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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago, The Last Week in September 2013
Wow, has it really been 5 years since the launch of Ricoh ICE. Well the threads from 5 years ago state it is. In addition I posted up a thread about copier demonstrations. Check em when you have the time. Enjoy the threads from 5 Years ago this week! 10 Awesome Tips for a Great MFP/Copier Demo Re: Adobe PostScript vs. Emulation IPS · 9/23/135:27 PM Czech is correct: there are Ricoh printer models with non-Adobe PostScript as well as 3rd-party Adobe controllers for Kyocera, Konica Minolta and...
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A Few Copier Vignettes from the Late Eighties & Nineties
The picture in the header showed our demo room back in either 1989 or 1990, might have even been 1991. As you can see by the photo Atlantic Office Systems (the first one in NJ) was Authorized for Adler Royal, Brother, and Tele VaxaFax (facsimile). Sometime later Adler Royal was purchased by Mita and the Adler Royal brand was changed to Copystar. I thoroughly hated the name Copystar because there was no brand recognition, at least with Adler Royal, our clients knew about Royal typewriters. We...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago, The Last Week in August 2013
I thought it would be time for something new. Each week we post threads from the last 10 year and 15 years on the Print4Pay Hotel. So we're going to give you another one. This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago. Enjoy these most excellent threads from just 5 years ago! Who Makes the Best Multifunctional Copy Machine? Art Post · 8/28/1310:23 PM manufacturers for multifunctional copiers. Here they are in the tiers. Tier I: Canon (includes Oce), Ricoh (includes Savin and Lanier), Xerox and...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Fifteen of Sales
Yup, it's now been three solid weeks since I was optioned to the remote workforce. Look at that it's 8:35PM and I'm early for writing these blogs. Hoping that means I'll get a nights sleep. Let's see tonight I'll start with some numbers. About forty calls made to mostly current clients, then another thirteen emails to those clients. One appointment (MS TEAMS), one share Stratix Linkedin thread, one shared Stratix Facebook thread and three Linkedin inmails. Opportunities developed stands at...
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MSP & MSSP Industry Notes for May 3rd, 2020
MSP & MSSP Industry Notes Sponsored by Arcoa Group ARCOA Group is here to help you successfully manage your IT Asset Disposition process. We help you recover value from retired electronic equipment through responsible methods of reuse and recycling. We ensure proper handling of assets which may contain data, while being environment stewards for assets that have no reuse value and are headed for recycling. We’ve built a robust de-manufacturing process to offer additional options for asset...
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Re: How Well Do You Know Your Print Drivers?
Rick, have you had success with the PCL Editor? I have tried it in the past and it seeemed unstable. I wanted to customize a driver for the pop-up and default to black & white. It worked. However, when I tried to install on mutiple clients it didn't work and it seemed to be user profile specific so if someone else logged onto the computer with their AD credentials it wasn't customized for them.
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Re: Jon Langdon with DocuWare Chats about Dealer Value with Version 6.8, DocuWare Forms, Mobility & SMB Adoption
Hi Art, The DocuWare ad on the far right side still has a “squashed” look to the graphic when viewed from my PC. The other vendors’ ads appear in proportion. [cid:image001.png@01D131C4.17A363F0] No banner ads from any vendor appear when viewing on an iPhone. Kathy
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Polek & Polek Delivers Excellent Customer Support and Imaging Supplies by Sled
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog this titled, "Polek & Polek Delivers Toner Supplies to Dealers by Sled". With an impending snow storm forecasted for the North East. I thought the snippet below would be appropriate! " I think about back to our early days of being in business when we still operated out of my fathers house. There was a long, steep driveway to get to the house. When heavy snowstorms were forecast, it was impossible to get a car up and...
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Does Your Copier Dealership Offer A Bakers Dozen?
It was the Eighties, we were in New Jersey, and I was leading the pack of six copier sales people. We were all in our twenties, single and making oodels and oodles of cash selling plain paper copiers! Station wagons, hatch backs, pickup trucks, copier guerney's, rolodex's, change for pay telephone calls, yellow page books, business street directory books, mucho phones, mucho demonstrations, delivering your own copiers, and training end users were the staple of the copier...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Fourth Week of October 2004
The Boston Red Sox win their first World Series title since 1918—and break the "Curse of the Bambino"—by beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3–0 in the fourth game of the 2004 World Series of baseball. Konica Minolta Launches the...
