The Top 5 3D Printing Gadgets

Mosaic Manufacturing – Keep your 3D printer and expand its potential. The Palette lets your 3D printer create an entirely new range of items!

Tiko 3D – The unibody 3D printer.

Voltera – The Voltera V-One enables circuit boards to be prototyped within minutes, eliminating the frustrations with traditional fabrication processes and drastically reducing hardware development time.

Retouch 3D – The world’s first heated tool to finish 3D prints; with variable heat and interchangeable heads; designed for specific 3D retouching tasks.

ReDeTec – The first complete desktop filament re-cycler, featuring fully integrated grinding and spooling. Create 3D printing filament sustainably, on demand, for free.

3D Printing and Global Business – The Obvious Match

3D Printing And Global Business – Isn't It Obvious? from Bill Decker

And dispel this myth!
We don’t need to invest a lot; our Web site gives us a presence.

Actually, your Web site gives you a brochure, but no real place where businesses and consumers can get support, touch and feel your product, get to know your company and its staff, deal with returns, make product modifications and enable co-marketing agreements.

It’s necessary to have a localized Web site for market presence, but it needs to accompany many other things to make your efforts a success.

3D Printing Interview Excerpt From Printaholic

…..The Future for Association of 3D Printing?

As the Association of 3D printing evolves, Decker believes that the organization–as well as 3D printing itself–defies geographical boundaries. Through innovative resources as well as unique networking capabilities, this organization continues to grow and become the dominant voice in the 3D printing community.

“U.S. countries selling in foreign countries is a personal goal of mine, and we have a great vehicle to do it,” Decker said.

What’s In Store For The Future?

With a personal bias created by 30 years of international market entry, Decker said that he believes the industry he works in defies geographical boundaries.

With global aspirations in mind, the Association of 3D Printing will partake in various co-sponsored conferences around the world and continue to market its brand. Just by visiting this organization’s website and listening to free podcasts, the Association of 3D Printing will rise to greater prominence not only in the 3D printing community, but also in the business world.

For more information please visit www.associationof3dprinting.com.

3D Printing Marketing – Can Pinterest Help Your 3D Printing Firm?

Pinterest Marketing?
Oh yeah, and when you’re done managing your Pinterest account, don’t forget to run your business too! All joking aside, you’ve got a full plate as it is. But the numbers behind Pinterest don’t lie. Pinterest users spend hours browsing for products they want in their lives. You know you can’t ignore the Pinterest opportunity. That’s where we come in.

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Welcome to the Site!

Notes From A May Speaking Event

How to Enter Cultures; international and otherwise

Participants should leave the session knowing:

– The largest stumbling block when working in different corporations.
– The 10 questions each person should be asking when confronted with any new culture.
– Common mistakes made in interacting with different cultures.

What we will cover:

– Interactive exercise that is revealing, interactive and fun; “Who am I?”
How we size up a new situation

– Defining culture; visible and invisible
Strategies and tactics for cross generational and international work

– A primer for global cultures
International Business defined with 3 drawings

Task Specific vs. Relationship Specific
Short Term vs. Long Term
Individual vs. Collective (think of Bush vs. Saddam)

War stories

Refrigerator
How to fire employees in Womza
What is profit?
Chinese Balance Sheet

10 Questions To Ask Yourself!

This is how we do it our way. What is is their way
What is public, what is private?
How do you know when you are in?
Do they respect my authority?
What assumptions might be underlying their actions?
Have I heard this correctly?
Does the other person understand what I have asked them to do?
Who does my “employee” work for?
Is there more than what I am seeing?
How can I “bridge?”

Free Goodies!

International Business Podcast

International Business Audio Book: Lessons From the Road; Global Business 1-2-3

Free International Business Videos

Free International Business Articles

Email me: Bill@billdecker.com

3D Printing Gives Them A Hand – Or Better Yet a 3D Printed Hand Knob

What if your local hardware store doesn’t carry the knobs you need for your vacuum, dishwasher, toaster or blender? Well, before now, things were horrible. But now, 3D Printing to the rescue. Want more 3D Printing Fun? Click here for our 3D Printing newsletter.

3D Printing Marketing Services – Finally An Easy Way For 3D Printing Firms To Get Marketing Support

When Rip Saunders and Bob Chapman came into the 3D Printing Industry, they saw the hole in marketing. Bob told the 3D Printing Channel that “most of these 3D Printing firms need low cost, easy to implement, marketing solutions. His latest venture, 3D Printing Marketer, does just that. “With easy sign up and no contracts […]

3D Printing Industry Predictions – Who Will Be the Next Players in the 3D Printing Industry?

3D Printing Slide Show – Who Will Be The Next Players in the 3D Printing Industry from Bill Decker For more on the 3D Printing Industry, check out the 3D Printing Trade Association

3D Printing Update From China – Latest 3D Printing News

Don’t worry about the dialog, there are plenty of subtitles. This is just to show how international the 3D Printing industry really is. This show from China discusses updates and directions of the 3D Printing business.

3D Printing Factory of the Future?

Jeff Hanson, presents a factory of the future. The factory includes a fully automated digital production facility, with 90 machines and only 2 people working on the floor, replacing materials and moving parts. Hanson explains the process of how a customer would go online, pick from the list of models, click print and the order […]