BTA East 2012 District Event

I will be attending this event, is anyone else going?

I will be going with maybe 2-3 others from our company. We've been going to this BTA Show for years & it is usually pretty well attended. Usually a couple interesting speakers too.

are you staying overnight, if so would be nice to meet you

check out the banner ads for the BTA east event. It will be my first, but I think I'll enjoy it!

Art- I will most likely be there just the 1st afternoon & into the night. A couple of us will commute back to Jersey that 1st night then go back for the 2nd day too. (I doubt I'll be going the 2nd day) But I will for sure look for you while I am there. I find myself reading this site more & more lately, you have quite a think tank of people that are members.

The golf course is nice. Fore!

GMAN:

You going?

FYI, there is a $50 cash back that's available until the 31st of this month! Go here for more, I'll be there and looking to connect with everyone!

https://bta.site-ym.com/?BTAEast2012

I may be there...

Just booked the Hotel today, looking forward to the seminars and will be doing some live tweating for the event.

I wonder if they will finally annouce that Kyocera Mita purchased SHARP's MFP business at this event, since the keynote presentation will be from Norihiko Ina, president and CEO of Kyocera Document Solutions.

OMG, you think so?

Too small of an audience to announce something big like that.

For those of us that are going below is the schedule of events:

Tuesday, Oct. 2 4 p.m.: Keynote Session: Norihiko Ina, Kyocera Wednesday,
Oct. 3 8 a.m.: Teri Dunn, Print Management Solution Group
9:45 a.m.: Todd Johnson, Strategic Business Associates
11:15 a.m.: Mike Adams, Power Appointment Setting
1 p.m.: Lou and Andy Slawetsky, Industry Analysts Inc.
3 p.m.: John Barbieri, CompTIA Of course, for full information on these sessions, you can visit www.bta.org/BTAEastEvent.

Man, you guys are lucky. This event sounds fun.

Jon:

There's a South event the third week of October in NC, do you need info on that?

Art

the turn out was fantastic! There were more than 30 vendors and no vendors that were addressing managing the print stream. I had the chance to sit next to Jim D from Muratec while we listened to Nori from Kyocera. At the end od the keynote speech, we were asked if we had any questions. Jim D from Muratec asked itf Kyocera was buying Sharp! It brought a great roar from the crowd and Nori only stated "that's the rumor" and he chuckled and said nothing more.

The BTA events should be attended by every dealer principal and they should bring two, three or four of their top sales people. There is so much to learn just from the vendors.

Tomorrow starts the seminars and I expect them to be awesome, in the evening everyone is leaving for the Yankee game. I'll be heading hope since I'm no yankee fan, will report more tomorrow. Follow my twitter feed for updates.

Art

Thanks for sharing Art. Looking forward to more of your comments.

There were 36 vendors at this event. I'll be posting a blog titled" my top 5 solutions/products of the event in the next day or so.

Kyocera: Besides Nori have a heavy japanese accent, he was at times very hard to understand what he was saying, thank goodness for the power point slides. However, it seems that all of the manufacturers are now sharing the same slides!

Business Process Optimization, find the pain, be a consultant to solve workflow and business problems with the use of software, imaging, cloud, etc....Nothing new here

There was a total of five seminars throughout the course of the day and none of them were longer than an hour and then a 45 minute break to meet with vendors, and network with peers.

I would guess that there were at least fourty dealers at the event. I meet at least 10 p4p members and that was a lot of fun since the only contact I had with them was via the forums or email.

At the end of the event there about 30 of the suppliers lined up and gave out their door prizes, now that's pretty cool because if youwon one prize you could not win again, so I would ten to guess that 60% of the group walked away with some type of door prize. I won a top of the line surge protector! Woohooo

I'll give a little more insight on some of the speakers later, but it was an awesome event. Maybe I'll put something like this on one day. I must say that I got more out the of meeting with the sponsors since I am not a dealer owner (at one time I was a dealer owner). I'm sure most of the dealer principals did enjoy the what was presented especially by Mr. Johnson (can't remember his first name). more to come on this