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Old Copier Ads and the Pitch Men
About a month ago when I found out that I could add clips to the new site, I went in search of old copier ads. I found quite a few of them, however I'm thinking that most of the old ads maybe lost forever since they were never scanned. (If anyone has...
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7 Questions for Lisa At OES
From time to time I try to get my sponsors involved with the MFP Solutions blog. Sometimes a banner ad does not tell you enough about the company nor the person behind the product. Many months ago I had an email from Lisa Chiu introducing her...
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Android-Based MFPs & Copiers to the Rescue
Every now and then you may get something that you wished for. A little birdy put me on the hunt today for additional information about the smart operation panel that is used on the new Ricoh MPC 03 color series aka...
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31 Ways to Garner Net New Copier & Managed IT Business # 13 of 31
You've called almost everyone in your database, and you can't seem to find anyone that wants to meet with you. You've then pounded the pavements and got the same, nothing! What can you do to make that connection with potential buyers of...
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Selling Copiers "Ten Tips to Keep the Pipeline Flowing"
Gosh, I wrote this almost 6 years ago! Where does the time go.... thought I would re-post here and update a few items along the way. ENJOY!What does it take to be successful in the copier industry for a long period of time? Some...
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Can A Copier Number Pages?
Sure can, the feature that allows a user to place the originals in the document and the select page numbering has been around since the first digital copiers came on the market many years ago. Most of the page number features can be...
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3 Things Copier Sales Reps Must Embrace To Thrive In A Relationship Economy
What is required to take your business relationships from good to great? I believe the principles behind Jim Collins book Good to Great can be applied to how copier sales reps build relationships. Let's take the “Hedgehog Concept” which means having a simple, extremely clear concept of what your business is. As copier sales reps, your business is something you can... Make money at Be passionate about Be the best in the world at "Greatness as a sales rep is a conscious choice and a...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of July 2007)
First and foremost Happy Fourth of July! Most interesting is the first thread about one of my largest accounts being "stolen" from RBS ten years ago. My how the tables have now turned! Email 2 Ricoh America Corp about RBS 7/3/078:16 PM 6, the other Design Ideas Group (lost 6 machines). Why are they doing this to Ricoh Dealers???? We will be out of business if this trend continues, somebody has to step up to the plate and tell them the business they should be getting is from Kyocera Accounts,...
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Remote Employees Drive Accounting Processes at Car Dealership
Remote Employees Drive Accounting Processes at Car Dealership Home Run Auto Group implemented DocuWare to consolidate its accounting staff spread among 27 dealerships into a remote, cohesive 16-person corporate department all individually working from home. The company reduced printing and personnel costs but more importantly, gained the ability to reassign workloads based on processes, not location, resulting in increased efficiency. Home Run Auto Group has 27 dealerships across the Midwest...
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The Gallery of Great Data Quotes
Demming's quote is still my favourite, as you often come across opinionated people with a lot of certainty yet when you did deeper they basis of their confidence on many topics is nothing more than opinion and here say, and all the more complicated in a time of alleged "fake news". This is a great build on Demming's quote, as when there is no data then go with the leader's opinion, ad doing something is often better than doing nothing. Pure Drucker wisdom. Another great Demming quote Data on...
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57 Days of Selling "Day 28"
Since I had a 9:30AM appointment about 20 miles from the house. I opted to make that my first stop instead of driving 45 minutes north to the office and then have to leave 30 minutes later for a 40 minute drive south to the account. The appointment was with another non-profit account that needed to replace an older Canon device (did not know it was a Canon until I arrived). Yesterday, I did my home work for the account and had readied a spreadsheet of four different MFP's. Two of them that...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Last Week of October 2004)
@Old Glory Posted this 15 years ago. Brian Tracy says in The Effective Manager, that "change is accelerating." I believe that, do you? What does that mean to you? You know the old saying, "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always have what you always had." I don't think that is true anymore. If you always do what you've always done, you will continually have less and less. If we are not consciously getting better, we are unconsciously getting worse. In our...
