Printing Industry Commentary & Analysis

Beware the Economic Common Wisdom

Published May 13, 2009

Why Industry Profits Will be Tough to Come By

Published May 11, 2009

Thousands of Net New Businesses Per Month

Published May 11, 2009

When Will Things Get Better? Perhaps Soon, According to Our Indicators

Published May 5, 2009

Entrepreneurship is Not Dead

Published May 4, 2009

Change in Real US GDP on a Year/Year Basis

Published May 4, 2009

Why the Post-Recession Printing Business will Be Quite Different

Published April 29, 2009

Why the Post-Recession Printing Business will Be Quite Different

Published April 29, 2009

Unfortunately, Things are What They Seem

Published April 27, 2009

Percentage of Printers Increasing Participation in Local Business Events, Trade Shows

Published April 27, 2009

Dr. Joe talks to Peter Muir about "Renewing the Printing Industry"

Published April 22, 2009

Without Print, Will Online-only Newspapers Suffer? ... and Other Stuff

Published April 22, 2009

Why Telling Businesspeople to "Embrace Change" is Meaningless

Published April 20, 2009

Percentage of Printers Using Direct Mail Promotional Campaigns to Promote Business

Published April 20, 2009

No Matter How You Slice It, It's Still Baloney

Published April 15, 2009

The Business “Annuity Trap”

Published April 13, 2009

Investment Intentions of Commercial Printers with 10-49 Employees

Published April 13, 2009

Interrogating Dr. Joe: The Sequel

Published April 6, 2009

2009: The Year of “Things are Less Worse”

Published April 6, 2009

Printers Intending to Invest in Web-to-Print

Published April 6, 2009

Interrogating Dr. Joe

Published April 2, 2009

On Demand 2009

Published March 31, 2009

Percentage of US Commercial Printers Renegotiating Leases, Loans and other Financing

Published March 30, 2009

More Q&A from the March 25 Economic Webinar

Published March 25, 2009

Jobless Claims as a Percentage of the Civilian Workforce

Published March 23, 2009

Changing the Approach

Published March 23, 2009

Getting Past the Template

Published March 18, 2009

One Newspaper Fights Back... in Color!

Published March 16, 2009

Change in US Commerical Printing Employment 2002,2005,2008

Published March 16, 2009

Thoughts and Rants that Run Through My Head

Published March 11, 2009

Economics Data You're Not Seeing

Published March 9, 2009

Change in US Commerical Printing Establishments 2004-2009

Published March 9, 2009

Recovery Indicators Take a Mild Beating

Published March 4, 2009

The Swamp Got Deeper

Published March 2, 2009

U.S. Commerical Printing's Relationship to GDP

Published March 2, 2009

Get Ready for the Post-Recession Printing Industry... Whenever that May Be

Published February 25, 2009

How to Remain viable in the Communications Marketplace

Published February 23, 2009

Federal Reserve Commercial Printing Capacity Utilization

Published February 23, 2009

Price Cutting and Print Competition

Published February 17, 2009

The Stimulus Passed... Now What

Published February 16, 2009

Size of the U.S. Printing Industry Compared to other Industries

Published February 16, 2009

Media Shifts Evidenced in Employment Data: Public Relations Emerges from the Shadows

Published February 11, 2009

You Have to Look Under the Hood

Published February 9, 2009

Change in Employment December 2003 vs. December 2008

Published February 9, 2009

Are We There Yet?

Published February 4, 2009

Mischaracterizing the Economy

Published February 2, 2009

Change in Revenues for Commercial and Quick Printers with 50+ Employees

Published February 2, 2009

A Poorly Printed Book: Maybe We Should Ask Why

Published January 28, 2009

Welcome to the "Offline Media" Business

Published January 26, 2009

Change in Revenues for Commercial and Quick Printers with 10-49 Employees

Published January 26, 2009

Dr. Joe Interviews Dr. Michael Cunningham

Published January 23, 2009

Dr. Joe's Economic Recovery Plan

Published January 19, 2009

So, Dr. Joe, Where's All That Inflation You Warned Us About?

