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Save Time and Money By Hiring the Right Rep Right Away

Time and money. The two are intrinsically tied and if you are trying to get something done you are going to spend one or the other. When your core business is going well you focus on that and are
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Sharp’s Promotion Plus Pricing Yields Positive Results for Sharp and Its Dealers

Last year around this time Sharp introduced its Promotion Plus Pricing, a new pricing program that did away with the special monthly incentives so common to the industry by giving that pricing to
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Lean Management in Managed Print Services for Dealers Part 4

Part 3 of the set of articles ”Lean Management in MPS” tasks about how the dealer’s business is influenced by the usage of an MPS solution that contains Lean components. The first advantages the
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MaxxVault’s Bruce Malyon Presents the Back Story of MaxxVault Enterprise 6.0

  In September MaxxVault, LLC announced the release of MaxxVault Enterprise 6.0, the latest version of its document management solution. The new version has more than 200 new features and
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The Biggest Challenges Faced by Independent Dealers in 2013

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
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Lean Management in Managed Print Services for Dealers Part 3

In our previous article on Lean management in MPS, we talked, from the perspective of the distributor, how MPS benefits from Lean management principle: creating more value for customers with
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It Ain’t About Price

The nuns at St. Rose Grammar school would be smacking my knuckles with a ruler if I made that statement, but the poor grammar is meant for emphasis.  As we work on sales effectiveness with our
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More Big Wins in the Dealer Channel

I’m continuing to read the Elite Dealer nomination forms that have arrived over the past couple of months along with the flurry of nominations that came in late last week and it’s still
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Lean Management in Managed Print Services Part 2

In our previous article (Click here to read Part 1) we have established the link between Lean management and MPS. Indeed, this philosophy has brought many companies’ success (Wal*Mart, Inditex,
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Lean Management in Managed Print Services Part 1

An unstable economic situation like the one we are living in acts as an incentive to practice lean thinking. Though this is a concept born for the industry, it is absolutely valid in any type of
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