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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of April 2015)
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. Promote yourselves and our business daily on social media Enjoy these incredible threads from 15 years ago this week! This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of April 2005 Art Post · 4/12/157:15 PM . Built-in Wi-Fi in printers could make a tech's 4/18/05...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago for the Second Week in April of 2015
For those of you that are new to the industry, there's a cool blog I wrote about making the phone calls. Believe it or not the phone is your friend. You can read that here or below. Fourty Eight Hundred Phone Calls a Year Can Equal a Lot of Dough! Enjoy these awesome threads from 5 years ago this week! Bid Tabulation for Xerox_Sharp_Samsung_Canon_Kyocera.pdf Art Post · 4/14/1512:55 PM Topic Konica Minolta Expands and Enhances Corporate Communications Team at US Headquarters Art Post ·...
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Flying High Using Digital Processes
Flying High Using Digital Processes Aviation giant Mercury Air Group integrated DocuWare with two of its accounting systems, creating a mission critical solution for accounting information and documentation. The company reduced billing time by 6 days, increased cash flow, and gained workflow processing efficiencies. Privately held, Los Angeles-based Mercury Air Group provides jet fuel, air cargo services and transportation, as well as support services for international and U.S. commercial...
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5 Ways to Use Power Management and Monitoring
When it comes to tackling any problem, the more you know the better suited you are to assess the situation and solve, prevent, or even predict it from happening in the first place. Luckily, in our industry, diagnostic intelligence technologies and the...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Last Week of May 2005
Voyager 1 , the most distant man-made object, has entered the heliosheath and is on the cusp of leaving the Solar System and entering the interstellar medium. Look at some of the cost per pages that were quoted for color ten years ago! A high...
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Sharp "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
Back in the mid to late Eighties, I can remember always getting my ass kicked by Sharp systems. Even better, if you owned a Sharp dealership you were in play to be bought by Alco Standard (January 1997 Alco Standard split in to two...
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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 (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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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of June 2007)
Geesh, 10 years ago we were all hot for color printers. All of the manufactuer's have come a long way since 2007. I read my forum post titled " Important All RFG Dealer Sales Reps & Owners!", and I was reminded of the time when Ricoh Direct was capturing dealer accounts at an alarming rate. That year I lost three of my biggest accounts, because I could not compete on price. My how things can change in ten years. 'Xerox, Ricoh, Konica Minolta Top Color Printers' 6/8/073:44 PM following...
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MSP & MSSP Industry Notes for November 24th 2019
November 24 th , 2019 MSP & MSSP Industry Notes Sponsored by Arcoa Group ARCOA Group is here to help you successfully manage your IT Asset Disposition process. We help you recover value from retired electronic equipment through responsible methods of reuse and recycling. We ensure proper handling of assets which may contain data, while being environment stewards for assets that have no reuse value and are headed for recycling. We’ve built a robust de-manufacturing process to offer...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of October 2009)
How was your day today? I hear that quite a bit. One question that I'll ask other reps is "What type of day is it today", the usual response is something about the weather. Mine is it's a great day to sell something!" Enjoy these awesome threads from ten years ago this week in the copier industry! Topic Nuance Acquires eCopy, Extends Network Scanning Solutions that Connect MFPs with Ente 10/6/097:26 PM — result in scanning solutions that maximize gains in productivity and cost savings and...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Last Week of January 2010)
Prospecting never ends, it's the daily grind that we have a love hate relationship with. Some days are good while most are not that good, however if you continue prospecting you'll never find your pipeline dry or be on the unemployment line. Today I came up with an idea for crafting emails. Today I was prospecting very large clients via email. My idea worked! I love it when a plan comes together. If someone can tell me the location of the title picture, I'll give you a free premium...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Second Week of December 2004)
My apologies for not blogging as much in recent weeks. It's that end of year thing, and I'm still looking to hit some numbers/ I suffered a set back (kinda ) today when a client told me there was a new rule in place for purchases above ten grand. Yeah I know what that means, competitive quotes need to be gathered. It happens and I understand what I don't understand is why I can't catch a break every now and then. Seems the month, the quarter and the year is going to come down to the wire...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Third Week of March 2008
One of the threads below references e-copy software. I loved that software! Used it everyday and it was so easy to train users on how to work the software. Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week. Weekend Copier Notes from 3/14/08 Neal · 3/16/087:44 PM 5000 which has 20” wide paper path, runs at 500 feet per minute, and sells for $5,000,000.00 (IBM InfoPrint 5000 and Xerox 980 sells for $3,000,000.00 each) - Kodak claims to have sold 500,000 desktop color inkjet printers in 2007.
