Tagged With "December"
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Re: The Quest for $200K Starts Tomorrow
Art, I loved this column, especially the lead- in history of your start as a technician. That was me in 1978-79. I worked for a Canon subsidiary in Union NJ as a tech. Just moved here from Ohio. My service manager told the owner after a year " he is a passable tech but he keeps losing his tools". It was a sign from God, I guess. Good luck on your quest. George Krebs Sent from my iPad Sent from my iPad > On Nov 21, 2017, at 10:43 PM, Print4Pay Hotel < alerts@hoop.la > wrote: > >
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Re: The Quest for $200K Starts Tomorrow
Ty George! I enjoy writing this stuff, hoping it can others also!
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Re: The Quest for $200K Starts Tomorrow
So you worked for MBS right? I believe that was Metropolitan Business Systems. My brother worked there as a tech also, in the mid eighties
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Re: The Quest for $200K Starts Tomorrow
Art, I worked for Office Products & Systems, a Canon subsidiary located on Vauxhall Rd in Union and then we moved to Mountainside. They were taken over by the New York subsidiary. I worked for them in 1978-79. I think you are right about the name. George Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network. From: Print4Pay Hotel Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2017 11:43 PM To: George KRebs Reply To: Print4Pay Hotel Subject: Comment By Art Post: The Quest for $200K...
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Re: Twelve Days of Selling "Day One"
Art, First great year, month and quarter! Even after your time in industry it always has to feel good to close out as strongly as you did! I'm a sales manager and have been using your twelve days of selling emails as an example for my sales team. In particular a new rep who's been selling for less than a year really loves these emails. I also have a rep on my team that's been in industry close to 30 years and these emails have helped reinvigorate him. Essentially your emails are the same...
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Re: Twelve Days of Selling "Day One"
Mike Thanx for this!!! Spread the word that the P4P Hotel is awesome. Really thanx again for the kind words and it's replies like yours that gives me the inspiration to keep writing and helping others!! Art
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Re: Twelve Days of Selling "Day One"
Congrats!!! u the Man! > On Dec 23, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Print4Pay Hotel < alerts@hoop.la > wrote: >
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Re: Twelve Days of Selling "Day One"
Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and **** the prom queen! > On Dec 23, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Print4Pay Hotel < alerts@hoop.la > wrote: >
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of December 2005
The December 2005 North American ice storm was a damaging winter storm that produced extensive ice damage in a large portion of the Southern United States from December 1416, 2005, while extensive snowfall was reported across portions of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec . The ice storm led to enormous and widespread power outages, and at least 7 deaths. Topic Sharp's AR-M355N & AR-M455N Imagers 12/14/05 7:49 PM offer copy, print, scan fax capabilities and support...
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Twelve Days of Selling "Day One"
I started this series of blogs off with the title, "I Want it All". For those of you that are old enough that was the title of a splendid Queen song in 1988. I grew up with the attitude that I Want it All, and through out the...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago (2nd Week of December)
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of The Rolling Stones. Jagger's career has spanned over 50 years, read more here or...
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57 Days of Selling "Day 36"
Today is Sunday the 27th of November. Tis the end of the re-heated Turkey dinner, the last of the Turkey and stuffing sandwiches, and yesterday was finale with Turkey Soup (pretty much all of the leftovers go in the pot). Adios Thanksgiving, it was a wonderful four day reprieve from work. But not such much for gathering the 32 boxes of Christmas decorations and working with the wife to decorate the homestead. Next weekend it's more of the same with my chore of getting the outside decorations...
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57 Days of Selling "Day 43"
Fourteen days left, and yes, I'm starting to feel a little bit of pressure now. I have only one large opportunity that I have a chance of closing for December. That opp is for $48-$50K, if I can nail that down, the rest of the year should be a breeze. If I can't get that opp to close, I'll then have to figure out a plan to piece meal the rest together. If the piece meal bit comes to fruition, I'm thinking I may have to write 12-15 orders for the month. Egads! That will not be an easy task.
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57 Days of Selling "Day 33"
It's Friday!! Even better, it's the Friday before Thanksgiving! Since I closed a decent order yesterday, my goal for today was to "wait for the ball to come to me". That's a term that I use to sit back and see what develops with the existing opportunities that I have working. It does not mean that I would stop prospecting. First order of the day was to process the order I received yesterday that had each device going to different locations. The next order was to update all of my...
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Top Ten Copier Proposals for December 2017
Yesterday I posted Top Ten Copier Proposals for January 2018 . I don't have much time tonight, however please click that link and you'll read why I think seeing competitive proposals is key for keeping up with the latest pricing for hardware and cost per page maintenance agreements. Toshiba 5540ct unlimited color and black pages proposal 2017 Ricoh MP C4504SPex 5 device Proposal December 2017 Ricoh CW 2200 Wide Format Proposal MP_C2504ex_december 2017 Samsung X4250 Copier Proposal 2017...
