Are You a Purple Cow?

3/4/2013 - 5:25 p.m.

Seth Godin, the marketing guru and author of several good marketing books, wrote Purple Cow, the book that explains how businesses, including sign shops, that use traditional marketing techniques are wasting time. He suggests that business owners stop advertising and start innovating. And, the way to do that is to build a brand by creating a remarkable product or service. Sounds simple, right? Well, of course it isn’t! But, what Purple Cow does for business leaders is help to motivate them to be remarkable. Godin says that the problem with advertising today is that it is filled with ads ...

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The E Myth Book Review: Helpful advice for sign business owners.

2/1/2013 - 10:12 p.m.

The E Myth is a very popular business book with huge success because the author, Michael Gerber, included so many great useful principles for running a business in today’s market.  It would be difficult to include them all in one blog posting, but I will include what I consider strategies that any sign shop owner can apply today. 

 

As Gerber explains it, the E Myth, or the Entrepreneurial Myth, is based basically on two parts: 

 

  • The myth that most people who start a small business are entrepreneurs

 

  • The myth that an individual who understands the technical ...

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Register Now for CyrCon 2013! Right before the ISA show in Vegas

1/18/2013 - 4:33 p.m.

Are you a current Control user? Looking for extra training to to better understand your pricing, customize your dashboards or create more macros to automate your work? 

 

Join us April 2-3, 2013 at the Tropicana in Las Vegas for our annual Control users conference. There'a a full day of training and you'll be able to get the BEST pricing on user licenses and modules all year!

 

Get more event details and register here: www.cyrious.com/cyrcon2013

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Joe Knows: Job Tracking and Production Management

12/11/2012 - 4:55 p.m.

Losing jobs, forgetting details on work orders and missed deadlines. Joe hears these complaints from people in the sign industry everyday. Joe shares his advice for real-time job tracking and production management with Control.

 

Here's the second video in the Joe Knows series, so watch now:

 

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   Blog, Job Tracking

Current Customer Promos End Friday!

12/10/2012 - 7:21 p.m.

Depending on your system, you could save up to $250 off additional user licenses. Plus, if you have Control you can save on the FedEx & UPS shipping modules as well as the Credit Card Module. 

 

Interested?

Call our sales team at: 800-552-1418 or 407-573-1100. 

*Offers end Friday, December 15, 2012 at 5pm EST. Must pay prorated support on additional licenses if applicable. 

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