Tagged With "Working Mother"
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Re: COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Three of Sales
I just created my own YouTube channel doing product videos with future ones planned mostly focussed on MS365. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OotckdOtEg ... and I am working Linkedin a lot more in different ways. Most of the people I know say they have never gotten a lead from Linkedin. They think of this site as a static business card talking about who they are and not what they can do for the customer. They never post to Linkedin. Like most things, Linkedin requires almost daily work to...
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Re: COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Three of Sales
SSG that's an awesome video! You can send links to clients, and direct them to your channel. It's a virtual demo that keeps on giving. Kudos I have some of the same issues with getting appointments through Linkedin, however I know of several peeps that use Linkedin as their only source for prospecting and they are doing well. I will keep working it since I have a Navigator account now
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Re: Ask Me Anything
Sounds like I missed a good knowledge drop last week Art! Had a pretty good excuse, but love the topics discussed! I'm always learning and part of this ongoing learning is something from your blogs/emails that I throw in my knowledge bucket. Keep it up and I appreciate what you do!
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Re: Ask Me Anything
@TML Yup anytime there;s a new family member it over rides anything that has to do with business. Hope to have you on the next call. Just remember to RSVP on the calendar and I will send you the link
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Re: A Day That Will Never Be Forgotten
I was home in NJ getting ready to go out cold calling, had just came downstairs and I got a call from my mother-in law stating to turn on channel 7 because a plabe just hit the world trade building. I thought WTF??? How could that happen, and there it was, one of the towers on fire. I watched the news broadcast and then saw the other plane swoop in and hit the second tower! I was speachless, I tried to call the wife on her cell and could get a call out. I then went my backyard which...
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Re: CW2200SP
We got ours in...doesn't work. Called Ricoh...they can't get theirs to work either. Ricoh suggests ordering a new mother board. We decided to wait until they got theirs fixed.
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Re: Super Bowl Pick the Winner!
Thanks for the smile. It's genetic: my mother is a ferocious Bears fan! (So I leave town when the Steelers and Bears play....)
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Re: Gifts, Trips, Prizes, for Copiers "Lawful or Could Land You in Jail?"
I hear ya, it seems like I have everyone and their Mother giving **** (TV's Golf Clubs, Trips) when buying or leasing a copier this month. Nothing is FREE and peeps need to realize that. But some are consumed by their own greed
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Re: Cost per copy on Xerox units
@ Color1 Is this a Xerox agent or Authorized Dealer? If it is an agent then I don't see how they are doing it since Xerox sets the pricing and handles all of the maintenance. They would never do a all b&w page included deal under the Xerox mother ship. I have seen this with a local competitor (dealer) in my area. They simply play the odds and add the projected monthly black and white clicks into the lease. The whole unlimited "free black and white" sounds so good until you start...
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Re: My Top New Years Work Resolutions for 2015
Hey Art, Was wondering if you set resolutions to get x amount of $$$ in your pipeline for the year?
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Re: My Top New Years Work Resolutions for 2015
Nope, no resolutions for x amount of dollars. It's my belief that if you do the prospecting you'll have the pipeline of dollars.
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Re: New Oce Plotwave's?
Canon Solutions America (Oce) is not going to be around too much longer (write that down). The Mother Company (Canon USA) is not too happy with them.
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Architect in New Jersey Adds Ricoh MP W7100
front view It’s not often that you can place a Ricoh MP W7100 in the field. In most cases the Ricoh MP W6700SP is more popular because of the lower price point from the Ricoh MP W7100. It’s also about the print speed too. The W7100 will print at ten pages per minute. The Ricoh MP W6700 prints at 6.7 pages per minute. Our existing client had an older Ricoh W2470 (owned) and the Ricoh W5140 (end of lease) in place. However, their volume has increased to about twenty thousand square feet a...
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Xerox Global Rumors today
Today is the day from what I hear that all global and Xerox peeps will be on a call from the mother ship. Heard but cant confirm there will be massive lay-offs. Carl is going to get his way
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Working Mother Names Lexmark Among 2018 “100 Best Companies”
Working Mother Names Lexmark Among 2018 “100 Best Companies” Lexmark, a global imaging solutions leader, today announced that Working Mother has once again named Lexmark among its annual “100 Best Companies.” The 2018 list was announced today. The designation celebrates companies that lead in the areas of female career advancement, paid parental leave, childcare assistance, benefits and flextime. “Lexmark is proud to once again be among Working Mother Media’s 100 Best Companies,” said Sharon...
