Tagged With "High Flow Vacuum"
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Re: Post-Virus We Must Defeat The Zombie Companies!
Although I am 60% on board with your move to A4 strategy, most of the rest of the stuff you are posting is "knocking it out of the park"! I would like to see a poll. As a business owner, during COVID-19 would you prefer? 1). No lease payments for 90 days 2). 1/2 price lease payments for one year The auto industry is pushing no payments for 90 days but I think business owners are more concerned about cash flow for the next year. I think the correct strategy is to offer as part of your...
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Re: Post-Virus We Must Defeat The Zombie Companies!
I have to dial back the 1/2 price payments for one year. Most SMB business will only get lease approved for a six month Step lease. So for those customers wanting to preserve cash flow, a six month 1/2 price lease cost followed by a 60 month regular cost lease would be the best offer. On a $5k lease this would add approx $139.00 to the total finance costs spread over 66 months ($2.00 month).
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Re: Is This the Beginning of the End for the Padding of Lease Rates?
Here is a report from leasingnews.org. One of their legal editors is doing a three part review of this legislation. Leasing News Exclusive: State Senator Steven Glazer and the genesis of CA SB 1235 (Part 1 of 3) By Tom McCurnin Leasing News Legal Editor This is important not only if you are doing commercial business in California, but this may affect other states. If you are new to this, here is legislation passed both the assembly and senate, awaiting California Governor Jerry Brown’s...
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Re: A Few Copier Vignettes from the Late Eighties & Nineties
Art, You and I are from similar professional backgrounds and times. We started in 1980 selling Sharp and Juki typewriters. Everything sold near MSRP. Then the fax boom came and we caught that wave perfectly. We sold Ricoh thermal faxes for full list ($2995.00). The only issue was cash flow; we sold them faster than we could order and purchase them. Copier Maintenance agreements went from .022 up to .035 and did not include drums, developer, toner, fuser rollers or lamps! Also, like your...
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Re: A Few Copier Vignettes from the Late Eighties & Nineties
Yup we have the same issues with cash flow. It was a great problem to have. The Hunt for Red October was a great book, even found the movie awesome too! Ty for the comment, we should connect for lunch one day
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Re: The "Your Price is too High" Objection
Would the lower price be a bargain if the competition doesn't show up when the customer needs them?
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Re: One BIG Take Away from the Top 100 Summit
Interesting test. Hope the dealers use it to find their future top producers. Enjoy your day...
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Re: One BIG Take Away from the Top 100 Summit
Art, Great article I always used the purpose question when hiring. Ask the candidate what their purpose is, what would drive their core being to do what every it takes as long as it's legal, moral, and ethical to succeed in the career of sales? When people have the conviction for their purpose they will have the strength needed when the world of circumstances attempts to stop their momentum.
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Re: One BIG Take Away from the Top 100 Summit
This is a tough business and finding young blood who are willing to gut it out is HARD. I've been in this industry for 5 years now and every year the thought of quitting enters my mind. The reasoning to stick around has to be more than just about money. For me, lasting 10 years in copier sales is the equivalent to getting my "black belt" in "the art of selling." I already have the confidence to feel like I can do anything -- real estate, start my own business, etc... I've gone through the...
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Re: This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Fourth Week of September 2004
Thanks for your email. I will be out of the office until Monday, September 29. I'll have limited access to email and will return your message as soon as possible. All the best, Andrew Jones Muratec America, Inc.
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago, The First Week in January 2014
Some great threads here, especially the blog series I wrote for "31 Ways to close more copiers sales". Enjoy these threads from 5 years ago this week! Pacific Office Automation Helps Local Children by Matching Donations in the Fox 12 Holiday Toy Drive Art Post · 1/2/1410:14 PM Pacific Office Automation Pacific Office Automation ( http://www.pacificoffice.com ) is a leader in managed printing solutions and document management software. Since 1976, Pacific has grown to become the industry’s...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Third Week in September 2003
BTA National Event was last week in NYC @ the Stewart Hotel. With members and vendors I heard there were 345 attendees. That's a great showing! What was the most popular talked about theme behind the scenes? Yup, it was the One Rate or Flat Rate. More to come on this during the week. Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week! Fuji-Xerox merges 9/17/038:48 PM Fuji- Xerox merges internally Byron Connolly, CRN Wednesday, 02 April 2003 Fuji- Xerox will audit its printer -distribution channel...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The First Week in October 2003
In the office on Friday we had a chat about the manufacturers in the industry. My thoughts centered around KonicaMinolta and the great job they're doing with diversifying. Ricoh was at the bottom of the list. Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week: Ricoh Offers Managed Print Services to Reduce Printing Complexity 10/2/0811:10 PM . In the past, printing was simple as everyone either shared one device or had a personal printer . Now the printing landscape is more complex with multiple...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Second Week in July 2003
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...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Fourth Week in July 2008
Last week seemed to be pretty interesting. I've been working on an order for about six months and was told the paperwork was ready to pick up tomorrow. As soon as I have the docs in hand I'll be writing about this, till then mums is the word. Weekend Copier Notes from 07/27/08 Neal · 7/28/0810:46 AM Russian investors are considering acquiring the company. - Kodak announced it has sold a NexPress 2500 production color system to Mailings Unlimited, a print and mailing house in Portland, Maine.
