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Re: office360 equipment leads
I haven't tried them yet. Still using Buyer Zone but they do email me about once a week wanting me to try it out. What are the details when you say "couple thousand minimum purchase"...They want you to prepay that amount?? We are using EDA Data now as well.
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Re: office360 equipment leads
Thanks Monte. At first I was shocked at the 1,000 a month commitment but I don't know why as we were doing around 1,000 a month with buyer zone until the leads became junk.
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Re: Japan Crisis
Fukushima Evacuees to Return to Exclusion Zone to Check Property Story tools print this storyorder a reprintsuggest a storydigg thissave to del.icio.usSept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- About 20,000 families from the exclusion zone around Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will be allowed to return to their homes from Sept. 19 to collect belongings and check their properties. They will be permitted to return in their own cars for the first time, said Masato Kino, spokesman at the Emergency...
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Re: Ricoh Pro C901/901s+
As of today, nothing has been posted on info-zone, I will share once I have it
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Re: CompTIA CDIA+(Certified Document Imaging Architech)
Here are the certification objectives taken off the Comptia website
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Re: Feature Article for February "BuyerZone.com Friend or Foe"?
Just a follow up for Buyer Zone, a few more things that irked me. When you register you are told that you are one of six preferred vendors. I double check and yes, we were one of six. They sent me a list of the six vendors that would contact me. After a week, I received a call from Xerox and another dealer and they were not on the original lease. I can only assume that 6-9 dealers or manufacturers are contacting the end users. What a way to start a price WAR!!! In recent recent weeks, I have...
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Re: Autostore
Since you have completed the 3 day training. I can talk specific functionality. The software I would show you and that you can download has the following functions: ODBC connectivity (allows the software to talk to users ERP data), expanded 2D/3D bar code, Zone or full page OCR (superb OCR quality), OMR, Forms Recognition, etc. When you have a prospect, get real world sample documents from them. Send the documents via email to me and briefly describe what they want to do. I will setup a...
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Re: Buyer Zone: Yay or Nay?
John, we are using buyer zone. A large majority of the leads have been garbage with people wanting to spend anywhere from 100-1000 dollars. If you have a good case as to why a lead didn't work they will credit them. I have had a few leads come through that we have closed big machines that were profitable so for now we are going to continue to use it. We also capped our monthly expenditure at around 600.00. A rep I just hired from a dealer out west swears by buyer zone and has said several...
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Re: Buyer Zone: Yay or Nay?
I'll add this as well. Buyer zone has it figured out. You can't search for anything related to this industry and they don't show up first in search engines.
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Re: Buyer Zone: Yay or Nay?
interesting, there's not even an open spot for buyer zone here in NJ.
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Re: Buyer Zone: Yay or Nay?
Spoke to buyer zone yesterday and had a nice conversation with the lady about how the leads coming through were garbage and aren't in the business of selling 300.00 mfp's. I told her their biggest mistake was getting rid of the pricing thresholds. She said some of their copier vendors request those garbage 300.00 leads which I find hard to believe. I told her we were going to drop the service unless she did something for us. In the end she said they would credit any lead that we couldn't get...
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Re: Global Scan NX Server 32 Question
Art, I never did a lot with Global Scan when I was at Ricoh Business Systems \ Boston but I have done some work with OCR and large format. It is not an easy task. The amount of data that has to be processed, especially since most of the Wide Format is drawings and not text. If you can set a specific zone to OCR maybe it would work better. But at least the last time I looked at it, it didn't turn out very successful. Again, I didn't use GlobalScan, so maybe it will turn out better for you.
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago, The Third Week in January 2014
Enjoy the threads from 5 years a go this week! Topic Five Vendors Earn Winter 2014 BLI “Picks” in the A3 Color Category Art Post · 1/23/145:35 PM buyers. Konica Minolta Business Solutions, U .S.A., Inc. Konica Minolta bizhub C 364e Outstanding 31- to 40-ppm A3 Color MFP Konica Minolta bizhub C 454e Outstanding 41- to 50-ppm A3 Color MFP KYOCERA Document Solutions America, Inc. KYOCERA TASKalfa 5551ci (Also sold under the Copystar brand) Outstanding 51- to 60-ppm A3 Color MFP Ricoh Americas...