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Working on my Annual Ricoh Christmas Blog (could use some help)
if you had a wish list for Ricoh. What would you ask for Christmas? Also you're not a Ricoh dealer what would you wish for from your manufacturer?
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Teen Fashion Designer Ariel Swedroe to Speak at EFI Connect 2019
Teen Fashion Designer Ariel Swedroe to Speak at EFI Connect 2019 Fireside chat will highlight Ariel’s amazing story and share her vision of the future of textiles and apparel FREMONT, California -- January 17, 2019 -- Electronics For Imaging, Inc. (Nasdaq :EFII ) today reported that teen fashion designer Ariel Swedroe will be featured in a special “Future of Print” keynote session at the upcoming EFI™ Connect conference in Las Vegas, January 22-25. Swedroe, whose company is Swedroe by Ariel,...
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Working Mother Names Lexmark One of the “Best Companies For Dads
Working Mother Names Lexmark One of the “Best Companies For Dads” Lexmark was one of 35 companies recognized on this year’s list. Lexmark, a global imaging solutions leader, was honored yesterday as Working Mother revealed its first list of “ Best Companies for Dads, ” celebrating organizations that lead in the areas of paternity leave, phase-back programs, telecommuting opportunities, flexible schedules, and more. Lexmark was one of 35 companies recognized on this year’s list. “Millennial...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Twenty-Two of Sales
Ah day twenty-two which marks a full selling month of working remote. No driving, no buying coffee, no traffic, no rude drivers, no tolls, no gas and not many buyers was the plot of month one. Wow, could I really still be working remote for another month? Many times when I'm in the office and cutting it up with new reps I'll pose this question to them, "what type of day is it today?". Then I wait and wait and finally I'm told it's rainy, sunny, warm or cold. I then tell them the correct...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Twenty-Eight of Sales
Yay it's Thursday and that means it's time for the Greg & Art lunch chat hour! Today was a great chat session and there were some chats about post recovery and how we can add our experiences to our value proposition. Another awesome question was posed as to how dealers are getting their PPE gear. I never even thought about the PPE thing. Drivers, techs, installers and maybe even sales people could be required to don PPE gear when entering an office now and in the future. In addition we...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Twenty-Nine of Sales
Another day another dollar, you never know what tomorrow will bring you, the harder you work the luckier you get. If you're a consistent follower of my blogs you'll see that I use those statements quite often when blogging. I've never shied away from hard work in fact I quit high school in mid-way through the 11th grade because I wanted to make money. Yes, I had the desire and the determination to make money but I was missing one key factor. At sixteen I didn't know how to work hard or maybe...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Nine of Sales
Yay! It's 4:47pm and I'm getting to write my blog for the day. In order to stay sane with each passing week I'll turn to jibjab and create some ecards for my team members. It's easy to do because you can get their images from facebook, instagram or Linkedin. Today I had some extra time to search for ecards where I could input 5 people. No on is safe from these videos! I had time to cut three of them today. Just a few minutes ago I sent them to our team with the subject line "a little pick me...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Five of Sales
I'm not sure where to start...., the fact that the tri-state area is closed except for essential businesses, New Jersey is now in the top three of Corona Virus infections, the 8PM-5AM curfew in effect in NJ, the State of New Jersey releasing 1,000 prisoners from jail because they may have been exposed to the virus. I guess my message to everyone is that every day that passes we're getting closer to the day that all of this will be over. The fact that I'm continuing to work and prospect (not...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Three of Sales
Starting today my wife is now working from home, thus I had the pleasure of setting her office up in one of our spare bed rooms. I really do hate being the IT guy at home. Never fails that it's my fault that when there's a network or connectivity issue. Never the less that telechat appointment I had for this AM cancelled early and rescheduled for next week. The only saving grace to the day is that one of my clients asked me to provide them with final docs for a wide format MFP. Not holding...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Eight of Sales
There's no light at the end of tunnel. My thought is that the tri-state area will peak before the other parts of the country, thus while we're going down other geo areas will still be fighting the battle. If someone asked me to guess, I'd guess that we're another three weeks away from the lock down being lifted. Think about that..., that would be make it six weeks! That's more than ten percent of the year and I still have weeks of vacation to take. Hitting numbers is going to be a challenge,...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Nine of Sales
Sorry everyone, I'm going to make this short and sweet tonight. On a positive note today I receive and email from one of my clients that they like the first of 2 proposals that they reviewed and is looking at a May 1st timeline to move forward. Now I won't count my chickens yet, but that's the best news I've had all week. We scheduled a follow up in two weeks to see if we're still at square one with this virus. Oh ya, and this is a $60K opp. I had a chat with Greg Walters this AM and he told...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Six of Sales
