Just a little heads up on a recent chat I had with my son a few days ago.
My son went to Staples and Best Buy the other day to get a new printer. Since his wife is working from home as a para-legal she still needs to print. They had an older inkjet but even I couldn't get the heads unclogged. I recommended that he get a small black laser print. After visiting both Staples and Bet Buy neither of them had any laser printers under $500 in stock! Yes, standalone printers sales are up.
That tells me that there is probably a need for desktop scanners also. Panasonic Scanners is a Print4Pay Hotel sponsor please click their banner ad and find you how good the pricing and their scanners are. If you don't ask you don't get and some us maybe missing the boat for multiple placements of desktop scanners.
Let me start with tomorrow, I have two appointments one on site and another scheduled phone chat. The on-site appointment is going to have to be rescheduled because we'll be under a tropical storm warning here on the coast. Three to five inches of rain along with a potential for winds in excess of 60mph. Nice way to finish the week, and hoping we don't lose power because the humidity for the last week has been terrible.
I just received an email (when I started writing this blog) with order docs for a net new client and it's for an A3 color MFP for a total of about $7K. Around 5PM I had to revise yet another set of order docs for the other net new client that I've had on tap for some time. I should see those documents tomorrow, but it's only for one MFP out of the three I had hoped for. That's 4K tops. Nothing else will be closing tomorrow unless a long shot comes to fruition. I'll be sitting at a crappy $14K for the month. Monday I'm on site for a 40K appointment which means I'll be putting in time late tomorrow to prep for that appointment.
Another day with 4 appointments which brings me to 12 for the week ( I was off on Monday ) and so far one for tomorrow with the other one to be rescheduled.
It's not easy working alone. For more than 40 years I've always had people around me, whether it was in the office or out on sales calls. At times I miss being able to stop at someones desk and have a chat about the industry or a chat about our personal lives.
Today Jason Habbal posting something on Linkedin about he wasn't sure if he was liking this "first bumping" intros instead of hand shakes. I replied with "I wish I had someone to fist bump with". So far summer in New Jersey has not been summer with not going to places or doing things that you do every summer. Jason replied back with "I hear you" to my thread and then I posted that my summer is now "The Summer of Isolation" .
Here's another factoid about my summer, my home office does not have air conditioning. Since it's an older home central air is only in half of the house where we spend most of our time. Who knew that I would be spending 8 hours a day in my home office. Yes I do have an AC unit that I could put in, however I'm kinda of liking working through the heat, it's the humidity that gets you. Maybe I'll get the AC unit in as soon as my back clears up.
Tomorrow will be an excellent day to play catch up and prep for the last two weeks of the month.
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