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Re: Four Reasons Why I'm SO Excited about Print Audit Insight Dashboard!!
Great article, thanks Art! Take care, John John MacInnes President Print Audit - The Print Management Company Phone: 403 689-7627 Fax: 403 249-9471 jmacinnes@printaudit.com http://www.printaudit.com *There is always something going on at Print Audit. Click here.*< http://www.printaudit.com/news.asp > *Have Fun - Build Great Products – “WOW” our Customers***
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Re: Four Reasons Why I'm SO Excited about Print Audit Insight Dashboard!!
ty John! Love your products! Can't wait to meet you and the gang in September
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Re: Is This the Beginning of the End for the Padding of Lease Rates?
from today's Leasing News. Ralph Petta Reaction to Tom McCurnin's "Is the Disclosure Too Complicated? of SB 1235" [ http://leasingnews.org/hires/petta_ralph2018.jpg ] From: Ralph Petta President and CEO Equipment Leasing and Finance Association 1625 Eye Street, NW * Suite 850 Washington, DC 20006 "Allow me to take exception and set the record straight with respect to Mr. McCurnin's statement in his September 21 article(1) about passage of disclosure legislation in California, SB 1235 that...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 5 Years Ago (1st Week of February 2014)
Were you in the industry five years ago? If not some of these threads will shed some insight on what was the top threads 5 years ago this week. If you've been in this industry longer than five years, then many of these threads may bring back some memories. In any case enjoy these threads from 5 years ago this week! EFI Launches Fiery Digital Front Ends for New Konica Minolta Bizhub Presses Art Post · 2/6/149:20 PM EFI Launches Fiery Digital Front Ends for New Konica Minolta Bizhub Presses...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago, The First Week in December 2013
Okay, we're back to doing three of these a wee. Where we look back on the threads from, 5, 10 & 15 years ago Enjoy these threads from 5 years ago this week! Canon U.S.A. Unveils Océ VarioPrint 6000+ Series of High-Speed, High-Volume Digital Production Printers Art Post · 12/5/139:45 PM deliver critical savings to print providers. This black-and-white printer is ideal for burgeoning industries -- such as on-demand, digital book printing -- due to its registration accuracy, outstanding...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Second Week in September 2003
Haha! Something pretty funny in with one of the links below. "Moving closer to the paperless office". This was fifteen years ago. Do you remember the Ricoh C1224? Was a color MFP that had a speed of 12 pages per minute in color and 24 pages per minute in black. Needless to say that Ricoh never informed sales that the copier would go into auto calibrate during a print or copy run for up to minutes! Relive that experience with the threads below Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week.
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of April 2014)
When I started in the business I was told all you have to get through is the first five years and then the rest is gravy. Meaning you could live off your lease renewals. I'm thinking that was a BIG fat lie! Enjoy these threads from ten years ago this week! Ricoh's Streamline NX can help organizations improve document management productivity and reduce costs Art Post · 4/15/148:32 PM printers giving them the same user experience they have on Ricoh MFPs. Mobile printing with Hotspot Enterprise...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of February 2010)
I mentioned in the previous blog that we had our Kickoff Sales meeting for 2020 yesterday. Rather than drive the three hours home I opted to stay over night and leave first thing in the AM. 2019 was a very good year, I was back in President's Club for the 7th time, got me a $50 gift card for winning a contest at our branch. Maybe an old timer like me can win the Grand Prize next week, we'll see we have some talented peeps and all will be out for the glory. It's time to bring out the old dog...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of February 2015)
It's Friday night and late. Tuesday evening I traveled to Atlantic City for our annual showing of wide format copiers and white boards. Our event started Wednesday in the AM and lasted until 1PM today. I'm getting too old to put in 10 hour days on the show floor (lol). I love doing them because of the interaction with potential clients and you never know who you're going to meet. We brought the BIG 65 inch white board and it was the sizzle that we needed to catch all of those prospects. All...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Thirteen of Sales
