrial and don't fit well inside a professional office. The P2000 was designed with the office environment in mind. It looks like a large desktop printer and is simple to operate. It even includes an easy to read LCD panel to let you know the status of the machine.
• Many of the larger GBC modular binding machines only come with a 90 day warranty. However, the Proclick P2000 comes with a full one year on site warranty. This means that if your machine has a problem in the first year GBC will come to your location and fix it for you. You can't ask for better service than that.
• The documents that are produced by the P2000 are designed to both look great and be editable. The Proclick binding spines used to bind these documents can easily be zipped open and closed using a MBT Lami Shoes,simple zipper tool. This makes this binding system ideal for organizations with sales representatives that need to make changes to their documents in the field. It is also great for binding users manuals and other pieces of documentation that need to be updated on a regular basis.

The GBC Proclick Pronto P2000 is an automated binding system

• The GBC Proclick Pronto P2000 is an automated binding system designed to finish documents with GBC's new Proclick binding strips.
• The P2000 does not include a punch. Instead, it is designed to be paired with one of GBC's modular interchangeable die punches or automated punching systems.
• This system is designed for large MBT Kimondo,volume users who are looking for a fast way to bind documents that are editable and contemporary.
• The Proclick Pronto P2000 is ideal for printers, copy shops, in plant printers and large corporations who need to bind large numbers of documents quickly and either already own or have the budget to purchase a modular binding punch.

Strengths / Features:

• The Proclick Pronto P2000 is incredibly fast as far as binding systems go. All you need to do is insert the document into the sizing channel and it will tell you the size of spine that you need. Once you are sure that you have the right size cartridge loaded into the machine you simply place the document into binding slot. The machine will make sure that your holes are lined up and will then insert and close the spine onto your document. The bind cycle takes about six seconds. This means that you can finish as many as 450 documents per hour using this system. That is incredible.
• The P2000 is the size of desktop laser printer and it looks like it belongs in an office environment. Many pieces of binding equipment look industrial and don't fit well inside a professional office. The P2000 was designed with the office environment in mind. It MBT Kisumu 2,looks like a large desktop printer and is simple to operate. It even includes an easy to read LCD panel to let you know the status of the machine.
• Many of the larger GBC modular binding machines only come with a 90 day warranty. However, the Proclick P2000 comes with a full one year on site warranty. This means that if your machine has a problem in the first year GBC will come to your location and fix it for you. You can't ask for better service than that.
• The documents that are produced by the P2000 are designed to both look great and be editable. The Proclick binding spines used to bind these documents can easily be zipped open and closed using a simple zipper tool. This makes this binding system ideal for organizations with MBT Moja,sales representatives that need to make changes to their documents in the field. It is also great for binding users manuals and other pieces of documentation that need to be updated on a regular basis.

The Proclick Pronto P3000 is only designed for use

• The Proclick Pronto P3000 is only designed for use with letter sized documents that are bound on the eleven inch edge. It cannot be used with oversized covers, half sized sheets, legal sized paper or any other document sizes.
• The thicknesses of documents that can be MBT Kaya,bound with this unit are also limited. There are currently only three sizes of spines available for this machine. Small spines are 5/16" in diameter and can handle about forty sheets of twenty pound paper. Medium spines are 1/2" and can handle about seventy sheets of paper. Large spines are 5/8" in diameter and can handle about one hundred sheets of paper. These spines come loaded into special cartridges that are inserted into the back of the machine. Unfortunately these are the only sizes that will work with the P3000. If these sizes don't work for your organization then you will need to choose a MBT Ema,different binding style.
• There are only four colors of spines available for this system. You can choose from Black, Navy Blue, White and Frost. Custom colors are not available and the last word from GBC was that there are no other colors planned for this system.
• The binding punch on the P3000 is a medium duty punch that works great for punching standard paper and cardstock. The punch can even punch a clear cover if you punch it along with paper. However, the punch does not handle poly covers very well. It is highly recommended that you purchase prepunched Proclick pronto covers if you want to use plastic covers with this system. Plastic covers have too much flex for this punch and will ruin your punch if you attempt to punch them.
• This system does not come with the small zipper tools that you use to open and close your documents. It does have a spine opening tool on the left side of the machine. However, it is a really good idea to order some extra zipper tools when you order the supplies for your machine so that you have them on hand for editing your documents. You can even give each of your employees their own zipper tool so that they can open and edit documents on their own.

Recommendation:

• The Proclick P3000 binding machine is a great machine for a small or medium sized office that is looking for an easy to use and highly professional binding system.
• This machine looks a lot like a desktop laser printer and is designed to blend in with your other office equipment.
• However, it can create highly professional, contemporary looking reports, presentations and proposals in record MBT Sirima Shoes,time.
• Provided you can live with the sizes, colors and punching limitations of this machine it will be a great addition to your office.

