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Re: ARCOA Buyback Program
We are rescheduling this webinar for later date, please stay tuned
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Re: Perfect Copier Webinar
We hope you enjoyed today's overview of the Perfect Copier system. Here is a sample of a working Website Widget Here is am Quote Example This week P4P Webinar Special - FREE SETUP, FREE WIDGET, MONTHLY PLANS w/ ANNUAL REBATE PRICING. We want to make this system as friendly and easy for the dealer as possible . If you could give us some feedback on the webinar - we would appreciate it!! Give Feedback For those who were unable to attend , we have slots available for tomorrow's and Thursday's...
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Re: Crowdsourcing Idea for P4P Members
Here is the first one I received yesterday. With an existing vendor and salesperson. Would you rather have follow ups via phone call or email? EMAIL If your vendor offered a once a month tech update/business trends bulletin. Would you opt in for that email? PROBABLY NOT Currently, how do you keep up to date with new technology and business trends? CNN Tech, MSNBC Tech, Slashdot, Vendors, Friends
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Re: Crowdsourcing Idea for P4P Members
Here's another: With an existing vendor and salesperson. Would you rather have follow ups via phone call or email? email but you need to respond in kind. If I call you I’m looking for a call back. If I email you I’m looking for an email back If your vendor offered a once a month tech update/business trends bulletin. Would you opt in for that email? yes as long as it stayed pertinent Currently, how do you keep up to date with new technology and business trends? Industry news and mags for...
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Re: Crowdsourcing Idea for P4P Members
and another, however this one was from an old CFO in late sixties or early seventies: With an existing vendor and salesperson. Would you rather have follow ups via phone call or email? Follow up phone calls are more effective when there’s something important to talk about. Constant emails that serve no purpose other than advertising get deleted. If your vendor offered a once a month tech update/business trends bulletin. Updates when needed are welcomed, but monthly trend newsletters seem a...
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Re: Linkedin success with DM's
In my experience, connecting with c-level execs on Linkedin has about the same success level as picking up the phone or e-mailing. Since you have more visibility into the execs work history, interests, and connections, LI can feel like the "magic prospecting pill" when in fact it is just another avenue to try and establish connection. Whatever ratio you put into number of phone calls, translates to number of meetings, translates to numbers of sales. The same formula holds true for messaging...
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P4P Member in Phoenix area?
I received this email from a P4P member yesterday. Can anyone help? Hey Art I’ve been killing it with AccuRoute lately and they’ve asked if I knew any vendors in the Phoenix area. Any members that are solutions saavy you could recommend?
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Re: Seven Reasons Why You Need to Become A Premium P4P Hotel Member
Special thanx! We had 5 new Premium Members on the overnight! You're all awesome supporters.
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Re: Seven Reasons Why You Need to Become A Premium P4P Hotel Member
Oh, this is the eighth reason!!
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Re: Dealer vs Direct for Employment?
Stay with the Dealer Channel. Only order takers work for direct branches. The money is still in the dealer community. If your unhappy with a dealer, find another one. If you think your ready to RUN a Joint. Find a dealer to partner with. Good luck
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Re: Ask Art " How Can a Premium P4P Hotel Membership Help With My Sales"
I am out of the office until 17/04/2014. I am out of the office on a customer visit all day today, Wednesday 16th April and will not have chance to reply to your email until Thursday. If your email requires urgent attention please contact Mark Caveney on 01928 599 660 or mark.caveney@ricoh.co.uk . Alternatively, I will reply on my return. Many thanks, Ben. Note: This is an automated response to your message "Post By Art Post: Ask Art " How Can a Premium P4P Hotel Membership H..." sent on...
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HP PageWide Wide Format Systems
Would love to hear if any of our P4P family has signed on as a an HP dealer for the product. Please let us know. Art
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Eight Reasons Why You Need to Become A Premium P4P Hotel Member
Nothing is for FREE, we've heard this over and over through out our sales careers right? We share information, we are the relentless, we drive the sales, we generate additional clicks, we seek new customers, we (Print4Pay Hotel)...
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Crowdsourcing Idea for P4P Members
So, would like to see if we can make this happen. I've put together a list of three questions for my IT & DM contacts. I am sending these questions to existing accounts first, when we have an email exchange. I am asking them to help me. My goal is to have many of P4P members asking the same questions to yourclientsand then funneling the data back to me so we can analyze the data and give it back to our members. Here's the questions.
