This week's feature:

Ideas worth considering and trying in your business:

• Capture every detail production will need when you prepare the estimate - leave no room for surprises.
• Don't rely on messy handwriting to complete a job.
• Incomplete work orders result in production delays, revenue losses and upset customers. 

How can Control help? Never handwrite a work order again. When a customer accepts an estimate, convert it to an order and print the work order with a few clicks. No more wasted time re-writing information, or problems from leaving info off work orders.

No one likes invoicing. Right? Well, Joe says, “It’s not that invoicing itself is frustrating. People love invoicing, it’s how they are going to get paid. What they don’t love is the challenge it is to generate invoices.” Watch how Control helps you get paid faster and can automate your invoicing process.

   We all have habits that are good for us, and some not so good.  The good news is that bad habits can be eliminated and good habits can be developed.  In Charles Duhigg’s book, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business, the incredible impact of habits on business is revealed in a fashion that helps the reader to understand why habits are important, (the good ones), and how developing the right habits ensure automatic success.

The information from The Power of Habit that you can apply to your business today boils down ...

Baton Rouge, LA – The latest release of Control® includes a pricing screen to estimate jobs which utilize a dye sublimation process.  These screens will estimate every detail of the job, including capturing transfer press and paper details. Users can pre-load their specific equipment, materials and costs, enabling them to produce a quote within a few clicks when a customer calls. If requested by the customer, users can easily create multiple quantity grids to show price variations at different quantities, which can appear on the estimate. 

Take a look at the new pricing screen:

For more information on this release, call ...

Your most valuable asset: your employees. 

Most of us went to a school that had a system of grading papers with the letter A representing a great paper and the letter F meaning that the work was in need of great improvement.  The system worked (for some of us), but many of us probably could have done much better in school if we had teachers that simply focused on helping us to get an A.  That is the premise of a unique business philosophy in the book, Helping People Win at Work, by Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge.  In this ...