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Mimeo Fan Page - Meet Holly Landau

Posted on October 12, 2009 at 4:55pm, written by Jeff Grill, VP Marketing

Starting with this issue, the Insider will showcase a customer that uses Mimeo as a best practice within their company. If you are interested in featuring your business, just send an email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Our first featured customer is Holly Landau, CEO of Landau Leadership. Her firm is known for their innovation in the Learning and Development fi eld. They operate virtually, with trainers located across the United States.

“When the materials don’t show up it is horrifying. I always know for a fact that with Mimeo, the materials will show up.” by Holly Landau

Can you tell us a little bit about your company?

Landau Leadership designs and facilitates customized training solutions for corporations, non-profits, and government agencies on topics such as project management, workplace communication, innovation, and leadership. We’re launching a Learning Events Division featuring leadership development events open to business leaders in all industries, such as our Leadership Development Cruises. One of our approaches is to take corporate training out of the classroom as a way of helping develop new executive perspectives.

How did you first learn about Mimeo?

A few years ago, I was working in Leadership Development for a major corporation. My team had to print training materials for thousands of employees. I heard about a company that could save us money and help us ship directly to our work sites around the country, so I scheduled a Mimeo conference call and demo for my entire dept. Once everyone experienced Mimeo first hand, they quickly phased out other printing services. Every time we’d walk into a meeting with Mimeo printed documents, that department would ask how we produced such beautiful materials. Department after department quickly switched to the service.

What types of documents do you print with Mimeo? 

We print all of our training materials with Mimeo. This includes double-sided, full color pages that use either binders or spiral bound covers. We’re also talking to many possible sponsors for our Leadership Development Cruises so we’re printing proposals. We’re presenting to major brands like Coca-Cola, so our proposal materials have to be really impressive and Mimeo always comes through for us.

Why did you choose Mimeo? What is your Mimeo workflow?

Mimeo is an affordable solution for us and we like to customize everything and operate as a virtual office. Mimeo makes that easy. My team is scattered throughout the US and I like that one of my curriculum designers in Miami can access the site just as easily as I can from Pennsylvania. One person on the team can create a draft for everyone to review and we can discuss a project during a web meeting before we place an order. Mimeo makes collaboration across multiple locations easy.

What are the benefits of using Mimeo vs. your previous method?

We’re really into process improvement and streamlining steps in our work processes. When dealing with small local print companies, there were too many in-person meetings to discuss changes. Then they would create a new mock-up and schedule another review meeting. We had to wait for the finished product, hoping they made all the updates correctly. When they delivered the finished product to us, we’d have to ship everything to our training sites. The process was cumbersome and frustrating. When we went to large copy centers, we had to wait for them to finish the job and we’d have the added step of shipping. With Mimeo the entire process is faster, easier, and more cost-effective. We know exactly what our finished product will look like before we order it.

Our printed training materials are meant to be used over and over again by the people we train. Mimeo’s quality meets our high expectations for quality, durability and shelf life.

Is there anything else you would like to tell us about your experience with Mimeo? 

Our training materials help us build our brand. Landau clients always comment on our beautiful materials. We always tell our clients about Mimeo and then quickly direct them to our Account Representative, Chris Dahlen. Just the fact that we have an account representative who is a subject matter expert makes our job so much easier. He guides us when we need some project advice. Mimeo has really helped me succeed in business.

To learn more, visit http://www.landauleadership.com or contact Holly Landau at 570-985-7068, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

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