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This 73-page report provides the results of the Economics and Research Center’s June 2010 survey of print business owners, and compares these results to past quarterly surveys to provide an accurate gauge of how print businesses professionals perceive the economic landscape, how those perceptions are changing, and what actions they are likely to take in response to challenging economic times. In addition to our own survey results, we provide the most current data available on printing industry shipments and profits, employment, and other economic indicators.

Table of Contents :

Economic Forecast in a Nutshell

Introduction

How This Report Is Organized

For More Information

Section 1: Prevailing Q2 Business Conditions

Current Business Conditions

June 2010 Survey Results

March 2010 Survey Results

Expected Business Conditions

June Survey Results

March 2010 Survey Results

Business Conditions Index

Prevailing Economic Conditions

GDP

Proprietors’ Income

Corporate Cash Flow

Personal Income

Employment and Unemployment

Consumer Confidence

Consumer Price Index

Leading Indicators

Employment Cost Index

Small Business Optimism Index

Graphic Communications Industry Economic Trends

Graphic Designers

Graphic Arts Employment

Printing Industry Shipments and Profits

The Bottom Lines

Printing Industry Forecast

Section 2: Books of Business, Chicago, and iPads—A Miscellany

Book of Business

That Toddlin’ Town

Left to Their Own Devices Redux

Section 3: Conclusions and Recommendations

The Shows Must Go On

Kindles, Pads and Nooks

iAd

Location-Based Apps—The Next Big Thing or Not Much Ado About Nothing?

Whither E-Mail?

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, the Economy

It Was Worse Than We Thought

The U.S.’s Lost Decade

Dr. Joe’s Economic Indicators

Dark Clouds and Silver Linings

Looking Forward

About the Analyst

Table of Figures

Figure 1: In terms of your revenues at this location, how has the first half of 2010 compared to the first half of 2009? —All print providers, June 2010

Figure 2: In terms of your revenues at this location, how has the rate of business for first three months of 2010 compared to 2009? —All print providers, March 2010

Figure 3: Do you expect 2010 revenues compared to 2009 to providers, June 2010

Figure 4: Do you expect 2010 revenues compared to 2009 to —All print providers, March 2010

Figure 5: Business Conditions Index (BCI) for all printing establishments,March 2008-June 2010

Figure 6: Y/Y % change in real GDP, Q1 2000-Q1 2010

Figure 7: Gross Domestic Product, Q1 2000-Q1 2010 (billions of current dollars)

Figure 8: Proprietors’ income, Q1 2000-Q1 2010,(billions of current dollars)

Figure 9: Net corporate cash flow, Q1 2000-Q1 2010,(billions of current dollars)

Figure 10: Personal income, Q1 2000-Q1 2010,(billions of dollars, seasonally adjusted at annual rates)

Figure 11: “Official” unemployment rate vs. broadest definition of unemployment, Dec. 2007-Apr. 2010

Figure 12: Consumer Confidence Index (1985=100),January 2005-June 2010

Figure 13: Consumer Price Index (1982-1984=100),January 2005-March 2010

Figure 14: The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Indicators Index (2004=100), January 2008-June 2010

Figure 15: Employment Cost Index (December 2005=100),Q1 2006-Q1 2010

Figure 16: Small Business Optimism Index (1986=100)

Figure 17: AIGA Design Leaders Confidence Index (April 2005=100),2005-2010

Figure 18: Current-dollar U.S. printing and print services shipments (M3 series for NAICS 323, in $ million)

Figure 19: Inflation-adjusted U.S. printing and print services shipments (M3 series for NAICS 323, in $ million) with June-December 2010 forecast

Figure 20: U.S. commercial printing shipments (inflation-adjusted), January-May 2010 ($ million)

Figure 21: U.S. commercial printing shipments —January to May 2006 to 2010 ($ billion)

Figure 22: Has this location been part of a merger or acquisition, or purchased or sold a “book of business” or “customer base” in the last 18 months? —All print providers, June 2010

Figure 23: Is this business actively seeking to purchase the “book of business” or “customer base” of another business in the next 18 months? —All print providers, June 2010

Figure 24: Is this business actively seeking to sell its “book of business” or “customer base” of another business in the next 18 months? —All print providers, June 2010

Figure 25: In relation to this year’s Graph Expo to be held this October in Chicago, does your company responses permitted)

Figure 26: Which of the following devices do you own for your personal or business use? (multiple responses permitted) —All print providers, March 2010

Figure 27: We have an iPad and are concentrating on developing applications and content for it for customers —All print providers, June 2010

Figure 28: We do not have an iPad but are able to develop content that is compatible with it —All print providers, June 2010

Figure 29: We will add iPad capabilities as a strategy to draw new customers to our print capabilities —All print providers, June 2010

Figure 30: It’s just one of many content channels that we are able to develop for —All print providers, June 2010

Figure 31: If we worked with clients to make their content iPad-friendly, we

would use freelance resources —All print providers, June 2010

Figure 32: The iPad is not applicable to our business as an opportunity —All

print providers, June 2010

Figure 33: We’re focused on print alone as a core specialty because that’s

what we do best —All print providers, June 2010

Figure 34: Our customers have no interest in the iPad and neither do we — All print providers, June 2010

Figure 35: We’ve never heard of the iPad —All print providers, June 2010

Figure 36: “To what extent are you familiar with geolocation applications like Foursquare and Gowalla that you can access on a mobile phone?”(Base: U.S. online adults)

Figure 37: E-mail open rates, 2007-2009

Figure 38: Job Growth by Decade, 1940s-2000s

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Company XYZ expresses that they’re #1 in customer service online, and when you provide a link to your site for your readers to view your claim that you wrote in your article, the reader navigates your site, and quickly they notice you have no access to a live customer service chat service, any toll-free numbers to reach a customers service specialist, and all you’re providing them is an email address saying that you may get back to them sometime after the summer beach season is over. If you don’t offer the best customer service on the Internet or planet, don’t even think for a minute to convey that message to your readers.

