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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
I am glad to hear that you are working in the copier industry so that I know that you have "skin in the game". There are very many players in the copier/ printer industry each with their own strengths/ weaknesses when faced with a trade war. Each player will have a different tolerance for how much money they want to loose to maintain market share. I definitely would not expect a uniform response. Multi line dealers will have more options to select from than single line dealers and brand...
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
as of July 6th, there is no tariff on copy machines. Just copier parts and accessories.
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Re: MY Top Ten Copy Machines of All Time
Gotta go back a REALLY long time in the industry, so many won't even know this: the Kodak 100 & 150. Really reliable machines that heavily created industry disruption with Xerox having dominant market share and IBM climbing fast in the mid-70's and then a new player, Kodak, opened the door for many other later players to enter.
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The First Week in January 2004
Some of these devices sure do bring back some memories. interesting news with Ikon, and I remember the DiALTA Color CF5001 very well! Enjoy these threads from 15 years ago this week! Konica Minolta Unveils DiALTA Color CF5001 1/6/049:19 AM Konica Minolta Unveils DiALTA Color CF5001 Konica Minolta Business Solutions U .S.A. Inc. has introduced a 50-page-per-minute (ppm) color printer /copier/scanner, the Minolta DiALTA Color CF5001, designed specifically for environments with high volume...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Second Week in January 2004
Fifteen years ago I was not blogging about our industry. Most of what you'll see below is threads from P4P'ers asking and answering questions. The Print4Pay Hotel forums offers our members the opportunity to post questions, answers, news or maybe you want to blow off some steam. If you do here's a link to our forums. Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week! Ricoh Demonstrates Its Dedication 1/9/049:25 AM manufacturing, distribution, use and the recycling of its products. Sustainable...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The First Week in November 2003
Do you count how many selling days there are in every month? Do you minus those days for the corporate meetings, or hour the hours that you may leave early or get in late? They all add up, now with the Holiday Season upon us, November and December will offer the least few selling days of the year. Are you ready? Enjoy these awesome threads from 15 years ago this week! Xerox claims chip innovation Boston Mike · 11/3/038:38 AM , even on flexible surfaces. Xerox researchers in California then...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Fourth Week in June 2003
Fifteen years ago, hard to believe that many of us have seen so much come and go during those years. The Ricoh Aficio 1224 was an A3 color device that printed 12 pages per minute in color and 24 pages per minute in black. We had some horrific problems with speed when the Ricoh 1224 would go into an auto calibration during a print or copy run. It would take up to 5 minutes to calibrate and then restart the print job, and yes we had many frustrated users because we weren't aware of how the...
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3 Strategies Sales Professionals Use To Decline Being Invited To The Pity Party Of Discouragement
Sales professionals constantly face the temptation to give into discouragement. Bad news and rejection are inevitable in sales. What's important is how you handle it. Let's be honest, we all get discouraged. It’s just one of those potholes we face as we navigate down the road called sales. When we get discouraged our attitude, belief and emotions turn negative. When this happens our productivity plummets, we tend to retreat, withdraw and bitch about everything. The risk of giving up on...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Last Week in August 2008
Well it was ten years ago this week that the news broke about Ricoh purchasing Ikon. Ten years later the Ikon purchase was a bust with Ricoh writing off millions in future profit & revenue. That's what happens when you purchase a company that can't spin a profit. Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week! Weekend Copier Notes from 08/24/08 Neal · 8/28/087:52 AM in the United States: o The current Digital Print Center (DPC) sales & marketing division will be disbanded § This...