I was hoping that day thirteen would be a lucky number for me. It wasn't and I'm still hanging in their with zero orders since I started working remotely. I had a tough time going to sleep last night, the mind was still running, thoughts of what to if this that or the other thing happens. Even with two sleeping pills it was not a good night. Think I finally dozed off somewhere in the 1AM area. Thursday has started just like every other day. By 8am I was at the PC and going through my CRM to...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago for the Second Week in April of 2015
For those of you that are new to the industry, there's a cool blog I wrote about making the phone calls. Believe it or not the phone is your friend. You can read that here or below. Fourty Eight Hundred Phone Calls a Year Can Equal a Lot of Dough! Enjoy these awesome threads from 5 years ago this week! Bid Tabulation for Xerox_Sharp_Samsung_Canon_Kyocera.pdf Art Post · 4/14/1512:55 PM Topic Konica Minolta Expands and Enhances Corporate Communications Team at US Headquarters Art Post ·...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Last Week of February 2015)
There's a cool thread I did years ago about the history of the fax. We sold tons of faxes in the eighties and had a lot of fun doing it. It was not uncommon to sell multiple units along with boxes and boxes of thermal paper. There's also a cool thread about some fun that we had with selling fax machines. Enjoy these threads from ten years ago this week! Konica Minolta Rewarded for Sustainable Investment Standards With Globally Renowned Distinctions Art Post · 2/24/1510:41 PM improve our...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago for the Second Week of May 2015
Enjoy these threads from 15 years ago this week! Sharp Earns Business Technology Association’s Art Post · 5/12/1510:36 PM manufacturers were also presented with 2015 Channel’s Choice awards. KYOCERA Document Solutions America received the award for its Outstanding Performance as a Secondary Product Line Provider. The company also received an award in the three-way tie in the Corporate Support performance category. Tom Walsh, vice president of the Western Division for Kyocera, accepted the...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Seven of Sales
Seems every morning is identical to the last one. What keeps flashing through my mine is Bill Murray and Groundhog Day. Still no end in site for the lock down in the tri-state area. The infection rates continue to increase each and every day. Enough about the bad stuff. Let's focus on the good stuff. Today was CRM day and what I called soft prospecting today. The first course of action was to weed out the crap (all the small stuff) and maintain a better focus on those larger accounts. I...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (First Week of April 2015)
Since the last two to three weeks have been less than perfect I figured we could reminisce when times were better. There's a cool little story about and event that took place in Jamaica while on a Presidents Club trip with Dr. Feelgood. That link is below! Enjoy these awesome threads from five years ago this week! Konica Minolta acquires printing business of Monotech Systems Art Post · 4/7/1510:05 PM NEW DELHI: In a bid to have direct interface with its customers, Japanese printer firm...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Eleven of Sales
WTF eleven days! Another late night issue for me again. It's sometime after 10PM, thus this will be another short blog again. Today our dealership had a TEAMS meeting set for 11AM. The plan was to lay out the strategy for the next 30 days or so. Yes, it seems like another 30 days of remote working is in order. I am also very thankful for that, because at least I have the ability to produce. I can't go over the details because it just doesn't make good business sense with competitors reading...
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Re: Advice For Starting An Unauthorized Copier Dealership
Create a mutually beneficial relationship with an authorized dealer. They help you. You help them.
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5 Reasons Why I'm Going to Spring Break BTA in New Orleans in March!
I'm about to make my first ever trip to New Orleans for BTA's Spring Break event. A fewmemories come to mind when thinking about New Orleans, The Super Bowl (many of them, in fact the first ten), Mardi Gras, NOMDA Show, and Katrina. Since I'm going to be a newbie in New Orleans for March 18th & March 19th, I'll be staying at the BTA recommended Intercontinental New Orleans. Similar to last years event at the Grand Floridian, IBPI is hosting their event on March...