Day Six and not much relief in site in New Jersey. We're still in lock down mode and now have the second largest number of infections in the US. There's a few cluster of infections in New Jersey that keep growing at an alarming rate. As of today there are no infections in the town where I live, however I don't think that will hold up much longer since more surrounding towns are reporting higher infections. Maybe the only savings grace is that we have the Ocean to east and the Bay to the...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Twelve of Sales
I'm going to start this a little different tonight. I'll start at the end of my day because that part of the day had a profound effect on the rest of the evening. Earlier in the day I text'd one of my clients that I have an opportunity with. The text was simple with "how you holding up". Since the churches are closed in NJ, I opted for the text rather than the call. I was also mildly concerned since there were many cases of the virus in his town and he's a bit older than me. Thirty of forty...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Thirty of Sales
Mondays, whether you hate or love them Mondays can sometimes define your week. Do you have a favorite Monday song? Mine is "I don't like Mondays " by the Boomtown Rats. Yes the eighties, yes I'm a boomer and yes the eighties was an incredible time to cut your teeth in the copier industry. I could write some stories that would rock your world because they surely did rock mine. Some of you reading this blog may have heard me tell you about the eighties and it's something I just may put in...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Thirty-Two of Sales
Yay! Our Governor is opening State and County Parks on May 2nd....with conditions with social distancing. Getting to hate that "social" crap. Many people are furious in New Jersey about the handling of the shut down along with not having the ability to get outside. After pressure the Gov caved to the pressure. However, here's what I think, we'll have such an influx to the parks and beaches from knuckle heads (govs favorite word) and out of state peeps that he will close the parks on Monday.
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Thirty-Five of Sales
During the month of April we posted 66 blog and videos. Special thanx to Ray and Larry for their contributions. In my twenty years of hosting this site I've never seen this much inaction from the copier manufacturers. Just today I heard from an unnamed source (frak I always wanted to write that), that XBS former Global has axed up to 50% of their Market Place Presidents. A few days ago there was a another thread about lay-offs from Kyocera. Really? Does it really need to be this way? When...
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Epson Kicks Off Social Media #FastFotoSweepstakes Featuring Lucille and Shaquille O’Neal to Honor Moms this Mother’s Day
LONG BEACH, Calif. – May 4, 2020 – As Mother’s Day approaches, you might be asking yourself, how do I make mom feel special this year as most of the nation remains at home? To help recognize and celebrate moms everywhere, Epson is sponsoring a social media #FastFotoSweepstakes to honor moms and encourage families to share their stories and wish all mother figures a very happy Mother’s Day along with special $499 pricing on its award-winning FastFoto ® Wireless High-Speed Photo Scanner .
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Thirty-Six of Sales
Working from home is something I never liked doing. In the past I've worked from my office when there were snow days, bad weather or days leading up to and after a major holiday. The reason I never liked working from home is because I can get distracting with other items when my mind roams. Whether it's watching the news, tending to the yard or just fix something that I've been itching to fix for a long time. I guess it's my adult ADD. A few weeks ago I decided to write my self a little note...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Thirty-Four of Sales
Tomorrow is going to be awesome! Finally some sun and some warmth with temps in the seventies, we might be a little cooler at the beach but I'll take it over the cold and damp days of late. Tonight's going to be a really short blog, it's late and I'm beat plus I'm looking to get a head start on tomorrow. Two meetings were on tap for today. One of the meetings was to move a BDR opportunity closer to the finish line which we did. My other meeting was with a Municipal IT DM to ask some...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-One of Sales
I guess the day is not over until it's over. Tonight I received text from a good industry friend of mine with some rather bad news. Seems two calls went out to two groups of employees from Canon. Those that were on one call were laid-off with no future employment, those on the other call were furloughed and hopefully will be getting their jobs back at some point in time. My source could not tell me how many were affected but stated "a large group of employees, each call was no longer than 15...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Three of Sales
This is the first night since I started writing this blog series that I wasn't sure what I was going to write about. After 43 days of writing how much more can you cover or how much more content can you provide for other peeps with help they might need. Tonight I'd like to cover a few things I've been doing everyday other than taking the occasional break and lunch. Many weeks ago I learned that I can't work with the TV on in my office. It's too distracting especially when I have the news on...
