2012 is the year of the mobile revolution and the eclipse of the worldwide web. To keep your clients, why not give each of them a free mobile site accessed by a QR code? Using our association’s print-to-mobile (P2M) program your cost per site is $ 22/month. On the revenue side you control all the client’s print plus earnings on add-ons such as outbound texting, mobile video production and interfaces with social media. PBBA-member companies may obtain one mobile site for free simply by texting P2M to 90210 or going to everyone.mobi.com and using the PBBA Sponsor Code EOM8476. You will receive (1) a template to drop in your content and, once activated, a QR code to bring mobile users to your landing page. PBBA will also provide you with your own keyword to 90210 and the option to send mass text “push” messages. iZigg.com/pbba fees may apply (or you may become an iZigg.com agency and resell TXT messaging to others at a profit rate exceeding 200%).

JOIN A.S.I. AND RECEIVE A NEW MEMBER $ 495 CREDIT!

 This “Year-end Special” is being offered to PBBA members. Contact Stan Fellerman at 888-277-0146 or sfellerman@asicentral.com and ask for this deal. Also be a PBBA guest at the ASI roadshows the last week of January.

The 25th largest printing spend will be Elections/Political Action. The Presidential primaries will be followed by the biggest blitz of direct mail, outdoor, FSis and other print from political action committees (PACs) and independent advocacy groups. PBBA has all your supplier contacts at pbba.org. The above generic buttons are available at sales@buzline.com.

Fort Lauderdale FL-based BCT is now much more than business cards. With hundreds of franchises it now operates trade-only printing plants in a hub-and-spoke system. Brokers may obtain a free branded quotaion and ordering platform for clients to use. It directs work to BCT or your other suppliers.

BCT will separately email you with all the exciting details.

OBTAIN PRE-LEGAL SERVICES TO AVOID MAJOR EXPENSES.

Each year many PBBA members face unexpected legal events that can ruin their businesses. A good investment is a pre-legal subscription. PBBA member Robert Mattia can anwer your questions and sign you up. He may be called at 941-383-3276 or emailed bobmat@comcast.net. The company site is prepaidlegal.com/hub/robertmattia

Engraved and embossed print remains the most prestigious. A new PBBA member, Stationery Engravers Inc., Philadelphia PA (stationeryengravers.com) can furnish samples and ideas about how to sell print packages to lawfirms and other heavy users. Call Margaret Lorenz at 877-739 3538 or email margaretlorenz@verizon.net. By the way, PBBA thanks you for your kind gift of engraved and embossed business cards!

CPE Printing, based in Tel-Aviv Israel with multi-national owners, is now interviewing printing resellers and book packagers in forming strategic alliances. CPE offers financing and both buy-out and stock options. CPE will be a publicly traded company in Asia.

In a negative economy, it’s necessary to (1) combine like or complementary businesses and (2) sell new products. PBBA assists with transactions not available elsewhere. Contact us.