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Selling Copiers in the Seventies with Rod Nafziger
A few weeks ago Jack Carol send me a message on facebook and stated that I should get in contact with Rod "RJ" Nafziger. Jack made mention that Rod made his mark in the industry with selling Apeco copiers. Rod and I have been connected on Linkedin for years, but for some reason I never knew his back ground was copiers. For all these years I knew him as the A rtisan Gelato Maestro of Venice! How did you find your way to the copier industry? I began my career in Cable Television out of...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Second Week of January 2005)
Starting this year we'll now have 17 years of press releases, blogs, conversations, brochures, pictures and threads related to the copier industry in industry! Join our community, it's free and get connected with some of the best of breed in the industry. The Print4Pay Hotel is here to share industry knowledge and help others to be the best! Become a member, you'll love it! Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week! Konica Minolta Names Carolina Wholesale Guest · 1/11/058:48 AM Konica...
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MSP & MSSP Industry Notes for September 7th, 2019
MSP & MSSP Industry Notes September 7th 2019 Spectrotel awarded 2019 Visionary Spotlight Award for Managed Services Spectrotel based in Neptune, NJ provides national integrated solutions and managed services for enterprise businesses ChannelVision Magazine awarded Spectrotel Ross Artale, President & COO, “We are honored to be recognized by ChannelVision for offering one of the most comprehensive end-to-end soluitions”. Red River Acquires CWPS Red River located in Claremont, N.H.
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The Office Copier Turns 57!
While updating our weekly blogs post for " This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of April 2007) ", I ran across a thread that was started by "salesserviceguy" that was titled "The Office Copier Turns 50". Salesserviceguy is a valued P4P'er that's been with us for more than ten years and if was quite a bit of fun to review some of those threads. I thought it would be appropriate to re-post those threads for the Office Copier Turns 60. One of my favorite threads is from...
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Carolina Wholesale, the Eighties, Nineties and Today
I’m digging into the memory banks for this. From 1986-1998 I was the Founder of Atlantic Office Systems in New Jersey. In the beginning Atlantic Office Systems was not an Authorized Dealer for any manufacturer. Atlantic Office Systems rose from the ashes of Copy Machine Specialists (Authorized Minolta copier dealer in central New Jersey) after they closed their doors in early 1986. I still remember the end quite clearly. There was not enough cash to make payroll for everyone, and as we...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Last Week of August 2007)
This week, there's an excellent sales tip that we posted ten years ago. The tip goes on to explain that you have the believe in what you're selling. You also need to believe in yourself and your abilities. We all have slumps from time to time, some just happen for no reason and others are self created (not prospecting). So, when the going gets tough, get back to prospecting, it's jut good medicine. Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week. Only on the P4P forums! c411DN Ricoh Printer...
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3 Critical Areas Sales Reps Must Embrace To Thrive In A Relationship Economy
What do you think is required to move your business relationships from good to great? In Jim Collins' book Good to Great , the principles can be applied to how salespeople build relationships. For example, the “Hedgehog Concept” which means having a simple, extremely clear concept of what is best in your business. Let me ask you a question, Is what you are doing right now something you can... Make money at Be passionate about Be the best in the world at The Hedgehog Concept is not about a...
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About the Print4Pay Hotel
I wrote this for the old google blog "MFP Solutions" about six years ago. Back then I had to keep a separate blog and the copier forums . I'm glad that you stopped by! My Name is Art Post. I started in the industry over 32 years ago by answering a newspaper wanted ad for learning how to become a copier technician (1980). This job/school paid $3.75 per hour. I interviewed for the job and like most interviews, they said, “we’ll call you kid” (I was 22 years old). A few days passed, then a few...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Third Week of January 2003)
Pretty cool that this post will be the third installment of our Week in the Copier Industry 15 years ago this week. Looking back many of us new nothing about networks, nothing about networked printers and scanners. This site enables many copier sales people to lean on others and to share information that helped us compete. Many of these founding P4P'ers are still members today. I'd like thank them for all that they did over the years. 2002 Better Buys for Business HV 1/18/034:29 PM for 2002...