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago for the First Week of June 2015
Enjoy these awesome threads about the copier industry 5 years ago this week. TOPIC Konica Minolta Launches New Dispatcher Phoenix Features for Educators ART POST · 6/5/1510:58 PM . Konica Minolta has won numerous awards and recognition, including placement in the Leaders Quadrant on the G2014 Magic Quadrantartner for Managed Print Services (MPS) and Managed Content Services (MCS). Konica Minolta has been recognized as the #1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the MFP Office Copier Market by Brand...
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MSP, IT, & MSSP Industry Notes for September 26th, 2020
MSP IT & MSSP Industry Notes Sponsored by Arcoa Group Why partnering with ARCOA makes sense Electronics Recycling is an important and profitable part of the IT asset lifecycle, but it can be overwhelming with all you already do, varying state regulations, and the limited resources at hand. That’s where ARCOA comes in. When you partner with ARCOA, you get all the benefits of a big company without any of the capital investment. We’ve been doing this since 1989 and have the expertise,...
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The Week in Copiers Five Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Five Years Ago The Second Week in October 2015 Over the years the Print4Pay Hotel has given me a network of friends all over the world. Today I had a good chat with a friend of mine in the business who is making the calls and struggling some. I was there to listen and sometimes it good to have someone to vent to that's not part of your organization. In addition someone who is experiencing the same struggle. The venting helps and then the conversation turns to how WE can...
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The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago Second Week of November There was a meeting today with five of the Governors from our region to discuss additional measures for trying to keep a lid on surge of cases we are experiencing. Almost 10,000 cases since for this weekend. Tomorrow we'll find out if there will be additional sanctions for businesses and people. On Facebook most are posting that want a shut down like we had in March and April. No doubt whatever the outcome of tomorrow is it's going to...
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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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MSP, MSSP and IT Notes Industry February 14th 2021
February 14th, 2021 MSP. IT & MSSP Industry Notes Sponsored by Arcoa Group Why partnering with ARCOA makes sense Electronics Recycling is an important and profitable part of the IT asset lifecycle, but it can be overwhelming with all you already do, varying state regulations, and the limited resources at hand. That’s where ARCOA comes in. When you partner with ARCOA, you get all the benefits of a big company without any of the capital investment. We’ve been doing this since 1989 and have...
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The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago Second Week of March 2011 In an effort to get ahead of the changes coming to our industry. I thought it would be good to start posting some information about digital services so that we can start learning more about the transition of our industry over the next 10-15 years. What does it mean to be a digital company? Digital businesses use technology to create new value in business models, customer experiences and the internal capabilities that support its...
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The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago Third Week of March 2016 What’s the difference between digitization, digitalization, and digital transformation? Not so long ago, businesses kept records on paper. Whether handwritten in ledgers or typed into documents, business data was analog. If you wanted to gather or share information, you dealt with physical documents — papers and binders, xeroxes, and faxes. Then computers went mainstream, and most businesses started converting all of those...
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The Week in Copiers Five Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Five Years Ago First Week of April 2006 Fuji Film thoughts........... Mega dealers could align with Fuji and relabel their own mfp’s, solutions and supplies. Those mega dealers can then further their brands via Fuji, in addition Fuji would not need a large operation in the US market place. Xerox partners with or buys Ricoh? Xerox needs and OEM, Ricoh made mention they want to align with others players to boost revenue and profits. Enjoy these awesome copiers threads from...
