Mario: Hi it’s Mario Armstrong we’re at the international CES 2009 show at the HP booth. And joining us now is Mary Anne, hi Mary Anne how are you?
Mary Anne: Good, how are you.
Mario: I understand you have a small business section so we rushed right over to find out what some of the solutions are. Wait until you guys see some of the solutions that HP has made available for small business. I am blown away by the HP creative studio; we’re going to take a look at that now.
Mary Anne: Okay
Mario: But tell us real quickly what is HP creative studio for who don’t know.
Mary Anne: Well HP creative studio is really a way for HP to provide a home or business solution for your printing needs. Something that you’re able to create from home without really having to go out and do that a lot of us at least for the business side want to save some money. And so HP has provided some solutions for you to be able to be your own publishing company and be able to do that at your own leisure.
Mario: So they go to the HP creative studio website right?
Mary Anne: Yes.
Mario: And they click on business and as you can see on the screen. There are several different things that you can do, for instance right now we’re looking at you can create your own signage.
Mary Anne: Correct.
Mario: That is huge for small business people to be able to create that branding and identity. But you can also do everything from business cards to creating a logo.
Mary Anne: And brochures, marketing brochures. So it’s really making you look like a big company eventhough you’re small business.
Mario: This is a web based tour do have I, I don’t need at that to download in my software to my computer.
Mary Anne: Correct. You don’t have to download anything all ,you have to do is to go to HP.com/create and pick the business section. And all of these is web based solution, no software no nothing its just really you need a computer to be able to do this.
Mario: And I’m telling you that they haven’t even not only do they give you different marketing materials that you can choose from here like brochures, blogs, postcards but even business forms. Stationeries are another big one as well.
Mary Anne: Everything to make you look like a legitimate business.
Mario: And as small business owners, we have we’re shaving our dollars. We’re looking to always spend the money in their best way and present us in the best way. And one interesting thing that your talking about presenting us in the best way. Wait until that I see this; you know how you send out all of mail? HP has created the opportunity for you to create your own branded customized hosted stamps.
Mary Anne: We actually work with a company called steves.com and you are able to upload your photo to make it look very much customize towards your business. So if you’re, this is really just doesn’t work business tit could work for just you know, you have, your daughter or your grand children at all. You want everybody to see your grand children this is the way to really—
Mario: So these are legitimate stamps that you can placed mail. So but from a small business perspective I mean, we’re looking at the wedding picture image here but if we want it to brand our company logo. If we wanted to do something specific for our mail that we want to send out.
Mary Anne: Absolutely
Mario: I think that is a hot thing to be able, I think when you send out your mail with customized post stamps. I think that sends a signal about the strength of your small business. But what are other thing that you have here as well is the ability to use the HP service to create your own kind of DVD marketing kit.
Mary Anne: Correct. So this is a company that will work with called the Da’Vinci and this is a package a software package that you purchased from them through the HP creative studio and it could create a DVD photo just like this one. It makes it really personalized
Mario: So if you have a business presentation or if you had images and video that you want to basically compile they do all the printing all the setup and all done for you and the packaging.
Mary Anne So it’s looks again very legitimate in terms of what you want to show.
Mario: And last thing I wanted to talk to you guys about real quickly. They have several different partners that they working with one of which is into it. Where they can help you turn your invoices into marketing collateral, I think that’s really neat.
Mary Anne So all you have to do is go to HP.com/create and all of this information will be available to you.
Mario: Alright you’re hearing from the international CES 2009 HP.com/create, you can do free templates all on their website that we shown you earlier but you can also if you want to the next step you can actually use, the customized templates and actually use the Hp solution to further customized your stuff as well right?
Mary Anne Absolutely, it’s market splash allows you to do all of those if you can’t find something that’s in a template format. You want your business to stand out a little bit further market splash is the place where you can do that.
Mario: And that’s all still found at Hp.com/create.
Mary Anne You got it.
Mario: Mary Anne’s awesome, she’s letting us hangout at the Hp booth. They have great small business solutions and still more to come from Hp booth for your small business right here on sbtv.com I’m Mario Armstrong you’re tech guru will be back.
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