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How Well Are You Creating Visibility? My Journey To Outbound 2019!
Those close to me, who know the real me, know I have no problem asking for help. Asking for help is not a sign of weakness. It's an opportunity to expand your horizons. I'm simply amazed by the amount of people who simply fail to ask for help. I've made it my mission to educate, engage and excite all those inside the sales world. Sales leaders and their sales teams must stand up, unite and transform how they go to market in a world full of sales mediocrity (I'm being nice). I believe every...
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How Authenticity Can Maximize Your Prospecting Results
Authenticity is one of the biggest challenges for salespeople in a profession riddled with scrupulous, fake and disingenuous sales reps; that quite frankly many buyers despise them. However, authenticity separates sales reps from sales professionals and this is what buyers want! It may sound a bit touchy-feely but set aside some alone time, take a look inside yourself as sales is all about building credible, genuine and real relationships. In order to build relationships and change the way...
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HP Pushes the Boundaries of Digital Creativity
October 15, 2018 09:05 ET | Source: HP Inc. News highlights: HP ZBooks add powerful new features to boost performance and productivity Z Club invites elite creators to experience the power of Z by HP cutting-edge solutions HP SmartStream Designer for Designers provides limitless possibilities for print and packaging LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today at Adobe® MAX , HP Inc. announced a bold new push to deliver the next generation of technology solutions for the world’s...
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Slumps Happen... 3 Tips To Beat the Sales Funk
Just keep swinging... It’s happened to all of us: One month, we're hitting home runs out of the sales ball park; the next, we're swinging and missing on every sales opportunity. We've all been aboard the sales train wreck before. You fail to secure an important sale. You have a series of bad days. Worse, you struggle to sell to your own clients. You can't seem to disentangle yourself from its deadly grip. You're in a sales slump. Even heavy sales hitters have bad days, bad months and even...
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Hughes Achieves Verifone Managed Network Service Provider Certification
GERMANTOWN, Md. , Jan. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), a leading provider of managed network services under its HughesON™ brand, today announced its certification as a Verifone Managed Network Service Provider (MNSP). This certification enables the company to offer Verifone POS retail customers an easy and seamless transition to a PCI-compliant solution compatible with outdoor Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) chip-card readers, replacing the discontinued...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of April 2014)
When I started in the business I was told all you have to get through is the first five years and then the rest is gravy. Meaning you could live off your lease renewals. I'm thinking that was a BIG fat lie! Enjoy these threads from ten years ago this week! Ricoh's Streamline NX can help organizations improve document management productivity and reduce costs Art Post · 4/15/148:32 PM printers giving them the same user experience they have on Ricoh MFPs. Mobile printing with Hotspot Enterprise...
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Putting a Strategic Vision into Action with Hoshin Kanri
8:30 a.m. in Germany is 2:30 a.m. in my native east coast U.S. time zone. I was jet lagged from the previous day’s flight. It was already hot, and there was no air conditioning in the conference room of the hotel in Bad Wörishofen. Coffee. Europe has the best coffee. My discomfort alleviated, I still did not expect that this day in July of 2016 would have such a profound impact on DocuWare and the way we operate. This was the first day of a workshop that introduced our senior management team...
