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A box of chocolates for your thoughts
…or whatever else (romantic or otherwise) you’d like to spend thirty bucks on. We’re deep into another extensive tag and label report (this is for NPES) and we’re asking folks –label printers only this time I’m afraid- to answer some basic industry questions. It’s an anonymous survey (results only ever presented [...]
Can you handle the truth?
Although she’s been dead nearly forty years, I can hear my grandmother as if she was sitting right here in the office: “You build trust by being honest, not by pretending to be.” I was talking to a client this past week, another wise old head (might not be as [...]
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Could have sworn this was supposed to be in my LPC Christmas stocking. Oh well, maybe next year…
Probably no wrestling
When you spend much of your day in a bunker of computer screens crunching data, drawing graphs, and parsing a hundred different industrial opinions into a coherent client forecast, the chance to work with Mexican wrestlers isn’t something you pass up. The Tag and Label Manufacturer’s Institute (TLMI) is a [...]
We’re looking forward
LPC has been researching and publishing the Index & Trends Report for TLMI (Tag & Label Manufacturer’s Institute) for the past five years. Released twice a year, and available to members only, the Index is a detailed look at the tag and label market and features statistics, projections, specific analysis [...]
Not The End
New Year’s Eve. I suppose it’s The End, but mostly, in our great human optimism, a day felt to be The Beginning or at least our own red carpet to it. There’s no ‘That Was The End Of That Then‘ Day, beyond the round-ups of who died this year and [...]
Happy, happy!
….and watch your step, here comes 2014! I’m pretty sure if we ‘get the right things done’ in the coming year (thank you Mr. Drucker) the happiness we wish each other will largely take care of itself. Good luck and best wishes from LPC. David
Benign despot at work
We have a client we’re doing a complete customer evaluation for. He’s smart, decisive, and kind (mostly). As the CEO of a large company he recently emailed this quote to everyone in the marketing team who’d been spending way too much time arguing about their group’s 2014 ad campaign. Big [...]
Tea for two
It was that pleasant enough moment at the start of a conference call when people sat in their offices across this big country (or this small world) compare their respective weather (pretty cold in Texas, polar in Chicago) while waiting for the last few to join. Out of the blue Bob [...]