Lifestyle

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What’s a print company doing with a blog?  Here are some goals: Share client success. Discuss marketing trends. Help you grow your business. You never know what you might find, but at a minimum, we’ll educate and put a smile on your face.

  • Guest entries from customers and vendors
  • Innovative installations to grow your business
  • Employee achievement and team spotlights

Our goal is to share information that is interesting, answer your questions and helps you make decisions about the printing services you need.

Spirit of Sharing

From March of Dimes to the River North Business Association, why do so many Cushing employees get involved with their community?

In the City of Broad Shoulders, it doesn’t happen by accident.

When a management team leads by example, it comes naturally.

In November, Executive Vice President, Joe Cushing received the Spirit of…

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(Draft) Board Meeting

It’s the moment you have been waiting for.

Crunching the Fantasy Numbers

You have completed hours of research, obsessed over your strategy and have your notes. Or maybe you’re one of the few who just wing it (bold strategy my friend) You’re first. There’s 10, 12, maybe even 16 people sitting…

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The Perfect Printernship

I go to school up in Minnesota where the summer lasts exactly 2 months.

As snow melts, leaves appear and birds start tweeting again: summer is upon us (yes, I know you are reading this in September.)  Thinking about basking on the beach also brings the dreadful task of searching for…

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Heard The Buzz?

Over 100 million Americans reach for a cup of coffee to start their day.

Legend has it,we should thank an Ethiopian goat herder named Kaldi for our morning elixir. When his herd munched on tree berries, he noticed the animals had a burst of energy. Reporting his findings to the local…

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Our Printed Past and Future

Some Famous Signatures

Celebrating July 4, it got me thinking about a delicate sheet of paper that means to many things to so many people, in the United States and beyond. What would happen if the Declaration of Indpendence had been printed today?

In the eighteen century the Declaration of…

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Don’t Forget to Get Your Card

When it comes to this very, very important day, I set a reminder on my phone, email myself and make sure to call mom as early as possible.

After all, there’s a reason I’m able to sit and type this – and it has nothing to do with a stork.

Each year,…

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