Editors Blog

Diversifying your Dealership? Forget About Managed IT and Look at These Three Areas First

The office equipment dealer (OED) channel has had a rough go these last two years, and that’s putting it mildly. Volumes were already in a slow decline and the pandemic accelerated this bad
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Two-Minute Drill: Applied Innovation Moniker Addresses World Beyond Print and Copy

In the last 10-15 years, there’s been a huge marketing movement toward reinvigorating the lens through which customers view their providers. It’s a case of perception is reality, and history is
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A Perfectionist at Heart, Difference Maker Ron McClintock Lives to Get the Job Done

If there’s one telltale sign that you’re a perfectionist, it’s the attitude that you hate to lose more than you like to win. There is a difference between the two: winning is the expectation, and
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Difference Maker Kate Kingston a Master of Paving Engagements

How can one best understand just what makes Kate Kingston tick? For the answer to the motivation and the success behind the founder of Kingston Training Group (KTG), we offer a microcosm of the
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Phishing-Based Data Breaches Take 295 Days to Contain and Breach Costs Soar to $4.91 Million

Fresh data on data breach costs from IBM show phishing, business email compromise, and stolen credentials take the longest to identify and contain. There are tangible repercussions of allowing
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Toshiba Unveils Global Print Solution for Anywhere Printing Via the Cloud

The world of print continues to face downward pressure, from digital transformation to the pandemic and continuously tumbling page counts. The value of print as a productivity tool remains
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ECMSI Difference Maker Shane Nesbitt Leverages Outgoing Nature to Yield Continuous Growth

That Shane Nesbitt is a people person won’t draw any debate from those who work alongside or across the table from the ECMSI sales manager. There’s no carefully-crafted agenda lying just below
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Customer Validation, Learning Opportunities Propel GreatAmerica Difference Maker Denise Miller Toward Success

A compliment can have the same impact as food. Sometimes, it’s a sweet, transitory experience that’s soon digested and forgotten. Other times, it can make one’s eyes light up, like a rich piece
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Attention Sales World: It’s Difficult To Build Long-Term Sustainable Relationships With A Transactional Mindset

You can have a slew of transactions or a slew of meaningful client relationships, but you can’t have both. What types of conversations are you having with your clients? I’m here to
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Two-Minute Drill: Larry Huneycutt Carving Out Bigger Slice of Supplies Distribution Pie for ARLINGTON

There have been a number of what one might call business “storms” during the course of the past two-plus years. The most recent one in the world of Carolina Wholesale Group
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Team Genes: Emulating Father’s Model Proves Effective for Sharp Difference Maker Tony Titone

At a superficial level, Tony Titone and his father, John, share a common career in that both of their lines of work involve putting ink to paper. As a 44-year veteran of newspaper production, the
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Xerox, Industry Mourn Unexpected Passing of CEO John Visentin

John Visentin, the vice chairman and CEO of Xerox, perhaps best known for attempting to acquire a larger manufacturer competitor just prior to the pandemic, passed away unexpectedly Tuesday due
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