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Re: Post-Virus We Must Defeat The Zombie Companies!
Although I am 60% on board with your move to A4 strategy, most of the rest of the stuff you are posting is "knocking it out of the park"! I would like to see a poll. As a business owner, during COVID-19 would you prefer? 1). No lease payments for 90 days 2). 1/2 price lease payments for one year The auto industry is pushing no payments for 90 days but I think business owners are more concerned about cash flow for the next year. I think the correct strategy is to offer as part of your...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Third Week in January 2004
Wow, a Super Bowl thread from back in 2004, talking about the 14 game win streak from the Pats. It was the Pats vs the Eagles. Fly Eagles Fly, no Super Bowl for you this year! Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week! Re: Super Bowl Poll! Our Year! · 1/16/048:54 AM The Patriots are now on a 14 game winning streak. They will go into the Super Bowl on the longest streak of any team since the '72 Dolphins. And Peyton Manning is putting together what might be the best postseason for a QB in...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Last Week in January 2004
In the next day or so I'll be blogging about the new Ricoh IMC MFP series. There's a lot of new stuff and I'm chomping at the bit to get my hands on one. Enjoy these threads from 15 years ago this week! Peerless Systems Announces Everest Family of MFP Controllers; New Controllers Based on Sierra Techno Boston Mike · 1/28/046:58 AM document products rely on a core set of imaging software and supporting electronics, collectively known as an imaging controller. Peerless' broad line of scalable...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Second Week in January 2009
Enjoy these threads from ten years ago this week! Weekend Copier Notes from 1/11/09 Neal · 1/11/098:32 PM replacement was named for Tod’s old job. - In an effort to gain its customers back from IKON (which was acquired by Ricoh ), Canon Business Solutions launched the “War Chest” program, giving sales reps ability to pay for up to 9 months of a competitive lease, - A year after being booted from the program, Canon announced that it is once again part of the U .S. Federal Government GSA...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Last Week in October 2008
We're in to the last 8 weeks of the year. Prospecting that was done in July & August will now start to pay dividends and carry you through the end of the year. If you're just prospecting now for November and December then you're toast! Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week! Weekend Copier Notes from 10/26/08 Neal · 10/27/087:45 AM WEEKEND MFP INDUSTRY NOTES 10-26-08 The following is a quick review of copier/MFP industry news from industry publications. Kodak ’s print controller...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Second Week in August 2008
There's an interesting thread below titled A4 Device Poll. It's a short thread and I disable the poll site years ago. However, from reading the thread it was about ten years ago that A4 devices were starting to talk hold. What I can't believe is that the major A3 manufacturers have continued to lower prices on the A3 boxes and move very slowly with offering full functionality for A4 devices. It's been ten years! Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week. Topic Weekend Copier Notes from...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Third Week of March 2014)
Wow! Hard to believe that the end of the first quarter is a mere two weeks away. Twenty five gone and Seventy five percent of the year left. How is your first quarter going? Would love to hear from you in the reply section of this blog! These were the top threads from 5 years ago this week. Enjoy Konica Minolta Honors Pacific Office Automation of Beaverton, Oregon with 2014 Pro-Tech Service Award for Service Excellence Art Post · 3/19/1410:16 PM Colorado. The company is also one of the...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Third Week in November 2008
Busy, busy week last week, at least for Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday turned out to be a dud with just a couple of small orders. We all know the story for Thursday & Friday. I took a well deserved break from the site for four days. End of the year, the month, the year and the quarter coming up. I LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR! Enjoy the most popular threads from ten years ago this week. Ricoh, IKON, and the Next Great Bubble ''''1 11/15/084:31 PM acquisitions to date - or the next big bubble.
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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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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Second Week of April 2005)
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. 1. We promote our brand, products & services daily and when we return and hit the ground running we might take the opposition out who may not make so much effort working from home… Enjoy these incredible threads from 15 years ago this week! Konica Minolta Cuts 05/06 Profit Target Guest ·...
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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 15 Years Ago for the Last Week in April of 2005
15 years, what were the hot topics in the copier industry? Better times for sure, take a peek at what was cool, what stunk. Take a trip back in time to remember some of the good ole days. You'll be glad you did! Most popular threads from 15 years ago this week!\ Konica Minolta Introduces the bizhub(TM) C450 Color Printer/Copier/Scanner Mike Sasso · 4/26/058:25 AM Konica Minolta Introduces the bizhub(TM) C 450 Color Printer / Copier /Scanner Featuring the New bizhub OP Open Platform, the...
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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 Last Week of May 2015
Two selling days left in the month and I looking for another $10K to get me over the hump. Two days of pushing coming up and it should be exciting! Enjoy these awesome threads from 5 years ago this week! Ricoh Multi Copier Lease Award in Missouri ART POST · 5/31/1512:50 AM TOPIC Ricoh SP4520dn print will not print... ART POST · 5/26/159:58 PM Ricoh SP4520dn print will not print on to carbonless paper from Relyco. No matter what we did it was still pulling two sheets. Rats!!! Proposed...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago for the First Week of May 2005
Back in 2005 I was just 2 years into having a real web site for the copier industry. I started back in 2000 with an message forum with MSN communities. It was really cool because there was no on-line forum where sales people and principals could chat, share ideas, share war stories, share information, share competitive info and the list goes on and on. Twenty years later there is still no site like the Print4Pay Hotel. Did I do something right? We're still the only site that allows members...
