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New Conference Focuses on Members' Changing Business Model

January 2005
The first annual IPA Business Development Conference will be held March 4-5, 2005 in Dallas, Texas. IPA, The Association of Graphic Solutions Providers, has developed this conference to meet its members changing needs as they strive to reinvent their businesses to take advantage of changing technologies and customer demands.

The Conference will provide tools and insights into how prepress, print and graphic solutions providers can re-define their evolving business model, assess the needs of their customers, develop their company's capabilities, and effectively communicate their value proposition.

From Re-engineering Success and Analyzing Your Business to Differentiating Your Offerings and Building an Effective Marketing Plan, this conference will offer provocative sessions that will allow attendees to look at their businesses from their own-and their customer's perspective.

Registration and pricing may be found at www.ipa.org or by calling (800) 255-8141.
 

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