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Welcome to two additional P4P moderators!
We filled two more moderator spots this week!! Jason H will now be the moderator for the Canon forums and Bumble001 will be the moderator for the Konica Minolta forums. Matter of fact Bumble001 is off and running with series of posts...
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Top Ten Copier & MFP Proposals for February 2015
I can' tell you how much I enjoy seeing copier proposals and quotes from around the country. I especially like seeing the ones from my competitors!!! What's included, what's not included, what rate factor they are using, the cost per page...
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Seven Reasons Why You Need To Become a Premium P4P Hotel Member
Nothing is for FREE, we've heard this over and over through out our sales careers right? We share information, we are the relentless, we drive the sales, we seek new customers, we (Print4Pay Hotel) members are the top sellers in the...
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History of the Print4Pay Hotel "Part One"
Special Note: Please keep in mind that any members can post new messages on the new Print4Pay Hotel forums. We're all here to learn more about the industry and share information. Sharing information, sales techniques and solutions can help...
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Cost Per Page Discussion "Has the time come for one cost per page"
One P4P member recently brought up the point that it seems that cost per page is being low balled on black and the difference made up in color. I'm pretty sure it was that, just checked and it was.. here's the link...
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Well Qualififed P4P Hotel Member Seeking Employment
Check out Larry's resume attached. Please help him out if you can, or if you know someone that is looking please send them to Larry. Art
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16 Tips to Help You Sell More Production Print Systems
Where to start....hmmmmm, many years ago I had my first introduction into the Print4Pay Industry via the Minolta 450Z BETA copier. The 450Z was launched back in the mid eighties and the most unique feature of the 450Z is that this was one of...
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Attention! All P4P Members
There will be no Sunday night email blast, nor a blog post on Monday. We had a passing of an immediate family member, Art
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Ask Art " How Can a Premium P4P Hotel Membership Help With My Sales"
Hi Art, I am already a year in in the copier industry. It's interesting to know that membership includes qualified leads. I like the idea but not sure it would work for my role. I am an Account Exec in California. I have zip codes assignment but...
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P4P Site Updates
One of our most popular feature suggestions was for liking individual comments/replies. Today, we are rolling out our "You Like Me" release, which includes that and more, Here are the highlights of this software update: 1....
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31 Ways to Garner Net New Copier & Managed IT Business
Finally!!! I've put the master piece togther. 31 Ways to Garner Net New Business, and I'll be posting one of these per week as Premium Content once the New Year of 2014 kicks in. But in the mean time I've started a topic on the P4P...
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Canon & Oce "Was this a good deal or a not so good deal?"
I was going through some of the web polls that we've had running on several of the old sites.I'm closing all of the old polls out and will be adding new polls. For the time being the new polls are located at P4P Polls, as soon as I figure out...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago (4th Week of November)
It was ten years ago this week. The 2003 Heritage Classic is played in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the first outdoor ice hockey games in the history of theNational Hockey League. Over 50,000 spectators watch the two...
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P4P Contest "Who Am I"
We'll give a P4P Mug to the Winner!! Three Clues (will give another clue after every wrong answer): Chairman of the State Democratic CommitteeBrigadier General9th Infantry Regiment
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Dealer vs Direct for Employment?
First, how cool is that delivery truck! Now that's marketing!!! How do you compare the flexibility of dealerships vs the stability of a major corporation? This was an email that I received from a Print4Pay Hotel...
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Seven Reasons Why You Need to Become A Premium P4P Hotel Member
Nothing is for FREE, we've heard this over and over through out our sales careers right? We share information, we are the relentless, we drive the sales, we seek new customers, we (Print4Pay Hotel) members are the top sellers in the...
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P4P Hotel News/Update
Just wanted to give everyone an update about a new initiative I'm concentrating on for the remainder of this year and into 2014. I will have an official launch of "Copier Nexus" sometime in the first quarter of 2014. The goal of...
