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Mixed MPS Messages Part 3

Quality Business Systems in Towson, MD might be considered a smaller dealership when one looks at its revenues, but they continue to be a viable contender in the Towson, MD market ever since CEO
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Three Reasons Why Most Marketing Programs Don’t Work

So here you are in the peak of the summer season. You’ve managed to get through a heat wave, crab grass, a vacation if you’re lucky, and the extra work you inherited as a result of other people’s
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Mixed MPS Messages Part 2

It’s usually not all that surprising when a high-profile dealer such as Jerry Blaine of LDI Color Toolbox in Jericho, NY, makes a case for MPS. That’s exactly what he did in a recent interview
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Improve Your Hiring Process – Define Your Company’s Work Ethic

Work ethic is about a set of ideas, beliefs, and patterns of behaviors. Before you can look for work ethic synergies and possible conflicts from a job applicant you must first define your
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Mixed MPS Messages Part 1

This is the first in an ongoing series looking at what dealers across the country are experiencing in the MPS market and their strategies for marketing or not marketing MPS. “I hate the word MPS,
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Talking Asset Management with Innovolt’s Walter Crowder

  The name of the game in the power protection world these days isn’t power protection, it’s intelligent asset management. The technology is evolving into solutions that provide power
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Uniting Acronyms with New Media

Acronyms play a big role in our industry: NEMA, ISO, and ANSI are just a few examples. So we at ESP/SurgeX thought we’d attempt to make an acronym for a blog post about acronyms. Hopefully you’ll
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Straight Talk with MPSA President Greg Walters, Part 2

Greg Walters seems to have done just about everything over the course of his career. He’s sold managed print services, he’s been an industry consultant with his new company Walters &
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Justice is Served at the Oregon DOJ with NSi AutoStore and Ricoh MFPs

Dan Ramos, enterprise technology services manager for the Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ), was seeing boxes of documents everywhere he turned and storage costs for those documents were going
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Straight Talk about MPS with MPSA President Greg Walters Part 1

Greg Walters seems to have done just about everything over the course of his career. He’s sold managed print services, he’s been an industry consultant with his new company Walters &
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Flower Power Turns Glens Falls Dealership Green

All it took was a little flower power for Tim Seeley of Seeley Office Systems in Glens Falls, New York, to see the green light. After Tim became involved with a girl with a hippie sensibility his
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The Back Story Behind the Applied Imaging/Ricoh Strategic Agreement

A couple of weeks ago we presented a news item on Applied Imaging, a Michigan office technology solutions dealership, entering into a strategic agreement with Ricoh to acquire various Ricoh
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