Coastal’s Desk Calendar: The Holiday Story!
on Monday, December 5, 2011It’s that time of year again and just like Santa’s Elfs we are working on building our Calendar to deliver before the Holidays! Step one is to get the layout done… and Tony in our prepress department has it in hand. We always add events in Sarasota to the calendar and this year we used the [...]
Coastal Gets Spooky In Sarasota
on Wednesday, November 2, 2011It’s Halloween time again and at Coastal that means having fun while joining in and helping out our community. Last year we set up a booth at the Bradenton Marauder’s first Trunk N Treat and this year when they reached out for volunteers we soon formed a team to do it again! The Marauder’s baseball [...]
Coastal Goes PRO with Ricoh C900!
on Monday, October 24, 2011To continue our ability to offer high quality digital printing, Coastal Printing has just installed a new Ricoh PRO C900 high speed digital printing device. This gives Coastal Printing the ability to produce color and black digital printing at higher volumes (to accommodate faster turn times). Unlike many of the digital printing devices on the [...]
Team Coastal: Meet Jim Schoff
on Monday, October 10, 2011At Coastal we are as proud to showcase our team as we are to showcase our projects and capabilities. Each plays a vital role in our process and brings multiple years of expertise to the table. Their dedication to Coastal, and the print industry, results in the superior quality of our work and the superior customer service [...]
Quality Service Starts with a Positive Attitude!
on Thursday, August 4, 2011Each morning I read for 15 minutes – I read something positive to start my day…. it really makes a difference! Here’s a gem for you from the book I am reading at the moment (Jeffrey Gitomer’s Little Gold book of YES Attitude) which I also mentioned in this post. “Quality Service Starts with a Positive Attitude!” “Poor attitude leads to poor [...]
Have you experienced the POW! Moment Lately?
on Monday, July 25, 2011I have been in business management for a long time (not going to say how long, as then you will say I am a has-been and won’t read on) and have seen a slew of changes; and just when you don’t think there can be any more “POW” a new one comes along and hits [...]
Every Morning I get up and say YES
on Thursday, June 30, 2011I have been a big fan of Jeffery Gitomer for years (www.gitomer.com) as I am generally in-sync with his philosophy. Jeffery suggests that each day should start with some reading matter, but not just any book will do. He and I want you to read something “positive” each morning. You don’t need to read chapters [...]
A fun project at Coastal Printing
on Monday, June 20, 2011One of our longstanding customers came up with a fun project… they told Donna Eli (their sales rep) that it was going to be 4-color printing, foil stamping, tipping in a 4-page inner section and adding on a metal gold star and tassel; then inserting into a special envelope (that we would print and form [...]
An Industry in Flux
on Tuesday, June 14, 2011The landscape of printing has changed, it seems like we went to sleep one day and woke up on a different planet! That’s probably exaggerating, as this change did not happen overnight. The changes in the printing industry have been gradual, like quicksand (for many printers – sucking them under never to reappear again). For [...]
Making Decisions
on Saturday, June 4, 2011Ever been stuck to the floor unable to move? Ever woke up in the morning and wanted to turn back over and go to back to sleep, rather than getting up and going to work? Putting off the hard decisions will bring these types of feelings out real fast… One of the hardest things I have [...]