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Writing press releases are a good way to get the message out that your company offers a unique and exclusive product in the market, and you want to introduce it with a bang, or that your business just hired a top executive that will drive your company shares straight up in the stock market. Writing your business article is slightly different, you want to use your article to express your company’s best features and benefits offered.

Write about how you can save time and money, or give them a better lifestyle, how about your products/services offer customers that give them complete “Peace-of-Mind”. Believe it or not, people do searches to find your products and services to either solve a problem, or possibly to fill a desired need they have. You have to tell them how you’re going to solve their problems, and fill their needs, and put it in writing.

Nothing is worse than when I come across an interesting article, and I find out halfway through, there is a completely different language that I don’t understand. There are many business writers that have a technical writing background, and when they communicate their message in the article, readers may stumble on your article that is saturated in technical mumbo jumbo that only tech savvy individuals understand.

When you start preparing to write you article, think about your people you want to reach, and who will be interested in reading your information, because if you’re writing for the non-technical person, and you put a ton of information that the average individual won’t understand, your message will definitely be lost and your readers you’re trying to attract will move on and find another article that is easier to read.

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The best way to get your company article distributed is through ezine and article distribution directories. You may decide to only submit your articles to a select few of the top article directories that offer a high volume of traffic, but I would suggest that you consider also submitting to a variety of smaller ones, because you never know where they will be picked up from and prominently placed for inbound traffic.

The same goes with your Bio, you should not over sell, but you definitely should let your readers know you’re the expert, and that everything you talked about in your article will be explained in more detail once they click through your hyperlinks. If you’re talking about a specific product or service and you have several pages with more information, normally most directories will allow you to place up to a maximum of three links including your main index page. Take advantage of this, and always maximize your links that will give you many optimizing opportunities.

The Internet has become a major playing field for buyers and sellers of http://event.ixs.net/ tickets. One industry that’s arisen as a result of this is the secondary ticket market worth an estimated dollar10-dollar12 billion. This is the part of the market that includes tickets bought by professional brokers as well as extras that season ticket holders can’t use. A huge market with tons of small players ranging from global to the local, everybody’s getting into the act.

The practice of reselling tickets was once done by street-corner hawkers and fly-by-night ticket brokers. Street vendors, who took positions outside stadiums and concert halls, often dealt in counterfeits.

Of course, buying and selling or reselling tickets isn’t new. The only difference is that now many primary ticket companies, music venues, and even professional sports teams are either jumping into the business or partnering with one of the top secondary companies; the demand for Chicago Cubs tickets is so high that the team set up their own secondary event ticket market with a team-owned ticket broker.

There was and to some extent still is a strong criticism on the existence of the secondary ticket market. In the past many laws have been passed against ticket reselling. The justification for all those laws has been the desire to prevent fans from paying exorbitant amounts for tickets.

To better understand how things work, we shall first identify the key players of a secondary market, and examine their part in the whole scenario.

One of the key players of a secondary market is the producer who authorizes the tickets to a given event, assigns its face value (as opposed to the actual market value), controls the number of tickets released to the public, and may make restrictions on how many tickets one person can purchase.

Equally or rather more active are the ticket brokers who use several different means to secure premium and previously sold-out ticket inventories (often in large quantities) for events such as concerts or sporting events. The broker buys the tickets at face value with the intention of reselling them at a higher price.

It has been argued that individuals who genuinely wish to attend a popular event will find themselves unable to get tickets, as they have already been bought by ticket brokers. Whereas, these brokers believe that people who were too late to buy a ticket at let’s say dollar50, some of them will be willing to pay dollar100 for a ticket near the opening of a hit show. If they are right, they claim a dollar50 profit on each ticket.

One would think that all this can be prevented if only the producer would assign the ticket a higher face value. The problem is that in order to make a reasonable profit, the producer wants to make sure that all of the tickets are sold. So keeping in mind the law of demand and supply and forgetting or ignoring the fact that a large amount of revenue is generated through discounts and souvenir sales, he makes the face value of tickets lower than the market value. This creates an opportunity for brokers to buy the tickets at face value and resell them for profit.

The reason that ticket brokers are still quite a sought after entity, is because they get people hard-to-find and previously sold-out tickets that are no longer available through the official box office. Often these brokers are sought out by fans who had not planned in advance for a show hoping for a last minute deals, though at a higher price.

However, it is argued by some fans that brokering has clouded the already fine line between the individuals who genuinely wish to attend a popular event and those who just want to make a hefty profit out of it all.

Clearly, a secondary market will remain in existence and will keep on thriving because the demand for tickets at face value is far greater than the supply of those tickets. On the other hand, people who buy tickets with the intention of reselling them create an open market where the value of the tickets is more closely determined by the demand for them. So there is no point in criticizing it.

For true fans the ideal situation would be where they have a choice of either standing in lines to get some tickets from producers at face value early or/and get some tickets from brokers above face value closer to the show. This way everybody would be happy!

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