Posted on March 3rd, 2010 — in Public Relations, University of Marketing
There are many advantages to choosing a digital printing company . Not only are their services readily available online, but also they have the dynamism and speed most people relate to these days. They are faster, easily adaptable or adjustable and increase in their quality.
Off-set printing may still offer the clearest prints available, but the digital printing machines a digital printing company uses these days are quickly catching up to that level of quality. To fully realize the advantages of digital printing, read through the list below and see how you can benefit from this modern phenomenon.
Customizable sizes
Offset printers normally have set standard sizes. Weather it’s for posters, brochures, booklets, catalogs and other print media, there is always a set dimension or size. This is since the entire printing machine has a set limitation on its dimensions at any given moment. The machine needs timeeat deal of time to reset an offset printer for another task and size. Digital printers on the other hand do not have this limitation. You can print almost any size and shape using a digital printer and change its settings without delay. The only limitation a printer has is its actual physical size. With the increasing technology of digital printers, this is hardly a limitation anymore.
Quicker production cycle
Digital printing offers astonishingly fast production times for color printing. They can print starting from from two or three days turn around time a measly overnight rush printing. This quicker production time is thanks to a more sped up process when compared to offset printing. Equipment can be adjusted quicker from one printing task to another in just a few moments. In addition, the nature of quick drying inks today makes digital color printing directly distributable.
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Posted on February 11th, 2010 — in Public Relations, Universe Of Media, University of Marketing
Many jobs and areas have heroes or some soul that keeps the work performed in that domain to a higher standard. In the realm of voice over jobs, that soul was Don LaFontaine. Anyone not knowing his name would sure enough recognize his voice. Any person hearing to a movie trailer that begins with the words In a world… has heard this man doing masterful voice over acting. The passing of Don LaFontaine has left an opening in the voice over domain that has many studios clamoring for fresh talent. Though no one thus far has come close to his vocal abilities and natural endowment, there are still many hopefuls out there driven to be the next Don Lafontaine by applying to as many voice over jobs as they can.
In order to succeed as a voice over worker, you need to be being easy going and good to work with, not just to make the client feel at ease, but likewise to make the recording process go seamlessly and expeditiously. If you have an issue pronouncing something, just rewrite the entire sentence in the margin of the script. Once you have finished this, change the spelling of the word to something phonetic or familiar. If this does not help, ask the production assistant or anyone else with experience of the script. You should not feel humiliated or ashamed about asking. This indicates that you clearly have the best interest of the project in mind and that you want to be sure to deliver a quality product.
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Posted on January 6th, 2010 — in Market Commerce, Public Relations, University of Marketing
A modern job hunting campaign is by nature often intricate. While the web has offered a variety of new channels, it also creates increased competition for choice jobs and potential challenges for job hunters.
Job search needs to be thought of as a personal, highly aimed marketing operation where you are the product. Your resume is an ad. Your extended network is your source for information and opportunities.
So where does the internet fit in? At AA-Careers, we just posted a job on a popular job board and got over 650 responses in a week. For one position. That’s increased competition for jobs.
Had a strong candidate gotten ahold of us before we placed the ad, they could have gotten the position before having all that competition. How? By finding an employee at our company who became aware of the job prior to posting. Everyone knew about of the job for at least 11 days before it was posted. Who in your network might know of a job that’s coming available soon?
Be careful to check your application materials thoroughly before submitting them. When we did an analysis of the 650 resumes, we found a large number of errors. 63% of the applicants were easily taken out with a speedy triage process. How? The same way any HR professional would. By eliminating resumes where the objective didn’t match our job description. By passing over prospects whose cover letters gave us reasons not to employ them, like "I know I’m overqualified but I really need a job". By eliminating candidates whose documents that didn’t open properly. And by eliminating candidates who didn’t bother to spell check their cover letter and/or resume.