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Re: A Cool Thing Happened While Away on Presidents Club
Eddy and Sonny This is similar to Sonny’s approach when he was in the field. He would not send out the letters but call and asked the prospect if they had gotten his letter>
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Re: A Cool Thing Happened While Away on Presidents Club
Good soft approach . I'll put that in my memory bank. Good Selling.. PS did you see Pres Suite???
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago 4th Week of September 2005
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago 3rd Week of October 2005
I picked up on the last thread of this post. If I remember correctly almost ten years ago, HP introduced the HP4345 MFP series. It could have been the first A4 MFP in Segment 4. We ran a poll and 53% of our members voted for...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago 4th Week of November 2005
Below are the top threads from ten tears ago on the Print4Pay Hotel forums. Hard to believe it's been 10 years since we had the Connectivity Café from Ricoh. RE: Howies Performance...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago The Third Week of April 2006
Konica Minolta bizhub C351 4/18/06 9:04 AM Has anyone been up against Konica Minolta bizhub C 351.Looking for some weakness in the bizhub Reply Re: BizHub 4/20/06 6:06 PM Garland: Try chosing a customer who is not in the market right now, and or create a need for your product or feature. There are many features that are different from manufacturer to manufacturer. Try to hone in on a "lock out" feature, a feature which Minolta does not offer and Ricoh does. Then hammer you position. Most of...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of April 2005
It's interesting how our industry changes right? I took a quick peek at the first head line from ten years ago, "Konica Minolta acquires Largest.....". Manufacturers acquiring dealers has slowed down in recent years, but on the flip side,...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago First Week of November 2004
The United States presidential election of 2004 was the 55th quadrennial presidential election . It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican Party candidate and incumbent President George W. Bush defeated Democratic Party candidate John...
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Color Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 4 (produce 41 to 69 pages)
Do you need to stay ahead of the curve, or just curious what the curve looks like? We've introduced a new color cost per page poll for Segment 4 Color MFP's here . How the heck can you fight the cost per page battle with either your...
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Color Copier Cost Per Page Survey for Segment 3 (no Minimum)
I thought it was time to report on some of our Color Cost Per Page Surveys that we've been running on the Print4Pay Hotel Survey Page. Not a scientific poll, but, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that are P4P'ers (Print4Pay Hotel members) are right...
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Color Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
Recently, I had the chance to view a bid tabulation sheet for a recent copier bid. Color was bundled at .039 and black was at .0045! I was shocked! For me, I eat, sleep and breath this stuff, so I can stay ahead of current trends and...
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Black Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
It's been a long time coming for the new poll. However yesterday we posted first of six new polls for Cost Per Page for Black A3 MFP's. In the near future (when spring finally comes to NJ), we also be posting four new polls...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago First Week of March 2005
I got nothing! Not much in the news from ten years ago and most of the threads were well not that important! Enjoy the threads and the links. Maybe we'll have something better next week. But. I am getting ready for my vacation!!!! ...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Second Week of December 2004
When I first posted this last night, I got mixed up with the dates, thinking yesterday was the 7th, Well, it actual was because it was 1AM in the morning. It was good to see that Pearl Harbor has not been forgotten and we owe what we have to the...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of January 2005
U.S. President George W. Bush is sworn in for his second term , with a pledge to seek " freedom in all the world ". Konica Minolta Business Solutions Leads Two...
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Color Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 3 (produce 31 to 40 pages)
Do you need to stay ahead of the curve, or just curious what the curve looks like? We've introduced our new color cost per page poll for Segment 3 Color MFP's here. Cost Per Page tactics, and marketing keeps changing,...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Fourth Week of January 2005
There was not much happening in the news 10 years ago this week. I thought I would do my own flash back for January of 2005. I don't keep notes but with having data on the threads from the forums from 10 years ago, the threads do spark the...
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Top 10 Winners for Worst Copier Web Site in the World
Last week I posted Worst Copier Web Site in the World blog. The Blog centered on the copier sites that were nominated and the threads about those sites from our Print4Pay Hotel members. Even though our poll was not scientifc...
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How Can You be the Best at MPS, MFP, MNS?
What does it take to be among the elite sales people at your branch or your dealership? For starters you've got to have a passion for being number 1. Nothing floats my boat more than being at the top of the totem poll each and every month. I...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of July 2004
Barack Obama gives the Keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention , launching his career on the national stage. I remember that moment and I did think that someday he may become President. Kyocera aims for 2...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Second Week of August 2004
Shares of stock in Google, Inc. begin trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange at around $100 per share in one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings of the year. It is estimated that the IPO raised a total of $1.66 billion , the third...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of August 2004
I got nothing for some type of world event headline for ten years ago this week. Thus enjoy these Print4Pay Hotel threads from Ten Years Ago This Week! Minolta South Africa...