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Epson Certified Solution Center Now Open at Equipment Zone in New Jersey
LONG BEACH, Calif. , Dec. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Epson today announced Equipment Zone in New Jersey has opened its Epson Certified Solution Center. As the first Epson Certified Solution center located on the East Coast, potential Epson customers can visit Equipment Zone to engage with product experts and run test print samples using their own files on the Epson dye-sublimation, signage, photography, and direct-to-garment (DTG) solutions. "We want to encourage customers to create innovative...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (First Week of February 2005)
Struggle, struggle and more struggle seems to the topic for the month of January. I'm in a slump and need to pull out of it. Today I had three planned calls after driving back from our 2020 Kick-off meeting yesterday. It was more of laying the seeds to reap in coming months, actually more like the third quarter for this year. Two calls went well and the other company moved on me. Thus, I need to do more leg work. Seems next week will be a complete week of working the phones and emails! Enjoy...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (First Week of February 2015)
Do you want to relive the madness from 5 years ago when Sharp was sinking fast? If so we've got many of those threads in this weeks edition of what went on in the copier industry 5 years ago. Foxconn and the people have done an excellent job in rebuilding the brand, the programs and adding quality dealers! Enjoy These Threads from 5 Years Ago This Week! Bid Tabulation for Canon, Lanier & Toshiba for 180 plus Copiers Art Post · 2/7/1511:41 PM...
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SolarWinds Report Shows Managed Services Remain Healthy and Profitable
DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today released the findings of its “2019 Trends in Managed Services” report , showing the health of managed services and the forces shaping the market across North America and Europe . SolarWinds MSP partners with The 2112 Group to create the annual report from findings based on data from its benchmarking tool, MSP Pulse , which provides deep insight into potential...
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Re: Bates Stamping MP4500sp
IPro is one of Ricoh's new 3rd party solution providers and they have a product that has a built in "bates" solution. I have not had time to research it yet but I will see it in September at the Ricoh Developers Conference. Here is a small brochure i found.
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
Just confirmed that the defense department is buying 1500 Chevy Volts. What a joke. They want the military to be more Green. Can just see it now when our brave men and women in uniform have to stop to plug in thier volt to charge it. I am sure that electricity is no problem in a war zone. So the Government is going to spend $30K+ per volt to help prop up government motors who loses $49K on each volt sold. That makes the total somewhere around $79k per car since we essentially own GM. I would...
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
If Obama or Romney can increase the USA's GDP over the next four years it will be an economic Houdini. From CNBC: "Caterpillar, the world's largest maker of earth-moving equipment, has cut its 2015 earnings forecast, citing weak global economic conditions that are hampering its expansion into mining and China." "We've seen a slowing in economic growth more than we expected," Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman told analysts and reporters on Monday. "We expect fairly anemic and modest growth...
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Re: Ricoh Stops Operations at three key plants!!
Hey Art, Didn't notice your question till now. I do not know for sure. I know that so much of the hardware are built in China/Taiwan/etc and that most Japan-based manufacturing facilities are nowhere near the tsunami zone, so there is no actual damage to the plants. That said, the factories, shipping operations, and corporate HQs are certainly not back to business as usual so I would think there would be some disruption. I was at the Sharp dealer meetings and Ed McLaughlin said that their...
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Re: Tohuko is NOT in Evacuation Zone.. new clarification
Hi Art, Nuclear Power Plant is actually far south from your map. The correct distance to Tohoku Ricoh is 74.5km (46 miles), so it is out of evacuation zone.
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Re: Toner Shipping Costs
deanw - You may want to look & see if your company is adding a "Handling Fee". $21.00 in shipping sounds high for 1 toner ctg to a Zone 2 UPS acct. If so, thats something you may want to bring up with management. Also, is that cust you were looking at the freight bill on running his biz out of his home? UPS Charges I think $3-4 extra for home deliveries. But you are right, people really do scrutinize their freight charges these days.
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Re: Searchable PDFs processed by the Copier
When Ricoh came in to launch the MP 2353/2852/3353 we were told the same thing. However, there is nothing in print including the Competitive Zone which is supposed to be the results of testing everything.
