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eLynxx Solutions to Provide Print Buying Software to Johns Hopkins University

eLynxx Solutions is pleased to include Johns Hopkins University among the clients using its flagship PrintLynxx. PrintLynxx is cloud software that is built for print buyers to streamline and simplify the specification, sourcing and management of custom printed communications. PrintLynxx is well suited for higher education where insight to autonomous print buying across many areas […]
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Seeking the Secret Sauce of Print Projects

Research. Creative. Distribution. When it comes to marketing material projects they’re the three heavy hitters, the big guns, the meat and potatoes. In fact, if you were to think of a marketing material project as a hamburger, research, creative and distribution would be like the two halves of the roll and the patty. Skip just […]
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Software Choices: Purpose-Built or General Use

Providing your organization with the right kind of resources is important to its long-term growth. When it comes to resources, especially technology and software, the number of options and approaches can – and should – lead to many questions. One of the most important questions is whether to invest aggressively in specialized initiatives with higher […]
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Happy 180th Birthday – and Thank You – to John Venn!

If you’ve been out to Google today you might have noticed an interesting, if not slightly obscure, interactive commemorative Google Doodle gracing the page. It is commemorating the 180th birthday of John Venn. Unless you are the kind of person who gets at least somewhat nerdy over philosophy, math or statistics; you might be asking […]
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Supply Chain Management from the Vendor’s Point of View

The sales approach in the print industry tends to be kind of old-school. It’s often product centric versus service, capability and capacity centric. When a vendor sells based on product they may have to find alternatives to preferred materials or processes to get the job done at a given price point. When a vendor sells […]
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The Marketing Supply Chain Field Guide: Part 6 – Finance Roles

Some combinations just go together well as polar opposites. They are distinctly different from, yet often attract, one another. North and south, fire and ice, good and evil are all classic examples. Marketing and finance is another. Marketing is driven by passion and human nature. Its output equals its success. Its results are born of […]
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The Marketing Supply Chain Field Guide: Part 3

The Functional Areas of the Marketing Supply Chain – Continued In our last installment, we began exploring how, even in light of inherent complexities and uniqueness, the power of any marketing supply chain can be better understood and harnessed by breaking it down into four functional areas. The first two functional areas; coordination and acquisition, […]
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