The GBC Proclick Pronto P3000 is an all

• The GBC Proclick Pronto P3000 is an all in one automated binding system that is designed to both punch your pages and insert the GBC Proclick binding spine onto your documents.
• This system is ideal for an office that is MBT Sapatu,looking for an easy to use intuitive binding system that can produce high quality professional looking documents and reports.
• It was designed specifically for small and medium sized organizations that need professional looking documents that can easily be edited by end users or company representatives.
• This system is fast, easy to use and MBT Maliza Shoes,creates contemporary and professional documents that are sure to impress your customers and potential clients.

Strengths / Features:

• The Proclick Pronto P3000 is an all in one binding solution that is designed for use in a professional office environment. It was designed to look very much like a large desktop laser printer. The design of this machine helps to make sure that it doesn't seem out of place in a professional office space. However, the machine is not only classy but it is also highly functional. It includes a binding punch at the bottom of the machine and an inserting unit at the top of the machine to finish your documents.
• The P3000 is fast. In fact, once your documents are punched, it only takes about six seconds to insert and close the spine. That is faster than any other finishing unit on the market. The punch on this unit is simple to operate and is controlled by the touch of a button. It can handle between fifteen to twenty sheets of 20lb paper at a time which is a fairly decent punching capacity for an all in one binding unit.
• Most large pieces of GBC modular binding equipment only come with a 90 day warranty. However, GBC has chosen to MBT Changa,support this unit with a one year onsite warranty. This means that if you have problems with your unit during the first year that it is in service, GBC will come to your location and fix your machine for you. Very few other manufacturers offer that type of service.
• The Pronto P3000 binds documents with the GBC Proclick binding system. This innovative new binding system has some real strengths. It can lay flat like comb binding, can wrap around like wire binding and offers a contemporary look that no other binding systems can match. Documents bound with this binding style can also be edited by end users by simply unzipping the spine of the document using a small zipper tool. This feature is ideal for sales organizations and companies that need to have their representatives edit documents in the field or on the go.

The throat on the SC-032 is only 8-5/8" wide.

• The throat on the SC-032 is only 8-5/8" wide. It is designed for shredding letter sized sheets that are fed with the short end first. However, with such a small throat, sheets that are fed crooked MBT Karani Shoes,can easily become jammed in the shredder. Using the SC032 it is important to feed sheets squarely into the shredder in order to prevent paper jams.
• The Shredmaster SC-032 is designed for shredding small volumes of paper in a small office or personal setting. It is designed for shredding up to 250 sheets per day. However, if you attempt to shred continuously for more than two minutes, the shredder may turn MBT Sapatu Shoes,itself off to protect the motor. The shredder will need to sit for approximately thirty minutes if this occurs. This means that the SC32 is not ideal for any applications where volume shredding may be required.
• The SC-032 shreds at a speed of approximately ten feet per minute. As far as shredders go, this is actually quite slow. This means that the shredder can handle a single sheet of paper in approximately six seconds. For users who need to shred a few sheets per day this should be adequate. However, it is very slow if you need to shred a stack of paper.

Recommendation:

• The SC-032 is ideal for users who want to place a small shredder under or beside their desk. It is small enough that it won't get in the way and is more than adequate for allowing users to shred a few documents without ever needing to leave their desks.
• However, the SC32 is not ideal for any type of volume shredding and is not a good solution for anyone who needs to shred more than a few sheets of paper at a time.
• The limited width of the throat on the SC-32 and limited shredding capacity that it offers makes should be noted before MBT Tunisha Shoes,choosing this shredder.
• Still, the GBC Shredmaster SC-032 comes with an excellent 2 year warranty on the entire unit and comes with a 5 year warranty on the cutting heads.

When you own a business one of the first things

When you own a business one of the first things you should apply for is business incorporation. There are many advantages that your business will gain by being incorporated and many states also MBT Tunisha, require you to file for incorporation if you are going to be doing business in their state.

State Requirements

Each state has its own rules and regulations when it comes to running a business in that state so you will need to check with them to see exactly what they require but here is the generally overall requirements, MBT Sini Shoes, some of the details might be just a little bit different from state to state.

First you will need to fill out Articles of Incorporation and file them with the state. These articles are basically telling the state what type of business you will be running. For example will your business be one that is non-profit or will you be running a for profit business.

Another thing that you will need to specify in the articles is the business location. You should include the physical address and make sure that you make a note if the mailing address is different. This address will be recorded and should be updated anytime you move locations.

You should also state in your articles who all the officers of the company are and their titles. It is important that you weigh the decision of who to include in your company as it can have many implications MBT Lami,and repercussions. For example there are tax advantages and worker's compensation advantages to having several officers. However if there is a falling out between officers there can be consequences to having them listed on the company.

