The picture in the header showed our demo room back in either 1989 or 1990, might have even been 1991. As you can see by the photo Atlantic Office Systems (the first one in NJ) was Authorized for Adler Royal, Brother, and Tele VaxaFax (facsimile). Sometime later Adler Royal was purchased by Mita and the Adler Royal brand was changed to Copystar. I thoroughly hated the name Copystar because there was no brand recognition, at least with Adler Royal, our clients knew about Royal typewriters. We...

Ten years ago, it still seems like yesterday. Color MFP's were all the rage and third party solutions started to take center stage. Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week! RICOH ANNOUNCES NEW EFI COLOR PRINT CONTROLLER TO MAXIMIZE WORKFLOW AND PRODUCTIVITY 7/9/088:23 PM savings and productivity. The company's robust product portfolio includes Fiery( R ) digital color print servers; VUTEk( R ) superwide digital inkjet printers , UV and solvent inks; Jetrion( R ) industrial inkjet...

It's Sunday night, I start vaca on Wednsday of this week. Not a lot of stuff from last week, except for the additional tariffs that will go into effect the first week of August. We're not sure if copiers are included this go around. Enjoy the threads from 156 years ago this week! Sales Training Help 7/15/034:56 PM December 31, 2011 - Sales Training Help - Click Here Industry Analysts, Inc. has been developing customized industry training programs and materials for over 30 years. Major...

The Salmon Companies, a transportation partner of the United States Postal Service, started using DocuWare to merge its business processes with those of a company it acquired resulting in an efficient, flexible, digital accounting workflow. The accounting process automation improved employee productivity, reduced costs and secured information. Founded in 1946 for hauling a load of mail for the United States Postal Service (USPS), the Salmon Companies have expanded from a regional...

Chew on this one for a moment... How much value are you creating for your clients and prospects to help grow your sales? All too often, I hear sales reps, sales management and those in executive management sing praise to the importance of creating value for their customers and prospects. Inside a sea of sales sameness, VALUE; irrefutably becomes the single biggest aspect within the sales process. However, in order build value, how many know the true meaning of value? Why is this so...

Recent talk tracks in our NJ sales office has been about the new KonicaMinolta One Rate Program. Just recently one of our reps thought that they couldn't compete with the One Rate program for three A3 MFP's. Those three MFP's were doing a decent volume of color each month. When we did some more digging with the clients color volume and the monthly cost for unlimited pages, we figured the revenue for Konica Minolta was two cents for every color page. Just as the rep was ending the meeting,...

Kobylensky Named Konica VP of Color Sales 7/7/035:37 PM Kobylensky Named Konica VP of Color Sales Konica Business Technologies U .S.A. Inc. has announced the promotion of Robert (Bob) Kobylensky to vice president of color sales . Kobylensky, who joined Konica in December 2002 as director of color sales , direct channel, will now be responsible for the overall sales initiatives for Konica 's color product line. He will report directly to Yasuo Matsumoto, president and chairman of the board.

Not much here this week, seems the entire industry was probably on vacation. Enjoy these threads from ten years ago this week! Weekend Copier Notes from 06/29 & 07/06 Neal · 7/7/087:30 AM . - In a recent article in What They Think magazine, the following companies were mentioned as owning most of the inkjet print head technology patents that are used by many vendors: o Xaar o Dimatix/Spectra (used in new Fuji JetPress 720) o Panasonic (used in Kodak Versamark) o Kyocera (used in Oce’...

Sales professionals constantly face the temptation to give into discouragement. Bad news and rejection are inevitable in sales. What's important is how you handle it. Let's be honest, we all get discouraged. It’s just one of those potholes we face as we navigate down the road called sales. When we get discouraged our attitude, belief and emotions turn negative. When this happens our productivity plummets, we tend to retreat, withdraw and bitch about everything. The risk of giving up on...

