Impact Networking

“We’ve come to the end of the road and the end of the month presenting the challenges facing our 2014 Elite Dealers. After compiling more than 60 responses to the question, “What is your biggest challenge?” we discovered there was a sizable consensus among respondents as to Read More

As I noted earlier this month when I first started sharing these big wins from our 2014 Elite Dealers, office technology dealers as a whole thrive on big wins. This year’s group of Elite Dealers is no exception. One of the questions we asked on the nomination form was what was Read More

You can automate documents, but not your online marketing. Sorry, but it’s true. Until Skynet goes online and A.I. is real, online marketing and search engine optimization still needs a human touch, specifically an expert’s insightful eye and inquisitive mind. If you Read More

(Editor’s note: This article originally ran last August in The Week in Imaging. It’s still relevant today, especially as more dealers and resellers start thinking seriously about online marketing.) With every business having a Website (really it’s a must), the Read More

Look no further than Impact Networking in Waukegan, IL, for a shining example of a dealership that’s doing something different to attract quality people and fulfill its growth strategy for the next three years. With an aggressive plan to reach $100 million by the end of 2017, the Read More

Growth is great and nowhere is that better illustrated than what’s going on with Impact Networking in Waukegan, IL. Last Wednesday, August 6, the company broke ground on the future home of its new Mettawa, Illinois-based corporate headquarters. The event was also an Read More

I lie; I’m not always the optimist. I can become as pessimistic as the best of them from time to time. However, after finishing this week’s article on Impact Networking breaking ground on new headquarters and the company’s goal of becoming a $100 million company by 2017, I’m Read More

When it comes to helping customers enhancing their workflow, what better place to start than with a document management solution? Workflow and document management are practically synonymous and office technology and imaging solutions dealers have an array of choices to move Read More

IMPACT NETWORKING http://impactmybiz.com Waukegan, IL President/Owner: Frank Cucco Year founded: 1999 Number of employees: 170 Primary hardware vendors: Konica Minolta, Kyocera, Muratec, KIP, Bowe Bell+ Howell Primary solutions and services offerings: Docuware, Objectif Lune, Read More

This week we present another group of 2013 Elite Dealers. When these awards were first presented by that other publication I worked for in 1988, the dealers honored as Elite Dealers that sold office technology could best be described as copier dealers. Today, most of our Elite Read More

With one week to go until we announce the first group of 2013 Elite Dealers, I thought it would be interesting to examine some of the challenges our 2013 nominees have been faced with during the past year. It’s a mixed bag of challenges that are representative of so much that is Read More

In a world that’s becoming increasingly defined by who or what you ‘Like’ on Facebook, your Twitter tweets, and your LinkedIn connections, dealerships such as Impact Networking in Chicago, IL are leveraging social networking tools to help grow their business externally and Read More

With every business having a Website (really it’s a must), the challenge is not only to be visually more impressive than your competition, but also have a site that ranks higher in search results and shows up in local searches and has more positive online reviews, and Read More