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This evening I had a call with one my friends in the office equipment industry. Our chat was to introduce one on our long time members via a Better Call Art video. We'll have that video ready in a few days. The last question I asked inspired me to write this blog today for everyone. I just love the word "inspired" and I try to capture that everyday. How Can I Help You Of course our topics were all over the place, however I want to focus one of the questions that I always ask and that is "how...

One of my first jobs was that of a paper boy when I was growing up in Iselin,New Jersey.   I'm thinking I started my first paper route at 12 and did that until 16.  At a young age I had to collect money, work for tips and also face...

Amen, to the paper boy gig. I actually had one at 11, lied about my age. In addition to my 2 cent per paper profit, and tips, I would offer taking out garbage cans, shoveling, and other services. Kinda like offering solutions, mps, other office products with a better profit margin. Passion, work ethic, and with some creativity it yields a great career in the wonderful world of sales where every day is different.

Seems like everyone was a paper boy in those days. I started when I was 10. Can't believe people acutally waited until 4:00pm during the week to get their news back then (early 80's). Also can't believe they trusted a 10 year old with that much responsibility and that you can't anymore. I guess we've all been in the document management/information management a lot longer than we think. I can still remember the smell of the paper as I rolled them and rubber banded them watching Tom and Jerry...

js that was awesome! Bringing back the smell of the newspapers! What about the thunder storms that soaked us while we were on the route. I can remember dropping off many soggy papers. I guess us old paperboys make great copier sales people