Editors Blog

Between the Lines: Really, Reed?

I received an e-mail last Friday morning from Reed Melnick, president of Nevill Business Machines asking me to call him about some big news out of Carrolton, Texas. Reed’s a great source and
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Between the Lines: How the Other Half Sells MPS

Have you had enough of MPS yet? At the risk of over-generalizing, everybody’s talking about it, everybody is either doing it or thinking about doing it, and if you’re not doing it, you’re done
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Between the Lines: A Gentle 2012 Elite Dealer Reminder

There’s still six weeks left to get your 2012 Elite Dealer nomination forms in. Check out the left side of the newsletter for details on where to go to find the nomination forms. Again, I’m
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Between the Lines: Dallas, Supply Maintenance Agreements, and MPS Pricing Insanity

I started this week off in Dallas at the Sharp dealer meeting. I’ll report on that meeting in next week’s issue. For now the big news coming out of Dallas was the introduction of Sharp’s new
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Between the Lines: Not-So-Empty Threats

Last week’s article on the three biggest threats to independent dealers was one of the most widely read articles since I’ve been publishing The Week in Imaging. However, as Andrew Ritschel
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Between the Lines: Stuck in the Middle

It’s weird having a holiday stuck in the middle of the week even if we’ve all been there done that before. What that usually means is people end up taking either the entire week off or Wednesday
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Between the Lines: Don’t Hesitate to Click on Through to the Other Side

Let me know when you’re tired of my pop music references. I tend to get on a rock and roll. Two things are on my mind this week. First is encouraging you to click on through to the other side or
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Between the Lines: A Cure for the Summertime Blues

I went to see the Beach Boys last weekend, one of my all-time favorite bands. I hadn’t seen them since the seventies well before Dennis and Carl died and before endless disharmony caused them to
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Between the Lines: Bursting at the Seams

Some weeks there’s not much in the way of news, others, there’s a wealth of news and this is one of those weeks. In case you haven’t heard Ricoh is rolling out a bunch of new products, coinciding
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Between the Lines: Think Elite!

I like to plan in advance and hopefully many of you do as well. With that in mind I’m encouraging all my dealer readers to visit www.theweekinimaging.com and fill out this year’s Elite Dealer
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Between the Lines: 40 is Not Enough

It’s the final eight of “The Top 40 Solutions & Services Providers that Should Be on Every Dealer’s Radar.” What I found by talking to dealers, analysts, and through the solutions and
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Between the Lines: Time for Transform

It looks like it’s going to be three short weeks in a row for me. Not exactly how I originally mapped it out when I decided to present “The Top 40 Solutions & Services Providers that Should
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