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Four Reasons Why I'm SO Excited about Print Audit Insight Dashboard!!
After viewing the first Print Audit Insight Webinar a few months ago, I thought I would pick five existing accounts that I would approach and offer them a print analysis of their fleet. Over the last month, I identified those five accounts, and...
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Those Magnificent Men & Women & Thier Copy Machines 2015 -Part One
In 1965 I was eight years old, entertainment for me came in the form of movies (my how times have changed) and one of my favorite movies as a child (and still now) is a comedy classic titled "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" . ...
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Five Take Aways from BTA Spring Break in New Orleans
BTA SOUTHEAST REVIEW SPRING BREAK- NEW ORLEANS March 18 th and 19 th 2016 This was the main focus and theme of the BTA Southeast event in New Orleans this year. Are you embracing the managed IT services opportunities within your customer base — or are you leaving money on the table while risking having your customers stolen by the competition? Managed IT services cannot only provide a new revenue opportunity, but can also help to diversify your services offering and protect your base. Many...
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HIPAA and cybersecurity: Is encryption necessary?
Cybersecurity remains an uphill battle for all fields. Healthcare has remained a high priority, due to the highly sensitive information generated and stored by organizations within the space. HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and...
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At-risk data companies should know about
In this modern technological age, disaster recovery plans are necessary for businesses. Cyberattacks have become unavoidable for all organizations, so companies need to prepare themselves for hard-hitting hackers and keep themselves on high alert....
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How can healthcare organizations choose and use email encryption?
Email Encryption has become an important asset for healthcare organizations in a world where cybersecurity is a necessity. Although it doesn't seem like the most fancy or complex protection tool, it can be an amazing resource for email...
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Beyond the Breach: General Data Management Considerations
Much of the news related to information governance has related directly back to security and data breaches in recent years, and for good reason as a wealth of organizations have fallen victim to theft and exposure in that time frame. First and...
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Healthcare organizations at risk of Shellshock vulnerability
Security threats are growing in abundance as more health organizations choose to host large quantities of patients' personal and medical information in data centers, locally and across the country. A recent study from McAfee discovered over 31 million...
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Email is alive, well and evolving
Email is a part of everyday life. It should come as no surprise, then, that it is widely used in corporate environments. Many believe that email will not be around for much longer due to the adoption of social media, text and instant messaging and...
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UC Davis Health System experiences another email breach
Another healthcare organization has experienced a data breach, and this time it had nothing to do with electronic health records. Instead, the incident was caused by unauthorized access to an email account. The University of California at Davis Health...
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Cloud security considerations for healthcare organizations
Cloud computing has numerous benefits for organizations in the healthcare industry, as many departments can find applications and data to host in the cloud environment, making resource provisioning easier and allowing employees to use less physical...
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Data breaches in healthcare costing millions
The healthcare industry is undeniably a target of cybercriminals. With the increased usage of electronic health records, healthcare organizations have large volumes of data stored in data centers, on employee devices and sent through email. However,...
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WHOA!! You Need to Check Out National AZON!
It's not too often that I get excited about a distributor, however, I'm really excited about National Azon!!! For those of us that need to sell higher end hardware and solutions, many of us have incorporated wide format hardware and...
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Email security has transcended into ridiculousness
While it is never good to make light of a serious situation such as IT security, businesses as well as health care providers and government agencies have been making it quite difficult to keep a lid on hilarity. That was meant to evoke "Hillary," in...
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Health Care Still Struggling with Email Security
The health care sector has come under fire of late due to an increased prevalence of data breaches, privacy failures and more, while many of the more damaging events have actually been the result of relatively simple mistakes. Although the retail...
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Common Threats to Health Data Security and Their Consequences
The health care industry has been under the gun of late because of the increasing prevalence of major data breaches that have exposed the medical records of millions of individuals around the globe. As more entities fall victim to these events,...
