Tagged With "David Thorne"

This isssue is such a thorn in my side as I am the customer's sales person but I end up being the customer's de-facto IT Company. Come on people I only sold you a freaking copier!!!! And God Forbid I Send Them A Bill!!!!! I wish I wasn't such a nice guy and I wish I had no IT knowlege.

P4p'ers Recently I've read a few articles from the likes of Industry Analysts and This Week in Imaging and both have downplayed the Sharp debt crisis. I know that The Week in Imaging has Sharp as a sponsor and I also believe that Industry Analysts has something going also. Even though some of the reports from Sharp have been better as of late. The recent money from Samsung and Qualcomm which total 230 million dollars is chump change when compared to the $2.1 billion convertible bond that is...

wait, it seems like this was a real ad!!!

There will soon be a day when a driver is not required for printing. Wireless printing has become more of a household standard as new printers roll out with cloud technology, and Apple is looking to make the printing experience as painless and...

By David Thorne, Director of Channel Management, Print Audit “How are you doing, <insert your own name hear>?” Yes, I know, I misspelled here. So glad that you picked up on that because being perceptive, being prepared, and listening are keys to success in life and in business. We were given 2 ears and 1 mouth for a reason: Listening is really, really important. My role at Print Audit is in Sales but I, like you, am also frequently a potential customer. What am I listening for when you...

Leave it to me to find something like this when I was searching the web for a copier pic.  Aficio Copiers: "DAVID" Print Ad  by Tbwa\hunt\lascaris, Johannesburg http://www.coloribus.com/adsarchive/prints/aficio-copiers-david-2008055/

80/20 and the ABCs By David Thorne, Nov 22, 2016 9:39:41 AM A few simple ideas to help you have a productive day: Focus, Prepare, and Prioritize. Most people are familiar with the 80/20 Rule – also known as the Pareto Principle. Example, you typically wear 20% of the clothes in your closet 80% of the time. Well, I recently had experience with this earlier this year while getting ready to put our house on the market. Our real estate agent suggested that we get a storage unit and start to hide...

Xerox is at it again, pushing the fact that their machines only click once for 11 x 17. On a color system the savings can be huge. I plan to try and explain to the customer that it is just common sense that copying/printing something that is twice as...

I should add that a big reason for the growth of the mid sized dealership I've been at for the past 25 years is due to the failings of the acquisition model and the direct manufacturer model beginning with Icon acquiring our #1 local competitor back in the mid 90s. Icon took away our #1 competitor then dropped the ball on the customer service resulting in us gobbling up a large number of accounts within 2 years. The same thing happened when Global absorbed another competitor although Global...

Data warehouses have an older design, which becomes stifling in a world where information and data escalate at an exponential pace. Just try to picture hundreds of hours dedicated to managing infrastructure, fine-tuning the clusters to address the workload variance, and dealing with significant upfront costs before you get a chance to analyze the data. Unfortunately, this is the best that one can expect out of traditional data warehousing methodologies. For data architects, engineers, and...