Gus Hill “Make it So” Printing Thursday September 19, 2019 at 6 pm
Using Print to Generate More Business
Thursday, Sept. 19, at 6:00-9:00 join the Association of Home Businesses at at the S.M.I.L.E. Station, 5210 SE 13th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, for networking, dinner, and a presentation by Gus Hill, Owner-Operator of Make It So Printing, a Print Media Broker.
Being a print media broker means not being tied to one or two pieces of equipment. Instead, Gus has access to literally tens of thousands of wholesale printers, locally and nationally, giving him the ability to get his customers virtually any kind of printed matter they need. With 30+ years’ experience, Gus has the know-how and sources to provide his printing customers the best quality products at the best price.
Gus will share: a brief history of printing and where it’s at today; some technical advice on how to prepare your files for printing (or how to find someone to do that for you); and ideas on how small businesses can use printing to generate new business.
Our own Robb Hatley will be sharing how entrepreneurs and home business owners can use the end of the year to ready for tax time (and self employed retirement planning). Robb will give a short presentation about the how and why to save for those golden years when self-employed)
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Networking starts at 6:00 pm followed by dinner, our business meeting, and an educational presentation. Learn more …
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Becky Luening Book Arts
AHB newcomer Becky Luening is highly skilled, but hard to categorize. She has been a freelancer for most of her working life, beginning in college when she typed papers for other students to pay the rent. Becky received her liberal arts education and a B.A. degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles, majoring in art with an emphasis on printmaking and papermaking. Fed up with freeways and smog, she fled her native city immediately after graduation and moved to Santa Cruz, California, where she commenced upon a Bohemian lifestyle supported by her flying fingers. Because of her interest in percussion, her business name for a long time was “Wordrhythm.”
To this day, Becky identifies as a typist, and as she clarified in her brief presentation at the March AHB meeting, it isn’t just speed and accuracy (she was once clocked at 110wpm in a national typing contest), but her ability to correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation on the fly that make her a “super” typist. Early on, she found a niche preparing academic papers, business letters, and professional reports, as well as doing data entry and audio tape transcription.
Starting out in the 1980s with just a typewriter, Becky was poised to ride the technological wave that brought us personal computers, and her skills developed along with advances in software capability. With an artist’s eye, she naturally moved into layout and graphics. Over decades of self-employment followed by a long period of volunteerism while being supported by a partner, she wrote, designed and formatted many newsletters, flyers, brochures, booklets, ads, and even websites.
Becky’s lifelong passion for reading and her long experience typing and correcting others’ words contributed to the development of superb writing skills. She is adept at composing letters and drafting content for web or print, with an eye for clear, concise, and consistent copy. She completed a writing certificate course with the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) in 2011, and has written many articles and published a few op-eds in her life. She writes occasionally for The BEE and is a member of the professional organization, Oregon Press Women.
As Becky nears retirement age, she finds herself wanting to get back to her artist roots. Steeped in Book Arts for several decades, she is excited at the prospect of designing unique books and paper pieces for special occasions. She has dabbled in letter-press and wants to do more craft printing. She has helped a few friends self-publish memoirs and poetry books using online print-on-demand services, and would love to do more of that kind of work as well.
Becky offers all of the above under the title “Becky Luening Communications & Book Arts.” Her base hourly fee is low—just $30—because she wants to keep her services affordable for nonprofits and small businesses (her preferred customers). If you have a project in mind and want to talk it over or get a quote, she can be reached by phone or text at 503-616-2532 or by email at becky.pdx@gmail.com. Find her on the web at beccaroosky.com.
Three examples of special occasion book arts designed by Becky (L to R): a wedding souvenir box designed to hold photo strips, a custom guestbook, and a unique mini calendar celebrating the lunar new year.
