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Re: COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Eighteen of Sales
People always like getting free stuff. Two promo ideas 1). Offer 1-5 free color banner prints to your clients and prospects.. Many copiers can now print banners up to 12"W by 48" L . This feature is often not promoted. It costs you almost nothing but the customer might perceive as having value. It could be "Open for Business", "Happy Birthday," "Grand Re-Opening", whatever. The customer can dictate the content. You can add a little logo in the corner of the banner "supplied by ABC Copier...
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Re: COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Eighteen of Sales
I like the second offer, yes people always like free
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Re: COVID-19 Impact on Dealers and the Channel?
I was on the MPSA call today. Here's some points of interest I was going to post on another thread but will put it here for everyone. One major MPS company reported 29% decline in pages or revenue Another major MPS company reported a 71% decline Healthcare for one of those clients saw a 40% increase More inquires from clients in respect to file sharing and content Expecting continuing decline for another 30 days in revenue and prints First week of April they hit bottom and has stayed that...
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Re: Print Copy Tool versus Plotworks
John, The PrintCopy Tool compares pretty favorably to Plotworks. I attached two documents to this post. The Product Support Guide lists differences between the two products. The PowerPoint has screen shots of all the settings in PrintCopy Tool. I hope this helps.
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Re: MPS and Linux HELP!
So some clarification first. PaperCut absolutely does support Mac. In fact, it is the only cost recovery/print control solution that I know of that actually installs in an all Mac environment. (Server and Client) It also is the only solution I know of that installs in a Linux environment. So both of your issues are solved with PaperCut. I included the install guides for Mac and Linux to get you started.
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Re: Need help with p4p forums
The constant stream of competitive information, "war stories" and conversations surrounding best practices in the dog-eat-dog world that is our day-to-day reality keep me coming back on a daily basis to look for the next nugget I can use to win deals & reach my production and income goals. I hope my competition stays off these forums & would probably pay to keep some level of market exclusivity to this library of industry-specific content.
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Re: Are you a Data Miner?
I am looking for a Service with Canada content. Zoom seems pretty good for that. I will follow up the two other services.
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Re: Are you a Data Miner?
Good to hear, reach out to OneSource. I know they have Canada content. You can get a free trial to test it out.
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Re: Over Holding On MFP Lease Costs Unnecessary Dollars
Its a simple saying from the 70's means nothing. And you only see the attention getting parts of my posts do you ever read the content? Yes I am competitive, grumpy, mean and laser focused to provide: 1. My customers with the best possible imaging solution they can afford. 2. My sales people with the highest standard of living I can provide. 3. My company the most profit available. 4. My customers the best service second to none. No ulterior motives, just trying to share what works and...
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Re: Are you a Data Miner?
Sure! How much time ya got? "Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's "natural" or un-paid ("organic") search results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search,...
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Re: Are you a Data Miner?
Which Content Management System (CMS) are you using? Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal ect.
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Re: Toshiba's Eco MFP. An industry first!
I could see companies that do a lot of business with governments using them. For instance, I have a client that works with prison systems throughout the USA. They occasionally have to respond to RFPs that require the proposal documents to be printed on paper with a minimum % of recycled content. It would also probably play well in markets that are big on "being green". Think the West Coast, Colorado, Austin & the like.
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Re: Toshiba's Eco MFP. An industry first!
As long as you have a power supply and a network cable drop (to scan the content of the pages before you erase them), you are all set.
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Re: 3850 & Camera Ready Art
From: JasonR Sent: 10/11/2002 7:32 AM Remember that even Ricoh is saying that the 3850 is BUSINESS color, as such there is no way this machine can be used for "real" proofing. A lot of people throw around the word proofing when they mean "prints we can do before we show this to the customer" or "prints shown to the customer with an understanding this isn't a "press proof". I'm glad to hear the 3850 output looks good, and for "camera ready art" while it isn't the machine I would pick, I'm...
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Re: CompTIA CDIA+(Certified Document Imaging Architech)
Here are the certification objectives taken off the Comptia website
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Re: Need help!
I don't know what you guys are talking about. We have tons of both 850's 1050's and 1085's (at least 50 from within my branch location) in the field. Mostly in schools (which I personally think is the worst environment to place a copier-due to too many hands on the machine by teachers who can care less about do's and don'ts.). But they quite often run PM to PM without any calls. And I've found that the majority of "in between calls" are due to user mishandling and abuse.Most of the...
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Re: 30 x 42 Half Scale
I stock and sell 15" paper (for other plotters that are spindle - loaded) but don't move very much, partly due to the need to offset the roll and CAD page setup hassles. Most customers are content with 22" output. Ricoh users don't have any choice.
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Re: Need Input for Color Deal
From the outside looking in, this deal begs for a total solution proposal that takes into consideration more than just speeds and feeds but you can't do it justice by tomorrow afternoon. What is the nature of the content? Is content that is color static and the variable B&W? If so, they would be better served financially with pre-printed stock. Is the intent purely to generate an invoice or do they intend to use this output to promote products or services. If it is the latter, have you...
