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Re: Samsung Copier Million Page Test "A Tree Massacre"
Art, I think Samsung needed to do this test to shut the mouths of the critics. Now anyone who wonders or asks if the Samsungs are reliable will get a link to this test. My Service guys tell me that the Samsungs have been working well! And the new MX series with the Android (OS) Tablet has been very cool. That wish list item that you asked Ricoh for has already been delivered by Samsung! I have just worked with a 3rd party tech company to get the first non-Samsung Android App ported to the...
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Re: Samsung Copier Million Page Test "A Tree Massacre"
Seems my Blog about the million page test was not that well received with Samsung. They complained to ENX Magazine who then pulled the blog off their site. Whatever happened to FREE Press? They were not happy that I pointed out that they used "x" amount of tree's for a 1980's type test! Since Samsung spends money with ENX, ENX pulled the blogs and is not posting any of my latest stuff. You know what, as far as I'm concerned we here this finance stuff about Sharp, Toshiba and none of the...
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Re: Samsung Copier Million Page Test "A Tree Massacre"
On average for every tree taken down in US for paper it is replaced by three new ones This is one of the reasons there are more trees in US than in past Dan Schmidt (sent from mobile device) > On Nov 23, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Print4Pay Hotel < alerts@hoop.la > wrote: >
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Second Week in January 2004
Fifteen years ago I was not blogging about our industry. Most of what you'll see below is threads from P4P'ers asking and answering questions. The Print4Pay Hotel forums offers our members the opportunity to post questions, answers, news or maybe you want to blow off some steam. If you do here's a link to our forums. Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week! Ricoh Demonstrates Its Dedication 1/9/049:25 AM manufacturing, distribution, use and the recycling of its products. Sustainable...
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Attention Sales Leaders... Are Your Sales Reps Invested?
The single biggest piece of investment advice: Invest in Yourself! Let's face it, it’s almost impossible to increase your income without first becoming a better sales professional. In order to obtain better investment results, one must first become a better investor. This means some of your investment must be diversified. How many on your sales team invest in themselves? YOUR sales team is the most important thing you can place your time and money on. Are you teaching them to invest? THEIR...
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A Few Copier Vignettes from the Late Eighties & Nineties
The picture in the header showed our demo room back in either 1989 or 1990, might have even been 1991. As you can see by the photo Atlantic Office Systems (the first one in NJ) was Authorized for Adler Royal, Brother, and Tele VaxaFax (facsimile). Sometime later Adler Royal was purchased by Mita and the Adler Royal brand was changed to Copystar. I thoroughly hated the name Copystar because there was no brand recognition, at least with Adler Royal, our clients knew about Royal typewriters. We...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Second Week in September 2003
I took the time to re-read and correct some of the grammar and spelling issues that plagued me from many years ago. I'm a copier sales person and not an English major. Please excuse typo's or grammar. Anyway, I must have wrote this after the Ricoh purchase of Ikon and the title "MFP Wars". After the re-read, I realized that we're still fighting the MFP Wars, whether it's the low cost per pages that are low balled or the continuing battle of A3 vs A4. Somethings never change. Enjoy the...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago, The Second Week in September 2013
Here they are. Our top threads from five years ago in the Print4Pay Hotel RICOH UNVEILS NEW AWARD-WINNING SOLUTIONS AT PRINT 13, PROVIDING SUPERIOR CONTROL FOR PERSONALIZED DOCUMENTS Art Post · 9/9/138:07 PM shops today and allows operators to easily implement logic-based ticketing, and choose media and finishing options that apply to statements of variable lengths - achieving identical output across Ricoh , Xerox and Kodak devices, saving time and increasing asset utilization in the...
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The Copier Industry Fast Forward Twenty Years
The year is 2039. It's hard to believe that it's been 15 years since the mighty Xerox Corporation folded. One remembers that statement in December of 2018 that touted Xerox "Unable to Adjust". My how the mighty have fallen. It wasn't only Xerox that fell to the paperless society that we now see today. Canon Let's take a trip back to late 2022, it was late in November that Canon announced that they were going to cease to manufacturing A3 multi-functional devices. That decision was made...