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A Cool Thing Happened While Away on Presidents Club
It seems like every President's Club trip gives me a story to tell about a unique sales experience that I had. This years trip consisted of 5 nights at the Hard Rock Hotel in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. The trip was outstanding,...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Fourth Week of March 2004)
NASA succeeds in a second attempt to fly its X-43A experimental airplane from the Hyper-X project, attaining speeds in excess of Mach 7, the fastest ever air-breathing hypersonic flight. ...
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Copier Color Cost Per Page Poll 1st Quarter 2014
We've been running a Color Cost per Page Poll for copiers since the start of the new year. Thus, on April 1st, I'll be resetting the Color Cost per Page Polls and starting a new one for the second quarter of this year. Since, we're only a...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago First Week of April 2004)
10 Years ago this week the University of Connecticut becomes the first NCAA Division I school to win the men's and the women's U.S. amateur national basketball championships in the same season, after the women's team three-peats . Scan...
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Selling Professional Services for SMB Accounts, Worth it or Not Worth it!
So.....this has been annoying me quite awhile. It's about selling professional services for workflow. Recently, I put up a poll on the P4P forums in reference to what we (salespeople) are charged when we sell billable hours....
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Canon & Oce "Was this a good deal or a not so good deal?"
I was going through some of the web polls that we've had running on several of the old sites.I'm closing all of the old polls out and will be adding new polls. For the time being the new polls are located at P4P Polls, as soon as I figure out...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of February 2007)
Just noticed on one of these threads that Ricoh Print Director has been around for ten years now! For those that don't know, Print Director is OEM'd from our friends at Print Audit. I highly recommend them. Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week! RICOH SHOWCASES RIGHTS-MANAGED DOCUMENT 2/5/07 5:03 PM individuals and businesses use digital and paper-based information. DSS offers a complete package of products, services and support programs to our all our channels, comprising of direct...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago The Last Week of June 2006
I was going through some old threads for the Ricoh W470 & Ricoh W480 over the weekend and I can remember that a P4P Hotel member was pitching his own design of a front exit tray that would stack 30x42's and 36x48's. Does anyone remember this P4P'ers name? Dis anyone buy the front exit stacker from him? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Konica Minolta Clicks on Scanners 6/23/06 8:15 AM Konica Minolta Clicks on Scanners 06.07.06 discuss New Jersey-based digital imaging company Konica...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago The Third Week of July 2006
The thread titled Caught this in my email "Sales Process Questions" , the thread has two different talk tracks. One with the sales person asking the VEEP of Sales for help and the other is the VEEP looking to the sales rep for extra effort. It's a good one. Konica Minolta Biz Hub vs. Ricoh 3035 7/18/06 8:40 AM download attached file This document has been archived, you can unlock this document and many others with an elite membership. Please send me an email if you are interested.
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Two Copier Dudes to Attend Graph Expo 2016
It's official!! John Anderson and I are booked to attend Graph Expo 2016 in Orlando as members of the Press! Ok, you may not be excited about us our press credentials, however John Anderson and I are stoked! What you can get exciting about is that John & I will be the only two copier dudes reporting about what matters most to those of us in the copier channel. To date there are 357 Exhibitors, out of those 357 we've identified 24 of the exhibitors that we want to have a conversation with...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Fourth Week of May 2007)
What were you doing in 2007? Below are the all of the threads for the last week of May in 2007. Enjoy! Is Ricoh Corp Unfair to Ricoh/Savin/Lanier/Gestetner Dealers? 5/25/075:06 PM Reply Re: Is this True??? Xerox buys Global?? 5/26/079:20 AM , supplies and support they require." Global had other existing relationships with copier and printer companies before it was acquired by Xerox , including Sharp Electronics and Konica Minolta . Sharp will continue to sell Global products through at least...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Third Week of October 2007)
Tens years ago Tom Salierno, also known as Tom, Jr lost his job as Chief Operating ... Officer of Ricoh U S of Ricoh Corporation from June 2006 to December 2007. In the ten years after it seems that Big Tom was the chief culprit in Ricoh dealer acquisitions for Global Imaging. Today Tom serves ae Chief Executive Office with Global Imaging. Big Tom Out as Prez at Ricoh Boston Mike · 10/16/072:15 PM Don"t let the door..... Ricoh Americas Corporation Announces Organizational Changes WEST...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of November 2007)
The one thread below reminded me of a recent appointment with a healthcare account. So, much for FAX is DEAD, right? Seems health care still needs and loves faxing. I'm guessing it's because faxing is still the most secure way of sending a document or maybe it's because it's just easier compliance for HIPAA. What ever the reason, FAX is NOT Dead with healthcare. On a recent healthcare install, I was asked if our Ricoh device could do a fax broadcast with the LAN Fax. I stated yes in can, and...