New YouTube Channel for Control

4/10/2012 - 3:43 p.m.

Have you seen the newly created CyriousControl channel on YouTube? We want this library of videos to educate and excite sign industry owners and managers about how Control can be a powerful estimating and business management tool for their businesses. This new channel houses an animated depiction of what life is like daily in many sign businesses. Highlighting many of the frustrations, this video aims to resonate with sign industry owners and encourage them to seriously explore the benefits - including both time and money savings and a sense of greater control - of putting Control at the center of their businesses ...

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Dean Sharp hosts pricing webinar for SGIA next week

3/22/2012 - 7:30 p.m.

Sales Manager for Cyrious Software, Dean Sharp, will lead "Pricing for Graphics Producers"

 

Date:   Wednesday, March 28th

Time:  2 PM EST.

Who should attend: Owners, Production Managers, Sales Managers

Cost: Free!

Register here: https://www.sgia.org/training_and_education/webinars/register.cfm?wscode=W032812&wsCategory=freeweb

 

Here's the webinar focus:

Making a profit in today’s graphics and sign industry, which is facing fierce competition and thin margins, requires reliable company data and strong control of production costs. Pricing accuracy is critical to the future of your business. Learn strategies and techniques to help you capture your costs, manage ...

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Tips Instrument: Helpful Control hints on your Dashboard.

2/29/2012 - 8:26 p.m.

Add the "Tips" instrument to your Control dashboard to view suggestions on screen layouts, shortcuts, and other announcements.

 

Instrument Name: Tips

 

What it does: Cycles through tips, tricks and other Control hints,

 

How you can use it: Click through the tips to gain ideas for how you use Control everyday.

 

How to set it up:

1. On your dashboard,  Select “Add Instrument

  1. 2. From the drop-down menus, Choose “General” > “Tips

 

 

Have a tip you would like to share with others? Let us know!

Send your tip to: marketing@cyrious.com

 


 

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Serious Tip Webinar: How Wagner Signs uses Dashboards to save 8 hours per day.

2/16/2012 - 6:30 p.m.
Wagner Signs is an 8 person full service sign company that's been using Control for just over a year. Todd Wagner discusses how they've saved this much time and how using Control will lead to higher profits.

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New! In-Depth Training Classes for Control

2/16/2012 - 1:29 p.m.
Beginning Thursday February 16, Cyrious Software will start hosting free In-Depth Training Classes (webinars) for all Control© users.  In each class, we’ll provide 20-40 minutes of in-depth training on a unique topic, followed by a Q&A session.

The first two topics are: “New Company Entry” and “Commissions: Different Ways to Handle Commissions in Control”.  These classes will be held every Thursday, beginning at 1pm CST.  To access call and login details and a full schedule of upcoming class topics, visit: http://cyrioussoftware.com/support/CyrTools.aspx

After the live class, the recording will be posted on the customer site ...

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