So the good news is that job boards give you a feel of who is hiring, and for what kinds of jobs. But once those jobs are posted, the competition is intense. You can still try, if you have a well honed resume, designed to appeal directly and clearly to the recruiter. And if you have practiced interviewing – so you don’t stumble at a critical point.
Another downside to be aware of is how easily you can be checked on on the net. As we Googled several candidates, we ran into some personal web pages that were in questionable taste. Nothing larcenous, but enough to rock our thinking about who to choose.
AA-Careers provides a broad set of services for Bay Area job seekers, providing our clients a personal career consultant, a managed job hunting campaign, modern tools like a personal website, video, highly targeted resume, and much more. Let us know if we can help you.
Be careful out there, and good hunting!
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Posted on November 4th, 2009 — in Doing Business, Public Relations, Web-Logs
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Posted on August 28th, 2009 — in Doing Business, Internet Real Estate Resources, Public Relations
G4 Communications, a provider of telephone and internet services in areas of New Hampshire, is planning to move its headquarters from Manchester to the remodelled Derry Wayside Furniture Complex at 3 Rockingham Road.
The said property is currently listed on the market as being available, but indications are that Gent Cav, president of G4 Communications, is likely to finalize a deal as he flew down to Londonderry to meet town officials and hold discussions on the company taking over the furniture complex for its new headquarters. The current offices of G4 are just 6,000 square feet in size, while the new facility is estimated to provide over 16,000 square feet in deskspace area.
According to G4’s solicitor John Michels, Cav’s main purpose in meeting with town officials concerned the provision of parking lots for the complex. The building currently has twenty-five lots in front of the entrance, with a further provision for seven lots in the back. However, if indications are correct, the business premises will need at least forty-five lots as per the town’s ordinances. Michels clarified the issue, saying that G4 hopes shifting the company to the new location will bring in new businesses, helping the town to grow along with the company.
With a phone and internet service network in New Hampshire and other places, G4 Communications currently competes with the likes of Comcast and FairPoint. Cav pointed out that parking would be a serious necessity as not all the employees work out of the headquarters building. In addition, the company may choose to convert part of the complex to a retail outlet, requiring more parking.
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Posted on June 13th, 2009 — in Education Online, Public Relations, Stuff for Kids
Last month, we were swamped with a soar of questions from primary schools regarding our drinking water fountains. The first of these was from a school in Lincoln who are wanting to be able to supply drinking water for all nippers in every classroom. The Victorian primary school was searching to substitute worn sinks in each class with a classy wall mounted fountain sink. This simple unit has very small measurements and merely has a bubbler for children to guzzle from. With wall mounted sinks the drinking water comes straight from the mains supply, is filtered through a water filter if necessary and emerges out of the bubbler when a simple knob is pressed. The basicshape of wall mounted sink is without a chilling unit and thence the water comes out of the bubbler at mains water temperature. The second enquiry was for an outdoor freestanding water fountain for the heart of a childrens play area. There are many fountains built in the UK that are fit for big usage outdoor surroundings. We were able to find three special fountains that accommodated the remit including one that has been especially conditioned for a primary school where the drinking area is at 800mm rather than the 1 metre suited to adults.
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Posted on June 1st, 2008 — in Public Relations
Sure, you’re a business, non-profit, association or
government agency manager specializing in activities like
sales, human resources, distribution, finance, program
management or any of many other operating functions.
So you know what you’re doing.
But what about the money you’re hopefully spending
on public relations, which happens NOT to be your managerial
specialty!?
Are you doing the action planning you need to alter
individual perception leading to changed behaviors
among your most important outside audiences? Are you
trying to persuade those key folks to your way of thinking,
then move them to take actions that lets your department,
group, division or subsidiary succeed?
Or are you narrowly focused on tactics instead of that
core PR strategy? Tactics like brochures, broadcast plugs
and press releases which are simple devices public
relations calls upon from time to time to move a message
from here to there.