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The Week in Copiers Five Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Five Years Ago First week of May 2016 May is off to a slow start couple that with a so so April and it has me a little bit concerned moving into a post pandemic world. The first two months of the year was a record breaker but at least here in NJ have been interesting to say the least. Enjoy These Awesome Copier Threads from 5 Years Ago This Week Top Twenty Old Copier Manufacturers that FADED Away! Art Post · 5/3/1611:29 PM five market share leaders were Canon 29.1%, Sharp...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Five Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry Five Years Ago Last Week of July 2016 Right, tomorrow starts my first sales day of August. With a pipeline that is over flowing I'm hoping for great month that will make up for the last two. August will be a short month with only 21 work days, thus it's time to kick some ass tomorrow! Enjoy these awesome copier threads from 5 years ago this week! Canon U.S.A. Helps Maximize Micro, Small And Home Office Business Efficiency With New Series Of Wireless Inkjet...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago First Week of September 2011 I arrived home on September 3rd. After 8 days in the Hospital it's taking me a little bit of time to get my bearings straight. Every day seems to be better and better and the regiment for the future is a consistent follow up with my doctors. I plan to continue to work and back to selling within a few weeks. Enjoy these awesome copier threads from ten years ago this week! Copier and Print Services Sales Representative...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago Second Week of June 2007 Fifteen years ago found me still seeking out opportunities for digital duplicators. For me, I thought the future technology for high-speed and spot color would be digital duplicators. Man, did I love those duplicators and I did very well because I understood the technology. Many reps today do not understand the technology that they're trying to sell, and I'm afraid to say that most don't want to learn the technology...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago Second Week of August 2012 sponsored by On my previous blog I wrote about the many players offered copiers in 1984 and how many of them are around to this day. One thing many may forget is that many of the copiers offered in the eighties was a mix of A3 and A4 devices. Some or one will say that the A4 revolution started 6 years ago, but in reality that revolution started closer to 1980. The manufacturers realized they could capture more clicks...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago Third Week of August 2012 sponsored by Some of the headlines for the office equipment channel 1o years ago. Sharp has Serious Money Problems! Final Five Predictions? Japan's Sharp Corp plans to sell its copiers and air conditioners businesses Sharp enters crucial stage of rehabilitation Seems it was a tough week for Sharp, many even me thought that Sharp would exit the MFP business. Ten years later Sharp is still in the MFP business and doing...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago First Week of September 2012 sponsored by Digital Transformation, digital transformation and it's time we all started to embrace and understand the advantages our clients can expect when they start incorporating DX applications to their daily way of doing business. -=Good Selling=- Here' the Great Copier Threads from Ten Years Ago This Week COPIER/FAX (SHARP) DATA SECURITY KITS & INSTALL Art Post (Guest) · 9/2/121:43 PM Solicitation Number:...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago Last Week of September 2012 sponsored by I may have to throttle back a bit on posting and writing because Kathy and I have family member that is in ill health. Family is more important and I need to focus on helping. I'm looking for help, I need to reach out to KM, Toshiba and HP principals. I'm willing to offer free Premium/VIP memberships for the team along with some other stuff. Please contact me for details apost@p4photel.com -=Good Selling=...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Five Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry Five Years Ago First Week of October 2017 sponsored by Since this week marked the first week of the last quarter of the month, the day- this week were all about prospecting. Leaving no stone un-turned it was a combination of calls, emails, and texts. Of course one of the tasks after the phone call, email or text is to set the next call. It was this week that I realized that many of those follow up calls I will never make. In the past, when I found out the...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago First Week of October 2012 sponsored by Since I was prospecting all of last week, I thought I would try something new. hard to believe I didn't think about this twenty some years ago.... Across my google alerts feed, I picked up a press release from NJ Biz. The title of the press release was NJ's best Places to Work 2022. Thus I thought I would help those prospects in my territory celebrate their accomplishment. On Linkedin I posted a thread to...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago
sponsored by Some highlights from our industry 10 years ago this week...... Ricoh USA HQ move from Caldwell, NJ to Malvern, PA Sharp parody by yours truly Dealer demo rooms (needed or not needed) Canon profit falls 35% Future of DigiDoc Flow, Ecopy & NSI What's old becomes new again, with 40 plus years in this business it has proven to be an awesome ride. Read the rest I'm looking for help, I need to reach out to KM, Toshiba and HP principals. I'm willing to offer free Premium/VIP...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago
