EDGE Business Systems

Cross-Selling Virtues: Making a Smorgasbord Out of Product and Service Menu

A dealer cannot survive by boxes alone; there’s a hell of a lot more to be found in the full catalog, and incentivizing behavior need not end with a meaty spiff. Cross-selling is the key to ensuring that MFP clients are well aware of your solutions, and vice versa. Let’s be
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Client Prospecting: How Dealers are Winning Net-New Accounts

It’s not surprising that one of the barometers used to measure the success of a sales department is its ability to secure net-new business—taking down a client, and unseating either another dealer or a manufacturer direct in the process (that’s ample reason in itself to ring the
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Leasing and the Future: Variables and Wild Card Factors May Dictate Trends

Events and changes have a way of reverberating through Wall Street and Main Street. You may have noticed that this is an election year (insert smirk) and the markets will react whether President Biden wins another four-year hitch or former President Trump is returned to the oval
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EDGE Business Systems Expand Georgia Footprint with All South Copiers Acquisition

EDGE Business Systems announced this week that it has completed the acquisition of All South Copiers, a privately-owned office equipment dealer with locations in Kennesaw and Jasper, Georgia. All South Copiers has been providing Canon, Duplo and Formax solutions to companies
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M&A Roundup: GoodSuite, Kelley Connect, Novatech, WiZiX, AD Solutions and EDGE Pull Off Deals

If the old wives’ tale that bad things usually happen “in threes” has any merit, we’ll build upon this unfounded superstition with this week’s M&A roundup that saw six prominent dealers—GoodSuite, Kelley Connect, Novatech, WiZiX Technology Group, AD Solutions and EDGE
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Grading Industry’s 2022 Performance: Dealers Weigh in on the Best and Worst

It’s that time of year for the industry’s best and brightest students to take home their report cards. Instead of a semester or marking period, we’re evaluating the 2022 calendar year as a whole. All we need is those little manila envelopes that parents needed to sign and send
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Now Trending: Industry Professionals Weigh in on Issues to Watch in 2023

As soon as the ball dropped in Times Square on Sunday, the countdown began for all the Negative Normans and Nellies who reside in Pessimistic Cove. They’re all asking the same question: when will something bad happen in 2023? It’s a coping mechanism, a raising of the defense
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Dealers Suggest Factors to Weigh When Evaluating Production Print Foray

Analysts and pundits may sometimes give the impression that they believe the path to generating significant revenue for an office dealer’s bottom line is by simply adding high-margin product and service offerings. Ah, if it only were as simple as clearing a spot in one’s showroom
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The Full Production Monty: Dealers Talk Service, Supplies and Finishing Equipment

This week’s look into the State of the Industry report on production print examines the opportunities offered by supplies and service revenue, as well as its challenges. But what can really spice up a dealer’s production catalog, and provide that extra boost to profits, is the
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Selling Production Print Gear: Dealers Discuss the Sales Cycle, Manufacturer Support

While the length of any sales process is difficult to pin down, many of our dealers participating in this month’s State of the Industry report on production print agree that given a number of variables inherent in vetting a solution, it tends to take somewhat longer than an MFP
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Canon Introduces its New Fully Authorized Dealer – EDGE Business Systems

Melville, NY (May 4, 2020) — Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, is happy to welcome EDGE Business Systems to its fully authorized dealer family. Combining award-winning service with the best-in-class office technology, EDGE is a locally owned, independent
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