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Re: White Papers?
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Re: EFI to Acquire ADS Communications, Inc.
EFI Connect 2004 User Conference Set for Las Vegas; Customers Invited to Fifth Annual Conference, June 27-30, 2004 FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2004--EFI (Nasdaq:EFII), the world leader in digital imaging and print management solutions for commercial and enterprise printing, today announced it will hold the fifth annual Connect users' conference June 27-30th at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. More than 800 customers, industry leaders, media and analysts are...
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Re: Ricoh Unveils “Play To Win” Strategy
May 17, 2004 - Ricoh Technology Exposition Showcases Industry Leading Products And Solutions Exposition Offers Glimpse of New Technology that Helps Maximize Workflow Efficiency Las Vegas, NV, May 4, 2004 – Ricoh Corporation, the leading provider of digital office equipment, will be conducting a Technology Exposition during its National Dealer Sales Meeting, VISION 2004 in Las Vegas. During the exposition attendees will be able to see and participate in demonstrations that show how Ricoh’s...
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Re: Ricoh Unveils “Play To Win” Strategy
Las Vegas, NV, May 5, 2004 – Ricoh Corporation, the leading provider of digital office equipment, today introduced GlobalScan frameworks for Documentum and Interwoven Worksite for use with existing Ricoh Aficio Multifunctional Products (MFPs). Today, more than 80 percent of generated business documents exist in unstructured information such as spreadsheets, presentations, e-mails, photographs, drawings, etc. Accessing that information is quite often a complex and tedious task. By enabling...
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Re: The new forums
When you look at the forums, you'll see a "new" indicator (the icon changes color and the word "new" appears) to the right of any forum - and any topic - that has new content since your last visit. You can also use the activity stream widget or page to stay on top of recent activity across the community.
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Re: Print Mail vs. PrintShop Mail
Docusultant, I'm not sure what to think of PrintMail yet, and that's why I thought hearing from people who have used both PrintMail and PrintShop Mail would be informative. I will say that some of the functions in PrintMail are more complex to perform than I would expect of an application geared toward a general Office user (the suppression of blank line feature and the dynamic image feature, to name two examples). Frankly, I am concerned about trying to teach an average Office user how to...
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Re: DWF DWG Scanning
"can you give me a general idea of what is being asked?" That's a good question. They are probably inferring 'will the scan be good enough for a high % Raster to Vector conversion' (imho). The answer is 'Maybe'. Depends on the quality and content of the original and to a lesser degree the quality of the scanner and software that manages the scan. If the question means, 'how good is the accuracy/ quality of the scanner & software versus other similar competitive scanners / software', the...
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Re: 240w and .pln files
PCWIN, PB, etc don't really care what the extension 'name' is. They only care about what the content is in order to interpret the file. As long as a .'Prn' is actually a '.PLT', '.TIFF', etc. inside the header string of the file (not the easily editable extension acronym), than PB will happily go about riping and printin the file, no matter what the extension is.
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Re: HP MFP Market buster.
November 09, 2004 12:47 PM US Eastern Timezone [b] HP Unveils Imaging and Printing Solutions to Reduce Costs and Complexity for Enterprise and Mid-Size Businesses [/b] --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 2004— Delivering on Strategy to Transform Copier Market, HP Uses Customer Feedback to Develop Industry's Most Affordable High-Performance Multi-Function Product HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) today unveiled 14 new imaging, printing and digital information solutions, including a groundbreaking...
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Re: hp news!
Editorial contacts: Sarah Steven, HP +1 650 557 9277 sarah.k.steven@hp.com Leah Gerstner Porter Novelli for HP +1 212 601 8140 leah.gerstner@porternovelli.com HP Media Hotline +1 866 266 7272 pr@hp.com www.hp.com/go/newsroom Hewlett-Packard Company 3000 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304 www.hp.com HP Energizes Enterprise Imaging and Printing Growth with Revitalized Sales Approach, Expanded Portfolio Unveils new inkbased printing technology for high-volume workloads PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct.
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Re: MP C6004SP & Fax Routing to Folder
I was having trouble getting the eFax info to attach here so I sent you an email. The I.C.E. (Integrated Cloud Environment) Brochure is attached
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Re: To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas in 2017"
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Re: Banner Printing on Muratec Color MFP - MFX C2590
I have one church using a Samsung for printing long transparencies for their Sunday school classes. They print the content on it and then the kids can use the markers on it and clean it off for next week or something like that.
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Re: Inbound Marketing For Sales Reps (and Sales Vets)
Interesting and an awesome amount of work for the standard copier dealer. Additionally, it is and always has been my belief that CONTENT maintains sustainability - so in your Step 5, most organizations fall short. Don't you think?
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Re: Inbound Marketing For Sales Reps (and Sales Vets)
Hey Greg, Absolutely. My only rebuttal is that the word content is so subjective. Do you write lengthy, 1000+ word articles, or do you focus on writing shorter articles you can post 2-3 times per day? For SEO purposes, either can boost your ranking in Google. The golden rule of SEO is that Google rewards good, original content. Black hat SEO will boost your rankings in the short term, but eventually Google's algorithms will catch on and punish your ranking. On the flip side of content,...