I wrote this for the old google blog "MFP Solutions" about six years ago. Back then I had to keep a separate blog and the copier forums . I'm glad that you stopped by! My Name is Art Post. I started in the industry over 32 years ago by answering a newspaper wanted ad for learning how to become a copier technician (1980). This job/school paid $3.75 per hour. I interviewed for the job and like most interviews, they said, “we’ll call you kid” (I was 22 years old). A few days passed, then a few...

July 2, 2018 FujiFilm is suing Xerox for a Billion dollars because Xerox backed out of the merger after one of the Xerox Board of Directors staged a rebellion. “ Fujifilm (also)…threatened to compete against Xerox Corp …if it failed to renew its technology agreement in 2021.” If you are unaware of the relationship between Fuji and Xerox, Fuji makes a large portion of Xerox’s line of Office equipment. Your Xerox Rep probably just calls them “Xerox” because he doesn’t want you concerned about...

It’s 2018 two hundred forty-two years since the American Revolution ended and began the greatest government experiment in history. Our political landscape is no calmer today than it was in the beginning or, through the decades since its beginning. Our nation’s political partisanship seems to be the one consistent thing to maintaining our government. One should fear too much agreement over the peaceful diplomatic disagreements. It seems that many have blended protest with disrespect then...

Dang, me and the entire industry must have been on vacation this week! Enjoy these meager threads from ten years ago this week! Weekend Copier Notes from 06/22/08 Neal · 6/23/088:40 AM and management software to large corporate customers  Graphic unit will offer printers and supplies to wide format users o Most of the U .S. employees of the printer division (3,400) work at the division headquarters in Boise, Idaho, which designs the products, while manufacturing is done overseas. - Ricoh...

Fifteen years ago, hard to believe that many of us have seen so much come and go during those years. The Ricoh Aficio 1224 was an A3 color device that printed 12 pages per minute in color and 24 pages per minute in black. We had some horrific problems with speed when the Ricoh 1224 would go into an auto calibration during a print or copy run. It would take up to 5 minutes to calibrate and then restart the print job, and yes we had many frustrated users because we weren't aware of how the...

Where has the first half 2018 gone? In a previous blog... Sales Leaders: In 2018 Your Reps Must Have a Business Plan Containing A Purpose, Plan and Goals! To all those in sales, it's time to break out your goals and plan from the beginning of 2018. What do you mean you can't find them? I trust you know where it is! Sales professionals know exactly where to find their plan while sales reps are still searching for it under piles of clutter and chaos. Stop the excuses! Now that you have your...

Growing autobody company, Carubba Collision, integrated their accounting software with a document management solution to optimize its accounting processes. The results: a corporate accounting department able to meet the demands of a growing business without additional staff. Established in 1955, Carubba Collision is the largest body shop conglomerate in upstate New York with 16 locations across 11 cities. The company is dedicated to assisting customers with insurance claims and works hard to...

If you've been around as long as I have, then you're old! No, really it's that you've seen or heard about some of the coolest marketing programs from our beloved copier manufacturers. One program has recently has a ton of chatter on the Print4Pay forums lately. That's the KonicaMinolta One Rate program. I first heard of the program through one of my Linkedin connections and he was touting how awesome the program is for clients. In fact he's authored his success on the One Rate Program.

We live in a world of attention deficit disorder. No one has the time to listen. To all those in sales and sales management (you allow it to happen) - you're suffering from a listening crisis. Why? Because all of you seem to think you know all the answers and you can't wait to spew out why you're better than your competition. One of the most powerful things a sales professional can do is listen. However, most sales people listen to sell and then immediately jump into sales pitch mode the...

For the last forty-five days I've been closely monitoring the impeding tariffs that are to take effect on July 6th of 2018. About two months ago the United States had 1,333 lines (products) that are imported from China. That list was recently reduced to 818 lines. One of those lines is for "copier parts and copier accessories". For those that are not living under a rock, we know that most of Japanese copier companies have manufacturing facilities in China. If you're not sure just check out...