Tagged With "Shinichi Yoshida"
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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 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 10 Years Ago, The Third Week in October 2008
I like to start these updates with some interesting things that happen to me in the last week or so. I received two leads and closed both of them from Linkedin. It was net new clients reaching out to me via Linkedin and requesting to set a meeting. Yes, this was the first I ever had two in one week. So I keep moving forward and keep growing my connections because you just never know when one of those calls might be for 20, 100 or 1,000 MFP's #nevergiveup Enjoy the threads from ten years ago...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago (First Week of April 2010)
Hot Dog! Yes, I'm going to mention those savory dogs in a bun. Ten years ago we had a discussion on the forums where to get the best hot dogs in New Jersey which evolved into the best dogs in the US. Have you been to one of these joints? Care to add your own? Enjoy these delicious threads from ten years ago this week! Sir Speedy of Los Alamitos Selects Konica Minolta's bizhub PRO Digital Presses to Dri Guest · 4/7/1011:03 PM , Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. "Counting on Konica...
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The Cannatta Reports 28th Annual Awards & Charities Dinner
I'd like to thank Ed Warner and Everbank Leasing for inviting me to this years event that was held in Florham Park, NJ. Ed and Fred went out of their way to invite me to this special event. WOW! The Park Savoy in Florham Park,...
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Canon Previews Cloud-Based Intelligent Grading Solution for imageRUNNER ADVANCE at ISTE 2013
MELVILLE, N.Y., Jun 24, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- To help educators keep pace with increasing pressures to help students not just succeed, but excel, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today previewed the Intelligent Grading...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of April 2007)
There's a few really interesting threads below. One is titled "7 Cents a Page....really?" , which reflects on someone's opine that printers have a lower cost the copiers. It's a good read from someone else's perspective (not really sure where I found that thread). One of the addition threads was for Rhutt's Hut here in NJ, where we had a lively discussion about some of the best eateries that we visit from time to time. Check it out and feel free to update the list! Names in the news ten...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Second Week of January 2003)
Enjoy these threads from 15 years ago this week. Konica Minolta Corportaion Lee · 1/9/0310:22 AM of business in matured markets such as Europe, the U .S. and Japan. Both cameras and consumer imaging products and services serve to propel the brand image of the new corporate group. Medical and graphic imaging products and measuring instruments place effort into securing stable profits and achieving ongoing development. Common Function Companies Technology Center By integrating the technologies...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Third Week of March 2008
Interesting model numbers below. The 1224C the 1232C, the CL5000, this was the start of B2C conversions. I can probably count the number of accounts on two hands that don't have a color device now. Times sure do change. Makes me wonder what the next big change will be? Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week in March! Ricoh unviels 2090 3/20/036:47 PM subsidiary of Ricoh Company Ltd., the 67-year-old leading supplier of office automation equipment and electronics, with fiscal year...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Third Week of April 2008
Tip of the week: Get out there and knock on doors, it still works and you can get a good eyeball of what's going on in the account! Weekend Copier Notes from 04/20/08 Neal · 4/21/087:11 AM Windows operating systems, which can be penetrated by viruses, unlike the Emperon system) - More info on new high-speed color laser MFPs from Toshiba : o Unlike models they are replacing (4500 C & 5500 C ), these are made by Toshiba , not Ricoh o These are not production print models, so are designed...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The First Week of March 2003
Geesh, can I start? For those not in the copier industry fifteen years ago you would know nothing about Jim Ivy from Ricoh. I don't want to rehash the past, but check out the links and you'll read how an elite executive was arrested. I don't even want to talk about what he did. Happy to have seen him go directly to JAIL! Canon & Heidelberg Renew Digital...... 3/1/031:03 PM sales abroad. A variety of high-volume digital black and white printers are manufactured by Heidelberg Digital L.L.
