Gung-Ho Product-Specific Sites
PrintingAndPackaging.com

CDsDVDsAndTapes.com
BindersAndTabs.com
DemandPublishing.com
OrderManagementAndFulfillment.com
DirectMarketingAndMailing.com
ThePalGroup.com

Gung-Ho Supporting Partner Sites

	NaviSite deploys, manages, and enables software applications and infrastructure for middle-market organizations, which include midsized companies, divisions of large multinational companies, and government agencies.
	Philip Andrews Design (PAD) is an integrated design firm that builds successful tactical internal and external corporate communications based solidly in strategic thinking. PAD helps connect all the dots, giving companies the ability to produce measurable results from marketing objectives, build brands, and stay on budget all while achieving the results needed to remain competitive in today's rapidly changing competitive marketplace.
	Unicus Concepts is a professional services, Web development and hosting company specializing in custom Web-based solutions for businesses and organizations. Unicus Concepts offers unique, intuitive, and aesthetically-pleasing Web design, intelligent application programming and database design for e-commerce and content management, and dependable Web hosting.

Useful Industry Sites
Content Delivery & Storage Association (CDSA)
The Content Delivery & Storage Association (CDSA; formerly IRMA, the International Recording Media Association), is the worldwide forum advocating the innovative and responsible delivery and storage of entertainment, software, and information content. CDSA's membership includes raw material providers, manufacturers, replicators, duplicators, packagers, copyright holders, and many other related industries.

Direct Marketing Association
The Direct Marketing Association is the largest trade association for businesses interested in direct, database, and interactive global marketing. The 4,700 members from the United States and 53 foreign nations on six continents include catalog companies, direct mailers, teleservices firms, Internet marketers, and other at-distance marketers from every consumer and business-to-business segment – both commercial and nonprofit – as well as companies that provide supplies and services to marketers.

Getting It Printed
Getting It Printed is a clear and comprehensive book that explains both business and technical aspects of print production. It is designed for print buyers as well as graphic arts professionals and students.

Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (GATF)/Graphic Arts Information Network (GAIN)
The Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (GATF) is a member-supported, nonprofit, technical, and educational organization serving the international graphic communications industries. GATF's Web site has become part of the Graphic Arts Information Network (GAIN), the new Web portal of GATF, the Printing Industries of America, Inc. (PIA), and their local affiliates.

Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP)
The Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) is a leading and authoritative packaging association that serves the educational needs of the packaging community. IoPP is dedicated to the proposition that packaging can be environmentally responsible and economically efficient through the continuing education and growth of its members and other packaging professionals.

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a non-governmental worldwide organization that promotes the development of standardization with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services. ISO's work results in international agreements which are published as International Standards.

International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC)
The International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC) provides practical, detailed information regarding up-to-date developments and trends in various industries and government. IQPC conferences, seminars, on-site training, and newsletters are based upon extensive "best practices" research.

Mailing & Fulfillment Service Association (MFSA)
The Mailing & Fulfillment Service Association (MFSA) is the national trade association for the mailing and fulfillment services industry. For more than 80 years MFSA has been working to improve the business environment for mailing and fulfillment companies and to provide opportunities for the learning and professional development of the managers of these companies.

Multichannel Merchant
Multichannel Merchant (the combination of Catalog Age and Operations & Fulfillment) covers everything that a retail, catalog, online, or manufacturing business does to deliver a product to a customer (business or individual) after the customer places an order. Topics on the complex procedures involved in fulfilling a customer's order include warehousing and inventorying merchandise, taking and processing an order, picking the item, customizing it if necessary, packing it, shipping it through the appropriate carrier, and dealing with customer inquiries and problems.

National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL)
The National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL) is a not-for-profit graphic arts trade association with a full range of management and educational services including publications, conferences, and courses on: Executive Management; Sales and Marketing; Human Resources Management; Operations and Technology; and Financial Management. NAPL has one of the largest on-line stores for print-related books, tapes, CDs, and software.

Outsourcing Center
Outsourcing Center is the world's most prominent Internet portal for authoritative information on methods for creating and sustaining a competitive advantage; improving organizational performance; focusing resources on core competencies while obtaining resources to improve important, non-core business processes; ensuring companies get the best return on their IT investments; and capturing value in business solutions that make an enterprise-wide strategic impact.

Print Buyers Reference and Checklists (PINC)
The Print Buyers Reference is a guide that provides general information about buying print as well as an overview of the industry. Topics include: Print Buying Basics; Paper Grades and Weights; Printing Processes; and Binding and Finishing. Checklists include: Printing Specifications; Approving Camera-Ready Art; Approving Electronic or Conventional Mechanicals; What to Look for on a Prepress Proof; and Effective Press Checks.

Printing Industries of America (PIA)/Graphic Arts Information Network (GAIN)
Printing Industries of America, Inc. (PIA), the world's largest graphic arts trade association, promotes programs, services, and an environment that helps its members operate profitably. PIA's Web site has become part of the Graphic Arts Information Network (GAIN), the new Web portal of PIA, the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (GATF), and their local affiliates.

Reverse Logistics Association (Reverse Logistics Magazine)

Reverse Logistics Association (RLA) focuses on third party service providers to whom OEMs, ODMs, Branded, and Retail companies outsource. Reverse Logistics Magazine is a bi-monthly publication of the Reverse Logistics Association that provides information regarding the various areas of reverse logistics including returns management, refurbishment, field service, and warranty management.

Softletter
Softletter is a twice-monthly industry newsletter that reports on business issues and trends in software publishing. Written for an audience of senior-level industry executives, Softletter tracks new marketing and distribution tactics, company operations, finance, pricing models, product management, and emerging technologies.

Software Business Online (Webcom Communications Corp.)
Software Business Online is focused exclusively on the software industry and provides industry leaders with twice monthly eNewsletters, an information packed website, and two well-attended conferences. Readers and attendees are top executives and managers of companies that provide software-based products and services including packaged software, customized software, and information technology products and services that are based on proprietary software code.

Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education, and intellectual property protection to the leading companies that are setting the pace for the digital age.

Uniform Code Council
The mission of the Uniform Code Council is to take a global leadership role in establishing and promoting multi-industry standards for product identification and related electronic communication. The goal is to enhance supply chain management thus contributing added value to the customer. Get a U.P.C. Bar Code.

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