sponsored by One of our members emailed me an interesting proposal that brings back memories of the 3-5 days. Basically it meant the client would sign a 60 month lease and that included service and supplies. At the end of 36 month the service and supplies would end. Thus the clients costs rose substantially, and most of those clients were not aware of the tremendous increase at month 37 of the lease. I've asked or permission to post here, hoping I can get that for everyone Stay tuned! I'm...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry Five Years Ago Second Week of December 2017 sponsored by About a month ago I had a call from an existing client to meet about upgrading two of their older copiers that they owned and were under a maintenance agreement. That call came from the new IT Director since the existing IT Director was retiring. That meeting went well and since there were four other A3 printers, service has been exceptional, I priced those two MFP's with acceptable gross profit (I'm...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago Last Week of December 2012 We're down to the last week of the month (at least for me) for some of us, while others will end on the last day of this month. My month ends on the 23rd of each month. At first I was annoyed when that model was implemented many years ago, however I've now grown to love it! I now have two weeks to drive business because that's what our industry have driven for end of the month business. In fact we've conditioned about...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago
This Week in Copiers Five Years Ago Last Week of April 2018 Real Copier Sales While driving today I thought about why I lost an opportunity and it was no fault of my own, however it was due to the end of the year push. That end of the year push was from a direct branch of a manufacturer. It was a dump on price to get the order in before the end of the year. Thus, most of us know that the magic month for pushing from manufacturers is the month of March, because the end of the fiscal year is...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago Last Week of July 2018 Real Copier Sales I don’t have a fancy picture, nor a creative meme hashtag # memes and not even a fancy sales gimmick to tell you about. What I received today was an order for $45k from an an account that I’ve been stopping in for 30 years! I’ve lost so many times over that time span to this client. Loss after loss after loss and yet I kept coming back for more. I guess I thought that my persistence would eventually pay off...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago Last Week of August 2018 Real Copier Sales I remember when plain paper copiers used rolls of paper and not sheets. I remember when the glass on the copiers had to move back and forth. I remember when copiers used liquid ink (toner) to produce an image. I remember when you used a dial to set how many copies you wanted to make..... more here Enjoy These Awesome Copier Threads from 5 Years Ago This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Last...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago
This Week in Copiers Fifteen Years Ago Third Week of October 2008 Real Copier Sales For 10 million clicks per month, it might be worth some investigating and I would start with what Duplo calls the Graphic Wizard or what Riso used to sell as the PS8050. I don't know who the manufacturer is. It is an inkjet device that attaches to the end of whatever printing device and applies limited variable data to whatever the device outputs. Good for envelopes, numbering of NCR, or marketing messages...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago
This Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago Second Week of November 2013 Real Copier Sales Guest Blogger!!!! Harry's back with an awesome blog that takes us old timers back to a simpler time in the industry and all you newbies are probably wishing you had a station wagon to cart a copier around! ..... Oh my, when selling copiers door to door was so simple? Check These Great Copier Threads from Ten Years Ago This Week 10 Ways to Make your Copier & MPS Proposals Standout! Art Post · 11/10/137:23 PM...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago First Week of December 2018 Real Copier Sales A sales rep sold a Ricoh MP C4504ex to a real estate company. The company was hoping to bill back the realtors for copies and prints and have the users authenticate via the key cards with the Ricoh QCA and card reader. Everything is great on paper but no one brought up to the rep... .. more here View These Awesome Copier Threads Below Toshiba Expands Award-Winning Multifunction Printer Line Art Post ·...
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MFP Wars "The Final Five"
re-post with corrections from 2009 How many players do we have now? Let's see: Ricoh, Xerox, Canon, KonicaMinolta, OCE, Sharp, Kyocera, Toshiba, Muratec, and Panasonic. Many moons ago, I made a few predictions regarding what I thought would happen with Ricoh Americas. To sum it up, my thoughts were that Ricoh would take all non-performing dealers and ask them to become Lanier or Savin, while keeping the top Ricoh Dealer performers. It made sense to me that the Direct Channel would then have...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago First Week of April 2019 Real Copier Sales Everyone in business understands the importance of staying relevant. Yet nearly half of the companies on the Fortune 500 list in 2000 are gone. The reality is too many organizations fall victim to a lack of diversity, and an inability to pivot their deliverable to follow the direction of the market..... more here View These Awesome Copier Threads Below Full-Service Marketing Agency, Csek Creative, the...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago Last Week of April 2019 Real Copier Sales It's a very short month for me this month. In fact my month ends on the 18th. On the 19th I'll start the Easter celebration and on Monday it's off to Vegas for ITEX 2019 along with meeting my new brother! We put the effort in every day and we can only hope that all of the hard work gets us to where we want or need to be at the end of the month. Thus, I knew that if I didn't put the extra time in this month...