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Implementing basic cybersecurity in a small healthcare business
Big businesses like Sony Pictures Entertainment and Target have had information compromised by hackers, giving small business customers a reason to be wary. What can an enterprise do to implement cybersecurity and appeal to a hesitant audience? The...
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How HIPAA may be affected by Obama's cybersecurity proposal
President Barack Obama reiterated his goal to change cybersecurity in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. He hopes to accomplish more secure data through legislative modifications and his own cybersecurity proposal. However, healthcare...
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Cybersecurity in healthcare - Why there needs to be more concern
Cybersecurity has become a huge concern for the healthcare industry in more ways than one. Forbes reported that in 2011, Jerome Radcliffe, a diabetic, demonstrated how his wireless insulin pump could be hacked at a Black Hat cybersecurity conference....
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Why using STARTTLS email encryption can prevent risks
The Sony Entertainment hack at the end of 2014 has brought fear to the business community regarding how much data protection is in place. Supporting those fears are various reports that show the apparent lack of cybersecurity. However, organizations...
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3 tips for being HIPAA-compliant in the healthcare industry
HIPAA compliance can be tough. However, with a variety of data security worries on the minds of many, it has never been more important, as the penalties for HIPAA violations are expensive. For instance, it cost two organizations nearly $2 million...
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5 trends that will affect the Healthcare IT sector this year
Trends are always affecting the healthcare IT community and this year looks no different with a variety of technological tools expected to become more popular. Cybersecurity is always important in regard to the cloud, the Internet of Things and big...
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What HIPAA does and how the healthcare industry has been complying
HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, has been a huge source of interest since cyberattacks became prevalent in the business world. Many people have argued that hackers will begin to focus on the healthcare industry, due...
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How dentists should comply with HIPAA
Dentists should ensure their methods of HIPAA compliance are up to date. According to Dentistry IQ, all positions within the dental field have to know how to approach the legislation, including receptionists, assistants, dental hygienists and IT...
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5 Internet and secure email tips
Hillary Clinton has certainly been under fire in the news recently for her insecure email usage. However, there are many strategies businesses can teach their employees and learn from Clinton's mistakes to ensure safe technology use in the workplace....
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Two severe Windows vulnerabilities addressed, another two unpatched
Windows users might have noticed that on the morning of Nov. 13, they were greeted with a large number of updates for their systems. This is all too common of a problem for IT departments as they scramble to patch servers, desktop computers and...
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The past, present and future of cybersecurity
Protecting enterprises with cybersecurity tools has been a long process, one filled with failed attempts, confusion and human error. Furthermore, many new infrastructure-as-a-service offerings are attempting to provide IT departments with high-levels...
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Health care industry is No. 1 for cyberattacks
The FBI has warned that cyberattacks are on the rise - and health care companies are often the target hackers seek. An attack that took place in August on Community Health Systems Inc., the No. 2 publicly traded U.S. hospital group, compounded concern...
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Sophisticated hacker group FIN4 strikes Wall Street
Imagine receiving an email that claims another employee is talking about you in a public forum, and forwarding a link to the forum as proof. It looks legitimate enough, as the email is from a longtime client with whom you recently discussed business....
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The Who, What, Where, When, Why & How of Print
Did you know that if you where to fill your car gas tank with inkjet ink that it would cost $150,000! What do you think is the average number of pages printed by the average employee each year? Yup, 10,000 pages. One of...
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Cybersecurity predictions for 2015 - Healthcare
Cybersecurity has been in the news quite a lot over the past year given the breaches sustained by Sony Pictures and retail stores like Target and Home Depot. What kind of changes in cybersecurity are happening, and what can customers expect in 2015?...
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The state of cybersecurity in the health care industry
The health care sector should prepare for cybersecurity in 2015, as it's expected to become a huge target. Breaches within the sector can prove even more costly than those afflicting other industries, with HealthITSecurity reporting that such...