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How Copier Reps Can Rise Above the "Bad" Times
My apologies it been some time since my last blog because I've been busy with enjoying as much of this beautiful summer as possible. Fall is rapidly approaching! Over the weekend I was able to achieve the status of Titan 1 for Clash of Clans. Yup, I'm kind of old to be playing on-line games, in fact I'm the oldest in my clan. For those of you that are not familiar with Clash of Clans, it is one of those on-line games that you could sink a small fortune into if you want to be one of the elite...
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How Copier Reps Can Rise Above the "Bad" Times
My apologies it been some time since my last blog because I've been busy with enjoying as much of this beautiful summer as possible. Fall is rapidly approaching! Over the weekend I was able to achieve the status of Titan 1 for Clash of Clans. Yup, I'm kind of old to be playing on-line games, in fact I'm the oldest in my clan. For those of you that are not familiar with Clash of Clans, it is one of those on-line games that you could sink a small fortune into if you want to be one of the elite...
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Five Reasons Why I'm Attending the Top 100 Summit in San Diego
Who can't resist an opportunity to spend some time in San Diego? #MPSIsChanging, and if you're not changing, your competition is. Below is a paragraph from the Top 100 Summit web page . The Summit is an exclusive, invitation only, all expenses paid (minus flight and hotel) event where imaging industry leaders, business owners and principals will come together to share ideas and develop strategies for the future of office imaging. We call them the Top 100! Reason #1 : Increasing my knowledge...
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Preparing for the Change of Disruption in the Copier Industry
I received the email below from Deon (P4P Member) and agreed with Deon that this would be a great topic for discussion with our peers. Feel free to chime and post your thoughts. I was in the UAE a week ago and it seems that this industry is changing big time faster than i thpught. Im not too sure that we will be able to survive only selling copiers etc. Over the last year or so we have also added telecommunication/voip and CCTV. It might take time but this digital disruption will hurt us if...
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RIP Claude Jacobs
P4P'er, pm'd me this AM and told me that Claude Jacobs had passed a few days ago. He was our first solution guy from Ricoh. Nice guy, excellent knowledge, he will be missed.
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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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Muratec America at BTA East Grand Slam in NYC September 2019
I took these videos at BTA East last week. It was my first attempt and I know I need to get better. Some had lighting issues, another was the sound and another was me with not setting the camera at hi res. I apologize for the no9t so good video's. However these for the most part are from P4P Hotel Sponsors. Listen closely, turn up the volume and I promise new video's will be much better.
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Spending Time with Greg Walters and ArcDrive @BTA East GrandSlam NYC 2019 (Video)
I took these videos at BTA East last week. It was my first attempt and I know I need to get better. Some had lighting issues, another was the sound and another was me with not setting the camera at hi res. I apologize for the no9t so good video's. However these for the most part are from P4P Hotel Sponsors. Listen closely, turn up the volume and I promise new video's will be much better.
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Special Thanksgiving Message from the Print4Pay Hotel
It's been somewhat of an interesting year for me in sales. My first eight months were nothing short of spectacular, however the last three months have been a real grind and no where near spectacular. Matter a fact the story has been under achievement to say the least. Thus I find my self in the same spot every year. One month left to go and I haven't written my ticket for annual quota and President's Club. But there's so much to be thankful for in 2019. We have an awesome collection of...
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Some of our Recent Print4Pay Hotel Referrals
Dealer in Kenner, LA I just wanted to thank you for your website! Your maintenance figures on the 8830 were right on the money! Dealer is Des Moines, Iowa The past 3 years have been very educational thanks to you and the community you created! BBC in Australia I know you are a very busy man and I need to get all of my people nationally to join and be involved in the best site in the world. Dealer in Texas I think there is quite a bit of valuable information on the site. I'm impressed at the...
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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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Linkedin success with DM's
Recently I've had to do some additional prospecting because I could see the writing on the wall after a solid five months of revenue. I turned to Linkedin, and wanted to connect with about a half a dozen "C" level execs. It's going to be Thursday and I got zero connections. Kinda makes me wonder if DM's are turned off to Linkedin because of the relentless people wanting to connect with them. I have CFO listed for my P4P Hotel and not a day goes by where someone wants to connect and then...
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1 Rate aka Flat Rate
It's been more than a year since the 1Rate aka flat rate program from Konica Minolta. There's also been some dealers that have launched their own programs. Thus we and other P4P members would be interested in knowing how many time you're up against the 1Rate or Flate Rate program.