Category Archives: Employment Issues

Where have I been?

In which Lazerus describes his first movement away from Ink-on-Paper.

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Just When I Thought Twitter Was All Noise

Dr. Joe Webb, print industry economist at whattheythink.com tweets some pretty dramatic news:

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Bizarre job posting of the day

I run into so many job postings that make me think “Huh?” that I’ve decided to save the most bizarre for posterity. Here’s the first:

Domestic goddess wanted, w/ style (S.E. Denver)

Date: 2009-03-04, 9:53AM MST
Actually 3 jobs…
First, recent move out from rental house near Arapahoe and Parker rd. Need rental house cleaned…
Second, about to have second [...]

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Digital Printing and Prepress job trends

Image by MonkeyBoy69 via Flickr

It seems from the chart below that jobs with the phrase “Digital Printing” in the job description (being precise here) were definitely trending up, even ignoring the anomalous spike in Summer ‘07. Of course, the trend has turned down now.

The situation for prepress jobs is far more dismal, as this chart [...]

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Convincing CSRs to “sell”

This is an interesting discussion on Manager Tools:
IMO, a CSR can, and (maybe?) is, obligated to treat every customer contact as an opportunity to upsell/cros-sell. But then, I’m into marketing, so what do I know re: sales? And they can be compensated accordingly. Not cold-calling or hardcore selling, but simply providing addt’l information to the [...]

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Prepress job trends

prepress Job Trends
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  • My name is Jeff Lazerus and my professional experience includes marketing, graphic design, prepress and prepress management; variable data printing and digital printing management.
    This blog is my personal portal for online experimentation. I write about creating your own space on the web, new marketing technology, the print business, and metablogs. Opinions are my own, and I hope someone else's as well.Contact me: jeff@jefflazerus.com




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