Moreover, Greece has absorbed - albeit chaotically and reluctantly

Moreover, Greece has absorbed - albeit chaotically and reluctantly - hundreds of thousands of Albanian, Macedonian, Serb, Romanian, and Bulgarian economic immigrants. In the late 1990s, Albanian expatriates remitted home well over 500 million drachmas annually. Thousands of small MBT Chapa GTX,time cross border traders and small to medium size trading firms control distribution and retailing of Greek, European, Asian, and American origin brands (not to mention the smuggling of cigarettes, counterfeit brands, immigrants, stolen vehicles, pirated intellectual property, prostitutes, and, marginally, drugs).

As a member of the EU and an instigator of the ineffectual and bureaucratic Stability Pact, Greece has unveiled a few megabuck regional reconstruction plans. In November 1999, it proposed a $500 million five MBT Kisumu 2,year private-public partnership to invest in infrastructure throughout the region. Next were a $1 billion oil pipeline through Bulgaria and northern Greece and an extension of a Russian gas pipeline to Albania and Macedonia. The Egnatia Highway is supposed to connect Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Albania. Greece is a major driving force behind REM - a southeast Europe Regional Electricity trading Market declared in September 1999 in Thessalonica.

The Hellenic Observatory in the London School of Economics notes the importance of the Greek capitalist Diaspora (Antonis Kamaras, "Capitalist Diaspora: The Greeks in the Balkans"). Small, Greek, traders in well located Thessalonica provided know-how, contacts and distribution networks to established Greek businesses outside the Balkan. The latter took advantage of the vacuum created by the indifference of multinationals in the West and penetrated Balkan markets vigorously.

The Greek stratagem is evident. Greece, as a state, gets involved in transportation and energy related projects. Greek state-inspired public sector investments have been strategically placed in the telecommunications MBT Lami Shoes, and banking sectors - the circulatory systems of any modern economy. Investments in these four sectors can be easily and immediately leveraged to gain control of domestic manufacturing and services to the benefit of the Greek private sector.

Moreover, politics is a cash guzzling business. He who controls the cash flow - controls the votes. Greece buys itself not only refineries and banks, telecoms and highways. It buys itself influence and politicians. The latter come cheap in this part of the world. Greece can easily afford them.

Still, the 3500 investments in the Balkan between 1992-8 were only the beginning

Still, the 3500 investments in the Balkan between 1992-8 were only the beginning.

Despite a worsening geopolitical climate, by 2001, Greek businesses - acting through Cypriot, Luxemburg, Lichtenstein, Swiss, and even Russian subsidiaries - have invested in excess of $5 billion in the MBT Kimondo,Balkan, according to the Economic Research Division of the Greek Alpha Bank. Thus, Chipita, the Greek snacks company bought Romania's Best Foods Productions through its Cyprus subsidiary, Chipita East Europe Cyprus.

The state controlled OTE alone has invested $1.5 billion in acquiring stakes in the Serb, Bulgarian, and Romanian state telecoms. This cannot be considered mere bargain hunting. OTE claims to have turned a profit on its investments in war torn Serbia, corruption riddled Romania and bureaucratic Bulgaria. Others doubt this exuberance.

Greek banks have invested $400 million in the Balkans. NBG has branches or subsidiaries in Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania. EFG Ergasias and Commercial Bank are active in Bulgaria, and Alpha Bank in Romania. The creation of Europe's 23rd largest bank as a result of the merger between NBG and Alpha is likely to consolidate their grip on Balkan banking.

Greek manufacturing interests have purchased stakes in breweries in Macedonia. Hellenic Bottling - formerly 3E - started off MBT Moja,as a Coca-Cola bottler but has invested $250m on facilities in the south Balkans and in Croatia, Slovenia and Moldova. Another big investor is Delta dairy products and ice cream.

The region's instability, lawlessness

The region's instability, lawlessness, and backwardness have inflicted losses on Greek firms (for instance in 1997 in MBT Ema,disintegrating Albania, or in 1998-9 in Kosovo and Serbia). But they kept coming back.

In the early 1990's Greece imposed an economic embargo on Macedonia and almost did the same to Albania. It disputed MBT Kaya,Macedonia's flag and constitutional name and Albania's policy towards the Greek minority within its borders. But by 1998, Greeks have committed to invest $300 million in Macedonia - equal to 10% of its dilapidated GDP. Employing 22,000 workers, 450 Greek firms have invested $120 million in 1280 different ventures in Bulgaria. And 200 Greek businesses invested more than $50 million in the Albanian and economy, the beneficiary of a bilateral "drachma zone" since 1993. In 1998, Greece controlled 10% of the market in oil derivatives in Albania and the bulk of the market in Macedonia. Another $60 million were invested in Romania.