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The Copier Industry Fast Forward Twenty Years
The year is 2039. It's hard to believe that it's been 15 years since the mighty Xerox Corporation folded. One remembers that statement in December of 2018 that touted Xerox "Unable to Adjust". My how the mighty have fallen. It wasn't only Xerox that fell to the paperless society that we now see today. Canon Let's take a trip back to late 2022, it was late in November that Canon announced that they were going to cease to manufacturing A3 multi-functional devices. That decision was made...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Third Week of March 2009)
I'm booked for ITEX 2019! I'm pretty excited about going. I'll be arriving late on the 22nd and then taking the red eye out Thursday night. I'm hoping to see many P4P members, connect with new peeps along with visiting our sponsors and exhibitors. Hit up the reply and let me know if you'll be there! Enjoy these threads from ten years ago this week! Introducing the NEW bizhub PRO C65hc Digital Color Printing System 3/16/0912:58 PM Marketing Bulletin Bulletin #08-GB-120 Date: March 16, 2009...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Third Week of March 2004)
Can't wait for another four years! In 2023 I'll be able post twenty years of activity on this site. Can only wonder what the next four years will be like in this industry! Enjoy these awesome threads from 15 years ago this week! UPDATE - Konica Minolta 3/22/049:13 PM equipment maker said it aimed for a group operating profit of 160 billion yen ($1.5 billion) in the year ending in March 2007. Konica Minolta , created last August through the merger of precision equipment companies Konica Corp...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Second Week of April 2004)
In the last two blogs and in this blog I used some scene pictures. If anyone can tell me what country these are from we'll comp you a one year Premium/VIP membership at no cost. You need to post your answers in the reply section. Enjoy these threads from 15 years ago this week! Color On Demand from bizhub C350 4/9/044:56 PM punching with the addition of PK-501 Punch Kit. Printing and Scanning Capabilities are Standard The standard configuration for the bizhub C 350 includes color and B&W...
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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 10 Years Ago (Second Week of February 2010)
Some additional tidbits from the show I was at for the last three days. I learned along time ago that in order to be successful at these types of events that you need to engage with people when they walk by your booth. You need to greet everyone that walks by and then ask them a question. The question I asked the most is where they were from, after getting a response I would then ask if they have a plotter or ask if they've ever seen a white board before. The questions sparked conversations...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of April 2010)
For each of the next few blogs I'll be inserting some tips from what other dealers and sales peeps are doing on a daily basis from around the globe for staying relevant with their clients and prospects . Share our FB posts daily. Enjoy these wonderful threads from ten years ago this week! Konica Minolta Helps AMG Resources Eliminate Paper Filing Guest · 4/8/1011:21 PM .A., Inc. is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop. For the third...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of March 2015)
I arrived back in town from Aruba late on Monday. Yup, I took a vacation and rarely accessed the internet! Yay for me. To say the least I came back to state that is in pure panic mode with corona virus. Tuesday was not so bad as four opportunities went HOT. Did the work that I had to and subsequent days produced almost nothing, no email responses, no phone call responses and in four days I was only able to set four meetings for next week. Starting on Monday I'll be sending ZOOM requests for...
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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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Re: Top Ten MFP & Imaging Industry Predictions for 2016
Nice! I would like to contribute a few of my own predictions as well: Xerox will sell its MFP division to focus entirely on production equipment and business services. Toshiba Tec will not sell nor merge with Sharp. Toshiba is too much of a powerhouse in North America alone. Konica Minolta will continue opening up direct branches due to the rapid growth of their brand. These branches will quickly fall apart when they realize that the dealer model is more profitable. Samsung will start...
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Re: Top Ten MFP & Imaging Industry Predictions for 2016
Sorry for being the bearer of gloom & doom, but I think Czech is either being either overly-optimistic or things in the Great White North are just different than in the Southwest USA. Here are my predictions: Lease volume trends based on UCC filings from EDA show that 2015 placements have fallen by over 13,600 since 2013 (almost 10%) & are now at levels nearly equal to 2009 & 2010. Faced with increased competition for fewer units running less volume due to digitization, dealers...
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Top Ten MFP & Imaging Industry Predictions for 2016
Looking back, 2015 was not one of my best years in the industry. There were many factors involved but I can only blame myself for a somewhat lack luster performance (but I did have a good year of GP). The good thing is, that January starts a new year and I'm excited about entering my 35th of SMB sales. Last years Top Ten MFP Copier Industry Predictions for 2015 , some of the predictions from last year came to fruition and some did not. I enjoy prognosticating on...
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5 Buttons I'd Like to See on Linkedin
More and more I find myself visiting Linkedin a few times a days. I like to scroll through the threads to see if any of my contacts have posted anything new, however I'm really bored with the three standard buttons of "Like, Comment and Share". Here's...
