Benefits

The benefits to using Snowfall Press are numerous. From the writer to the publisher to the customer, Snowfall Press helps everyone achieve their objectives in a timely, cost-effective manner with a product that will reflect your high standards.

Fastest time-to-market (TTM)
What does that mean? Simply put, when you are ready to get your work into the hands of your customers you have a partner in place to help you do this – with speed and quality. There is no faster way of getting to market than Snowfall Press.

Why TTM is important
The easy answer is the faster you can get your book on the market the sooner you can start making income from all your hard work. And while that is true, there are other several other reasons why Snowfall’s rapid speed to market will benefit you:

  • Current events… Timeliness between your subject matter and current or near future events. Current events are taking an interesting turn and your subject matter serendipitously addresses these events. You don’t want to wait weeks and months to get to market – printing now is critical.
  • Need quick edits… You have just been asked to speak at a conference next week. You want to sell your book there, but a few revisions are needed. Making the changes, getting the books printed and shipped direct to the conference is no problem.
  • Revenue… It may sound crass, but as much as you love what you do you also need to get paid – in order to keep doing what you love to do. TTM is also affectionately called Time-to-Money. Snowfall can help you get from manuscript to revenue faster than anyone in the industry.

Helping you be efficient
Is there anyone out there these days that is not overloaded with data, kids sports, work deadlines, home chores, and a host of other pressures? Would being more efficient in at least one area of your life help? Silly question, yes?

Snowfall helps you be more efficient in several ways:

  • We print just what you need for books. There is no reason to overprint and have an inventory of books in your warehouse, home or car.
  • We take care of the shipping. Snowfall Press will ship directly to wherever you need a book delivered. If you are an author, there is no reason to allot a morning for packing books and getting them to the post office.
  • Open 24x7. Business today does not fit neatly into a 9 to 5 window. With our online capabilities you can print anytime – and anywhere…even from a WiFi-enabled passenger plane flying at 33,000 feet.
  • Allows you complete hands off fulfillment. You can link to Snowfall’s server and with the right shopping cart technology, your customer can order and pay for a book, which will signal Snowfall’s server to print the book(s) and deliver them directly to the customer…all without your intervention. Sweet. Efficient. Anyone for tennis?

Lower printing costs
Many printers will give you a cost for printing your book…but then tack on additional charges along the way to the initial low price. In the end, it becomes expensive to run your business the way you want. Snowfall lowers your cost of printing in several important ways:

  • No set up charges – none.
  • No change charges – none. In fact, we encourage you to make the updates you need to your content – or when you want to print customized books for customers.
  • Order just one – not 10 with the idea of shipping you the others later. If you want one we print just one.
  • No inventory – zero. Carrying inventory is so 20th century. And it is expensive. You do not need to have books in inventory, that is an unwise use of money.

More Gross Profits
It is our passion to do a few things so well that the results bring back more gross margin profits to writers and publishers. We help you be more efficient, we ask you to only print what you need (eliminating wasteful spending), we don’t nickel and dime you on costs, we get you to market faster than any printer on the planet, and our basic cost of printing just-in-time books is really low. The result? More cash in your pocket. You win, we win. Its all good.

Zero Inventory
Having lots of books printed and keeping them in a warehouse, your garage, or in the trunk of your car is so 20th Century. But besides that, it just isn’t a wise business practice now. In fact, the model moving forward is that NO book should be printed before it is purchased by an end user customer. Perhaps you have heard of just-in-time (JIT) inventory management. Dell Computer Company is renowned for driving JIT inventory management. But now that same level of sophistication is available to you. There are two ways Snowfall Press can make this strategy work for you.

The first option: You go to the Snowfall website and print the exact number of books you need and have Snowfall ship that exact number of books to your customers.

The second option: Integrate your website shopping cart system with Snowfall’s. When one of your customers purchases books, Snowfall will get a signal and those books will automatically be printed and shipped direct to your customer. No over runs, no waste, no inventory. Very 21st Century.

Benefits of zero inventory

  • Better financial model for running your company
  • No chance of inventory getting ruined
  • No chance of inventory becoming dated (you can easily update your content with Snowfall)
  • Better for the environment

Other ways to use Snowfall
There are many ways to take advantage of the efficiencies and Just-in-Time delivery available through Snowfall. Besides standard the kinds of books you would find in a typical Barnes & Noble, there are:

  • Printing your family genealogy
  • Writing your family vacation stories
  • Thesis work – compare our prices to quick-service copy shops…you will be pleasantly surprised
  • Capstone course work
  • Seminar workbooks
  • Training manuals
  • Repair manuals
  • Sunday School books
  • Corporate annual and semi-annual reports
  • Compiled PowerPoints for a corporate conference
  • Children’s compiled class work
  • Children's poetry books
  • School fund raiser

At It's Heart, Snowfall is a Technology Company

So why does that matter?  You own an IPhone, notebook, and various other high-tech gadgetry, but at your heart you are more of an artist than a geek.  So how does Snowfall being a technology company help you?

Technology for technology’s sake probably does not make that much difference in your life, but the unique and proprietary software solution that Snowfall has developed is what enables the company to bring you the benefits we offer and a low cost structure which no other printer can deliver.

It also means Snowfall is committed to aggressive research and development and will continue to develop solutions aimed at making you successful – and profitable.