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[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

Thanks for sharing @RepKinzinger - love seeing the amazing things Print can do to make lives better @passiton_values #disruptivePrint @RedCoolerRon

[Adam Kinzinger @RepKinzinger]

Wow. Incredible story MT @rrstar: 3-D printer, and some Boylan students, making a hand for a Roscoe girl http://t.co/ScfoqLYAUY

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

Getting OUT and about is crucial to my mental health. Days that I can’t visit customers I make a point of going SOMEWHERE and talking someone, any human ! a homeless person or a fast food helper so long as it’s face-to-face... err... mask-to-mask ) #printchat a2

[Kelly Mallozzi @SuccessInPrint]

2. 2.What are some things you can do to raise your own morale? #printchat

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

Concerns about Morale have become less urgent these past few months, than basic Health... physical yes, but mental and emotional health too. (home office, part of a virtual team of 9, caring for 200+ customers) A1 #printchat

[Kelly Mallozzi @SuccessInPrint]

Q1 - https://t.co/vdjJHh4RMZ Important is morale to you? Do you work in an office, remotely, solo biz owner? #printchat

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

I’m thrilled some universities have great graphic arts programs. I’d love to a course titled “Print as an Entrepreneurial Venture”
It’s not so much lack of Graphic Tech skills, as Imagination, Vision and Connection to the ValueChain of Print.
On WHY more than What

#printChat a4

[Sandy Hubbard, Growth Strategist/Marketing Advisor @sandyhubbard]

A4. industry must give schools and training programs input on what we need, tech wise and knowledge wise. #printchat

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

@AlanJDixon @drupa Agreed @AlanJDixon
For me, a virtual print show seems a bit like a virtual wine tasting with just pictures of the vino

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

@PrintMediaCentr Hi Deborah ❤️
I’m not planning anything around any virtual show... simply no plans.
My 200+ customers are all here in Utah & Idaho, and I’m WAY BEHIND on helping them to survive, thrive and grow!

#printChat #disruptivePrint a4

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

@PrintMediaCentr No plans to be virtually at Drupa. Life is short... I’d rather mask-up and Go see a customer ! for Real

#printchat #disruptivePrint a4

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

Just got a copy of the first book that I ever helped to get born and to name:

Christianity In The Americas Before Columbus: Unfamiliar Origins and Insights

Thanks Gary Bowen for the invite!

#DisruptivePrint

https://t.co/C9j5V9lUCk

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

A Customer Relationship Manager tool can be super simple and inexpensive - even a one person shop. Take a look at ZenDesk #printchat

[VDP Dave @davekrawczuk]

I don’t believe you can afford to NOT have a CRM. That is penny wise pound foolish. #printchat

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

CSR is not the same role as Inside Sales, should not be charged with selling. Such conflicting priorities tend to stress relationships. #printchat a4

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Q4. Should the CSR have a role in increasing closed deals? How? Compensation? #printchat

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

What’s a Pager ? #printchat

[Sandy Hubbard, Growth Strategist/Marketing Advisor @sandyhubbard]

A2. The CSR as I know sleep with their pagers on. I think they will need to do more pre-emptive outreach, however.#printchat

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

We called the Production First role an Expeditor. That role is common in highly automated plants.
A1 #printchat

[VDP Dave @davekrawczuk]

A1 (con’t) My experience is that CSR’s used to be closer to sales and were a resource for sales and customers - and now they have moved closer to the production people pushing work through the shop. #printchat

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

Is that a trick question ?
a1 #printchat

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Q1. What do you consider that CSR's role to be? #printchat

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

I am still working up to Great, but I’m a damn good partner ‘cause I work first to understand you and your business - been working to embrace the @FranklinCovey / #7Habits approach for decades now. The older I get the more I believe it really works! #printchat #disruptivePrint

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Q4: PROMO TIME! What makes YOU a great partner? #printchat

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

I am still working up to Great, but I’m a damn good partner ‘cause I work first to understand you and your business - been working to embrace the @FranklinCovey / #7Habits approach to life for decades now. The older I get the more I believe it really works!

[PRINT LONG AND PROSPER🖖 @PrintMediaCentr]

Q4: PROMO TIME! What makes YOU a great partner? #printchat

[PRINT LONG AND PROSPER🖖 @PrintMediaCentr]

WOOP WOOP! RT @UniversalWilde: It’s Wednesday and that means we’re excited for another #printchat 🤩

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

Love the idea ! may need to be two different projectors

https://t.co/t206byZTSG

#printChat a5

[slavaapel @slavaapel]

A5 Can someone invent a projector with UV bulbs that kill germs & at a same time entertains? Use it in hallways to COVID educate #printchat

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

And on plastic lighting covers. I have a customer that prints clouds & blue sky on the fluorescent light covers in their basement offices. It’s subtle but beautiful! #printChat a5

[Kelly Mallozzi @SuccessInPrint]

a5 - what about printing on ceiling tiles - might be a good way to entertain (sell) while people wait in line? #printchat

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

Avoid assigning Priority or Sequence numbers to more than 7 Things on a ToDo List... more than that tends to spawn confusion #printChat A2

[PRINT LONG AND PROSPER🖖 @PrintMediaCentr]

@dsgraphics My to-do lists spawn to-do lists... I never get through it - any advice?? #printchat

[Paul 🖤 Gardner @DisruptivePrint]

Most mornings and evenings I work to sharpen - and soften - myself for at least a few minutes! Some days I don’t even manage to get the rust off ; )

#printChat a2

[PRINT LONG AND PROSPER🖖 @PrintMediaCentr]

Q1: Habit 1: Sharpen the Saw… Do you make time to recharge – and how do you recharge? #printchat