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Smart Scanning with Scan2Cloud Apps
When do you say enough already? In recent weeks it seems every major and minor player in the industry now has some version of a scan2cloud app that can run on their MFP's aka copiers. Since I've been in the copier business for 33...
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HP & Sharp "What is Canon Thinking"
Wonder what Canon is thinking right? Do you think that HP ever contacting Canon about acquiring their devices for their foray into enterprise MPS MFP's? Just went you think you've seen it all, along comes a partnership where one provider...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago (1st Week of November)
Ten Years ago this week.............After 26 years, and at a distance from Earth of over 8 billion miles, Voyager 1 exits the solar system. It is expected to keep on transmitting into the 2020s . [47] [48] Enjoy these threads from the Print4Pay Hotel forums 10 year ago! I Get To Change Jobs! November 8, 2003 1:27 PM Topic by Graham Well all, it looks like I will be making a Job Change on December 1st. My company has been sold to our chief competitor.I will be still selling...
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57 Days of Selling "Day 37"
"When the going gets tough, the tough get going" It's an awesome quote right? Time to dig in and get things done. After stopping for a coffee and a bite to eat this AM, I arrived at the office by 6:45AM and I was working before the clock struck 7. Over the years, I've found that Decembers have been some of my best and worst months of the year. There's no rhyme or reason, you can work your tail off and still end up with a stinker, or everything you touch turns into an order. Me, I hoping on...
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5 Features I'd Like to See Added on Linkedin
More and more I find myself visiting LinkedIn several times a days. I'll hit up Linkedin early in the AM, then about mid-day and then late in the evening. One of the ways I use Linkedin is to stay in touch with my connections through the use of the birthday and employment anniversary reminders that Linkedin updates me with. The Linkedin updates come with automated messages on the mobile platform (have not seen this on the web version), and you do have the choice to put in a personal message.
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One BIG Take Away from the Top 100 Summit
Geesh, I grabbed and extra day to stay in San Diego after the Print Audit Top 100 Summit, come home on Sunday to find that Larry Levine, and Darrell Amy already wrote about the happenings of the event (dagnabit). Can't wait until next year's event! During one of the open discussions, that's where our moderator threw out questions to the attendees, the first question posed was, "what is your biggest challenge to your business?" First Business Challenge Now, I was thinking along the lines of...
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Why Are You Not Selling Niche Printing Systems?
Who wants to make GREAT commissions again? What dealer principal would be interested in creating another revenue stream where the orders of consumables never cease? What would you give up not to have competition with a product that can practically sell itself, once you've demonstrated the product? How did you answer those questions? Just like I did? My first answer is ME, my second response (if I was a dealer principal) is ME, and for the third question, I would give up my....... Recent...
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How Far Out On the Pier Are We?
Recently I had an opportunity to speak to industry peers at the RT Imaging Summit-Americas in Cancun This article shares my thoughts of the event. As the Summit in Cancun, Mexico got under way, my mind went to the pier across the road, right off the beach. I began thinking how far down the “pier” the imaging channel has gone over its decades-old life. Just how much longer can we walk the planks of the pier? Using this analogy, the planks are the customers of print. How many new planks, if...
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A Professional Athlete Puts In The Hard Work - Can The Same Be Said For A Copier Sales Rep?
"Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional" Jahangir Kahn Can this same message reign true inside the copier channel? Can this message be applied to a copier sales rep, YES! There is no free ride to success as some copier sales reps may think otherwise! There is no easy button to press! There is absolutely no easy way to become successful. Without hard work, dedication, an extreme tolerance for frustration and setbacks you can never become a sales champion. If...
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Who's Afraid of the Epson WorkForce C20590 100ppm MFP?
