Eakes Office Solutions

Success in business is not always about coming up with new ideas for selling beyond-the-ordinary products and services. As we’ve seen over and over, it’s about reading the room that is your end-user client base and studying the markets you serve for potential offerings. You’re Read More

It’s time that ancillary offerings get their just due as a primary talking point when dealer reps are discussing how they can provide additive solutions to their clients. But are we kidding ourselves? The term, by its definition, would suggest otherwise. Ancillary, as an Read More

Ordinarily, when office technology dealers are in the market for a vendor who can provide them with A3 or A4 units, there are numerous household names from which to choose. Oftentimes, the OEMs are known qualities with established track records in a given discipline. Industry Read More

This week’s installment of the most significant challenges facing our 2022 Elite Dealer class turns its attention to another issue that has vexed the office technology sector, particularly during the past three years: hiring and retention. Recruiting and poaching (depending on Read More

The Great Resignation has been one of the most cited repercussions from the trail of destruction COVID-19 continues to leave across the global business network. The term is largely attributed to Texas A&M University Professor Anthony Klotz, who predicted that a large wave of Read More

Being a few ticks north of the mid-century mark, this reporter clearly remembers the time when the previous generation removed its graduation cap and gown—or mustered out of the service—then picked up a hard hat and lunch pail, which were to become constant companions for the Read More

Now, perhaps more than ever in the last 10 years, is the best time to be in the market for a new job. Not only is unemployment nearing historic lows across much of the nation, but wage growth has been improving. According to Trading Economics and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Read More

We welcome February with this month’s state of the industry focus on finding and maintaining quality employees—long viewed as one of the most vexing challenges for not only the office dealer ecosystem but all businesses. As unemployment levels hover at historic lows across the Read More

Each year, in conjunction with the Elite Dealer issue, we ask our nominees to provide a glimpse into the biggest challenges that they face. While we don’t have a comprehensive breakdown by topic, we can tell you that the clear “winner,” by far (approximately 25% of our Elite Read More

This time of year brings about two certainties: little (and not so small) people dressing in various costumes with the intention of getting a piece of candy or two from your bucket of goodies. And just before Halloween, we have the Fall Classic—Major League Baseball’s World Read More

Selling, in its purest form, is the ability to reach out to prospects in a manner that, though it may be uncomplicated in its mechanics, has a tendency to resonate with people. A campaign need not be so elaborate and complicated to capture attention, for sometimes the smallest, Read More

Lincoln, NE, May 26, 2016: Eakes Office Solutions made a donation of printers in support of printer service and connectivity labs that began this spring at Southeast Community College and The Career Academy. Dan Nickel, the Computer Information Technology Instructor at SCC, Read More

Grand Island, NE, April 19, 2016: Steelcase has recognized Eakes Office Solutions as a Platinum Partner for 2016. While all Steelcase furniture dealers in the United States and Canada meet high standards for quality and performance, some stand out as extraordinary partners – Read More

Grand Island, NE, October 13, 2015 – Eakes Office Solutions, a leading provider of business products and solutions, is celebrating its 70th anniversary this month. Founded in 1945 by Howard Eakes, the company has grown from two employees in Grand Island, NE to over 235 employees Read More

Continuing with the theme from my Between the Lines column in the January issue of ENX magazine, I asked office technology dealers from across the country to share with us their New Year’s Resolutions for 2015. Here’s what they shared. I’ll bet you can identify with some of those Read More