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (First Week of January 2003)
I'm elated that the Print4Pay Hotel can now offer data going back to 2003! Can you believe it 15 years of press releases, posts from members, answers from members. There is no other copier industry site that can offer this! Enjoy these threads from 15 years ago this week! Rioch Press Release 1/7/035:09 PM by Xerox . "We are managing to move forward in a very difficult environment," says Tatsuo Hirakawa, Ricoh 's deputy president. "Despite the generally gloomy global economic outlook,...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of July 2009)
It was ten years ago this week for the Ricoh "cleansing". These times were the months after Ricoh had acquired Ikon. Many great long time Ricoh peeps lost their jobs and were replaced by many Ikon peeps. GMAN paints an accurate picture of the "cleansing" in the thread titled "Cleansing". That is below or you can read it here. It's still my belief that when Ricoh cut the deal for Ikon, one of the covenants of the deal was that many Ikon Execs had to stay on for x amount of time. Enjoy these...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of June 2009)
What's so special about June? Well, the end of June marks the half way point in most of our calendars for sales. Where are you with your goals, and your quota. The end of the year is now a mere 180 days away. Extra hard prospecting now will fill your funnel for the remainder of the year. Enjoy these threads from ten years ago this week! Weekend Copier Notes from 05/31/09 Neal · 6/1/092:28 PM . - Kodak announced that it signed an agreement with Konica Minolta in Australia, allowing the...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Third Week of July 2009)
In yesterdays post This Week in the Copier Industry 5 years Ago I wrote about the end of the month for me along with still have 25% of the month left. Well, tonight there's still 20% of the month left. I had two appointments, both where buying decisions will be made for August. Thus they count as two added opportunities. The rest of the day was spend with pre-planned stop ins, along with anything else that looked interesting. I had ten on the list, made all then and added two accounts that...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Third Week of August 2014)
Word on the street, at least here in NJ, is that Canon Direct is now offering their own 1Rate or Flat Rate lease maintenance program. In fact this one user is producing 30K per month for a Canon Advance 4551. More to come on this. Enjoy these awesome threads from ten years ago this week! Topic Konica Minolta, CTWP Put Printing Technology to Work in "100 Percent Green" Office 8/17/0910:43 PM bizhub MFPs Increase Office Efficiencies and Eliminate Waste at Waco Chamber of Commerce Ramsey, N.J.
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The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago the first week in October I wasn't even aware of the factoid from our site. We have more than ten years of copier proposals and quotes stored on the site. Maybe one day I'll have the time to research the data and cost per page and hardware prices and post the results. Enjoy these threads from 10 years ago this week Konica Minolta Earns Three Prestigious Marketing Research Consultants (MRC) Awards Guest · 10/3/1010:36 PM ), reserve a spot at the Konica...
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The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago The First Week of November 2010 Usually I try to add something from my day or some words of wisdom for all of our readers. Today I have nothing except for this point "Don't wait for opportunties go and create them everyday" Enjoy these copier threads from ten years ago this week! Auditors see $250,000 savings in Jefferson Parish schools copier contracts ART POST (GUEST) · 11/3/107:31 PM , lasted five years and were resold to third-party financing companies.
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The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago The First Week of March 2011 I have great news today! Every day that passes now is a day closer we get to spring and the end of the pandemic. One year and so many curve balls have been thrown at our industry, it's truly been curve ball after curve ball with the lockdowns, the pandemic, and recently the snowstorms. After seeing so many curve balls in row these curve balls are no surprise anymore and we have adjusted like any hitter in baseball would. Dealers...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago Second Week of July 2011 If there is nothing to do on a rainy Saturday, might I suggest a scouting day for you. Plan a couple of of routes on roads less traveled in your territory and do a search for businesses on those less traveled roads. Pick out a vertical or two, and then off you go, make sure to bring your business cards and take photos (for calling later). If there are cars in the lot then why not go in and introduce your self! Enjoy these...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago Third Week of August 2011 Selling Copiers "When is a New Account Not a New Account" Art Post (Guest) · 8/18/1110:38 PM this not a NEW account" Boca Raton, Florida "Dam..........we've got this account that has 28 printers from us and NO copiers/MFP's. They had 45 copiers from Kyocera until I upgraded them. I went back to the office with order in hand and was ecstatic that I had pulled in a new account, to me it was a new account because they did...
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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 2011 One of the items I do with Linkedin on most days is to find an interesting thread from another person/company. Once I find that thread I then read the thread an not just the headline. My goal is to share that thread with my peep but to also insert a comment in the share that makes the share my own twist on what was posted. Enjoy These Copier Threads from Ten Years Ago This Week! Notable Solutions, Inc. Announces Major...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago The Third Week of February 2017 Many times I will post my thoughts in my weekly "This Week in Copiers". Much has been said in the last two weeks about industry transforming or diversifying away from print. We read the captions about EV Charging, and $35K vacuum cleaners but no one in our industry is thinking past the next five years. Well, except for me. Our industry is still and will be a break and fix industry which includes offering service,...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago Last Week of November 2017 sponsored by Much like the concept of cloud, MPS is really more of a business model than a technical description of what you can and can't do, and I certainly encourage a holistic approach to how you look at MPS, even up to including document management and workflow opportunities.... you can read that here 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 Twenty Years Ago
Sponsored by This Week in Copiers Twenty Years Ago Second Week of January 2003 Please click our DocuWare link. Our industry is moving at full speed for business intelligence solutions, document management and the recent cache of classified paper based documents when Joe Biden was VP. Keep in mind that DocuWare can create some awesome workflows that can add digital security to documents that have been scanned, received via email along with documents that have been created and stored. There's...