It's just about 9:30PM, I arrived home from the Epson Road Show (special shout out to Impression Solutions Inc., and Joe Buck for the invite) in Philly about four hours ago. My plans were to skip writing tonight and watch the Mets game, well that plan failed since the Mets are in a rain delay. As I listened to Bob Palmer (Research Director with IDC's Imaging) during the opening session for the Epson Road Show today, I found my-self in agreement that disruption for the copier industry will...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago The First Week of November 2006
One of the more interesting threads below is from Gordon MacKay from Queensland, Australia. Gordon posted a thread in reference to his existing dealership and his past experience in the copier industry. It was awesome to re-visit this thread. Gordon, if you're still out there, shoot us a reply. That thread is here Japan's Konica Minolta 11/5/06 6:42 PM multifunctional models, especially in Europe," company director Yasuo Matsumoto told a news conference. Konica Minolta also raised its...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Second Week of November 2004)
So here's a thread where my first thought was, gee that was a long time ago! In most cases I'm thinking time is flying buy. Canon buys Oce, really that was a long time ago! Enjoy These Awesome Threads from 15 Years Ago this Week! UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh 11/16/097:44 AM Minolta Holdings, which is in a business alliance with Oce. "Konica Minolta procures high-end production printing machines from Oce, while Oce procures lower-end machines from Konica Minolta,"...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Third Week of November 2009)
Dang, it's been ten year since Canon bought OCE. Interesting that it took ten years to finally retire the OCE brand. Ten years ago I was blogging about the War for A4, I also find it interesting that the war has been going on for 10 years now, and finally people are starting to pay attention. Enjoy These awesome threads from ten years ago this week! UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh 11/16/097:44 AM Minolta Holdings, which is in a business alliance with Oce. " Konica...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Third Week of November 2004)
The industries top sales peeps reside at the Print4Pay Hotel! Enjoy these threads from 15 years ago this week! Jack-of-All-Trades 11/22/047:44 PM . NSI originally developed AutoStore for HP, but the exclusivity of this arrangement expired last year. NSI has since added a partnership with Kyocera Mita, which will soon offer its own version of AutoStore, and created integrations for Xerox , Ricoh , Sharp and Toshiba copiers among others in the works. This gives AutoStore the unique distinction...
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Curious... Why Do Sports Teams Have More Than One Coach But Sales Teams Only Have One (Or None?)
What would the world of professional sports look like without coaching? Now, I ask you to think about this within the context of the sales profession. Imagine a sales world with consistent coaching? Taking this one step further... imagine a sales world with consistent training across the entire team? Can you say, "Nirvana" I thought you could. Training and for that matter coaching is essential, vital and critical to consistent sales success; yet it often gets a bad rap or no rap at all. Ask...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Last Week of January 2015)
It's Friday night and just a little past 10:30PM. The first thread of the post is a blog I wrote five years ago with my prediction for the imaging aka copier industry for 2016. Most of those predictions did not come true in 2016, however Ricoh did buy DocuWare last year, Mega dealers have substantially increase their geographic reach, and acquisitions of smaller office equipment dealers is running at a fever pace. If someone can tell me the location of the title picture, I'll give you a free...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of December 2009)
Do you remember? Roledex’s (not be to be confused with Rolex), index cards with call back notes, telephone cords that got all twisted up, yellow pages books, street address books, competitive books like Minellas Guide to Copiers . If so there's an excellent post on Linked from Brent Wiesner and David Owens over at Accel Imaging Systems Inc., make sure you check out the cool video and chime in! Here's the link: Video from Accel Imaging Systems Printer Sales in Taiwan Rise in Q3 2009: IDC...
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Rawlings Sporting Goods Scores Big with Cloud Document Management
Rawlings Sporting Goods Scores Big with Cloud Document Management Rawlings Sporting Goods implemented DocuWare Cloud to improve information sharing and communication with its vendors worldwide. Since implementing this cloud document management solution, the company sped up its production through business process automation, raised the quality of customer interactions, and improved customer service and vendor relations. Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc., established in 1887 and based in...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Second Week in April 2008
It Easter night here in the East. Just finished up watching one of my fav TV shows. One to three inches of snow in the forecast for tomorrow. Not much time tonight to get in to detail about the threads below. Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week. Ricoh Bolsters Product Line with....... 4/12/035:43 PM Company Ltd., the 67-year-old leading supplier of office automation equipment and electronics, with fiscal year 2001 sales in excess of $14 billion. The Company oversees Ricoh...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Second Week of April 2008
There's a neat link for "Copier Life Expectancy" below. Again it's late and I need to prep for work in the AM. Good Selling!! Weekend Copier Notes from 4/14/08 Neal · 4/14/087:21 AM develop advancements in liquid crystal displays and invention of laser printer. - Hewlett Packard announced that the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute purchased a HP Edgeline CM8060 color inkjet copier. It was sold by NewCal, a HP/Canon dealer founded in 1991 by two former Kodak employees, Steve Tarpley...
