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Re: Oh my, when selling copiers door to door was so simple?
Harry: Awesome!!! Brings back many memories..... "You earned to right to have your own business card after making it past the 6 month employment mark. In the mean time you had to use white out on the reps card who recently left your territory",, yeah I was one of those that inherited someone's old business cards. we didn't even have the white out we just crossed the other persons name off! I can remember one phone blitz where we all had to stand on our chairs and make phone calls, after the...
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Re: Oh my, when selling copiers door to door was so simple?
Love all of this. I had to show up first day with a Ford Galaxee wagooooon. I could fit a saving 840 and 765 in the back. Get the toner and liquid dispersant loaded and don't bring em back. Braniwashed and it worked.
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Re: Oh my, when selling copiers door to door was so simple?
Schools typically buy in the summer and bought larger equipment. Back then, suits were mandatory...that IBM look. Imagine if you will what a demo was like after you had just unloaded a 300 lb. copier in 100+ degree heat while wearing a suit!!! And I was in Iowa at the time. I can't imagine what Texas was like. Ever had one of those stairmaster carts collapse, dumping that "already sold" copier onto the customer's floor. Yea, me neither. And that pencil sell..."Mr. Prospect, about how many...
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Re: Oh my, when selling copiers door to door was so simple?
Well, I had dumped an Adler Royal 209 in the middle of the street in Princeton, NJ once and had another copier that was on the gurney come out of the back of my hatch back at a traffic light.
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Re: Oh my, when selling copiers door to door was so simple?
I lived that life, and remember it fondly, as the good times... Copier reps heard all the best jokes before anyone, and could hold their ground with anyone during happy hour!
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Re: Oh my, when selling copiers door to door was so simple?
I had been a pretty successful typewriter salesman, when I first applied for a job with Nashua. So much so my pride and joy was the Mercedes Benz I drove. When told by the Nashua Sales Manager that my Benz was inappropriate, and that I had to have a wagon, I knocked the job back. I soon changed my mind not long after though, when I joined a U-Bix dealership after I realised how much money was being made in the copier industry. We sold a copier called the U-Bix 101, which was a bit of a...
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Oh my, when selling copiers door to door was so simple?
Guest Blogger!!!! Harry's back with an awesome blog that takes us old timers back to a simpler time in the industry and all you newbies are probably wishing you had a station wagon to cart a copier around! BTW, Toyota pic on the left is what my...
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DEX to provide turnkey MPS solution for Essendant dealers
In the second part of our interview with Harry Dochelli (click here for Part 1), the Essendant President reveals details of a new managed print service that is directly linked to Staples’ acquisition of DEX earlier this year . OPI: I saw on your website something about a new managed print offering? Is that coming from Staples too, maybe related to its DEX acquisition? HD: That is correct. We’re going to be modifying DEX’s existing agent model. The way it will work is our dealers will uncover...
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How Essendant is ‘levelling the playing field’ for resellers
Under its new corporate structure with Staples and equity owner Sycamore Partners, top-tier business products distributor Essendant is finding new ways to help its thousands of resellers be more competitive in an increasingly digital and competitive market, Essendant president Harry Dochelli says in an interview. It’s been nearly a year since Essendant Inc., which relies heavily on ecommerce as a distributor to thousands of resellers, was acquired by Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm...
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Re: DEX to provide turnkey MPS solution for Essendant dealers
Maybe I'm missing something here, but technicians will re-size the fleet? I love my technicians but.....
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Remote Work is Here to Stay—But Only if You Meet the Requirements
Remote Work is Here to Stay—But Only if You Meet the Requirements from ExpressPros.com New survey from The Harris Poll commissioned by Express Employment Professionals Majority of U.S. hiring decision-makers (70%) agree onboarding employees remotely requires more time and money than doing it in an office More than half (55%) say their company hired and onboarded new employees remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic A similar proportion (51%) report their company plans to do so once the...
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Today's Hacked!
Hacked! FBI no longer negotiating with ransomware group that leaked Oakland data - ....The FBI is not negotiating with the ransomware group that hacked into the City of Oakland's network leaking sensitive data onto the dark web, the I-Team confirmed. Briton pleads guilty to hacking stars' Twitter accounts to steal Bitcoin | Science & Tech News ....Joseph O'Connor, 23, also admitted other hacking schemes, cyberstalking a young victim, and money laundering charges. He was extradited from...