When you adopt the core PR strategy discussed in this
article, you are then free to move beyond tactics and pay
closer attention to the perceptions and behaviors of your
most important external audiences, the very people who
could hold your professional success as a manager in
their hands.
Which means that you have little choice about doing
something positive about the behaviors of those key
external groups of people whose behaviors most affect
your operation.
Energizing such an effort is the reality that people act
on their own perception of the facts before them,
which leads to predictable behaviors about which
something can be done. When we create, change or
reinforce that opinion by reaching, persuading and
moving-to-desired-action the very people whose
behaviors affect the organization the most, the public
relations mission is usually accomplished.
Happily, results can come quickly when business,
non-profit or association managers use public
relations to alter individual perception among their
target publics, leading to changed behaviors which
helps achieve their managerial objectives.
But please keep in mind that your PR effort really
must demand more than special events, brochures
and press releases if you are to achieve the quality
public relations results you’re counting on.
Fortunately, those results can happen right away.
For example, capital givers or specifying sources
begin to look your way; fresh proposals for strategic
alliances and joint ventures appear; politicians and
legislators begin to view you as a key member of
the business, non-profit, association or government
communities; customers start to make repeat purchases;
membership applications rise as do welcome bounces
in show room visits, and even prospects starting to do
business with you or community leaders beginning
to seek you out.
Another bonus is that your PR people are already
in the perception and behavior business, and can be
of real use for your new opinion monitoring
project. But be certain that the PR staff really
accepts why it’s SO important to know how your
most important outside audiences perceive your
operations, products or services. And the reason
why: perceptions almost always result in behaviors
that can help or hurt your operation.
Sit down with your PR staff and go over your
plans for monitoring and gathering perceptions by
questioning members of your most important outside
audiences. Questions along these lines: how much
do you know about our organization? Have you had
prior contact with us and were you pleased with the
interchange? Are you familiar with our services or
products and employees? Have you experienced
problems with our people or procedures?
Do a comparison using your PR people in the
monitoring job versus the cost of using professional
survey firms to do the opinion gathering work. You
may find that using your public relations people is
the better choice. But, whether it’s your people or a
survey firm asking the questions, the objective
is the same: identify untruths, false assumptions,
unfounded rumors, inaccuracies, misconceptions
and any other negative perception that might
translate into hurtful behaviors.
Here, you’ll need to establish a goal calling for
action on the most serious problem areas you
uncovered during your key audience perception
monitoring. Will it be to straighten out that
dangerous misconception? Correct that gross
inaccuracy? Or, quickly stop that potentially
painful rumor?
Of course you can’t move forward without a
supporting strategy to show you HOW to reach that
goal. Truth is, there are just three strategic options
available to you when it comes to doing something
about perception and opinion. Change existing
perception, create perception where there may be
none, or reinforce it. The wrong strategy pick will
taste like sun-dried tomatoes on your Lemon Meringue
pie. So be sure your new strategy fits well with your
new public relations goal. You wouldn’t want to
select “change” when the facts say “reinforce.”
It is here that you have the opportunity to write a
persuasive message that will help move your key
audience to your way of thinking. It must be a
carefully-written message targeted directly at your
key external audience. Your very best writer will
be needed because s/he must produce really
corrective language. Words that are not merely
compelling, persuasive and believable, but clear
and factual if they are to shift perception/opinion
towards your point of view and lead to the
behaviors you have in mind.
If any step in the public relations problem solving
sequence can be described as “fun,” it’s selecting
the communications tactics most likely to carry
your message to the attention of your target
audience. There are many available. From speeches,
facility tours, emails and brochures to consumer
briefings, media interviews, newsletters, personal
meetings and many others. But be certain that the
tactics you pick are known to reach folks just like
your audience members.
It’s not generally recognized by many writers, but
HOW you communicate must also concern you
since the credibility of any message is very fragile.
Which is why you may wish to unveil your corrective
message before smaller meetings and presentations
rather than using higher-profile news releases.