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MSP & MSSP Industry Notes for August 11th 2019
MSP & MSSP Industry Notes August 10th, 2019 Wachtell, Fenwick Lead Broadcom's $10.7B Symantec Biz Buy Law360,com reported on Thursday that Broadcom led by Watchell Lipton offer $10.7 billion cash for the Symantec’s enterprise security business The tech giant is looking to grow its own infrastructure tech platform Dresener Partners Advised Ntixa o the Acquisition of HigherGround Managed Services Dresner Partners based in Chicago, a FINRA registered, middle market investment bank Dresber...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Third Week of September 2004)
It's late Sunday, watching the Mets vs Dodgers and it's 2-2 in the top of the ninth with one out. Dodgers just got a double with one out. Hoping we can win this game. Mets need to win out to have a shot to make the last wild card spot. Enjoy these top threads from 15 years ago this week! Topic Muratec says "TALK TO ME" w/the 2830! 9/16/044:50 PM The new Muratec flagship features an interactive voice guidance system, single-pass duplex scanner, touchscreen control panel and affordable...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Third Week of June 2009)
Let's see ten tear ago Polek & Polek was celebrating 35 years in business. Thus in 5 more years Polek & Polek will be celebrating an amazing 50 years of giving excellent support. Polek & Polek is a fantastic sponsor of the Print4Pay Hotel and I urge all members to click on their site and see what they have to offer. Back in 86' I was buying 50% of my generic Mita toner from them. Please check them out Polek & Polek. Enjoy these threads from ten years ago this week! Weekend...
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MSP & MSSP Industry Notes for August 18th, 2019
YOUR BANNER AD HERE MSP & MSSP Industry Notes August 17 th 2019 Charlotte-Based Managed IT Services Provider Expands to Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area with ... Sterling Technology Solutions based in Charlotte, NC, and founder in 2002 by Tom Blanchard CEO Offers managed IT services, email migration services, IT security, backups, server management and consulting New branch office to be located at 900 Park Offices Drive, Raleigh, NC Texas Systems Group Named to List of 501 Top IT Managed...
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Arlington & The Power of 3
Just after this last Christmas I had a chance to chat with Brent Martin of Arlington Industries. I met Brent back in 2017 at the BTA Fall Break in Philadelphia while Brent was manning the Carolina Wholesale booth. Something I wasn't aware of at the time is that Carolina Wholesale also owned Arlington Industries and Digitek. With our recent chat Brent told me about the upcoming plan to merge all three companies and create one super distributor and go with the new branding of ARLINGTON. The...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Eighty-One of Sales
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...
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The End Of The Day With Ray! Talking With Joe Odore
Note from Art: FYI Panasonic is a Print4Pay Hotel Sponsor, please click their banner ad and have a talk with them about desktop scanners. 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...
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The Week in Copiers 5 Years Ago This Week 2015
The Week in Copiers 5 Years Ago This Week 2015 There was an interesting topic on the forums 5 years ago When is Net New Business not Net New Business? Dog days of summer are here and over the years I've always made the case that above average prospecting at this time of year will secure business for the last quarter of the year. Now is not the time to take a break because it's summer. Enjoy these threads from 5 years ago this week! Konica Minolta Announces New Sophisticated Variable Data...
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Is The Imaging Channel, Attempting to Solve Problems Which Don't Exist?
The business model, where the problem is created from fantasy, never works. All business solutions must actually solve a problem to have validity in charging one to solve it. As I continue watching the insanity of some within the Document Imaging Channel regarding the Work From Home (WFH) Phenomena I cringe. The Document Imaging Channel's Dealers must look to the broader deliverable and build IT platforms to Manage the broader services to the Remote Worker. I realize that the acronym of HMPS...
