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Re: Canon Business Systems Pulling a Ricoh
I was employeed by CBS (now CSA). I moved my family back to the east coast after working for 6 years in the Portland OR area for CBS as a production print specialist. Perhaps things have changed since I left CBS 2 years ago to come back to a Canon dealer... I was beaten and battered (related to my cost) when I was at CBS by all 5 local dealers. I now manage a sales team for a Canon dealer. We have never lost to CSA in the 3 years that I've in this position. In fact, I had a promo running for...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago, The First Week in September 2013
Konica Minolta and Komori Debut World's First 23"x29" Digital Inkjet Press at PRINT 13 Art Post · 9/5/137:08 AM today's highly competitive printing marketplace. Delivering a high level in print quality coupled with impressively fast make-ready and open systems architecture, Komori presses help printers achieve the higher productivity and efficiency levels essential for increased margins and business growth. Komori America Corporation headquarters are in Rolling Meadows, IL with sales and...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Fourth Week in June 2003
Fifteen years ago, hard to believe that many of us have seen so much come and go during those years. The Ricoh Aficio 1224 was an A3 color device that printed 12 pages per minute in color and 24 pages per minute in black. We had some horrific problems with speed when the Ricoh 1224 would go into an auto calibration during a print or copy run. It would take up to 5 minutes to calibrate and then restart the print job, and yes we had many frustrated users because we weren't aware of how the...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago, The Last Week in August 2013
I thought it would be time for something new. Each week we post threads from the last 10 year and 15 years on the Print4Pay Hotel. So we're going to give you another one. This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago. Enjoy these most excellent threads from just 5 years ago! Who Makes the Best Multifunctional Copy Machine? Art Post · 8/28/1310:23 PM manufacturers for multifunctional copiers. Here they are in the tiers. Tier I: Canon (includes Oce), Ricoh (includes Savin and Lanier), Xerox and...
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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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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of February 2010)
I mentioned in the previous blog that we had our Kickoff Sales meeting for 2020 yesterday. Rather than drive the three hours home I opted to stay over night and leave first thing in the AM. 2019 was a very good year, I was back in President's Club for the 7th time, got me a $50 gift card for winning a contest at our branch. Maybe an old timer like me can win the Grand Prize next week, we'll see we have some talented peeps and all will be out for the glory. It's time to bring out the old dog...
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Selling Copiers in the Eighties with Roland Tolan
Roland and I found each other about 6 weeks ago on Linkedin. Seems Roland and I have a similar background with selling copiers. We both started in the eighties. While I was on the East Coast and Roland was on the West Coast. We've never met but hoping our paths will cross soon! How did you find your way into the copier industry? In 1985, I was 23 years old. l was ready to join the sheriffs department in Los Angeles CA., my mom begged me not to do it. A friend of mine was a salesman at small...
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Feeding The Front Line
Hey fellow P4P'ers. I'm posting this up for a friend of mine from Cali who is involved with helping our first responders in the healthcare industry. Any help would be very much appreciated! Feeding The Front Line As the mandatory shelter in place continues in the San Francisco Bay Area, Global Office is providing copier service & support only for our essential business customers. This leaves many idle resources that we have re-purposed to support front line health care workers. Our staff...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Twenty-Five of Sales
The end of the day was pretty cool for me. After 5pm I had the chance to speak with a dealer principal out on the West Coast. Yes, things are just as bad out there as here in New Jersey. But we really didn't speak about COVID19 that much, instead our talk was about how the industry has changed in ten years and where are industry is going in the next ten years. It's always great to hear from dealer principals that still have the desire to go after it in this business! Yes, there are still...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago for the Last Week in April of 2015
Below are some of the threads that were popular 5 years ago this week. One thread that's great for newbies is State of the "Art" Sales Technology. Enjoy these awesome threads from 5 years ago today! Multiple Copier Pricing Spreadsheet Art Post · 4/30/1511:12 PM Topic Fuji Xerox and Ricoh for the the Provision of Print and Imaging as-a-Service PlaaS Art Post · 4/30/1510:13 PM an option of two (2) one year extensions. The combined purchasing power of the Queensland Government has enabled the...
