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Re: Pricing for new Ricoh c435DN
Equipment & Accessories Item No. Description Suggested Retail Price 407997 Ricoh SP C435DN Color Laser Printer $1,069 406681 Paper Feed Unit PB1020 $468 411699 IEEE1284 Interface Board Type A $134 407113 IEEE802.11 Interface Unit Type O $400 417084 USB Device Server Option Type M12 $270 MX407776RA Hard Disk Drive Option Type P7 $399 407784 VM Card Type P7 $119 ESPAC1 ESP AC1 Power Filter $30 52121 Tall Cabinet Type C430 $260 52111 Medium Cabinet Type C430 $245 406755 Caster Table Type C...
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Four Sales Tips to Help you Close More Copier Opportunities
Recently, closed quite a few orders in the last couple of weeks. Almost all of those opportunities had some stiff competition from other vendors. Thus, I'd like to share some of my secrets that I've used to help win the deal. But first I'd like to share some thoughts about buyers. There's two types of buyers in my book. One is the value buyer and the other is the price buyer. If you've been on Linkedin long enough you'll read sales guru's spinning the yarns of selling to value. The truth is...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Last Week in November 2008
I guess the BIG news of the week from ten years ago was ere 50 cuts that Ricoh performed that week. However, that was right after the IKON purchase and within four months (end of Japanese) there was to be major cuts with high level legacy employees. Seems to me that one of the covenants if the Ricoh purchase was that all high level Ikon peeps would replace those at Ricoh. AS Vince would say "that's my two cents". Enjoy all of the threads from ten years ago this week. Weekend Copier Notes...
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Need help with Toshiba Pricing
Toshiba seems to put all parts in a separate 'SPP' doc. Usually includes the developers and fusers, etc., curious if someone can email me that file? apost@p4photel.com
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SolarWinds Introduces New Subscription Model for Its Popular On-Premises Products
SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced subscription-based pricing for the majority of its on-premises IT operations management products. The new pricing model provides IT professionals and their organizations an additional option alongside the company’s perpetual licensing model, and offers greater flexibility with their operational expenses and predictability for their budgets—two things that are front and center for IT...
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Re: Ricoh C7100X Pro Pricing
Pricing is available on Aficio League (info center). However, I have a few questions: Don't see many fiery options like compose, impose, color profiler. Can anyone expand on this?
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Re: Ricoh America's Trying to Poach Dealer Account?
Wow! I would start buying from direct if I could get those prices! Also I would like to know what contract as I haven't seen access to one like that. I hope this gets taken care of for the dealer. What an overstepping intrusion and intentional malicious attack on the dealer customer relationship.
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Re: Ricoh America's Trying to Poach Dealer Account?
good point, maybe dealers should just buy from direct!
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Re: Ricoh America's Trying to Poach Dealer Account?
The US Communities Contract is what we use for School Accounts as well as non-profits and Govt. You can sell below the contract price you can't sell above the contract price. One of my techs sent me a photo of a Ricoh business card from one of our School Dist. Unit Offices and when I notified my DBM she asked what the Ricoh Rep was talking to them about. We have a machine right next to the receptionists desk with out sticker on it. A Ricoh rep is supposed to do an about face and disengage if...
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Re: Ricoh America's Trying to Poach Dealer Account?
As promised, here is the email from the dealer rep: I received an email this evening from the purchasing director of a large educational institution that has been our exclusive customer for Ricoh products going on 7 years. They are very happy with my company and this is why I was contacted and asked to take care of it. The email simply stated "you want to give this guy a call?" It was in reference to a RBS rep sending special rebate university contract pricing (the exact same contract and...
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Re: Ricoh America's Trying to Poach Dealer Account?
17 years in the business and that's the used car salesman talk track approach that he knows....
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Re: Ricoh America's Trying to Poach Dealer Account?
If you bring this to the attention of your Ricoh Dealer Support Manager. One of our partners has started firing any direct reps that don't follow the rules of engagement. About 6 months ago I lost to a Ricoh rep using government pricing. $97 per month on a 60-month lease for a Ricoh MP C3003 with a booklet finisher. I had 0 profit in my quote and was still more expensive. There is just no money in those accounts for reps that work off of GP.
