Sales & Service

Ken Edmonds to Guide BTA Service Success Training Program

On Oct. 1, the Business Technology Association (BTA) will present its new online educational offering, BTA Service Success Training. It is the first training program for supervisors and managers
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LMI Solutions Announces Partnership with Turnspire Capital Partners

Gary Willert will be the first to admit that LMI Solutions has faced its share of challenges in recent years. But the CEO of LMI Solutions firmly believes his business has found in Turnspire
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How Many Office Equipment Dealers Became Successful and How Others Became WILDLY Successful

When I started my career in the office equipment industry, dealers were having a tough go of it. Cartridge and toner margins were way down due to an influx of inexpensive compatible and
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Oval Partners Makes Strategic Investment in RS Business Machines

Oval Partners, a San Francisco-based multi-family office private equity firm, today announced a new partnership with RS Business Machines, a premier national managed print solutions provider
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Attention Sales Leaders: How Skilled are Your Sales Reps at Opening New Conversations?

Conversations are the strongest sales tool that sales reps have in order to effectively build credible relationships with their clients, their brand and their company. Unfortunately, many in
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It Takes an Industry Village to Embrace Everything-as-a-Service

The African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” has the ability to take root, in its philosophy, with the everything-as-a-service movement as it applies to the office technology
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HP Plunks Down $456M for Apogee, Builds on Contractual Sales Strategy

On Wednesday, HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Apogee Corporation, a U.K.-based office equipment dealer (OED) and Europe’s largest independent provider of print,
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Xerox’s Pete Peterson Discusses Channel Strategy, Growth in SMB Space

The past 15 months have been more than a little eventful for Norwalk, CT-based Xerox Corp. Recent headlines have focused on the battle for control of the 112-year-old OEM, the near combination
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