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Sales Professionals Chase Excellence, Not Shiny Objects
Look into my eyes, you're getting sleepy, you're getting real sleepy, your eyelids are getting droopy, are you hypnotized yet by all the social noise? I encourage all of you, please take off the dark sun glasses and stop chasing shiny "social" objects! In Hey Sales Leaders... 3 Reasons Why Your Sales Teams "Social" ROI Sucks! I shared my opinion that social has always been a part of sales. It is about building relationships and changing the way people think as now we have more tools to build...
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Attention Sales Leaders... Take A Look At Your Sales Team, And Then Make A Change!
The late great Michael Jackson, "If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make that change" Your clients and prospects are using digital content to make their purchasing decisions, and what are you doing about it? The ironic thing, you and your sales team use digital content to make purchasing decisions. An overwhelming majority (89%) of B2B researchers use the internet in their research process. Selling in today’s ultra-connected, fast paced business...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Last Week in November 2008
I guess the BIG news of the week from ten years ago was ere 50 cuts that Ricoh performed that week. However, that was right after the IKON purchase and within four months (end of Japanese) there was to be major cuts with high level legacy employees. Seems to me that one of the covenants if the Ricoh purchase was that all high level Ikon peeps would replace those at Ricoh. AS Vince would say "that's my two cents". Enjoy all of the threads from ten years ago this week. Weekend Copier Notes...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Third Week of February 2010)
Still chatting about today. It was an awesome day for me. For something that I didn't think I would perform well in, let's just say I nailed it. Yes, there's still plenty of fight in this old dog when it comes to selling! Enjoy these threads from Ten Years Ago This Week! Océ and Konica Minolta revise production print alliance Guest · 2/17/1010:21 PM marketing manager for production printing at Konica Minolta Australia, told ProPrint the two companies will continue to sell OEM products under...
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How One Simple (Smart Phone/Tablet) Print App Can Help You Close More Orders!
In advance of our Print Analyze App (smart phones & tablets) that is scheduled for February 9th & February 15th , I asked Jean Francois LE BRIZE to provide me with the same story that he told me at my first webinar a few months ago. Below is the blog from Jean: Thereis not a lot of software aimed at the salesman in the Imaging business. Among them, PrintAnalyze Full. PrintAnalyze Full is a cloud solution: the Salesman can perform audits, retrieve meters, calculate a...
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BYOB... It is Not What you are Thinking...
Those good ol' college days... What to bring, a six or twelve pack? Case or Keg? Those BYOB quandaries. This quandary had me thinking, is it appropriate to BYOB to your own sales party? Of course it is as you should always be Building Your Own Brand. "Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms." Simon Mainwaring We all agree, a company's brand is one of the most important factors to its ongoing...
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Contex HDiFLEX Scanner Spec/Feature Review
Many years ago, you couldn't buy a copy machine with an automatic document feeder. It was, as I called it, "one on and one off", meaning you could only place one document at a time of the glass platen. What a drag that was, right? Back in...
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Samsung Copier Million Page Test "A Tree Massacre"
I recently saw caught a google alert in reference to a test that was done on a Samsung Multi-Functional Copier the other day. I thought, wow that's kinda cool, and dismissed it as a link that I didn't need to post on the site. ...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of November 2004
Ten Years ago, this grabbed the top Headline on the Print4Pay Hotel forums. Konica Minolta Business Solutions, Windsor, Conn., recently introduced the bizhub PRO 1050, a 105 page-per-minute (ppm) printer/copier, which contains over 150...
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Share The Wonder of New Technology With Your Prospects and Clients
Yesterday I joined Tim Cook in child-like wonder as he demonstrated how to answer a phone call on a watch—something I’ve wanted to do since I was a child. It was a simple and powerful moment. Of the long list of incredible things an...