Nowhere was Greek presence more felt than in Yugoslavia. The two countries signed a bilateral investment accord in 1995. It opened the floodgates. Yugoslavia's law prevented Greek banks from operating in its territory. But this seems to have been the sole constraint. Mytilineos, a Greek metals group, signed two deals worth $1.5 billion with the Kosovo-based Trepca mines and other Yugoslav metal firms. The list reads like the Greek Who's Who in MBT Sirima Shoes,Business. Gener, Atemke, Attikat (construction), 3E, Delta Dairy (foodstuffs), Intracom (telecommunications), Elvo and Hyundai Hellas (motor vehicles), Evroil, BP Oil and Mamidakis (oil products).

The Milosevic regime used Greek and Cypriot banks and firms to launder money and bust the international sanctions regime. Greek firms shipped goods, oil included, up the Vardar river, through Macedonia, to Serbia. Members of the Yugoslav political elite bought properties in Greece. But this cornucopia mostly ended in 1998 with the deepening involvement of the international community in Kosovo. Only now are Greek companies venturing back hesitantly. European Tobacco has invested $47 million in a 400 workers strong tobacco factory in Serbia opened in 2002.

The Greek telecom, OTE, has acquired the second mobile phone

The Greek telecom, OTE, has acquired the second mobile phone operator licence in Macedonia (Cosmofon). The winner in the public tender, Link Telekom, a Macedonian paging firm, has been disqualified, MBT Changa, unable to produce a bank guarantee (never part of the original tender terms). The matter went to the courts.

Local businessmen predicted this outcome. They say that when "Makedonski Telekom" was sold, surprisingly, and under visible American "lobbying", to MATAV (rather than to OTE), Macedonian politicians promised to MBT Maliza Shoes,compensate the latter by awarding it the second operator licence, come what may. Whatever the truth, this acquisition enhances OTE's portfolio which includes mobile operators in Albania (CosmOTE) and Bulgaria (GloBUL).

Official Greece clearly regards Greek investments as a pillar of a Greek northern sphere of influence in the Balkan. Turkey has Central Asia, Austria and Germany have Central Europe - Greece has the Balkans. Greece officially represented the likes of Bulgaria in both NATO and the EU until their accession.

Greek is spoken in many a Balkan country and Greek businessmen are less bewildered by the transition economies in the region, having gone through a similar phase themselves in the 1950's and 1960's. Greece is a natural bridge and beachhead for Western multinationals interested in the Balkan. About 20% of Greece's trade is with the Balkan despite an enormous disparity of income per capita - Greece's being 8 times the average Balkan country's.

Exports to Balkan countries have tripled between 1992 and 2000 and Greece's trade surplus rose 10 times in the same period. Greek exports constituted 35% of all EU exports to Macedonia and 55% of all EU MBT Sapatu,exports to Albania. About the only places with muted Greek presence are Bosnia and Kosovo - populated by Moslems and not by Orthodox coreligionists.

What Your Clients Want: 9 Ways to Find Out

What Your Clients Want: 9 Ways to Find Out

In order to successfully market yourself and your business, you need to understand what your prospects and customers need and what kinds of questions they want answered.

When you know this information, you can use the content for your website, articles, newsletter, brochures, teleseminars, ezine, speaking engagements, blog, free reports, and so on. You can also use it to design new programs, workshops, services and products.

In other words, you need this information to do ALL your marketing!

So, how do you find out what your prospective and current customers need and want most? Well, asking them is the quickest, easiest and most direct method. There are also ways you can "eavesdrop" to find out stuff too.

Below are 9 ways for you to stay on top of what your target group wants:

1) Have a question page on your website

-allow people to submit questions to you in your area of expertise

-have the link available on every page of your website

2) Keep current with happenings in your industry

-when you read magazines, newspapers and trade publications clip out anything that you feel would be of interest to your prospects, or have a possible impact on your clients' businesses

3) Ask questions on your blog and allow people to post comments

-if you have a blog, ensure that you are providing lots of opportunity to get feedback from people who're reading your posts

-keep track of questions that are being asked and see if there are recurring themes you could write a specific blog about, or create a new product

4) Solicit feedback prior to speaking to a group

-you can ask the coordinator of the seminar if they know of any specific concerns and issues that are facing the audience you will be speaking to

-if conducting your talk for a specific company, ask if you can send an email around prior to the event in order to make sure your talk specifically targets the group's needs

5) Set up a specific email address for people to send you questions

-promote yourself as an expert by providing people with an opportunity to submit questions

-tell people about this resource via your newsletter or ezine, and make sure to publish some of the questions & answers in the next newsletter

6) Do a survey

-at the end of a presentation or talk, pass around a brief hand-out asking for feedback and any questions that they didn't get answered

-have an online survey asking specific questions around new products, programs, customer service , etc. and promote the link in your newsletter, ezine, special email and blog

-pick up the telephone and call some current customers to find out what's working/what's not, what new product or services they need, and any other question you want information about

-have a sheet at tradeshows where people can write down their burning questions and you'll get back to them - give away a prize for the best questions

7) Join online forums

-browse through online forums that are geared towards your niche market to see what kinds of questions people are asking and what frustrations they're experiencing

8) Gather information on your website contact page

-have another field (box) on the contact form where people can provide details about themselves and their needs

9) Keep watch on competitors newsletters, articles and blogs

-see what questions that they are being asked and what kind of information they're providing to their clients and prospective customers

I encourage you to use several of these methods for finding out exactly what your customer base and prospects want. Not only will you ensure that you stay current but you'll also have great targeted content for all your communications.

