We’ve moved. Last chance to subscribe to our new blog

We are loading up the truck, moving on up, to the East side, packing our bags.

Yep, our BLOG is moving. Next week will be on a new Bat Channel, and we really do not want you to miss any of the great content we still have coming. So, if you are a current subscriber of our blog, we are asking that you subscribe to our new blog by clicking on the button below. Glad you are coming along with us. We will feature two blogs now. One will continue to deliver valuable print industry sales, business and Web-to-Print tips. The other will be just for fun. Because, don’t we all need to have fun at work?

The new addresses will be

http://www.pagepath.com/myorderdesk-blog/

http://www.pagepath.com/just-for-fun/

(it’s not ready yet, so don’t even try to go there. But you can subscribe below and be updated regularly.)

We’re Moving: Subscribe to our new blog

We are loading up the truck, moving on up, to the East side, packing our bags.

Yep, our BLOG is moving. Next week will be on a new Bat Channel, and we really do not want you to miss any of the great content we still have coming. So, if you are a current subscriber of our blog, we are asking that you subscribe to our new blog by clicking on the button below. Glad you are coming along with us. We will feature two blogs now. One will continue to deliver valuable print industry sales, business and Web-to-Print tips. The other will be just for fun. Because, don’t we all need to have fun at work?

The new addresses will be

http://www.pagepath.com/myorderdesk-blog/

http://www.pagepath.com/just-for-fun/

(it’s not ready yet, so don’t even try to go there. But you can subscribe below and be updated regularly.)

New Design Online Tool from MyOrderDesk

Graph Expo 14 was definitely an eye opener for MyOrderDesk. Not only did we meet some incredible people, we heard very strongly what printers are looking for in an online ordering solution. Time after time, visitors came to our booth sharing their need for an affordable, strong tool that allows their clients to design projects online. Printshop customers want to be able to add text and photos, change fonts and colors, rotate items, and control look and feel in the pieces they are creating. They also want to do all of this on the web, sitting at their comfortable desk, drinking a cup of coffee, and enjoying a danish.

Well, we heard the cries of the people in our industry, and have delivered everything they are looking for, minus the coffee and danish. MyOrderDesk recently launched a new Design Online Tool that is integrated with the most popular page layout software, Adobe InDesign. The solution integrates directly into any MyOrderDesk site and gives clients the ability to manipulate standard design templates uploaded by the Print Service Provider (PSP), or create their own piece from a blank canvas.

Scott Harvey, Technical Support and On-boarding Representative at MyOrderDesk stated, “This new feature allows printers to decide what the end-user does and does not get to manipulate on a template. From Direct Mail pieces, to yearbooks, to business cards, the new InDesign Integration gives your customers the chance to create their own printed designs! Adoption of the production has been overwhelming.”

What are you waiting for, a cup of coffee?

The best way to see how Design Online from MyOrderDesk can make your printshop the conversation around the water-cooler is to see at work. Complete the form below for a quick 7 minute demo of the features, benefits and strengths. Who knows, we may actually buy you a cup of coffee for your time. Fill the form out and see.

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Webinar: Become a Super Hero in Print Sales and Marketing

The world is buzzing with the soon-to-be released second movie in the Avengers series. Once again we get to visit the world of Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Black Widow and more.

Diving deeper into the realm of superheroes, we find we can learn an amazing amount about print sales. In this newest Webinar from MyOrderDesk, Joe Kern, Vice President of Marketing, will show you how you can become a “Superhero in Print Sales and Marketing” by learning from this strong team – and its villains.

[Webinar] Becoming a Superhero in Print Sales and Marketing

Join us for a webinar on Apr 24, 2015 at 11:00 AM CDT.

The world is buzzing with the soon-to-be released second movie in the Avengers series. Once again we get to visit the world of Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Black Widow and more.

Diving deeper into the realm of superheroes, we find we can learn an amazing amount about print sales. In this newest Webinar from MyOrderDesk, Joe Kern, Vice President of Marketing, will show you how you can become a “Superhero in Print Sales and Marketing” by learning from this strong team – and its villains.

This Webinar is great content for Owners, Sales Associates, Marketers and Customer Service Representatives.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Happy New Year from your Friends at MyOrderDesk!

Because we’re happy!

We wanted to wish you a happy and blessed New Year!

It has been an exciting 2014 for all of us behind the scenes of MyOrderDesk. We wanted to share that enthusiasm with you, and wish you a very happy and prosperous 2015. We will be celebrating a birthday in the new year and we have many amazing announcements planned. At our recent holiday party, we took video of the major “celebration” and we wanted to share with you how “happy” we are. We hope you enjoy the clips below as much as we enjoyed making them. 

Happy New Year!

Happy Video

Starring

Joe Kern, Marketing		William Jens, Development
Mike Herz, Sales		Greg Witek, CEO
Adam, Support

 Celebration Video

Starring

Joe Kern, Marketing		Scott Harvey, Support
Mike Herz, Sales		Melissa Sienicki, Support
Adam Witek, Support

Close the print sale with these classic tips

If you are in print sales, you have to close. Simple as that. If you can’t close, you don’t sell.

Here are the classic tips for closing the sale. Worth remembering:

1. Customers buy after they talk with you and have discussed their needs. Sales materials are just conversation starters. Followup promptly with email.
2. Make sure you are talking to the person who makes the decision on print purchasing.
3. Discuss the issue the customer has and don’t raise others, unless the issue is essential to the purchase.
4. Ask for the order when the client is ready. Don’t close too soon.
5. Don’t wait too long to close. There’s a natural point in a sales conversation where it’s time to ask for the order. If you go beyond that point, you’ll raise issues that didn’t exist before.
6. Shut up and close. Customers sometimes signal that they’re ready to buy right now. Stop selling and take the order.
7. Close and then shut up. When a customer buys, it’s a mistake to continue to talk about your product or services. Take the order.

Like Us on Facebook and Win

 

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You could win a $50 Restaurant.com Gift Card and Ryan Sauers’ book “Everyone is in Sales.”

Click on the button below to “Like” our Facebook page, and complete the form. After completion, you will be entered in our Facebook Give-A-Way for a $50 Gift Card and a copy of Ryan’s book.

By liking our page, you will have access to exclusive content and offers available only to our Facebook fans. So click below, like us today and receive your chance to win.

Contest ends December 13, 2013.

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Is Print Really Dead?

I saw this video last week at a presentation sponsored by the Great Lakes Graphics Association.

Is print really dead or do we need think a little outside the box? What are your thoughts?

MyOrderDesk Release Notes – #0184 – November 18 2013

The following items have been updated or released to the MyOrderDesk Web-to-Print solution.

• Added the ability to change printshop customer’s password
• Shops can now create Branded Sites without interaction with MyOrderDesk support
• Ability to restrict ordering of an inventory item that is out of stock
• Support for drag and drop file upload and multiple file upload capability
• New tool for uploading user lists to site and to groups
• Ability to hide various DocMart attributes
• Browsing of the File Library by an end users
• New Advanced Auto-Fill Script Builder Tool
• *New*  Live Q&A session with MyOrderDesk Techs on Tuesday and Thursdays
• Advanced ezMerge
  • Optimized live preview for both Landscape and Portrait layouts
  • Images groups can be assigned a name
  • Fonts now support an alias
  • New optimized interface
  • Ability to assign text tags to ezMerge Images
• What’s New feed added to the Site Administrators landing page

If you have any questions about the Release Notes, or would like more information about MyOrderDesk, call us at 630-689-4119.