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Trade customs between IPA members and clients involving: Orders and Schedules, Estimates, Cancellation/delays, Alterations/Responsibilities, Examination Responsibility, Ownership, Storage, Indemnification and Liability of Payment.

This annual report is a valued benefit of IPA membership. The comparative data helps your company compete more effectively in the marketplace!

The 2008 IPA Economic Study includes comparative financial ratios of premedia service providers within the graphic communications industry. Report categories include data by all respondents, all repeat respondents for trending, company size and sales volume, and by respondents’ primary services.

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Learn how Integrity Graphics, Windsor, Connecticut, is implementing the G7 method for calibrating, printing and proofing. 8 Pages, 2007

LAgraphico has a strong heritage of environmental consciousness and over the years has implemented many programs to reduce its environmental footprint. As a result, LAgraphico is one of the most environmentally conscious graphic solutions providers in the country. As customers also became more environmentally conscious, LAgraphico realized there was limited outreach to its customer base and the community relative to its environmental efforts. Learn how a number of Lagraphico's "green" initiatives have had wide-reaching effect both internally and externally. 9 Pages, 2007

A wide-ranging report offering ideas and an action plan to growing a profitable graphic solutions company. This document contains a summary of the content presented at the 2007 IPA Executive Forum and Business Development Conference where experts provided attendees with ideas and an action plan to improve and build upon their existing base of business. The speakers offered practical ideas, strategies and tactics to growing business profitably. This document contains a summary of the content presented. 34 Pages, 2007

With cautionary concerns about the economy, increasing fuel costs, the fiscal impact of natural disasters, the mounting debt from the Iraqi wars, rising interest rates, the new year can be especially challenging for business. What can be done to make 2006 a profitable and productive year? John Graham provides 20 suggestions that can make the next 12 months turn out better that we might imagine. 2005

The seven sins of marketing are indeed deadly. They drain the strength out of good companies and send them down a destructive path. And those who lead the way are the ones who feel they are the exception to the rule. 2005

by Richard P. Farrell, Vice President, Selling Dynamics Sales people need to stop selling and providing solutions and start playing the role of a change agent. To effectively articulate and execute this selling strategy, one needs to design an initial agreement outlining guidelines, expectations, and intended outcomes of one