Then, there are writers who are authoring books

Then, there are writers who are authoring books and things of this nature. They can also work at home and make an income.

Transcription

Transcription is another popular work at home job. This involves taking a recording of a voice or voices and then putting that into the written word. This is great for individuals who have attention to detail and who can type well. Not everyone will find that transcription is the best work at home job for them, but it does work well for many.

Email Responder

There are many companies that receive hundreds or even thousands of emails per day. They want to provide a personal response to each email but they simply do not have the time to do so. As a result, they hire people to respond to emails. This is a great work at home job and you will find it is really easy and can work around your schedule.

Have you been dreaming of a job where you can work at home

Have you been dreaming of a job where you can work at home? Most people think how great the opportunity would be to work at home. However they do not know how to get started or what jobs are available. There are actually quite a lot of jobs that are great for work at home individuals. The following are just a few that are really great for this set up and that might work for you!

Website Builder

If you have any web design experience then you can easily work at home. You simply need to find some clients and start building websites for them. This is a slow process because you will need to market your services and gradually build up a clientele. There are many places where you can find new clients interested in your services. For instance, you could advertise your services from your own website or on forums. Both of these help you get the clients you need to build a job where you can work at home.

Of course, if you aren't ready to go out on your own just yet you can always find companies that will allow you to work for them as a website builder and still work from home. Finding these jobs takes a little more time and you need to prove you are responsible enough to work at home, but there are jobs available if you look in the right places.

Writer

Many writers work at home simply because it is the best place for them to get their creative juices flowing. There are many companies that need writers from technical writers to content writers and they are more than happy to hire you and allow you to work at home.

Now, let's fast forward to designing your website

Now, let's fast forward to designing your website, getting your letterhead or business card printed. Yes, just like a child, you are still trying to persuade someone to pay attention to you. However, now that you got staff and bills to pay, you NEED to get attention, not just want to get MBT Sport 2, attention. Instead of squeaking, you need to be SPEAKING! Since your competition is no longer just local, it's global, you really need to consider getting out into the public in a big way. Look at how much assertive advertising went into Earth Hour 2008. The outgoing, friendly, global minded and confident self-employed professionals will have more success attracting clients, than the shy MBT Karani Shoes,and timid. So, who do you want to pay attention to you?

Here are some tips from the trenches. Follow these fundamentals to discover how you may want to change your client communication and improve your existing results. To persuade prospects into becoming your clients:

- You must have deep conviction that you are the answer to their problem.

- You have to have the personality, reputation and credibility to take your message seriously. This comes from your success record.

- You have to be trained to communicate your message in front of audiences.

- You need to learn how to write in a way that clarifies your thoughts to your target market.

- You must be able to share your story, with some humor, of how the heck you got into your line of work in the first place.

Let me tell you, you will not always get your way with clients. But, by being conscious of how you communicate with clients, polishing up your presentation skills, strengthening your belief in your product or MBT Sawa service, and developing a deep passion for what you want out of your business, you will get your way and persuade more prospects to become your clients.

You've been squeaking - I mean trying to get your way

You've been squeaking - I mean trying to get your way - ever since you were a baby. A matter of fact, before you read any further, why not pull out a chubby picture of yourself just to have a good laugh. Or, get a good image in your mind of your baby picture. You got the picture? Would you MBT Kimondo, just look at that baby smile. Now, your method of persuasion when you were a baby was crying really, really loud hoping to get someone's attention. Well, it worked.

As I watch my daughter grow up, she mixes in a temper tantrum to get our attention. And, much of the time it still works. The point here is that your growing up experiences have a lot to do with the MBT Moja,way you persuade others to purchase your product or services. And, so does your communication.

Since I'm qualified to speak about generational cultures, I want to point out that our persuasion skills are really a product of our habitual ways of thinking that have been passed down from generation to generation. I mimic mom, and she imitated her mother before her. And I taught my daughter how to speak, much like my teachers taught me. I make conscious vocal changes, but I often find myself thinking, "YIKES! I sound like my mom". When it comes to trying to get our way, though our persuasion techniques are very similar to those of our ancestors, the world around those we communicate with has changed dramatically.