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The Quest for $200K Starts Tomorrow
Over the last couple of months, many of my peers asked if I would be doing another blog series about outlining my daily sales activities for the end of 2017. I stated, "No", the other two blog series ( 12 Days of Selling, 57 Days of Selling ) wore my sorry ass out and I'm no spring chicken anymore! Next year, I'll be staring my thirty-eighth year in the copier industry. Many of you know that I started as a technician, had my ninety day review and was told, "you're doing a great job of taking...
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Re: 57 Days of Selling "Day 33"
Art, we've seen some scuttle lately about maintenance agreement increases. As usual, the account is reviewed annually with some kind of increase if the clicks weren't locked in. This customer contacted me because they're clicks went from $.01 to $.011 and with their volume, equated to an $8 a month increase on just one unit. This was the 5th or 6th customer with older gear that has made comment about it in the last few months. Always a fun conversation to have, but most definitely an...
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Re: 57 Days of Selling "Day 33"
We just cancel them. We give plenty of advanced warning. First, sales reps are tasked with informing them what it means when parts are no longer guaranteed available and they try to get the upgrade. Then, 6 months to a year later they inform that a cancellation letter is forthcoming. We make sure that they know that it does not mean we will not provide service, it will just be on a time and parts basis now. Mr. Customer, "It would actually be disengenous of us to continue to take your money...
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Re: 57 Days of Selling "Day 33"
Year ago we never included consumables with the maintenance agreement. You were offer a labor and parts agreement or labor only agreement. You're testing my memory , and I'm losing, can't remember how we priced those up. I do remember that the rule of thumb for labor only was to charge 10% of the MSRP. Thus, if the equipment had a $9,000 MSRP, the cost of the agreement (labor) would be $900. Sorry, I can't give you more detail.
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Re: 57 Days of Selling "Day 43"
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Re: 57 Days of Selling "Day 43"
December is such a toss up. I have had fantastic decembers and horrible decembers. Fantastic are the ones that call me New Year's Eve about 5:00 and say I'll sign the order of you come and get it today so I can take advantage of the tax benefits. I've had a customer call me to discuss a deal at 10:00pm on New Year's Eve to finalize and send him the paperwork. I've also had those years where I want to take a few days off and think I should stay and work and nothing happens. It's hard to stay...
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Re: COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Seventy-Six of Selling
If you love chess you should watch Queens Gambit on Netflix. Great series.
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COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Seventy-Six of Selling
Today is 176 business days since I was optioned to working remote. Those 176 business days now totals eight full months that I've been in some sort of lockdown. Our Governor keeps toying with the idea that he may start additional lockdowns in the near future because NJ is now averaging 4K positive tests each day. I know he's blowing smoke out of his ass for two reason. One the State of New Jersey is flat ass broke, reducing the tax revenue stream will force a bankruptcy. The second would be...
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COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Eighty-Four of Selling
COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Eighty-Four of Selling Copiers The blog I wrote last week centered more about how I feel about the state of our industry. There's no getting around the fact that business is not what it used to be for copiers. But who the frak needs copiers when you can also offer up content solutions? Today I received a referral for a content opportunity and it's going to be a decent sized one. Thus in the last 30 day I have three content deals working. Yes, one of...
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The Week in Copiers Five Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Five Years Ago Second Week of December 2015 Today was just one of those days where I couldn't move anything forward. Thus I took a trip back in time 5 years ago this week. That was the time when we all thought Toshiba Tec was toast, we witnessed the complete failure of Sharp and then the million page test massacre that Samsung put one of their MFP's through. That one million page test was equivalent to 120 trees. Enjoy all of these awesome copier threads from 5 years ago...
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To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas 2021"
I always like to start these Christmas blogs with a post some snippets about Christmas tradition in other countries. Iceland Icelanders really go all out in Christmas celebrations. Most people start preparing and celebrating on the first day of Advent, 4 Sundays before Christmas Eve. Of course, preparations vary from one household to another, and people celebrate differently - so excuse me for any generalisations! Some people buy the Christmas tree early in December, while others make a...
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Re: To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas 2021"
Ricoh: Please deliver to me by Christmas the presents my clients ordered as far back as early September including color machines and A4 B/W machines that my medical clients are particularly fond of. Failure to deliver on this Christmas wish could force me to change affiliations to some other manufacturer or holiday celebration that can deliver the products I need to sell in order to feed my family this Christmas. Double or triple spiffs may be necessary regardless in order to guarantee...
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The End is.....
What's a beginning with out an end? If there is no end was there ever a beginning? I for one can tell you that the end is near...... All of the work at the end of 2021 and all of 2022 will come to an end in seven weeks for me. For others it's a mere eight weeks to so to the end of 2022. After 42 years, and yes I'm still chasing a number, it never seems to "end". Starting is good but I can tell you that ending is even better! The great thing about endings is that you can always re-write your...
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Todays Hacked!
Hacked! Activision allegedly hacked , future Call of Duty content supposedly leaked online .....Earlier today, the Twitter account below drew notice to an alleged hack at Activision dating back to December 2022. In the supposed hack , which ... Activision got hacked in December, with internal documents exposed through phishing .....Anonymous hackers got access to some internal documents, including content roadmaps. Activision got hacked in December exposing internal content ... GoDaddy...