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Re: Lead Generation Sites
Well, Buyers Zone, however here in NJ market they are full and have eight vendors giving quotes it's a dam **** show. However, if I can get in I would be cause paying $15 per lead is not the value, too me it's the introduction and the contact for a new account. I may not get them today, however I'm in for the long haul and I won't let em go once I have them. Again here in NJ they are giving the equipment away with these leads. I also recommend Jesse at Pahoda Imaging, he has a banner link...
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Re: Download from Doc Mall
DocumentMall uses a Java applet to upload and download documents. There are some instances of Internet Explorer where the security settings do not allow Java and ActiveX or the Java virtual Machine is out of date. To resolve these problems update the Java, Clear Temporary Internet Files and Cookies, and add DocumentMall to Internet Explorers Trusted Sites. Please see steps below. Update Java 1. Click the Profile Icon on far right of the DocumentMall toolbar. 2. Go to the bottom of the Page...
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Re: Around The World with Ricoh
Beijing Walking Race Game The first Beijing Walking Race Game was held in 1981. As once per year, it has been held 22 times till now. Among them, the “The 22nd Beijing 21km Walking Race Game” in year 2002 was wholly sponsored by Ricoh. On the basis of this year’s slogan “Young Olympic, Vigorous Beijing”, which has been endued by the walking race game organization committee, the committee is exerting to make the game a high standard, large scale, international sports event to attract more...
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Weekend Copier Notes from 08/10/08
WEEKEND MFP INDUSTRY NOTES8-10-08The following is a quick review of copier/MFP industry news from industry publications.- Hewlett Packard announced that a print shop is using a new HP Indigo 5000, to create variable data, full color promos for...
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Feature Article for February "BuyerZone.com Friend or Foe"?
BuyerZone.com Friend or Foe?It seems everyone wants to move boxes. We've said this all along; more boxes generate more clicks for service and more clicks for supplies.Lets face some hard facts, Internet Buying is here and it’s not going to go...
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2018D MFP
Setting this machine up in the shop today.All went OK after I dicovered a reversed connector on the control panel. I got it that the time zone here is -5 hrs from GMT but the daylight saving time setting look like they want me to input the start and...
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Weekend Copier Notes from 06/28/09
WEEKEND MFP INDUSTRY NOTES 6-28-09 The following is a quick review of copier/MFP industry news from various trade publications. Canon’s executive vice president of research & development, Toshiaki Ikoma, was interviewed recently and made following comments: - Will gradually shift from make-everything-in-house approach to open style I which Canon purchases and licenses technologies from other firms - “I will primarily focus on deepening and broadening the company’s...
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CANON U.S.A. ANNOUNCES NEW AFFORDABLE PIXMA AND SELPHY PRINTERS FOR A WIDE RANGE OF U
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., July, 7 2009 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today announced the addition of two new PIXMA Photo All-In-One (AIO) Printers along with one new SELPHY Compact Photo Printer. The two new PIXMA printers utilize...
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Weekend Industry Notes from 08/23/09
Weekend MFP Industry Notes Newsletter8-23-09Lyra Research predicts that worldwide color MFP revenue will grow in 2010 and 2011, in spite of a weak economy. It predicts total revenue will grow from current $18 billion to over $21 billion. The company...
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OKI Data Announces Availability of High-Performance A3 Copier-Based Colour Multifunct
OKI Data Announces Availability of High-Performance A3 Copier-Based Colour Multifunction Devices in Canada, Further Expanding its Award-Winning Product PortfolioCX3535/CX4545 models deliver high print speeds, impressive colour output, competitive cost...
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One of the most glaring examples of overspending he said he found was in the cost of
By Bill Lawson/Staff WriterThursday, January 12, 2012 4:11 PM CST Jerry Guess Last June when the Arkansas Department of Education took over the Pulaski County Special School District, there was an outcry from some that the district wasn’t in bad...
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Equipment executives outline technology trends
Equipment executives outline technology trendsBy CBT StaffOct 15, 2010The paperless office is still a green pipe dream for the most part in America, but office technology management is rapidly evolving and moving in that direction.Many companies now...
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EFI Product Marketing Sites
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