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The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago The First Week of November 2010 Usually I try to add something from my day or some words of wisdom for all of our readers. Today I have nothing except for this point "Don't wait for opportunties go and create them everyday" Enjoy these copier threads from ten years ago this week! Auditors see $250,000 savings in Jefferson Parish schools copier contracts ART POST (GUEST) · 11/3/107:31 PM , lasted five years and were resold to third-party financing companies.
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The Week in Copiers Five Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Five Years Ago First Week of January 2016 Incredible in two years I'll be able to pull twenty years of copier notes, threads, pricing, press releases and quotes. To start of the year I thought I would lead off with some old photo's of fax machines. The eighties and the nineties was the golden age for placing fax machines! Please let me know if you have any fax brochures you could scan and send to me for our archives. Enjoy these awesome copier threads from 5 years ago...
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The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago First Week of January 2006 The end of my first week of the new year. It took me most of the week to ramp it up and there's some great opportunities on the horizon. If you don't ask you don't get and the harder you work the luckier you get. Let the good times roll! Enjoy these great copier and fax threads from ten years ago this week Masterpiece Graphix adds substrates for use on Ricoh and Konica Minolta digital presses ART POST · 1/4/169:33 PM Masterpiece...
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Selling Copiers in the Eighties with Larry Coco
I believe it's important to document as much as our industry as possible before the age of the internet. Not much has changed in sales over the years. Selling is still about prospecting, finding pain and building relationships. Thus I was able to connect with Larry Coco for our next interview of what it was like to sell copiers in the eighties. Selling Copiers in the Eighties with Larry Coco Art: How did you find your way into the copier industry? Larry: During college I worked as the...
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The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago Second Week of February 2011 I had a great day today and it wasn't because I sold something. I had to visit and account to pick up original docs from a net new client. Five other vendors were in on the offering, I did not give away margin. I asked "why did you choose Stratix as your vendor", our new account stated "You were the only sales person that listened to my needs and gave us what we needed." Ah yes it was a great day to me! Enjoy these awesome copier...
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The Week in Copiers Five Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Five Years Ago Second Week of March 2016 In an effort to get ahead of the changes coming to our industry. I thought it would be good to start posting some information about digital services so that we can start learning more about the transition of our industry over the next 10-15 years. What are digital services? The term Digital Services refers to the electronic delivery of information including data and content across multiple platforms and devices like web or mobile.
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The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago Third Week of April 2016 Not much to day on this one. It's Saturday in the AM and there's much to be done at the home for summer. Enjoy your weekend! Here's the awesome copier threads from ten years ago this week Multifunction Black & White and Color printer/scanner/copier/fax machine. Art Post (Guest) · 4/22/1111:35 AM Solicitation Number: RFQ-DNC-11-0002 Notice Type: Combined Synopsis/Solicitation Synopsis: Added: Apr 20, 2011 3:15 pm Combined...
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MSP, MSSP and IT Notes Industry May 10th, 2021
MSP, MSSP, and IT Industry Notes Sponsored by May 10th, 2021 Arcoa Group Why partnering with ARCOA makes sense Electronics Recycling is an important and profitable part of the IT asset lifecycle, but it can be overwhelming with all you already do, varying state regulations, and the limited resources at hand. That’s where ARCOA comes in. When you partner with ARCOA, you get all the benefits of a big company without any of the capital investment. We’ve been doing this since 1989 and have the...
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The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago Third Week of May 2016 Never in my wildest dream did I ever believe I would have stayed in the copier industry for forty plus years. It was 1998 and the age of forty-one that had my first glimpse of sixty some-thing still sling copiers. I remember it well and stating I don't want to be that guy. I am now that guy and if I asked would I change anything? My reply would be hell no! Enjoy these wonderful copier threads from 19 years ago this week! Copier Company...
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Is 1 Rate aka Flat Rate Billing Passe
Is 1 Rate aka Flat Rate Billing Passe in a Post Pandemic Business World? Since July is all about prospecting I've been able to pay many visits to Linkedin for conducting my research. Today the post below stood out from all of the others..... Yes, it seems Kyocera is going to have their own version of the 1 Rate aka flat rate billing for MFP's. For me the ad implied that the "one fixed rate subscription will be coming to a dealership near you soon". I had a rather long chat with an industry...