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Two severe Windows vulnerabilities addressed, another two unpatched
Windows users might have noticed that on the morning of Nov. 13, they were greeted with a large number of updates for their systems. This is all too common of a problem for IT departments as they scramble to patch servers, desktop computers and...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Second Week of June 2004
Happy Father's Day! In just two weeks, we'll have run through the first half of the year. How time does fly! I've commented to my wife on many occasions that when your job comes down to monthly and quarterly numbers, it seems that...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Fourth Week of March 2004)
NASA succeeds in a second attempt to fly its X-43A experimental airplane from the Hyper-X project, attaining speeds in excess of Mach 7, the fastest ever air-breathing hypersonic flight. ...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago First Week of April 2004)
10 Years ago this week the University of Connecticut becomes the first NCAA Division I school to win the men's and the women's U.S. amateur national basketball championships in the same season, after the women's team three-peats . Scan...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago (2nd Week of January 2004)
Seemed like the news on the world stage was not that eventful ten years ago. Thus a little blurb about my favorite jeans. Levi Strauss & Co. shuts its last U.S. jeans sewing plant in San Antonio, ending all U.S. manufacturing as it shifts to a contract production model. The closure ends a "Made in the U.S.A." tradition dating back to the 1870s. Enjoy the threads from ten tears ago! Death of a Xerox 425 1/7/04 8:05 PM Topic by Guest Can't believe the...
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Is The Time Right for Copiers to be Made in The USA Again?
If you've been in the copier industry as long as I have, then you'll remember that Xerox and Kodak manufactured copiers in United States. In later years Kodak removed themselves from the SMB market for copiers and Xerox finally succumbed to outsourcing their copier manufacturing to Fuji-Xerox. In a recent press release HP stated they wanted to reinvent the $55 billion dollar copier industry. Since, I'm looking for numbers, I figured the evaluation of the entire copier industry was a good...
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57 Days of Selling "Day 45"
It's Friday evening, just about 10:30PM. I've finishing watching my Friday night series of "Z Nation" & "Gold Rush" and have put away a couple of Bahama Mamas for a night cap. I've often wondered how many other sales rep get a rush every time one of the three gold crews come up big with their weekly clean up of the wash plant. For me, it's prospecting 101 and digging in the dirt to find that gold streak, well, it's something we do every day. We're just not digging in the dirt. LOL, I'm...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago The Third Week of August 2006
So, one of the topics below focuses on obtaining "dirt" about another brand of copier. If used properly "dirt" can win you the order and when used improperly, "dirt" can los you the deal. You need to know when you can and can't use "dirt", that my friends can only come from years of experience and using some trial talks tracks during your appointment to see if you can or can't use "dirt". For all the lurkers on the site, I urge you to not just take information, but to share your knowledge,...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago The Last Week of August 2006
Reading through some of the most popular threads is something I enjoy each week. Some of these threads will jog the memory, one of those threads is in reference to the Ricoh HQ7000 and Ricoh HQ9000. Hard to believe that it's been ten years since those units were launched. Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week! Kodak Announces New Web-to-Unified Print 8/28/06 8:47 AM Kodak Announces New Web-to-Unified Print Solution that Expands Efficiencies Printer Friendly Software • TOWER...
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You're In Sales Your Brand Does Matter... 5 Creative Ways Sales Reps Can Become Brand Magnets
"What do you wish for people to associate with you when they think of your name?" As sales rep,Your brand whether you believe it or not is extremely important to your success in this highly connected, digital business world. How much time and effort are you dedicating to building your personal brand? You do have a brand. It is what people associate with you; it is WHY your professional and personal network seeks you out for information. Social media is everywhere. It is deeply rooted in our...
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Hey Sales Reps... Stop Chasing Shiny Objects And Get To Work!
Look into my eyes, you're getting sleepy, you're getting real sleepy, are you hypnotized yet by all the social fodder? I've got a secret can you keep it? Take off the dark sun glasses and stop chasing shiny "social" objects! Hey Sales Leaders... 3 Reasons Why Your Sales Teams "Social" ROI Sucks! I shared my two cents that social has always been a part of sales. It is about building relationships and changing the way people think with a modern set of sales tools. Here lies the issue... "Sales...
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Is Your Brand As A Sales Rep As Genuine As Peyton Manning?
Peyton Manning, the true personification of what it means to be a quarterback in the National Football League. He was the first one at the practice facility to work out, first to watch game film and then off to the practice field for 3 hours. He not only studied offensive schemes but he would also study the defensive coordinator he’d be facing in the next game. He wanted to know what the defense was preparing to do. Imagine a sales rep studying their competition to know how well to sell...
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When your Deliverable doesn’t excite your Customers’ then it’s time to Innovate or even change that Deliverable.