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This Week in Copiers Twenty Years Ago
Sponsored by This Week in Copiers Twenty Years Ago First Week of January 2003 We are delighted to present our new series of what happened in our industry twenty years ago each week. This will be a new weekly series to go along with the other three series that includes the week in copiers 5, 10 and 15 years ago! This makes an entire generation of threads, press releases, comments and much more. Enjoy these awesome copier threads from 20 years ago Rioch Press Release Art Post (Guest) ·...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago
This Week in Copiers Five Years Ago Second Week of February 2018 Real Copier Sales Mistakes Often a competitive sales rep will try and convince a copier purchaser to switch product based upon how much money we can save you. The sales rep presents convincing Total cost of ownership analysis. The only problem being that sometimes the customer's current costs are totally made up by the sales rep. The sales rep is counting on, in some companies, that it might be too much work for the purchaser...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago
This Week in Copiers Fifteen Years Ago Second Week of April 2008 Real Copier Sales What I have learned that makes a big difference in how I continue to make quota each month. Read the quotes posted here on the p4p. This site has probably 1000 years worth of experience right here at your fingertips. I can't begin to tell you how many times a day I will log on to find an answer to a question. Art keeps such a history of posts that covers virtually any problem or question you come across. read...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago Third Week of October 2018 Real Copier Sales I thought it would be a great idea to share those on Linkedin that I follow and admire for their content and their activity. Activity is BIG, why follow someone if they are not active. Thus, there's no special order below, it's my short list of peeps to follow on LInkedin that can help your sales career more here View These Awesome Copier Threads Below Selling Copiers in the Seventies with Steve Mcbride...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago
This Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago Second Week of October 2013 Real Copier Sales I had scheduled the last stop of the day about a mile from my home. For almost three years I've been calling, emailing and dropping off production information for a net new account. Three years with nothing, I was beginning to think that the company set up a false DM, had an email account and voice mail account and just dumped all of the sales calls there. But low and behold, I walked in and the DM was..... read...
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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 5 Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago Last Week of October 2018 Real Copier Sales "Distance Yourself from The Pack" Whew! I must say that they last ten years selling for a Ricoh Dealership has been interesting. When I first started with my dealership back in 1998, Ricoh had just purchased Savin and..... more here View These Awesome Copier Threads Below Selling Copiers in the Seventies with Darrell Leven Art Post · 10/30/1811:18 PM . If you worked for a dealer please tell us what...
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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 February 2019 Real Copier Sales (Copier Quoting Tool) Why We Decided to Make Our Own Copier Quoting Tool Getting clients good information is critical to a sales process and we have taken a lot of time and energy to create quotes that are easy for us to make, and give the client a good feeling about the options they are choosing...... more here View These Awesome Copier Threads Below Copiers Northwest Triples Wide-Format Print Volume...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago Second Week of February 2019 Real Copier Sales (Copier Quoting Tool Why Copier Sales People Still Need to Demonstrate MFP's & Wide Format Devices Art Post · 2/10/191:00 PM with the demonstrating of the device because I had at three people tell me that we knew our stuff. Even though the Canon TX prints will not run or smear when wet I knew that they would not show that important feature. It was all about the "sizzle" and performing a kick ass...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago
This Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago Third Week of March 2014 Real Copier Sales (10 Years Ago) Recently, I put up a poll on the P4P forums in reference to what we (salespeople) are charged when we sell billable hours. Out of the responses we've received, 57% of sales people reported that their cost is in between $126-$150 per hour, 14% for $101 - $125, another 14% $76-100, and then 14% for under $75. You can take vote in that poll here. Check These Great Copier Threads from Ten Years Ago This...
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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...
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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 May 2019 Real Copier Sales Everything changes and sometimes the tenure of status quo can fool one into thinking that everything can last forever. The technology equipment finance business is heading for some major disruptions to their deliverable. This shift will be a result of key component changes in the delivery of hardware to end-users.... .more here View These Awesome Copier Threads Below Konica Minolta and MGI to Present...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago
This Week in Copiers Fifteen Years Ago First Week of June 2009 Please visit FMD Distribution LLC and follow their Linkedin page Real Copier Sales As previously mentioned, the New Lanier East DSM (Tara Zailo), came from IKON where she was a Digital Support Rep and Trainer. In order to assume DSM responsibilities, she will need immediate training from her new counterparts. I look forward to observe her skill sets. She will handle TGI Office Automation, the RFG East Region's newest #1 revenue...