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Seven Great Reason Why I Love Working @ Stratix Systems
It's a late night for me just like many other nights. While I was walking our dog, a little light snow began to fall here in Highlands, NJ. At this time of year, along with not much traffic I can hear the rumble of the waves that are peppering the beach. Sometimes it's times it's nights like these that I get to remember about how good things are and how fortunate I've been through out the years. A little more than ten years ago the copier company that I worked for was bought by Stratix...
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The Print Equipment and Services Industry must separate their deliverable.
Recently I had an opportunity to speak at ITEX, An Industry event for technology resellers. During that talk, I discussed the three types of deliverables or more importantly the three types of end-user customers within the print equipment and its services industry. This industry is strangling their full profit potential as they continue to deliver these different types of customers with the same processes. Here are the three equipment customer types: 1. High-Volume segments 6,7, and 8...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Second Week in November 2003
So it was fifteen years ago that Ricoh launched the first GBC puncher. I remember it well, chads were evenly distributed through out the entire device! One of my accounts had to vacuum their GBC puncher once a week. Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week! Toshiba America Business Solutions Introduces the Flagship Model in its Workgroup Color Printer Line Boston Mike · 11/10/036:05 PM in TABS color printer product line. Boasting a powerful 600 MHz processor and 256 MB of standard RAM...
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This Week in the Copier in Industry, Third Week of November 2003
My sales month ended today, thus allowing time for our beloved bean counters the chance to close the month on the calendar end of month. don't mind and I'm kind of use to it. I figure that closing the month early gives me two end of the month chances to close some orders. Of course one is our actual close and the other is calendar end of month. December this year is a little frightening since Christmas falls on a Tuesday. Which means most will not be working on the 24th. Thus December only...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Ten, Course One
In the past I've called my self a hunter of wide format devices. I'm know moving on to call myself a hunter for color labels, which will lead me to placing net new label presses. Over the last month or so, I've noticed multiple rolls of color labels in Wawa's, Quick Chek (both of these are gas station/food markets here in New Jersey). In addition I also scoped multiple rolls of labels in McDonalds and Dunkin Doughnuts (or Dunkin as they have re-branded). See and ye shall find color labels...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (First Week of February 2005)
Struggle, struggle and more struggle seems to the topic for the month of January. I'm in a slump and need to pull out of it. Today I had three planned calls after driving back from our 2020 Kick-off meeting yesterday. It was more of laying the seeds to reap in coming months, actually more like the third quarter for this year. Two calls went well and the other company moved on me. Thus, I need to do more leg work. Seems next week will be a complete week of working the phones and emails! Enjoy...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of April 2015)
For each of the next few blogs I'll be inserting some tips from what other dealers and sales peeps are doing on a daily basis from around the globe for staying relevant with their clients and prospects. 1. Promote yourselves and our business daily on social media Enjoy these incredible threads from 15 years ago this week! This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of April 2005 Art Post · 4/12/157:15 PM . Built-in Wi-Fi in printers could make a tech's 4/18/05...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago for the Second Week in April of 2015
For those of you that are new to the industry, there's a cool blog I wrote about making the phone calls. Believe it or not the phone is your friend. You can read that here or below. Fourty Eight Hundred Phone Calls a Year Can Equal a Lot of Dough! Enjoy these awesome threads from 5 years ago this week! Bid Tabulation for Xerox_Sharp_Samsung_Canon_Kyocera.pdf Art Post · 4/14/1512:55 PM Topic Konica Minolta Expands and Enhances Corporate Communications Team at US Headquarters Art Post ·...