Sooner or later the subject of progress reports will
surface, which means you and your PR team should
view the notion as an alert to begin a second
perception monitoring session with members of your
external audience. You’ll want to use many of the
same questions used in the benchmark session. But
now, you will be on strict alert for signs that the bad
news perception is being altered in your direction.
The icing on the cupcake is the fact that you can
always speed things up by adding more
communications tactics as well as increasing their
frequencies, should program momentum slow.
Yes, it seems fairly safe to say that you know what
you’re doing as a manager of one of the traditional
operating functions in a business, non-profit,
association or government agency.
But the seminal public relations questions still await
your attention. What are you doing to alter individual
perception leading to changed behaviors among your
most important outside audiences? And are you trying
to persuade those key folks to your way of thinking,
then move them to take actions that let your
department, group, division or subsidiary succeed?
Only in that way will you move beyond PR tactics
like special events, brochures, broadcast plugs and
press releases to truly achieve the best public
relations has to offer.
Please feel free to publish this article and resource box
in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website.
A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net.
Robert A. Kelly © 2005.
Bob Kelly counsels and writes for business, non-profit and
association managers about using the fundamental premise of public
relations to achieve their operating objectives. He has published over
200 articles on the subject which are listed at EzineArticles.com, click
Expert Author, click Robert A. Kelly. He has been DPR, Pepsi-Cola
Co.; AGM-PR, Texaco Inc.; VP-PR, Olin Corp.; VP-PR, Newport
News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.; director of communications, U.S.
Department of the Interior, and deputy assistant press secretary, The
White House. He holds a bachelor of science degree from Columbia
University, major in public relations.
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Posted on May 19th, 2008 — in Public Relations
Each of the two competing high definition DVD formats have specs built in for two new surround sound formats: Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD.
Today’s DVDs have enough space for an audio stream of 448kbps (448,000 bits per second) - By comparison, DTS has a rate of 1.5Mbps. (1,500,000 bits per second.)
Confused yet? Just know that compression is the scheme where the audio is deconstructed and reconstructed in a way that uses less space. Certain ways of doing that are superior to other ways, but are “lossy” in that some material is, uh, lost, in the process. One method offers a perfect reconstruction, and is called “lossless.”
On to Dolby Digital Plus:
This has better more efficient coding for the compression, higher bitrates, more channels of audio (up to 13.1). The higher bitrate means better sound quality. Dolby Digital Plus will be backwards compatible with (old) Dolby Digital if that’s what your receiver can handle, but even that will contain about 30% more bits than the old way.
Introducing Dolby TrueHD: another advance.
While Dolby Digital Plus throws away some bits in the compression scheme, Dolby TrueHD has what’s called a “lossless” compression scheme… which reconstructs what was heard in the studio. Exactly. If you see a High Definition DVD with Dolby TrueHD on it, you will know you can hear what the studio did (provided your system is good.)
THX: (now renamed THX Ultra… see below.)
Now, about soundtracks: movie soundtracks are equalized for movie theaters. Ah ha. Movie theaters are generally dead acoustically and even more dead when filled with high frequency-absorbing human bodies. Plus, high frequencies fade with distance (as in: to the screen) The THX specification for home theater (developed by Lucasfilm) does 4 things:
It cuts high frequencies some. Why? Because they were boosted for the movie theater dead - absorbent - environment. Without THX your soundtrack at home would be shrill.
It adds a sense of spaciousness to your surround channels. Many DVD soundtracks’ surround channels (rear speakers) are in mono, not stereo. If in stereo, the circuit recognizes that and does nothing.
It rolls off bass to the main speakers at 80 cycles and routes bass to the subwoofer.
It certifies amplifier power and performance as sufficient.
But, there’s more. There’s ALWAYS more.
THX SELECT:
does the above but lowers amplifier standards. So it can be in cheaper gear. But then they decided to rename ’standard’ THX to “THX Ultra.”