Published January 19, 2009

Change in Revenues for Commercial and Quick Printers with 1-9 Employees

Published January 19, 2009

Change in Revenues for Commercial and Quick Printers with 1-9 Employees

Difference in Revenue Trends Among General Commercial Printers vs. Digital Commercial Printers

Published January 15, 2009

When Will Things Get Better?

Published January 14, 2009

Time to Recalibrate Our Resolutions

Published January 12, 2009

Odds and Ends as We Close Out 2008

Published December 17, 2008

Does “Marketing Services” Make a Difference?

Published December 15, 2008

Capacity Utilization in 20+ Year Decline

Published December 15, 2008

Answers to December 10th's Webinar Questions

Published December 10, 2008

Recessions and Technological Change

Published December 8, 2008

Business Confidence of Leading Graphic Designers

Published December 8, 2008

Twenty-five Years

Published December 1, 2008

Change in Publishing and Content Creation Employment

Published December 1, 2008

The Economy: More stuffing than turkey

Published November 25, 2008

Births and Deaths of U.S. Commercial Printing Establishments

Published November 24, 2008

Trudging Through the Economic Swampland

Published November 24, 2008

Catching Up with the Economy and Optimistic Old Media Guys

Published November 18, 2008

The Postal Service Blames the Economy for Its Shortfall; Don't Believe It

Published November 17, 2008

Education and the Graphic Arts: What's Next?

Published November 17, 2008

Technology Waits for No One, When the Market Goes One Way, Be Sure to Go the Other Way

Published November 12, 2008

4-quarter Change in Net Sales of Publicly Traded Commercial Printers

Published November 10, 2008

Planning Often Gets in the Way of Running Business Well

Published November 10, 2008

News, Unproven Illusions, and Plain Speaking

Published November 4, 2008

Number of U.S. Graphic Design Establishments

Published November 4, 2008

Entrepreneurs are not Pessimists; Reality Matters

Published November 3, 2008

Old Age and Treachery... and Youth and Skill

Published October 29, 2008

Number of U.S. Advertising Agency Establishments

Published October 27, 2008

Increased Materials Costs Paid with Lower Wages and Steeply Lower Profits

Published October 22, 2008

Number of U.S. Periodical Publishing Establishments

Published October 20, 2008

Here We Go Again... Pass the Antacid

Published October 20, 2008

Number of U.S. Newspaper Pulishing Establishments, by number of employees

Published October 13, 2008

Reading the Debris Instead of the Tea Leaves

Published October 12, 2008

Tenure of The Average Chief Marketing Officer is Just 26 Months: Why That's Great News for Printers

Published October 6, 2008

Number of U.S. Commerical Printing Establishments, by number of employees

Published October 6, 2008

We've Made the Turn: Not Recession, It's Worse

Published October 5, 2008

Ignore the Economics and Move on as Best You Can

Published October 1, 2008

Renewing the Printing Industry

Published October 1, 2008

Renewing the Printing Industry: Strategies and Action Items for Success.

Change in Shipments per U.S. Commerical Printing Employee, 1994-2008

Published September 29, 2008

The Future is More Certain Than Usually Thought

Published September 29, 2008

How to Renew Our Industry... Again

Published September 24, 2008

Inflation is Dead: The World is Safe for Commerce Again... No, Not Really

Published September 22, 2008

Changes in Employment 1994-2008 in Various Packaging Sectors

Published September 22, 2008

Road Warrior: Today, Sept. 20, is Software Freedom Day

Published September 20, 2008

Turmoil in the Financial Markets... Again.

Published September 18, 2008

Turmoil in the Financial Markets... Again.

Published September 15, 2008

Paper Industry Shipments and Profits

Published September 15, 2008

Who Bears the Brunt of Bad Forecasting? Rarely the Forecasters!

Published September 15, 2008

Beware the iPhone: It's a Way of Avoiding Print

Published September 10, 2008

Articles by Dr. Joe Webb