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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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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Last Week of February 2010)
Recently we had a contest for all of the salespeople at Stratix. It was not a demo contest but more about telling the awesome Stratix story to our clients. There were judges and then group winners for each branch. The group winners would then have the face off. Years ago we had this contest and I failed miserably, I was so bad that I wanted to be shot. I have a hard time memorizing anything that has to be word for word, not sure what my issue is but I have an issue. This will make a good...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Ten of Sales
Busy, busy day for me. I started at 7:30AM and it's now 9:45PM, I figure I still have another 30 minutes or so to go. One thing I noticed today is that the pace of industry press releases as slowed to a crawl. Tomorrow marks the last day of the year for most copier manufacturers, I can only image the deals that are available for dealers right now. Yes, it's one of those years that will go down in the history of the industry. Today was interesting to say the lease. I had 40-50 contacts in my...
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MSP & MSSP Industry Notes for May 3rd, 2020
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Four of Sales
It's 10:36PM on a warm night in New Jersey. Finally we have a day in the low eighties and there was no wind that blew in from the ocean. When that wind comes off the water we can be anywhere from 10-20 degrees cooler from inland parts of Jersey. There's also a chance that a week from today we just may be feeling the effects of a tropical storm that is suppose to move up the coast. If this storm becomes a tropical depression that stormed will be dubbed Arthur. What a great way to start off...
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Those Magnificent Men and Their Copy Machines
Those Magnificent Men and Their Copy Machines In 1965 I was eight years old, entertainment for me came in the form of movies (my how times have changed) and one of my favorite movies as a child (and still now) is a comedy classic titled...
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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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Those Magnificent Men & Women & Thier Copy Machines 2015 -Part One
In 1965 I was eight years old, entertainment for me came in the form of movies (my how times have changed) and one of my favorite movies as a child (and still now) is a comedy classic titled "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" . ...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Fourth Week of December 2005
Ten years ago, duplicators were still relevant. Today, not so much, I think I sold two of them this year. Enjoy these threads from ten years ago on the p4photel forums! Re: Riso MZ790 info Old Glory · 1/4/06 9:28 AM biggest objection to Ricoh is that they are trying to compete in a multi-color arena with next to no colors available standard and no color chart to show what the output is going to look like. I just sold a JP8500 with TCII and 5 drums and we are having a...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago First Week of January 2006
Hey, here's a good question for you. Do any of us carry around demo originals anymore? I can't remember that last time I even looked for one. Back in the day, if you didn't carry demo originals with you were probably not selling much. When it came to copying documents from the glass, I used to ask the customer for their originals instead of using mine. Great for the demo, because they got to see real time quality of their copies. NEW...
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The 12 Days of Selling "Day 12"
Yesterday, I blogged about the end of the year, how many selling days I have left and the need to add two additional selling days to see if I can hit my number. I Want It All, I Want It NOW! I woke up to a nasty nor'easter here along the...
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7 Questions for Lisa At OES
From time to time I try to get my sponsors involved with the MFP Solutions blog. Sometimes a banner ad does not tell you enough about the company nor the person behind the product. Many months ago I had an email from Lisa Chiu introducing her...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago (2nd Week of February 2004)
Remember when bit color was an issue with the first color units. We all had to learn what 2, 4 & 8 bit color was. Funny, how 19 years later it's not even a topic of discussion anymore. Ten Year ago this week, this story was in the headlines. NineCubanmigrantsattempt to reachFloridain a modified 1959Buickthat was converted to a boat. They are intercepted by theUnited States Coast Guard. The same group had made a similar attempt...
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BTA EAST Grand Slam Event Review
It's about the Vendors. Thus, I'd like to focus this blog about the Vendors who support the BTA Channel and the Print4Pay Hotel. The BTA East Grand Slam events is one of my favs!! No need to fly, a short three hour drive and...
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BTA East Grand Slam 2013 "My Top Six Likes"
Baltimore was awesome! The BTA event had excellent attendance by Office Equipment Dealers plus all of the vendors that I spoke to were in agreement that they thought the show was well attended and the quality of contacts and meetings were top...
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Where's the sizzle for selling Managed IT or BDR (backup Disaster Recovery)?
I've been thinking about this for the past week or so. Where the frak is the sizzle for selling Managed IT or BDR (backup Disaster Recovery)? Selling Managed IT and BDR is boring!! As my wife states "it's a real...
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An Interview with the KING of MPS aka Greg Walters
Six months in the making and I finally had the chance to offer up some questions to the King of MPS aka Greg Walters. I'm thinking it was six years or so ago that Greg launched his "Death of the Copier" blog. Greg was in the MPS business...
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Graph Expo Day One
After a short flight down the east coast from New Jersey, I arrived in Orlando about 9:30AM. John Anderson (P4P'er) was to pick me up at Orlando International, however he forgot his notebook and have to travel back, by the time we spoke on the phone he was already an hour out from picking me up. Thus, I jumped on a Meers transport and finally made it to the Hyatt Regency about 11AM. John and I were able to hook up there, and we took some extra time to settle in to the old Peabody, relaxed,...