Think we’re done? Cue Jack N: “You can’t handle the truth!”
Now there’s THX Ultra2, which addresses the VIDEO switching circuitry, creates 7.1 channels from 5.1 sources, and compensates for when the speakers are right up against the walls.
DTS
will be mandatory on Blu-Ray discs. DTS-HD will be optional and backward compatible. DTS will be at 2.5 times the data rate of Dolby Digital.
DTS-HD
does 7.1 with zero loss.
What it all mean?
The new High Definition DVDs will sound better than you’ve heard from any DVD so far.
Bob Wood hosts two blogs:
http://www.woodsgoods.blogspot.com about everyday life focused by a wry sense of humor. Humor, pathos, name dropping.
http://www.woodsgoods2.blogspot.com - dedicated to home theater news and developments. Bob has been a radio personality and program director of various highly successful radio stations in the US and Canada, and has settled in Austin, Texas.
Bob also is host and editor of http://www.GreatHomeTheater.comwhich gives reviews, tips, user tricks, and demystifies this fast changing home entertainment technology.
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Posted on May 18th, 2008 — in Public Relations
Slim Fast is the most common diet shake available on the market today. Its plan allows for a shake at breakfast, lunch, and then a normal dinner. It also allows two pieces of fruit and a Slim Fast bar as a snack. According to nutrition experts, the Slim Fast plan does have healthy aspects. It is an easy plan to follow and promotes healthy exercise and drinking plenty of water throughout the day.
Slim Fast centers its weight loss program on products made by their own company. Traditional shakes and nutrition bars are what the diet mostly consists of, making it obvious that the one meal you eat for dinner must consist of nutritious and wholesome foods since your shakes only add vitamins and minerals. The goal for dieters on Slim Fast is to stay away from high-fat, calorie dense foods, and eat a diet that is high in fiber and vitamins instead.
The problem with the Slim Fast plan is that the caloric limit is set so low that it can be bad for any long-term goal of weight loss. Each shake only contains around 250 calories, add in the shakes and regular meal, and you are likely to be only consuming 1,300 calories a day. It seems reasonable that reducing calories is the key to weight loss, but when you reduce too many, you are experiencing one of Slim Fast`s biggest problems!
The only good thing that Slim Fast had ever done was that it introduced meal replacement shakes to the consumer. Slim Fast may have been good when it first same out, but with today`s diet choices, there are much better diet programs available. I simply do not recommend the Slim Fast dieting program if you are looking for long-term weight loss results. With that being said, I still feel that Slim Fast shakes and nutritional bars are a good complement to one`s diet. If Slim Fast would change their “2 shakes a day” plan to one shake a day, I would reconsider my opinion of them. But until they change it, I`m going to stay away from it.
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Posted on May 14th, 2008 — in Public Relations
Probably not, at least not in the near future, but it is beginning to get a lot of attention from the companies that have the resources to invest in it. With TiVo offering consumers the ability to eliminate commercials, advertisers have had to resort to more creative ways to reach their target market. Staples took advantage of this with the desk apprentice, Home Depot has done it on TLC’s Trading Spaces, and the Audi A8 achieved an amazing level of exposure in the Transporter 2 movie trailer.
So just how new is this idea of product placement? It’s not new at all really. It’s commonly known in the industry that the product launch of Hershy’s Reeses Pieces was jump started through product placement in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, but it goes back even farther than that — Mobil oil used it in a 1949 film featuring Harpo Marx called Love Happy.
Product placement is well outside of the budget of most businesses but if you think creatively, you can find ways to use small scale product placement in your favor. A sports drink manufacturer could provide free products to an up and coming athlete, a furniture company could lend their furniture for the set of an independent film, or a clothing company could offer their outfits for a music video. What can your business do?
Jeremy L. Knauff is the founder & CEO of Wildfire Marketing Group, a full service Marketing Firm specializing in helping small companies compete with larger companies.
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