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ManagingThe Imaging Channel's Crisis
In this article, I will share what I envision coming, and some things dealers can immediately do to soften the impact of that vision. As the Industry's Customers investigate and explore their current circumstances so, must the dealers who sell and service them. Any mis-alignment will prove way too costly now and in the future. Over the last couple of weeks, the industry has been dished a new reality. The work from home business model is now mainstream, and many, including me, believe there's...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Sixteen, Course One
Over the last few years I've blogged about the importance for dealers to diversify to other avenues of print. Especially if they want to stay in the "break and fix" model for servicing and selling devices that print. One of those opportunities is color label printing. The list of the types of color labels is enormous. Bumper stickers, political stickers, custom groceries, branding, safety, food labels, CBD, beer & wine, cannabis, the list goes on and on. Post COVID19 recovery will...
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Healthcare - The Road Ahead for Patient Record Protection
IT security has finally become a more central and critical priority among health care leaders in the past few years, and this could not have come soon enough given the immense volumes of records exposed of late. Identity theft has been the most...
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Flying High Using Digital Processes
Flying High Using Digital Processes Aviation giant Mercury Air Group integrated DocuWare with two of its accounting systems, creating a mission critical solution for accounting information and documentation. The company reduced billing time by 6 days, increased cash flow, and gained workflow processing efficiencies. Privately held, Los Angeles-based Mercury Air Group provides jet fuel, air cargo services and transportation, as well as support services for international and U.S. commercial...
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The Transition of the Copier Industry "According to Art"
The Transition of the Copier Industry "According to Art" Part One: I can only start from the early eighties. Six months after graduating a copier tech training school, I had sold my first copier. I'm pretty sure I remember the building, but not the name of the company. On a recent drive by that company was no longer in that building, I was kinda bummed because I would have enjoyed to cold call them again If you bought or leased a copier in 1981, the only function of that copier was to copy.
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Fourth Week of September 2004
In the world of the fictional television series Lost , Oceanic Flight 815 goes missing somewhere over the Pacific Ocean en route to Los Angeles from Sydney, Australia. I found this interesting since flight MH370 went missing many months ago. I...
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The Transition of the Copier Industry "According to Art"
A blog from the past. Enjoy!! Part One: Once upon a time (back in the early eighties) we sold copy machines. It was a simple business. We had maybe three models of plain paper copiers. I can remember the EP (Eny Paper lol)...
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I Want My....I Want My..... SMART MFP
I wrote this blog a little over two years ago on the old blog site and I thought it was time to transfer this to our new site. There are still more than 1,200 blogs that need to be moved!! In a little more than two years, we've progressed...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago (2nd Week of November)
Ten years ago Ricoh released the first GBC stream puncher in the industry, it was interesting to say the least. Many of us poked fun at the chads that were scattered within the first GBC stream punch units. We actually had to dispatch...
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10 or More Reasons of Why to Lease Copiers & Printers
It's always good to review the basics, and to remember the basics when explaining equipment leasing to a client that is new to leasing office equipment. It's also not a bad idea to keep this in your portfolio! 1. Why Lease? Leasing provides your...
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An Interview with the KING of MPS aka Greg Walters
Six months in the making and I finally had the chance to offer up some questions to the King of MPS aka Greg Walters. I'm thinking it was six years or so ago that Greg launched his "Death of the Copier" blog. Greg was in the MPS business...
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The "Your Price is too High" Objection
What a day, last 72 hours of the month, and we get hit with a killer snow storm in New Jersey. What gives with the naming of winter storms? It's just more media hype right? I though I would write a little about what happened to one of our...
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The Transition of the Copier Industry "Part III"
FYI, I wrote this blog back in 2012 for a series of blogs titled, The Transition of the Copier Industry. Back in 2012, I focused my this blog around the Ricoh eWriter, today the Ricoh eWriter is no where to be found. Why? I have no clue, I thought this product would kick start paperless forms, service tickets, delivery tickets and many other mundane paper based processes. The Digital Copier Industry of Today The digital copier industry of today is changing and companies like Xerox, Ricoh,...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago The Third Week of October 2006
Memories, oh the memories of what was hot ten years ago this week. My favorite on this list is "sales toughness". There is nothing new in sales, what's new is really old with just a slight spin on it for todays market place. Enjoy the threads from ten years ago! Ricoh Selling 3260/5560 to Toshiba 10/17/06 6:44 PM It's this type of BS that affects our bottom line, it's bad enough that we have to go up against Lanier, Ricoh , Gestetner, Savin , and now Toshiba has the box. I don't mind keeping...
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Top Ten Copier & MFP Quotes for November 2016
I just checked my recent constant contacts and I was upset because three members opted out of the weekly email update. As my Father in Law states, what do you expect from a Pig but a Grunt. It's obvious to me that those three that opted out are probably terrible prospectors and terrible sales people. Over the years, I always believe and stated to others that Print4Pay Hotel members are the best of breed for the imaging industry. Below are ten quotes that we've recently ran across, and or we...