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“A tree stops growing when it gets root bound, and so does a business.”
Over the weekend, I decided it was time to transplant a couple trees that have been growing in the sun bleached pots on my patio. As I started to pull the trees out of the pots, I noticed the dirt in each pot had almost disappeared and had been replaced with a massive root ball. I had to completely destroy the pots to get the trees out. Both trees had stopped growing a year or so ago. They did not die, they just stopped growing - they were root bound. In life or in business, if we stop...
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Innovative Technology Improves Higher Education Staff and Student Experience
Tillamook Bay Community College rolled out DocuWare to the entire college in order to provide faculty and staff with easy access to information to facilitate advising and streamline the registration process for students. The higher ed institution was also able to utilize DocuWare to collaborate with instructors and develop standardized curriculum and teaching guidelines. Tillamook Bay Community College (TBCC) is a small college serving students on Oregon’s rural coast for over 30 years. In...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago The First Week of November 2006
One of the more interesting threads below is from Gordon MacKay from Queensland, Australia. Gordon posted a thread in reference to his existing dealership and his past experience in the copier industry. It was awesome to re-visit this thread. Gordon, if you're still out there, shoot us a reply. That thread is here Japan's Konica Minolta 11/5/06 6:42 PM multifunctional models, especially in Europe," company director Yasuo Matsumoto told a news conference. Konica Minolta also raised its...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of November 2014)
I didn't have to do it but I did. Last week I sent an email to all the sales managers at Stratix with a cut and paste of Section 179 web site. Hoping that they would share will all of their sales peeps. It's crazy that when I speak about Section 179 most business owners have no clue what it is or how it can affect their profit margins. Enjoy these awesome threads from 5 years ago this week! Konica Minolta Named Leader in 2014 Magic Quadrant for Managed Print and Content Services Art Post ·...
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Selling Copiers in the Seventies with Chuck Parr
I had the opportunity to meet Chuck many years ago, thinking it was at one of the first Ricoh dealer events I attended back in the nineties. Chuck was one of the speakers and I was floored by his public speaking ability. Somewhere during those few days I made it a point to introduce myself to Chuck and thanked him for the awesome performance. How did you find your way into the copier industry? When I graduated from college in 1972 I and a lifelong childhood friend and I started a small...
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Ask Me Anything About Copiers, Sales, Blogging, and more (1st Episode)
I’ve seen a few bloggers do an “ask me anything” feature on their blog, so I thought it’d be fun to do one too! I thought this would be a cool new series to start. For now I'll be using Zoom for the first show. That show is scheduled for January 16th at 8PM EST, thus we have the ability to cover the entire nation for the one time slot. Ask anything and I’ll do my best to answer! Obviously no rude/trolling comments because I’ll ignore those… Anything else is fair game as long as it's related...
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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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Muratec America at BTA East Grand Slam in NYC September 2019
I took these videos at BTA East last week. It was my first attempt and I know I need to get better. Some had lighting issues, another was the sound and another was me with not setting the camera at hi res. I apologize for the no9t so good video's. However these for the most part are from P4P Hotel Sponsors. Listen closely, turn up the volume and I promise new video's will be much better.
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Thirteen, Course One
I've used the hashtag of #followprintmigration for sometime now. I don't have any facts or statements, I just know what I see. Last weekend the wife and I spent a few days in Wildwood, NJ for a much needed getaway. The main purpose of the trip was to attend the North America Sea Glass festival. Many artists from the east coast were to there to display and sell their creations. So what did I notice? Branding, branding and more branding from the artists with their creations. I noticed three...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of December 2014)
For quite a few years I've been blogging about what it's like going into the last few months of the year for sales. I blog I'm fond of id "12 Days of Selling", which is based on the last twelve selling days of the year. It's daily account of who I met, how I prospected and how I was able to write the business that I needed. If you have the chance you can check them out here "12 Days of Selling". It's great content for newbies, and veterans. Look at these fantastic threads from 5 years ago...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Third Week of March 2008
Interesting model numbers below. The 1224C the 1232C, the CL5000, this was the start of B2C conversions. I can probably count the number of accounts on two hands that don't have a color device now. Times sure do change. Makes me wonder what the next big change will be? Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week in March! Ricoh unviels 2090 3/20/036:47 PM subsidiary of Ricoh Company Ltd., the 67-year-old leading supplier of office automation equipment and electronics, with fiscal year...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Third Week of August 2007)
Not much here this week. However, I dug these dates up and stuff that happened ten years ago this week! Enjoy! Aug 14 Coordinated bombings in Yazidi communities in Iraq kill at least 500 people, the second-deadliest terror attack of all time Aug 15 An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090. Aug 21 Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph. Dean is the first storm since...