The continuing evaporation of customer excitement concerning copy and print is further driving its commoditization. Some in the “The Imaging Channel” will continue justifying a declining market in the same way other industries in decline do. They question the skill sets of their sales department, they question the new generation’s skills at management, and some will question their manufacturer's pricing, support, and strategies. Independent dealers must focus now more than ever on their own...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of November 2009)
Did you know that Frank Sinatra was in the copier business for 20 years back in 2009? Hoping Frank is still around he's still in the business and ready to celebrate his 30 years experience. I thought the same thing Frank Sinatra? Yup seems there is more than one. Here's the link https://www.p4photel.com/topic/frank-sinatra-20-years-of-experience-in-the-copier-biz Topic Canon in Las Vegas, Part 2 Powerful Tools for In-Plant Printers 11/8/096:44 PM of commercial printing operations can avail...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Fifteen, Course One
As I walked in the building the smell of fresh iron, virgin plastic and ozone told me I was in copier heaven! I told David Clearman (Director of Marketing and PLS Sales for Muratec Amercia) that the smell of copiers was in the air! I was excited to take a tour of new KonicaMinolta CEC (Customer Engagement Center) in Ramsey, NJ and get personal with the PLS (Precision Label Series) PKG 675 and the awesome PLS 475i. The PGK 675 is designed for printing onto corrugated material and the PLS 475i...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of January 2010)
Whew! What an end of year! My year ended on the 23rd of December and the next day I came down with the flu. Been struggling for the last three weeks, and finally feeling better. Thus, I'll be behind the eight ball again for the start of a new decade. I was able to pump in a dozen orders, something like 18 MFP's and captured net new business revenue for the month of December. All that at the ripe age of 62! Enjoy these awesome threads from ten years ago this week! UPDATE 2-Hermes joins...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Second Week of January 2005)
Starting this year we'll now have 17 years of press releases, blogs, conversations, brochures, pictures and threads related to the copier industry in industry! Join our community, it's free and get connected with some of the best of breed in the industry. The Print4Pay Hotel is here to share industry knowledge and help others to be the best! Become a member, you'll love it! Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week! Konica Minolta Names Carolina Wholesale Guest · 1/11/058:48 AM Konica...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (First Week of September 2014)
There's a really cool blog below about cold calling for wide format. If you don't cold call for wide format that's cool too. Cold calling still works but you need a plan. I ended up selling that client, the lease is up this month, however I did sell him on pre-owned and the purchase option was $1. Actually going there tomorrow! Enjoy these awesome threads from ten years ago this week! Inbound Marketing For Sales Reps (and Sales Vets) Czech · 9/1/144:31 PM . (I certainly have.) Last year...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Last Week of September 2014)
Enjoy these most excellent threads from 5 years ago this week! Konica Minolta and Kodak Showcase New Front End Solutions for bizhub Presses at Graph Expo 2014 Art Post · 9/25/1411:43 PM Konica Minolta and Kodak Showcase New Front End Solutions for bizhub Presses at Graph Expo 2014 Industry Leaders Drive and Manage Digital Press Solutions With Common Production Process RAMSEY, NJ --(Marketwired - September 25, 2014) - Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. ( Konica Minolta ) and Kodak...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of September 2014)
Sorry for be late with these. Up half the night, figured I would do an auto post in the AM. Enjoy these awesome threads from ten years ago this week! Weekend Industry Notes from 09/13/09 Neal · 9/14/097:47 AM running jobs. Canon now shipping the imagePRESS CR Server A7000, which is a relabeled Creo print controller for its imagePRESS C7000VP system. RJ Young Company, a Canon copier dealer in Tennessee, bought Photocopy Supply Company, a dealer in Nashville that carries Savin and Panasonic...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (First Week of October 2004)
I had this short chat with my VP of Sales today. I exhausted my pipeline in recent months, not as much time to prospect during that time. Put the foot on the pedal this week with almost 70 calls, and 40 plus emails. Resulting in 10 appointments and 3 opportunities for about $50K. Need to do the same for the next 3 weeks! Enjoy these awesome threads from 15 years ago this week! Topic Canon Targets Commercial Print Market 10/7/048:19 PM their respective owners. (i) Source - Gartner Dataquest -...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Second Week of October 2004)
Did you know that we have questions, comments, sales tips, sales advise, copier quotes and proposal that go back 16 years? Yup, more than 100K in threads stored for your enjoyment on the Print4Pay Hotel! Enjoy! Enjoy these awesome threads from 15 years ago this week! Savin 4022 / Ricoh 2022 10/12/045:09 PM The back side leading edge has toner on it and fades out as you get to the trail edge. if you run multiple copies it is only on the first copy. I have noticed that if you look at the drum...
