Spur MORE Repeat Business – Plan #1

5/4/2011 - 12:30 p.m.
Charlie Carter, CEO at Cyrious Software

You are in charge of selling for a sign and graphics company that uses Cyrious Control?  Or you’re the owner?  These ideas may help you grow your sales and deepen your relationships with your best customers.

 

 

 

We all want more repeat business.  I’m sure you’ve seen the stats.  Repeat business is by far the easier and more profitable way to generate more orders.

 

Here’s the example: You come across an new idea to make window graphics (or whatever product you sell) more effective.  Your marketing person ...

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Part 2:Beat the Competition with Cyrious Software & the iPad.

4/4/2011 - 12:26 p.m.

Kristen Simmons, Cyrious Software Marketing Associate

 

Recently, I traveled to see one of our customers, John Fugitt, CEO of nPrint Graphix, to get a glimpse of how he’s winning more jobs by using the iPad and Cyrious Control.

 

You’ll see how John creates a sample sign, logs into Control remotely, and closed the estimate on the spot.

 

 

Located in Springfield, MO, nPrint Graphix has had tremendous success in the wholesale digital printing business, which has been experiencing tremendous growth, locally and nationally. With an eye to the future, John provides the leadership to improve ...

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Part 1:Beat the Competition with Cyrious & the iPad

3/28/2011 - 12:22 p.m.

Kristen Simmons, Cyrious Software Marketing Associate


Recently, I traveled to see one of our customers, John Fugitt, CEO of nPrint Graphix, to get a glimpse of how he’s winning more jobs by using the iPad and Cyrious Control to accomplish the following:

  • Wowing his customers with stunning, vibrant portfolios of previous work.
  • Quoting estimates remotely and getting instant approval.
  • Organizing files and folders for instant access to order images and files.
  • Viewing true color proofs in production.

 

Many thanks for John and his team for allowing us to learn a little about how he has become so successful ...

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Letting Technology Do the Work for You

2/17/2011 - 12:21 p.m.

Kristen Simmons, Cyrious Marketing Associate


Does the thought of change scare you? Do you get paralyzed with questions like, “How will I learn this? How much money is this going to cost me?  Is this going to be a pain for everyone else to learn? Is it really worth it?”

 

Well, any worthwhile change is going to be associated with a learning curve, time and effort. Gary C. Schellerer with Signs by Tomorrow in Bloomingdale, IL shared his experience  with implementing a new system and more importantly the benefits he’s seen as a direct result of it.

“We ...

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What I Realized About My Business After Using Cyrious Control

2/7/2011 - 12:21 p.m.

Jared Smith, President of bluemedia in Tempe, AZ, shared a list of 10 realizations he’s made about his business since using Cyrious Control.  bluemedia just moved into a 55,000 square foot building to handle the demand of their large format, digital printing business.

 

 

1) I have no idea how we ever ran this shop before Control.

2) Once the pricing model was input in to Control – only profitable jobs were allowed in.

3) The ability to run reports at this level combined with macros and triggers makes our old system look like… well a job jacket ...

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