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Re: Ricoh America's Trying to Poach Dealer Account?
We had a sit down with the branch manager several years ago and they were firing anyone who violated the rules of engagement and Ricoh was reimbursing the dealer for poaching the accounts. After that we rarely had any problems of them poaching our accounts but the pricing is still an issue in those types of accounts. Just remember everyone is playing by the same prices and rules. It must be true, right....?
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Re: Ricoh America's Trying to Poach Dealer Account?
Just yesterday I was speaking with a P4P member, this member had interviewed with KonicaMinolta some 8 weeks ago. Our P4P member posed this question to the Regional KonicaMinolta Manager. With Ricoh we have "Rules of Engagement", basically we can touch theirs and they can't touch ours. Does KonicaMinolta have something like this? The Regional Manager replied with, "we have a similar process, however, we can always take their (dealer) business and apologize later." Once hearing that our P4P...
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Re: Ricoh America's Trying to Poach Dealer Account?
I am always hearing our sales people complain about dealers taking accounts from us. Then I read your blog and see posts about direct stealing dealer accounts. I always imagine if I were the buyer and how mad I would be if I found out who I can buy from is being limited. If I want to but a dell laptop I can compare dell with their dealers.
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Re: Ricoh America's Trying to Poach Dealer Account?
It's crazy business out there, I would not mind having NO "Rules of Engagement" as long as the pricing was similar for both players. Ten years ago, I lost all 5 of my Majors to Direct taking them on price. It was ugly.
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Re: Ricoh America's Trying to Poach Dealer Account?
It goes both ways. As a RBS employee I understand and follow dealer incumbent ROE but for the dealers their are no rules, I have had 100% MIF poached and lost significant deals because the dealer got better price support from Ricoh. If only we all played fair - but it's a one way street, so there is no "fair". The RBS employee here should ask himself if it's really worth it, and then go find someone else to sell to.
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Re: Ricoh America's Trying to Poach Dealer Account?
In the days where a majority dealers are not exclusive to any one specific manufacturer we (dealers) are fair game as maybe we should be. If you are fortunate enough to have two or even three lines to choose from you always have the option to switch lines. I would contact your dealer rep and let him know that due "poaching" you will be presenting a different manufacturer option since you can not compete with pricing on the same equipment offered by direct. Fair is fair.
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Re: Ricoh America's Trying to Poach Dealer Account?
I think I want to start buying our machines from RBS instead of Ricoh Distribution. The directs are the biggest whores now a days and the Japanese could care less as long as that factory keeps running. It's amazing to me how much they have screwed this industry up in the last 20 years.
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Re: Ricoh America's Trying to Poach Dealer Account?
This is a 2 way street as I have heard of dealers TARGETING Ricoh direct accounts, it's a nature of the business. If the rep was taking that good of care of said upper education account, then there wouldn't be a problem, which it doesn't appear there was a problem.
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Re: Ricoh America's Trying to Poach Dealer Account?
It's not a two way street. The ROE from Ricoh states RBS can't poach dealer accounts but dealers can poach RBS accounts. These bastards in these direct operations are glorified used car salesmen at best, most of the time.
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Pricing for new Ricoh c435DN
Does anyone have the pricing for this system yet, need consumables also please
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Konica and Kyocera Dealer Pricing
I don't know if it's this time of year or that manufacturers are just getting aggressive all over in Florida. It kinda takes away the "solution" selling that we all strive for when manufacturers drop their pants on the larger deals. Does anyone have the Konica and Kyocera dealer pricing?
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10 Ways to Close Net New Business #4 of #10
This is part #4 of #10 for the series of "10 Ways to Close Net New Business", this one is a freebie! woohoo!! Today was one of those days that were just non stop. The existing plan was to follow up with existing accounts to move the...
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Need Kyocera Copier (dealer) Price List
Can anyone help me with this? I'm willing to barter Premium Membership for the pricing file.
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10 Ways to Close Net New Business #6 of #10
One awesome thing that I've learned over the years is that almost every business is a potential suspect. I used the word "almost" because there are not as many suspects as there were years ago. Going back 30 years or so, it was a...