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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, The Second Week in May 2003
Wow, a lot of excellent topics from the P4P'ers. I especially liked "the new push to get rid of paper"! Enjoy the Memorial Day weekend here in the USA. New Xerox Printers and Multifunction Printers: Easy to Use Affordable, Reliable Techn 5/21/087:03 PM New Xerox Printers and Multifunction Printers : Easy to Use Affordable, Reliable Technology for Small Businesses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hardware • Sharp Introduces A4 MFP Line, First...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of December 2007)
There's an interesting thread below about an RBS sales person that person accepted $3,500 from a copier sales person so that RBS could win that bid of 73 copiers. Which raises in interesting question about gifts,trips and prizes to a person that works for a corporation if they buy their copiers from xyz dealer. It's my understanding that any gift, trip or prize is then the property of the corporation and not the person (decision maker). Yet, we find some dealers openly engaging in offering...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Third Week in June 2008
Happy Fathers Day to everyone, I spent the entire day with my Son and his wife. It was a great day, hope everyone else was able to have a great day! Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week! Neal · 6/16/088:36 AM , profitable printing ” = HP o “ Print is Powerful” = Kodak o “Connect With Opportunity” = Xerox o “We Speak Image” = Canon o “Produce, Persuade, Perform..on the network” = Canon o “We’re Listening” = Ricoh o “Empowering Print Communications” = Sharp o “Leading Innovation” =...
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Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
For the last forty-five days I've been closely monitoring the impeding tariffs that are to take effect on July 6th of 2018. About two months ago the United States had 1,333 lines (products) that are imported from China. That list was recently reduced to 818 lines. One of those lines is for "copier parts and copier accessories". For those that are not living under a rock, we know that most of Japanese copier companies have manufacturing facilities in China. If you're not sure just check out...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Third Week of January 2003)
Pretty cool that this post will be the third installment of our Week in the Copier Industry 15 years ago this week. Looking back many of us new nothing about networks, nothing about networked printers and scanners. This site enables many copier sales people to lean on others and to share information that helped us compete. Many of these founding P4P'ers are still members today. I'd like thank them for all that they did over the years. 2002 Better Buys for Business HV 1/18/034:29 PM for 2002...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of September 2009)
Labor Day Weekend is upon us. There's only a few things on my mind tonight, first is to get finished with the updates for the site. Secondly a little worried about my friends and colleagues in Florida. The last one is the end of the third quarter and the end of the month. Not this month but September. I'm like WTF, it's not even the first on the calendar month and I'm jonesing already. We close our month early, I've got a decent pipeline, but most of its 50/50 at best. In addition I've got a...
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MSP & MSSP Industry Notes for September 14th, 2019
September 14th 2019 MSP & MSSP Industry Notes Accenture Acquires Pragsis Bidoop, Boosting AI Capabilities, Big Data Portfolio and Talent Pragis Bidoop founded in 2004 in Spain, operates in big data and AI markets. Offers innovation data solutions Accenture is a global professional services company, servers 6,000 clients in 102 countries. Employees 482,000 worldwide and two hundred offices in 52 countries Bespin Global Receives 'Google Cloud Platform Managed Services Provider' partner...
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MSP & MSSP Industry Notes for August 18th, 2019
YOUR BANNER AD HERE MSP & MSSP Industry Notes August 17 th 2019 Charlotte-Based Managed IT Services Provider Expands to Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area with ... Sterling Technology Solutions based in Charlotte, NC, and founder in 2002 by Tom Blanchard CEO Offers managed IT services, email migration services, IT security, backups, server management and consulting New branch office to be located at 900 Park Offices Drive, Raleigh, NC Texas Systems Group Named to List of 501 Top IT Managed...
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It’s Uber’s 10th Birthday, A lesson for The Imaging Channel's Venture Capitalist.
How could the Staples/DEX Acquisition effect a dealership in the Imaging Channel, or its VC group's Exit plans? Here's a thought to consider. The change in valuation will be the greatest threat to all dealers both independent, or those V.C Backed mega dealers who continue buying growth with redundant deliverables within a disrupted infrastructure. Everyone in the industry should think about Taxi Medallions. These medallions value vanished as the infrastructure of the Taxi deliverable was...