April 20, 2022
Serving the Printing & Graphic Communications Industry in the Western U.S.
The celebration of the best of the best in printing will be held on Friday, May 20th at the Pacific Palms Resort in the City of Industry. The evening will include networking, an exhibit of the winning printed pieces, dinner and a chance to honor the winners of the 2022 PIASC Print Excellence Awards, the largest local printing competition. 
 
This year’s Graphics Night will begin at 5:30 pm with a hosted wine reception and the exhibition of the winning pieces. Dinner will begin at 7:00 pm, followed by the awarding of the Executive of the Year recognition to Michael Makin. The presentation of the Print Excellence Awards winners will begin at 8:00 p.m.

We encourage you to take this opportunity to invite your clients and/or company employees who helped create your winning piece(s).
 
Tickets are just $125 per person for members and $250 per person for non-members.
 
Traditional Business or Evening Attire.
Deadline to reserve a room/buy tickets: May 6
PaperSpecs Live [unboxed] Hands-on Virtual Mini Design Conference
Ticket Sales Close:
April 22, 2022
Event: May 5, 2022
10 AM – 1 PM PT
Cost: $27* (includes ticket & Print Sample Box)

During the next Live [unboxed] on May 5th, special guest Kevin Shaw, founder of Stranger & Stranger, will reveal how the frequent pushing of creative boundaries has made his liquor and beer packaging company the powerhouse that it is today.

“Just because COVID has changed the way we do business doesn’t mean designers can afford to miss the latest trends,” explains PaperSpecs Founder Sabine Lenz. “Not only does our Live [unboxed] event continue to bring them the latest printing, finishing and paper trends in one 3 hour experience, but our guest speaker – as well as the samples attendees receive in their Print Sample Boxes – remind them why they fell in love with print in the first place.”
Sales Compensation 2022 Study 
DEADLINE THIS FRIDAY, April 22nd
In today's competitive print marketplace, attracting and retaining top sales professionals is essential. Ensuring these sales representatives are incentivized with optimized tools and policies to maximize corporate sales goals is equally critical. The 2022 Sales Compensation Study provides participants with benchmarks for compensation practices and policies.

Participate and receive the study in return. This Sales Compensation Study reports averages to ensure strict confidentiality of participants.

The Sales Compensation 2022 Study includes:

  • Best-in-class compensation practices, including salary, commissions, incentives, and bonuses
  • Benchmarking of commission percentage and basis
  • Policies associated with quotes, reruns, and problem-handling conducted by sales reps without management approval
  • Marketing and technology-support practices
  • Benefits and reimbursement practices
  • Sales per rep ratios by market segment and process
  • Regional reporting, addressing for cost-of-living factors

Results are only available to participants in June 2022.
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Using Meta Advantage to Simplify Your Facebook Campaigns
What Is Meta Advantage?

Meta Advantage is a suite of advertising automation tools that leverage the platform’s machine learning technology. It includes a range of campaign creation workflows and some optimization tools designed for the ad or ad set levels. Using the tools in this suite, you can automate either an entire campaign or select parts.

The suite includes two types of Advantage-branded products:

  • Advantage refers to individual features that work with manual campaign setup.
  • Advantage+ refers to an automated campaign setup or automating a complete step of a manual campaign.

Meta announced the launch of the Advantage suite in March 2022. Select tools are still in beta and access to the suite appears to be rolling out gradually. Look for it to appear in your business’ advertising account soon.
Shed full of equipment located in Kennewick, Washington State - Collection of antique printing equipment from a paper cutter dating back to the 1880s, platen presses dated to 1890s, a pin ruling machine, type cases etc. looking for an offer on the entire shed full. Contact Skip Novakovich at skip@novakovichllc.com or (509) 366-7858.

Want to place a classified ad? Contact Wendy Ferruz, 323.728.9500, Ext. 262, wendy@piasc.org
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