User:Peggy Dent

Peggy Lee Dent is a writer, coach, and the author of an international best-selling Kindle book entitled, Print Your Success. In the book, the author shares her 3 decades of experience as a print broker, educator, and business coach with international readers, to show them the step-by-step process of starting their own print brokerage business.

Print brokers are print buyer's advocates, providing a single point of contact for print buyers which saves both time and money. Print brokers buy graphics and printing services from a variety of vendors in the printing industry and resell it to their print clients with a markup to cover their costs. Many printing firms offer trade prices to brokers because the brokers manage all the customer service needs, billing, and collections activities associated with each print job, and they generally have the business acumen to correctly match job specifications with the production capabilities of each printing firm thereby saving the printing company time and resources.

Printing is a thriving industry worldwide providing global business opportunities for individuals to create unique businesses in the field of print brokering. The 2017 Economic Report of the World Print and Communication Forum (WPCF) from www.worldprintforum.org shows the volume of printing imports and exports in the USA to be substantially the same at approximately 4.8 billion dollars in 2016, while European Union participants in the WPCF report exported 4.9 billion and imported 3.6 billion, and China exported 3.9 billion but only imported 1.8 billion. China's 100,300 print shops employee approximately 3.17 million workers while there are only 44,000 print shops in the US and in contrast, India has over 250,000 printing facilities. The breadth and scope of the printing industry around the world creates a huge opportunity (for people wanting to work in this field) to own their own print brokering business.