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Posted on July 17, 2013, by Progressive Printing Team

What is a purchase order form?

A purchase order form is considered to be an official contract between a buyer and a seller for the purchase of goods. The form keeps a history of previous purchases and vendor contact information for future purposes. Purchase order forms are useful alongside an inventory system for ordering materials on time and reducing shortages or loss of items. They also create a standardized procedure for purchasing items, payment, and ensuring a fair price trade.

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Posted on June 13, 2013, by Progressive Printing Team

A form can make or break your business. Forms that lack essential information can lead to inventory head aches, jobs done wrong, and loss of income. The goal of this tutorial is to lessen the head ache that comes from designing a form and get you started in the right direction.

Service Type:

Think about the customers you have or the customers you would like to have. Will they be a one time job or more consistent? Think about the services you offer and how often these services need to be implemented. For example, you wont fertilize more than twice a year but you might do a pest control spray on the lawn monthly. How will you mark this on the form so that you know what services your customers have ordered and when you need to show up? Having a checklist that looks like the above will make life easier for you.

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Posted on May 31, 2013, by Progressive Printing Team

Designing your first form for your landscaping business can be overwhelming. Many questions will go through your head about what you need or don’t need on your forms. Or maybe you have a form but it’s not working for you?

The goal of this tutorial is to help you make an informed decision on what kind of Landscaping Form will best fit the needs of your business.

First thing to remember is that you can never have too much information. Having all the details in front of you will save you time and money and will allow you to bill your customers more efficiently.

Dates/Seasonal information:
As you probably know, it’s very important to keep a record of dates. Start dates and finish dates should be recorded so that both parties are aware of when the service will start and when it will end. If most of your business is seasonal, you’ll want to make sure there is a place to mark it on your form.

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Posted on April 19, 2013, by Progressive Printing Team

A logo is probably the first step any business, organization, group, etc takes to brand themselves. When we say brand, we’re talking about how someone turns what they do into a marketable tool that is easy to recognize and unique to them.

Your logo is the first thing that your customers are going to look for. It’s how the public identifies you.

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Posted on April 11, 2013, by Progressive Printing Team

There are many file types to choose from and it can be overwhelming when trying to

decide what the best option is for your purposes. In this article, we’re going to discuss the major types: JPEG, PNG, PDF and TIFF and how to convert them.

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Posted on April 3, 2013, by Progressive Printing Team

Making a simple, yet professional, business card doesn’t have to be a chore. It can take as little or as much time as you want. The purpose of this tutorial is to get you set up and in the right direction. And to show you that you do not have to be a Photoshop expert to make a nice, effective, business card.

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Posted on February 12, 2013, by Progressive Printing Team

You probably would not think of Photoshop as your first choice to design invoice forms. However, in this step by step tutorial we will show you that Photoshop is more than a picture editing software. You can easily create an invoice form for your company while you learn some basic features of Photoshop Elements. Step by step instructions with visual aids are provided here to help you create many other forms you may need in the future. You will notice in this tutorial that creating lines, copying and pasting, inserting texts are the main features used. Whether you are new to Photoshop, or an expert at other programs you will find this easy to follow tutorial convenient and helpful to get started.

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Posted on January 28, 2013, by Progressive Printing Team

You’ve chosen the template that best suits you, sent your company’s information to us and we’ve created your completely customized invoice proof from our template, complete with your company name, address, logo and slogan, €”now what? The invoice-proofing process can be confusing the first time around. What do I look for? Are there any changes I should make?

To help you out through this process we’ve put together a list of things to look at, and approve, on your custom-made invoice proof. So look over the PDF proof we sent you and examine these 5 elements:

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Posted on January 21, 2013, by Progressive Printing Team

In today’s competitive business environment where everyone can launch a website and be in business in a matter of minutes; sometimes the only difference between a legitimate business and a fly-by-night operation is the details in accuracy or flaws of the website or printed material of each company.

Have you ever read an article and came across a spelling or a grammatical error and thought, how did this obvious mistake not get caught by the author? Didn’t anyone proofread this? Did you at that instance lose interest in the article or the writer’s credibility? Most readers do!

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