Sales & Service

One Awesome Way to Separate Yourself From Other Copier Reps

I’ve been chomping at the bit to write this blog. Picture this, there are three sales people from three different dealers, and all have secured an appointment with the decision maker to
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Ricoh Adds New Color Envelope Printer

Well, it’s new for those of us that sell the Ricoh product line. We had heard Well, it’s new for those of us that sell the Ricoh product line. We had heard rumors on the Print4Pay
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MFP & Copier Leads: The Bane of My Existence

Do you remember when leads were a weekly occurrence? Many years ago, it was not uncommon to get a few leads a week. Back in the ‘80s they would come via fax from the manufacturer. Advertising was
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Selling Copiers, A Week in the Life: Monday

Monday? Everyone knows that a great copier sales person week starts late Sunday because we called it quits early on Fridays, especially in the summer. With that in mind, Sunday night is geared to
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Riso Stops Offering Printed Brochures for Their Products?

Just about 18 months ago,  Toshiba American Business Solutions offered up National No Print Day.  Within a few days or weeks Toshiba cancelled the campaign. I heard they cancelled due to a not so
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The Eyes Have It: When Does Your IT Provider Start to Care About Your Cost Per Page?

In the last month I’ve had to visit the same doctor’s office about six times. Seems I developed cataracts in both eyes. I opted for the surgery and everything went very well. Not
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Building a High Performance Team

No one would disagree that people are a company’s most important asset.  If I were a CEO I would be challenging my management team to develop their employees and search for highly qualified
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Copier Dealers Need to Embrace the Next Big Thing

I was born in the late fifties, by the time I was three years old, Xerox had introduced the first plain paper copier. The Xerox 914 was capable of producing 400 copies per hour. The speed per
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