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Re: Inbound Marketing For Sales Reps (and Sales Vets)
Czech Good stuff! I'm a novice when it comes to SEO. From my own experience I can tell you that I receive leads from blogging, not a tremendous amount but at least six a year. But blogging on a regular basis with original content on the P4P hotel has skyrocketed the page views, and the site is averaging 25 new members each month. The new members I guess we can call that the conversions that I'm looking for. At the end of last July, which was the first month of this new site, there were 129k...
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Re: Inbound Marketing For Sales Reps (and Sales Vets)
Originally Posted by gwalters2009: Interesting and an awesome amount of work for the standard copier dealer. Additionally, it is and always has been my belief that CONTENT maintains sustainability - so in your Step 5, most organizations fall short. Don't you think? Greg, It is a lot of work! That's why many dealers hire us to do it for them. However, sales reps play a huge part by: 1. Sharing relevant blog articles their dealerships post 2. Actively participating in LinkedIn 3. Following...
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Re: How Buyer's Habits are Changing
I think understanding how buyer's habits have changed & the amount of research they do online before agreeing to a meeting with prospective vendors is important, because the way dealers market to companies in their target market needs to change. Traditionally, dealers (regardless of size) have relied solely on salespeople canvassing or cold calling on the telephone to target prospective customers with little focus on company-supported marketing. Dealers typically do little to no email...
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Re: How Buyer's Habits are Changing
TXEagle, Great rant. I think you are spot on. Given the changing buying habits, we need to provide helpful, relevant content to prospects. Instead of content about our industry (they don't care) they need content that connects with the questions/problems they are facing. Then we can make the bridge to our products/services/solutions. Do you have any stories that you can share about how the buying process has changed? Originally Posted by txeagle24: I think understanding how buyer's habits...
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Re: Ricoh posting pricing on-line with Get A Quote Button
Dealers need to react!!! Place the calls to the DSM, move up the ladder. Ricoh has a terrific marketing department and is now focusing on content. The more unique content they create will drive more business to their web site and not yours. I was out with a content marketing person from Ricoh just about a month ago, and I was with him for his line of questioning to the end user. One of the questions was, " how long the user researches a product before making the first call". Ricoh is looking...
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Re: How low can RBS really go?
With Ricoh, dealers and direct have a code of conduct for accounts. I do agree that Ricoh direct has more feet on the street and is aggressively pursing larger accounts. However, the statement of "(as they should for many reasons like reporting/billing/consistent Pro services and Maint levels)", is the reason why Ricoh would be taking these accounts if far fetched. Good Luck, with all due respect you need to stop drinking the cool aid, there are many dealers that do a much better job at all...
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Re: Telemarketing & The Person with the BAD Attitude!
I agree to a certain extent, Art, but at the same time, our industry has a deservedly bad reputation for being overly-persistent in efforts to reach prospects. The way in which people evaluate products, services, vendors, etc. has completely changed due to the wealth of information that is available online. Many buyers now want to know what they want (especially in up & down the street accounts) before they ever agree to talk to a salesperson. There are only so many hours in a day, &...
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Re: Xerox Global Rumors today
WEBSTER, N.Y. (WHEC) - Xerox is planning a new round of layoffs. A representative for the Rochester Regional Joint Board of Workers United said Xerox informed him it will be reducing management staff; union employees will not be affected. Advertisement – Content Continues Below Xerox cut hundreds of jobs back in August. Now, the union confirms it has been informed by the company that a new round of cuts is being rolled out Thursday. So far, company representatives haven’t said anything about...
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Re: What HR Managers Need to Know About Document Security
good stuff here, allows for a higher lever conversation when speaking out content
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Re: How To Sell Copiers In The Age of Coronavirus
That was a great 45 minutes! Gave me a few ideas. I plan to watch again as there was a lot of content to take in plus forward to my sales teams. Really appreciate the recording. Two very informative videos from the CEOs of Konica Minolta and Xerox on what they are doing and what is happening with their companies during the Corona Virus pandemic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GbwTyfpX8s Konica Minolta has health care robots to measure patients temperatures walking into hospitals and to help...
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Re: How To Sell Copiers In The Age of Coronavirus
WOW! That's crazy with the helicopter and the copier
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Re: This Networking Email Has a 96% Success Rate [Template]
There's some excellent content in this, especially the part about "asking for advise an or help"
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Re: How Social Turns Sales Reps Downtime Into Prospecting Time
Over the years, having the ability to post, comment, share and like content day or night is awesome.
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Re: Rep Retention and Recruitment
It's tough to win whether you hire young, cheap, green reps or experienced ones. If you can find young ones that don't have a sense of entitlement & are coachable you can groom them without having to break any bad habits or giving them the hefty guarantee a successful reps is going to require to be lured away from their current employer. But, if you spend the money on a tenured rep, you're rolling the dice that the rep didn't benefit from the retirement of a prior rep, favoritism or the...