When I first learned this, I had a huge Aha! moment. My jaw dropped open, because I began to understand for the first time that some people's skills for persuasion were very outdated. You may be a entrepreneur, manager, parent, teacher or student. Whatever your role, you are trying to MBT Ema communicate messages to those around you and probably doing it much like your family and friends and their ancestors and their ancestors. But consider for a moment how greatly communication with the world has changed.

Everything the company knew about the mine

Everything the company knew about the mine was shared with the geologists through the Internet. Substantial payments were offered for the best ideas. This occurred at a time when gold prices were at a near-term MBT Sport Shoes low in constant dollar terms.

As a result of having little else to do in the depressed market, many of the world's best geologists participated. Over 1400 prospectors registered for the challenge. A year later, the company announced that the winning submissions had located 6 million additional ounces of gold.

With further testing, that number may grow. The ultimate revenue from mining that gold will exceed one billion dollars and profits will probably be hundreds of millions of dollars. The cost of the prizes was $575,000. The prices cost less than the unproductive exploratory drilling that would otherwise have occurred.

To fully appreciate this experience, you should know that this is mine has operated for a lone time. Most would assume that there was little more gold to be found in it that has not already been identified.

To build on that success, the company launched its Global Search Challenge in March 2001. That contest looked for important mineral deposits worldwide over the following two years, and offered two million dollars in prizes.

This amounts to a second model change in only one year. This time, Goldcorp not only leveraged its own information, it also MBT Maliza,leveraged that of everyone else as well as their ability to interpret that information. Goldcorp will be able to access every geologist who learned something that a mining company is not yet exploiting.

And it can then simply use the best ideas. The mining industry should expect that the business model for finding minerals will continue to rapidly change.

Customer Insight Conduits

2. Customer Insight Conduits"

The fastest way to overcome the problems described above and gain real insight into what customers need and want is by establishing Customer Insight Conduits"These Conduits help bridge the gap between company capabilities and market or customer needs.

Customer Insight Conduits" are defined as channels through which information passes primarily from customers and the marketplace to a function within the company that is able to make data actionable and drive customer-valued change throughout the organization. These conduits provide an early-warning system for problems. As problems are recognized, the Conduits serve as a diagnostic tool to help fully understand issues and determine the efficacy of solutions. In addition, the Conduits are a measurement vehicle to assess overall customer value and other metrics.

Customer Insight Conduits are an early-warning system, diagnostic tool, and a measurement vehicle.

2.1 Examples

* Customer advisory boards Ensure that these are composed of economic buyers of your products/services from an appropriate sampling of the customer base. Some companies rotate the membership every 1-2 years to ensure fresh insight

* Technical advisory boards These should be comprised of the "use buyers", or those who are actually going to be using your products or taking advantage of your services. From these, you obtain valuable, on-the-street insight helpful to develop/refine products.

Unprofitable Customers

Unprofitable Customers Often companies, particular those that have been successful, do not know what a good customer looks like. Many companies grew in different economic times by taking the business 'came in the door' but have not yet invested in insight about what kind of customers are good ones.

* Lackluster product/service performance Lack of market adoption clearly means the product or service missed the mark and does not Arnette Sunglasses adequately solve customer pain. Customer knowledge needs to pervade a company's management of its innovation in product, markets, and business extension. Every company has to be alert to opportunity in these areas because growth is a broad based challenge simply doing one thing very well is no longer enough.

* Most companies have only two communications channels with customers: sales and complaints. Both of these are important companies need to sell and customers need ways to seek redress but neither tells a company what the customer needs to make them successful. To ensure success, you must continuously deliver what you know your customers and prospects need, want, and are willing to pay for.

There are four steps to success in this process:

1. Proactively Listen to Customers in an Organized, Meaningful Fashion

2. Make Customer Data Actionable

3. Drive Customer'valued Change Throughout the Organization

4. Measure Effects of the Change

The first step is critical for the success of the Oakley Sunglasses Cheap, remaining three.

Declining prices and margins. Decaying sales

Declining prices and margins. Decaying sales. Unprofitable customers. Lackluster market performance. Does your company suffer from these maladies? The solution to these may not be spending more money on advertising, Christian Dior Sunglasses replacing the VP of sales and the rest of the sales force, or further cutting costs. No, the answer may lie somewhere else entirely and if recognized and addressed, may resolve all of these symptoms.

The problem may actually lie in the way that your products and services are designed, developed, delivered, and refined. Who drives these activities? Is it Engineering? Management? Support? Sales? If the customer is not in the driver's seat, your revenues, profits, and even your company may be at risk.

The problem may well lie in the fact that companies don't understand their customers what they need, want, and most especially, what they are willing to pay for. Without this understanding, companies do not know what products/services to offer, or how to market and sell to prospects.

The only way to guarantee increased revenues, Replica Oakley Sunglasses,stronger, longer, and more profitable customer relationships is to center strategic decision'making on actionable customer insight.