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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 (Second Week of December 2009)
Do you remember? Roledex’s (not be to be confused with Rolex), index cards with call back notes, telephone cords that got all twisted up, yellow pages books, street address books, competitive books like Minellas Guide to Copiers . If so there's an excellent post on Linked from Brent Wiesner and David Owens over at Accel Imaging Systems Inc., make sure you check out the cool video and chime in! Here's the link: Video from Accel Imaging Systems Printer Sales in Taiwan Rise in Q3 2009: IDC...
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The Office Copier Turns 57!
While updating our weekly blogs post for " This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of April 2007) ", I ran across a thread that was started by "salesserviceguy" that was titled "The Office Copier Turns 50". Salesserviceguy is a valued P4P'er that's been with us for more than ten years and if was quite a bit of fun to review some of those threads. I thought it would be appropriate to re-post those threads for the Office Copier Turns 60. One of my favorite threads is from...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago, The Second Week of February 2008
Looks like a thread from 1996 appeared and I'm not sure how that happened. But, it's interesting about the time frame that Danka purchased the Kodak copier unit. Danka brings back memories also since the Danka name is now gone also. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Canon bought Danka, right? Enjoy these threads from ten years ago this week on the Print4Pay Hotel. Danka to Buy Kodak Copier Unit for $684 Million 2/11/087:04 PM By DANA CANEDY Published: September 10, 1996 The Eastman Kodak...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of September 2007)
Print 17 aka Graph Expo starts tomorrow in Chicago. I was able to attend last years event in Orlando, however the thought of flying to Chicago and the need to still perform in my day job led me to opt out of Print 17. I did notice that many of the threads below are from Graph Expo back in 2007. Thus, you may want to relive those glory days for the imagePRESS C7000VP, or maybe the KonicaMinolta PRO C5500. BTW, there some really cools sales threads at then at the end of the blog. I'm checking...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Third Week of September 2007)
Enjoy, I had to post this a week in advance. Busy week with a golf event on Monday, then the SBB Print Audit Road Show on Wednesday and then BTA Gland Slam Wednesday & Thursday! Hope to have some good stuff to report on from BTA & SBB. Here they are from 10 years ago this week! Topic Weekend Notes from the Copier Industry 9/16/07 9/19/076:03 PM Production Printing Business Group. While the Ricoh branches will sell the product, service will still be handled by Kodak employees. This...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Third Week of September 2014)
Alright, I'm ready to start the first day of the last week of the month for me. Thus far it's been a struggle trying to get prospects to move forward with an order. I'll admit that Labor Day, the golf event and BTA has taken it's toll this month. Those four days are 20% of the month. Thus I plan to be up at 5AM tomorrow and hope to be at the office around 6AM. Hoping the extra hours can make up for some of the time I lost. Enjoy these awesome threads from ten years ago this week! Topic Color...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of July 2014)
We had an interesting debate in the office today that was centered around Ricoh and the purchase of DocuWare. What document management company would be acquired next? Ricoh is giving DocuWare full autonomy to keep doing what they do best. You can find that survey here. Enjoy these threads from 5 years ago this week? Konica Minolta Honors M&M Sales Company for 25 Years as Pro-Tech Service Award Recipient Art Post · 7/14/1410:34 PM RAMSEY, NJ, Jul 14, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX) --...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (First Week of August 2014)
What an amazing week! We closed our month 7 business days ago and all of those orders that didn't close for July have closed this week. Seems I'm HOT! Similar to a baseball hitter that's in a hot streak, in sales it seems that almost everything you touch pans out. One of the things I've learned is that when you're hot you don't slow down. You don't take the attitude of "well I just had a great week and I'll relax next week, because I'm so far out in front". Wrong Batman, since you're HOT now...