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Top Ten Copier Quotes & Proposals for September 2015
If you're an avid read of my blogs, then you know my position on the ability to view proposals and quotes from other dealers and direct branches. Our business is constantly changing, and having the ability to read and comprehend...
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Ricoh America's Trying to Poach Dealer Account?
First, let me state that what I'm about to post came from a long time P4P member. He emailed me a few minutes ago, in reference to a Ricoh America's Direct sales person that contacted one of his accounts via email and sent pricing via email. Our P4P member is a Ricoh dealer and has had this client for 7 years, in addition the entire MIF is owned by the dealer. "This is our account for the past 7 years and we have all the MIF. This guy knows better and I want his rear end in a...
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Ricoh & Epson = "perfect together" NOT!
Had an email from a P4P'er today that goes into detail about the product launch of the Epson plotters and the MFP scanning kit. So, let me say, "laughable"!! Epson is dictating the Epson UMRP (Unilateral Minimum Resale Price). All I...
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Need Help fpr Xerox and Toshba Dealer Pricing
I'm working on a special project and would be willing to trade a Two Year Premium VIP Lifetime memberships for Xerox and Toshiba dealer pricing. Can anyone help us out? Art
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eFolder Announces New Bundled Pricing for eFolder BDR for ShadowProtect
eFolder, a leading supplier of business continuity and file sync services for the IT channel, today announced new and improved pricing for eFolder BDR for ShadowProtect. The new eFolder bundled pricing approach delivers partners greater simplicity, superior value and massive amounts of included storage per protected server in the eFolder Cloud. eFolder BDR for ShadowProtect is a backup and disaster recovery service , which bundles StorageCraft ShadowProtect imaged-based backup software with...
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Need Help withKonicaMinolta & Xerox Pricing
Can anyone send me dealer price list for KonicaMinolta & Xerox systems please? I could also use Toshiba, Lexmark (BTA), and Samsung.You can email it to me arthurkpost@gmail.com
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Top Ten Copier & MFP Proposals for April 2015
You've heard me preach about proposals before. If you're new to the site, P4P'ers will share quotes and pricing for systems with other P4P'ers. These quotes are accurate, real time and can tell you if someone is using padded lease rates, heavily...
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Top Ten Copier & MFP Proposals for February 2015
I can' tell you how much I enjoy seeing copier proposals and quotes from around the country. I especially like seeing the ones from my competitors!!! What's included, what's not included, what rate factor they are using, the cost per page...
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Fleet Maintenance Agreement Cost Per Device
I've seen this before and would like to know how the rest of us are billing for maintenance supply agreements for copiers. Here's the scenario: You have 3 copiers that are the same brand, model number and delivered at the same time...
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Cost Per Page Pricing for Carbonless Paper
Just thought I would share this with everyone. We're working on a few solutions to rid prospects of green-bar computer paper. The biggest task was to figure out the exact cost per sheet. Here is how it breaks down – 11x17” WHITE CFB SHEETS (MAKE READY ITEM) 12495 SHEETS = .077 PER SHEET (5 CARTONS) 9996 SHEETS = .079 PER SHEET (4 CARTONS) 7497 SHEETS = .082 PER SHEET (3 CARTONS) 4998 SHEETS = .088 PER SHEET (2 CARTONS) 8.5 X 11” WHITE CFB SHEETS – STOCK ITEM 12500 SHEETS = .039 PER SHEET...
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Top Ten Copier and MFP Proposals for May 2013
May 2013 business got me back on top of the leaders list for tops in total sales and tops in new business for the entire team. To date I've racked in $130k in net new business. However, June is not looking so good, a lot in the pipeline but...
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N-able by SolarWinds Releases New Managed Services Pricing Guide for Channel Partners
OTTAWA, ON--(Marketwired - Sep 24, 2014) - N-able by SolarWinds, a global leader in remote monitoring and management (RMM) and service automation software, today announced the launch of its " 2014 Managed Services Pricing Guide ." Developed exclusively for managed service providers (MSPs), N-able's comprehensive new e-book offers proven best practices and pricing strategies to help MSPs accelerate recurring revenue, increase their business valuation and ultimately achieve world-class MSP...