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Re: The Crowley Company at AIIM / On Demand 2009 (video)
"Well my name is Donnie. I'm thirty-five and live with my mother...not REALLY with her. I have my own place, it's in the basement and it has a door that goes directly outside so I don't have to go upstairs to leave the house. I used to have a girlfriend, OK, so she lived next door and even if we never went out together I once saw her in her underwear one night when she left the curtains open. It's really only because of the restraining order that I haven't asked her out on real date........
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Re: HP has $8.9B loss on expected charge for EDS flop
HP's revenue in 2011 was 127.24 Billion. Word on the street is this is just house cleaning writing down EDS and dealing with payouts from the mergers all in one fiscal year. Cant see it sending them under, funny though - a 4 Billion loss nearly/probably sends Sharp under and this while its far from ideal wont sink the mother ship!
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
I would disagree, the CDC notes that there is a disparity in infant mortality rates. Examples of Important Disparities Infant mortality among African Americans in 2000 occurred at a rate of 14.1 deaths per 1,000 live births.2 This is more than twice the national average of 6.9 deaths per 1,000 live births. The leading causes of infant death include congenital abnormalities, pre-term/low birth weight, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), problems related to complications of pregnancy, and...
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Re: Vote for Me???
Wow, I was feeling OK about what I emailed in until I read this. Art's mother couldn't have said it better.
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Re: Irene
Art...I hope you are spared from mother nature but she is not letting up. Glad to hear you live on a hill that should help as long as you spared from the winds. Good friend of mine was a consultant working on a project for Discovery Channel in DC when the quake hit. He was freaking out being on the 7th floor and everything was falling to the floor. He said it actually put a decent size crack in the Washington Monument so they closed it down to the public. Then when he was flying back to...
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Re: 2232/2238 Any good?
2232/2238, I would sell one to my mother and her mother (well maybe not her mother)!
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Re: Sometimes, you may need to pull out the Toshiba card
I was just discussing this with someone the other day who came to work for me from Toshiba. i told him it was difficult to find a while lot of info on this subject and he told me he thought Toshiba had dumped a while lot of money into making this go away.
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Re: Sometimes, you may need to pull out the Toshiba card
About three years ago, on the original blog site. I wrote a few articles about Japanese Copier companies (as we know them today) and what they manufactured during World War II.
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Yup, this pretty much sums it up.
Yup, this pretty much sums it up.>> Because I'm a man, when I lock my keys in the car I will fiddle with a> coat hanger long after hypothermia has set in. The AAA is not an> option. I will win.>> Because I'm a man, when the car isn't...
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Fiery E820/Lanier 5813/Ricoh6513
My problem started with fiery freezing up or not getting very far in the boot process, tried a couple of different HD's didn't help. I eventually put in vid card and ran spinrite, when it got part way through third partition it froze machine. Since...
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Xerox 6030-6050
This machine is so bad that most of the Xerox dealers in the country have elected not to sell it. The system was designed by Fuji Xerox as a six copy and nine copy per minute solution. It simply does not meet American standards. At its best, which is...
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Xerox goes all Fuji
Xerox goes all Fuji The word is that ?Mother X? in her infinite wisdom has decided to become an all Fuji shop. Hopefully this means that we will not have more debacles like the 6030 ? 6050 to look forward to. Our understanding is that the contract...
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Emily Laura Kaprinski
As you may or may not know my wife and I have been going through adoption. On Monday we flew down to San Antonio, Texas to meet our birth mother. Then on Wednesday morning Emily Laura Kaprinski was born.Stats:8 lbs. 10 oz. 20 in. and the birth time...