1.1 Symptoms

Some of the symptoms that companies face that are operating without sufficient customer insight include:

* Declining margins and prices Price and margin are excellent measures of a company's ability to make its value proposition successful in the market. Too many companies do not recognize when the market no longer values its offerings and resort to price cuts or other margin-cutting promotions

* Decaying Sales A company out of synch with changed customer needs will suffer as sales decay. When customers are harder to find and sales are more difficult the reason is often than a company has not driven customer knowledge far enough into the company processes. Adapting everything a company does from product development to core metrics of business health to customer value is a key strategy to reinvigorate a company's economic engine.

Cocreative problem solving facilitates the emergence

Cocreative problem solving facilitates the emergence of solutions that are not obtainable through logical/cognitive thinking alone, by bringing into the process insights, intuition and knowledge that is Louis Vuitton Sunglasses usually only accessible in other contexts. Trust and a shift in perspective are critical to a cocreative problem solving process. It is always assumed that the participants have all the necessary skills and knowledge and all good ideas and approaches are considered. The role of the facilitator is to create a mutually supportive environment in which ideas can be generated and challenged through deepening levels of questioning and reflection.

Cocreated solutions are just as efficient, productive and profitable as reductive solutions, but will have the advantage of motivating participants and incorporating meaning and values. Cocreative problem-solving is the Prada Sunglasses,result of decades of study into the behaviours and attributes of knowledge-building communities. It is a whole system process, rather than the left-brained (logical and analytical) processes we favour and allows for the inclusion of feelings and ideas, as well as hard-nosed facts.

Cocreative problem solving can be used in any situation in which a group of people are willing to work together and can achieve rapid results from new and functionally diverse teams. It can be exciting, fun, challenging and altogether more satisfying than the usual process. However, if there are significant trust issues within the group we would advise that these are addressed first.

How much time do you spend in meetings

How much time do you spend in meetings, dealing with problems and knowing that the solution finally agreed upon is merely Nike Shox NZ adequate at best? If you find yourself wasting valuable time in seemingly pointless meetings or find that the intelligent and experienced people you have brought together do not deliver the results you expected, then it is worth considering a different approach. Businesses depend on meetings to make decisions, solve problems and share information. Getting the right people in the room is only the beginning of being able to work together effectively.

Cocreative problem solving is a facilitated approach to complex problem solving that guides and supports participants through the process of integrating facts, opinions, values, hypotheses and questions into a Nike Shox TL1,collectively inspired solution. We are taught to solve problems by breaking them down into smaller components and concensus is highly prized. But does this deliver the best solution and what happens to the original objective along the way. This lacks creativity and is rarely satisfactory or successful in providing sustainable solutions to complex or difficult problems. Can you really deliver on expectations with a lowest Nike Air Presto,common denominator approach to problem-solving?

I started my own painting business back

I started my own painting business back in 1991. As someone who had done painting off and on before I figured I knew all about how to paint. I was wrong.

So, exactly how much painting experience do you need to start a painting business of your own? Below are the top 10 things you Nike Shox O'Nine, should know to become a successful house painter.

1. You need to know important things like when and why to use primers.

Example: You cannot paint latex over alkyd (oil base) unless it was a "flat" sheen like wall paint. Otherwise you will get "peeling".

Neither can you paint new alkyd enamels over existing alkyd enamel finishes without priming first with an enamel under coater primer (whew!). Otherwise "chipping" will occur. A common error with older alkyd enamel woodwork.

2. You need a system for getting your prep work done fast.

Example: For example, when painting walls, I like to apply the first coat of paint before I do any basic drywall repairs of things like holes, stress cracks, loose tape seams, etc. That way you get to know the walls and the trouble areas show up easier because of the fresh paint.

3. You need to know the best time-saving techniques or speed tips to make the most money per job. Things as simple as having a fan available to quick-dry freshly painted walls and ceilings so you Nike Blazer SB can get on with cutting in the second coat.

4. You want to test which paints are the best to use. Once I find my favorite products I stay with them because I know them well and how they perform. Also, I like to use name brand leaders like Benjamin Moore. Name brands that represent high quality to the homeowner. Cheap paint takes more effort and doesn't make your job look as good afterwards anyways.

Where do I start?

10. Where do I start? If you get this far, the next question should be 'where do I start?' In most cases, the place to start is to try to get first hand experience in doing what you want to achieve. If possible, attend a workshop where you can learn the basics from someone who has already Nike Shox Sale, done what you want to do. Or get a part time job at a business that does what you want to do. Getting first hand experience (either a workshop or job) can give you a huge jump toward learning what you need to know, what tools you need to acquire, and what skills you'll need.

