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Re: COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Three of Sales

SalesServiceGuy ·
I just created my own YouTube channel doing product videos with future ones planned mostly focussed on MS365. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OotckdOtEg ... and I am working Linkedin a lot more in different ways. Most of the people I know say they have never gotten a lead from Linkedin. They think of this site as a static business card talking about who they are and not what they can do for the customer. They never post to Linkedin. Like most things, Linkedin requires almost daily work to...
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Re: COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Three of Sales

Art Post ·
SSG that's an awesome video! You can send links to clients, and direct them to your channel. It's a virtual demo that keeps on giving. Kudos I have some of the same issues with getting appointments through Linkedin, however I know of several peeps that use Linkedin as their only source for prospecting and they are doing well. I will keep working it since I have a Navigator account now
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Re: Lexmark Extends Enterprise Strength into SMB Market with Two-Series Product Line

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Re: Lexmark Extends Enterprise Strength into SMB Market with Two-Series Product Line
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Re: Lexmark Extends Enterprise Strength into SMB Market with Two-Series Product Line

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Re: Lexmark Extends Enterprise Strength into SMB Market with Two-Series Product Line
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Lexmark Extends Enterprise Strength into SMB Market with Two-Series Product Line

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Lexmark Extends Enterprise Strength into SMB Market with Two-Series Product Line Two Series single- and multi-function printers feature compact performance and affordability. LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 29, 2019 -- Lexmark, a global imaging solutions leader, today announced it is bringing its enterprise scale strengths to a new line of printers designed for the SMB market. The Lexmark Two Series is designed for micro-workgroups looking to simply and securely print, copy, fax and scan, all within a...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Five of Sales

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Day Forty-Five and in no time it will be a full quarter since being optioned to the home office. Our blessed Governor post this on Face-book today and the response was WILD! Of course you can only guess at who captioned it with "The fool on the hill". Within a few short hours there were more than 5,000 responses with 90% or more of them being negative. Geesh I wonder why? Monday was a good day since I was able to roll through my list of things to do pretty quickly. In addition I also...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Six of Sales

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Yesterday I had my first appointment in the field in more than two months. It was time to get back in business attire, that meant the dress shoes needed to be shined, the pressed slacks removed from the closet and of course that neatly pressed dressed shirt that's been on hiatus for the past 10 weeks. Looking in the closed I spotted a nice blue shirt with very think white lines and thought that would do the trick for the day. As I reached for the shirt I thought that this can't be my shirt,...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Seven of Sales

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I am so looking forward to having an extra day off next week! The last 75 days have been extremely stressful. It will be nice to have three days to wind down a bit. Does anyone feel like me that this year is taking forever to unfold? Most years it seems that the months and quarters fly by. So far this year seems like everything is going in slow motion. I had a plan for today and it consisted of researching three possible existing clients for upgrades along with prospecting via the phone,...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Two of Sales

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This will probably be one of those shorter blogs tonight, however you never know once I start writing. A few minutes ago (it's 10PM) I just set an appointment for this Friday with a net new production prospect. I had emailed him earlier in the day and a few minutes ago I received the reply that yes Friday at 10AM works. Let me touch on the email a bit. The subject line was "hope you are well" and the base of the email spoke more about new 5th station color technology that could increase...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Eight of Sales

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Many times you'll see me use the phrase "the harder you work the luckier you get". Many years ago Jack Carroll (Partner with Century Office Products) use to tell me this every time I brought in a decent size order. The first time I met Jack was way back in 1986 and that was the year I started my dealership Atlantic Office Systems in New Jersey. After selling the business to my partners in 1998 (best thing I ever did) I took a sales position with Century Office Products in New Jersey. I...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-One of Sales

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I guess the day is not over until it's over. Tonight I received text from a good industry friend of mine with some rather bad news. Seems two calls went out to two groups of employees from Canon. Those that were on one call were laid-off with no future employment, those on the other call were furloughed and hopefully will be getting their jobs back at some point in time. My source could not tell me how many were affected but stated "a large group of employees, each call was no longer than 15...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Three of Sales

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This is the first night since I started writing this blog series that I wasn't sure what I was going to write about. After 43 days of writing how much more can you cover or how much more content can you provide for other peeps with help they might need. Tonight I'd like to cover a few things I've been doing everyday other than taking the occasional break and lunch. Many weeks ago I learned that I can't work with the TV on in my office. It's too distracting especially when I have the news on...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Four of Sales

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It's 10:36PM on a warm night in New Jersey. Finally we have a day in the low eighties and there was no wind that blew in from the ocean. When that wind comes off the water we can be anywhere from 10-20 degrees cooler from inland parts of Jersey. There's also a chance that a week from today we just may be feeling the effects of a tropical storm that is suppose to move up the coast. If this storm becomes a tropical depression that stormed will be dubbed Arthur. What a great way to start off...
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Re: Contex SD One Large format Scanner Spec Review

bandit41076 ·
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Contex SD One Large format Scanner Spec Review

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Every now and then, I'll get super excited about a new product.  This is the case with the new Contex SD One large format color scanner. Before I tell you what the BIG deal is, we'll roll through some of the specs for you.   The Contex SD...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Fifty-Two of Sales

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I received my early constant contact numbers from the email I sent yesterday. It was a little better than I thought for and much better than the first. 17% open rate and 5% click through. That translates to about 120 opens and 6 of the opens clicked through. I even had multiple clicks from multiple people. The plan is not to call the clicks right away but to collect some data on who is clicking what. I'm thinking after 120 days (4 campaigns) I'll be able to generate some net new leads. The...
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COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Forty-Two of Selling

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COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Forty of Selling Copiers A very interesting day for me today. Today marketed the first day in 142 days that I spent the entire day in the field! In addition I stopped by the office for a few minutes to pick up a small A4 black MFP that I wanted to deliver to a net new account. My first appointment was early in the day with a net new account. I had to be there by 9AM, thus it was time to make sure I left my home office by 7AM. In most cases with...
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COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Forty-Eight of Selling

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COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Forty-Eight of Selling Copiers It never ceases to amaze me how one day can be so great and the next day can be so challenging. The challenging part was the essence of my day today. I wasn't able to move any deals further along until the last 30 minutes of the day. My net new opportunity is having some issues with getting approved because they are "new" in business. I would have never guessed it the setup that they have and I missed the mark by not...
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Re: COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Forty-Eight of Selling

Toner in my Blood ·
Appreciate you sharing your stories- with the good, the bad, and the ugly. Not too much different for us here in North Carolina. Grinding it out is still the best way to make things happen.
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COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Seventy-Two of Selling

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In yesterdays blog I made mention of the demons that continue to plague me even after forty years of selling. One of the those demons is calling net new clients on the phone. It's something I wrestle with all of the time. What's funny is that it wasn't always like that. At one point in time I was a flat out a cold calling machine with scheduling appointments. I believe I'm still pretty good but I know I'm rusty. I'm so rusty that when the DM does pick up the call I find myself struggling...
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COVID19 Remote Working Day Two Hundred and Forty-Nine of Selling

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COVID19 Remote Working Day Two Hundred and Forty-Nine of Selling Copiers Within a week or two at least here in the Northeast we'll hit the one year mark for COVID19. Two hundred and sixty-five days would mark the full year of selling days, but that doesn't include holidays so the real number is probably 21.5 work days a month which brings us to two hundred and fifty-eight days. At this point in time it's really hard for me to process how long this has been going. Some news in New Jersey, our...
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