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The Ten Yen Trip
I guess this could have been my first blog! Back in 2002 I wrote a journal while on a Ricoh sponsored trip to Japan. I found it today buried in the forums when I did some searching on threads from 2003. It does bring back awesome memories and I thought it might be a good read for all. Please enjoy and feel free to comment at the end in the reply section June 4, 2002 To Japan and Back: Tales of a “Sell the Solution” Winner “Sell the Solution,” a successful nationwide sales contest organized...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago, The Second Week of February 2008
Looks like a thread from 1996 appeared and I'm not sure how that happened. But, it's interesting about the time frame that Danka purchased the Kodak copier unit. Danka brings back memories also since the Danka name is now gone also. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Canon bought Danka, right? Enjoy these threads from ten years ago this week on the Print4Pay Hotel. Danka to Buy Kodak Copier Unit for $684 Million 2/11/087:04 PM By DANA CANEDY Published: September 10, 1996 The Eastman Kodak...
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Sales Leaders: 3 Reasons Why You're Setting Your Sales Reps Up For Failure
Failure and success, a one-two punch for those living inside the sales world. View it as the two headed monster. You can’t have one without the other. WHO'S SETTING THE TABLE OF FAILURE? The best sales professionals don't close every sales opportunity. It would be fair to say they don't close on a majority of their opportunities. A batting average of .300 in the big leagues and a baseball player has set themselves up for a huge payday. Ironic isn't it that they fail to hit the ball 70% of...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Third Week of January 2003)
Pretty cool that this post will be the third installment of our Week in the Copier Industry 15 years ago this week. Looking back many of us new nothing about networks, nothing about networked printers and scanners. This site enables many copier sales people to lean on others and to share information that helped us compete. Many of these founding P4P'ers are still members today. I'd like thank them for all that they did over the years. 2002 Better Buys for Business HV 1/18/034:29 PM for 2002...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Third Week of August 2014)
Pretty exciting day for P4P Hotel today. I received our video for promoting the P4P Hotel over social media. I'll be uploading on YouTube in the next couple of days and will then post on a blog. Enjoy these awesome threads from 5 years ago this week! New bliQ Time Saving Tricks, Training Sessions, Equitrac Express, ECM Solution.. Art Post · 8/21/1411:02 PM important to you, we’ve got that covered too, with analysis on both printed and copied output. You’ll also find out the value each model...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of September 2014)
Wow, what a week? A couple of weeks ago I realized my funnel was sucking wind for September. With August ending on the 23rd by the time Labor Day was finished I'm already 28% into my month. In addition this coming Monday I have a charity golf event then Thursday and Friday of this coming I'll be in the Big Apple for the BTA East event. What's a sales guy to do? One is to prospect your ass off and the other is to try and make up some days. Thus everyday this week I was in the office by...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Third Week of July 2014)
Just a thought for everyone today. Today marks the last week of the month. I'm had sitting on some 25 plus opportunities and for many reasons (not losing) most have moved to August and September. I'm still short to get to my quota, but I look at this like this. I still have 25% of the month left, and when I don't see the movement then it's time to do some additional prospecting. Thus an old dog like me will be knocking on doors in between two appointments tomorrow. BTW, it's suppose to be...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (First Week of August 2014)
What an amazing week! We closed our month 7 business days ago and all of those orders that didn't close for July have closed this week. Seems I'm HOT! Similar to a baseball hitter that's in a hot streak, in sales it seems that almost everything you touch pans out. One of the things I've learned is that when you're hot you don't slow down. You don't take the attitude of "well I just had a great week and I'll relax next week, because I'm so far out in front". Wrong Batman, since you're HOT now...