11. What do I do next? This is a question you will repeat often throughout the project. As you complete each phase, you'll have to ask yourself, 'What do I do next?' In most cases, projects are a sequential learning process. What you learn in the previous phase, you apply in the next phase, where you learn more. But as each phase ends, you need to have a good idea of what you need to do next. (Check out your model of success . . . what steps did they follow?)

12. Where do I need to make changes? The further you get into a project, the more you learn about what can and can't be done (within your budget and skills). As you learn more, you'll discover ways to improve the project by eliminating some steps and adding others. This 'Where do I need to make changes?' question is one you'll ask often, and allows you to adapt your project to changes in your environment.

One Final Question

13. When will I know I'm done? The product development business is one of stepping stones. Each project you take on generally leads to another project using skills and tools you acquired with earlier projects. Often before you complete one project, you'll have a good idea what your next Nike Shox OZproject should be. While individual projects do reach an end point, rarely will your product development endeavour be 'complete'. You'll almost always have a number of projects in mind - just waiting for you to free up some time.

Is this within my budget/where do I get funding?

6. Is this within my budget/where do I get funding? Almost all projects have costs, some quite considerable. Before starting the project, ask yourself how will you fund the project until it becomes self-sustaining. In some cases, the costs will be low or spread out enough that funding won't be a problem. In other situations, funding requirements are immediate and you will Ferragamo Sunglasses,

need a certain amount of cash before you can start. Determine your needs early on, and find a source of funding (perhaps income from other projects) before you start.

7. Will working toward this goal have a negative impact on my health, family relationships, or economic condition? In some cases, you can choose a goal so ambitious that trying to achieve it will have a negative impact on your health or family relationships. I can think of no instance where it would be wise to endanger your health or the relationship with your spouse or children to achieve a business related goal.

8. What will I do if this fails? It is always a good idea to have a backup plan. In my case, I generally take on projects where even if the project fails, what I learn while doing the project is usually worth the effort. For example, if I decide to produce a DVD on a specific topic, and the Roberto Cavalli Sunglasses, fails to generate revenue, the experience of acquiring the tools and learning to produce a DVD gives me a huge head start on the next DVD I decide to produce.

On the other hand, if I have invested all my time and resources to producing a single product and have 'bet my house' on its success, I better have a backup plan should it fail. The same goes with all projects or goals. Have a backup plan if it fails (because 70% of projects do fail).

9. Is this a realistic goal for me? Is the goal you set for yourself so ambitious that you have no chance of reaching it? Does it fit in with your skills and interests? Does the goal reflect long term desires, or is it coloured by immediate problems in your life not related to long term realities? Are there more obvious goals which you should be trying to achieve first? Keep in mind that it usually takes time and strategy to achieve desirable goals. So don't feel pressured to accomplish everything at once.

If you are serious about achieving success

If you are serious about achieving success as a Direct Marketer or Product Developer, start by answering these questions.

Thirteen Questions

1. What is my goal this year? Be specific. Instead of answering, "Make a lot of money," come up with an answer based on your Fendi Sunglasses personal reality. For example, your answer might be, "Learn enough about running a subscription website that I can generate at least ￡2000 a month income from membership fee's alone."

2. What are the 'models of success' of others who have reached this goal? It helps a great deal to identify other product developers or companies that have attained the goal you are trying to achieve. Look at what they are doing, and how they are doing it. See what works for them, and what hasn't worked. Try to find a 'model' you can use as your guideline.

3. What is my strategy for reaching my goal? After you have identified your goal and a few models of success, it's time to start formulating your own strategy. Avoid the mistake of trying to 'over complicate' your strategy. Keep it simple, with as few steps as needed. Adapt your strategy to meet your own skills, schedule, and budget.

4. What tools or skills will I need to acquire to reach my goal? With most projects, you'll need to acquire some additional skills, equipment and tools. You'll want to identify most of these before you start - as doing so will help you understand the budgetary needs and time requirements. With some goals, you may find the skills and equipment needed are beyond your budget or learning level - a good time to find out is before you start the project.

5. What is my timetable? Before starting a project is is a good idea to develop a long term and short term timetable. The long term timetable should have specific 'accomplish by' dates leading to the final Chanel Sunglasses,goal. The short term timetable should be more detailed and cover the acquisition of tools, learning of skills, development of test projects, etc.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance

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"A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't." Jack Dempsey

"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up." Vince Lombardi

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity." Louis Pasteur

"If you are going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." Thomas Jefferson

"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right." Albert Einstein

"When things go wrong as they sometimes will; When the road you're trudging seems all uphill; When the funds are low, and the debts are high And you want to smile, but have to sigh; When care is Carrera Sunglasses,pressing you down a bit- Rest if you must, but do not quit. Success is failure turned inside out; The silver tint of the clouds of doubt; And you can never tell how close you are It may be near when it seems so far; So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit It's when things go wrong that you must not quit." Unknown