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Sales Managers... How to Identify & Crush 5 Sales Settlers Signs Inside Your Sales Department
"The Status Quo Is Simply Unacceptable" Brad Henry, Former Governor of Oklahoma "Working the land "HOPING" for a fertile spring" Settling... Complacency, content, creatures of comfort; it is out there right now within the closets of sales teams. Lurking in the dark shadows of their successes, hiding where you least expect to find it is a great balancing act of excuses. It is the silent sales killer, lurking and striking sales teams without warning. It can bring even the biggest and brightest...
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Nine Serious Issues For Today's Copier Dealers
You Have Options in a Tough Economy The headlines of today’s economic news are adding to the already challenging environment in the imaging industry. OEM ’s, now more than ever, are operating in your territory. This is bringing concerns to dealer management all over the United States. Pricing pressure coming from CPC pricing in the .0029 vicinity is challenging even the best dealers to search for ways to compete and reduce costs. Here are some other forces that are creating serious headwinds...
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One BIG Take Away from the Top 100 Summit
Geesh, I grabbed and extra day to stay in San Diego after the Print Audit Top 100 Summit, come home on Sunday to find that Larry Levine, and Darrell Amy already wrote about the happenings of the event (dagnabit). Can't wait until next year's event! During one of the open discussions, that's where our moderator threw out questions to the attendees, the first question posed was, "what is your biggest challenge to your business?" First Business Challenge Now, I was thinking along the lines of...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part One, Course One
Many of you know that I'm a huge fan of color label presses. It's my belief that Dealers & sales reps that add Color Label Presses to their arsenal can achieve additional heights of revenue and profit. Color Label Presses can be used as seeding devices in larger Print4Pay opportunities, or help that dealer or rep get a conversation going with an account where they have never had any traction with MFP's or IT services. In addition, the competition is ripe for takeover. Let us not forget...
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It takes Determination to move a Rock or change a Business
Over the last few months, I have been talking with some Technology Channel leaders regarding my Vision of future Channel Distribution. A Vision I named “The Innovation Channel.” As these discussions take place, I am reminded of how determination lessens in value as some age. This thinking brought me to the creek which ran through the neighborhood I lived in years ago as a child. That creek we played in had a Big Rock; this Rock was obstructing the way the creek flowed down to the pond at the...
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Nine Innings with Polek & Polek
Just wanted everyone a little bit of a background about this blog. It's baseball oriented, can you tell? I was thinking about a blog that I wanted to write for Polek & Polek for the last few weeks. Chris Polek and I are huge fans of baseball. Chris Polek being a Yankee fan and me being a Mets Fan. While driving from one account to the next, the idea came to be to make the blog baseball themed for the start of the 2017 baseball season. Thus, Chris and I collaborated while at Itex and did...
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The power of Tigerpaw One Software — with James Foxall
I sat down with James Foxall to find out how Tigerpaw is leaping into the office equipment space with a fully vetted product Well, there's one thing that James and I have in common, boy can we talk it up! So much, that this will be a two part interview. It’s unusual to find a 30-year-old company that still has the passion and entrepreneurial spirit of a startup, but that’s exactly what I found when I interviewed James Foxall, CEO of Tigerpaw . I caught up with James in-between his busy days...
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Testing Positive for Better Service and Cash Flow
The Mercy Clinical Laboratory implemented DocuWare in order to better manage lab orders. The results are all positive. The Lab r educed the time-to-bill by one day increasing its billing capacity by $210,000 per day. These new efficiencies reduced the backlog of lab orders to bill by half and gave the staff the ability to answer questions about an order instantaneously. Digital information is now shared with other departments to improve patient care and the Lab’s bottom line. Mercy Clinical...
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Nine Butt Kicking Copier Proposals for January 2017
We had some really generous Print4Pay Hotel members send us some awesome copier proposals/quotes for the month of January. My Fav has to be the one for the Xerox Nuvera. At times I will send these off to my VP of Sales. Since he's really not in the field on a day to day basis, I feel it's my duty to let him know what's going on out there. He can then make strategic decision with our sales efforts. Believe me, having the ability to see these quotes and to get a sense of where the market is...
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Why We Still Need Legacy Sales Skills
I'm probably going to go a little off topic here and there, however please bear with me. A few minutes ago I finished up reading "Why a Lifelong Salesperson Thinks Salespeople Are Unnecessary". That the 80%of the purchasing process will take place without human to human contact by 2020, threw me for a loop! Dang, that's only three years from now! The blogger wrote about a software company that has NO salespeople, and that they grew to 450 million in revenue in 15 years. The gist of the blog...