Tagged With "Ninety-Four"

Tomorrow is going to be awesome! Finally some sun and some warmth with temps in the seventies, we might be a little cooler at the beach but I'll take it over the cold and damp days of late. Tonight's going to be a really short blog, it's late and I'm beat plus I'm looking to get a head start on tomorrow. Two meetings were on tap for today. One of the meetings was to move a BDR opportunity closer to the finish line which we did. My other meeting was with a Municipal IT DM to ask some...

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...

Well another blog I did't think I was going to write this evening. Late in day I was able to catch a news interview with our Governor. This is the same Governor that shut down indoor dining the day before it was scheduled to open yesterday. He puts the blame on other states that are seeing infections increasing because those states have opened indoor dining. Thus he elected to shut it down. He also based the decision on activities from the last weekend where many bars were packed and peeps...

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I had no intention of writing a blog tonight. Last I wrote on Wednesday was to look for another blog in this series for Wednesday night. This morning I received the email below from a long time Print4Pay Hotel member. Art, I love reading your stuff and sharing some with our 15 sales reps. You have inspired them and me many times. We are all working from home here in the Midwest at Sumnerone. We just finished up an $850,000 hardware June which was good and 75% were new accounts. We think July...

COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Ninety-One of Sales What a way to end the month! I pulled a zero today and I'm pretty bummed because nothing came through. I had three good shots at having a banner month, two of the opportunities kicked the can down the road and the other opportunity who told me it's a go was no where to be found. Another account that I've been dogging for more than 5 years. When I spoke to Tim later in the day I stated that in most cases buyers don't buy on our time lines, they...

COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Ninety-Three of Sales It's just about 10PM in New Jersey, and the temperature is still about 90 degrees. The last few days have been hot, humid and terrible to be outside unless you're planning a visit to the beach. COVID19 in New Jersey? Not much has changed since I gave my last update. We're in some type of holding pattern from the onset of Phase 2. The curve in New Jersey has been crushed for months now, the line is flat and yet our Governor keeps his foot on...

I had one appointment today and that appointment was more of a holding hands session with their new copier. I didn't mind because I put the top down on the hardtop and worked on my tan for about 90 minutes with the drive back and forth from the home office. Every time I drive to this client I take the same route. That route takes me past the Garden State Parkway and Route 520 exit. The parkway is a major artery that leads to North Jersey and that's where many of the jobs are. At this...

US GDP dropped 32.9% in the last three months, the worst in US history. Until the US Gov't effects a coherent national COVID-19 strategy, economic activity will not improve and those parking lots will not fill up anytime soon.

COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Ninety-Eight of Selling Copiers One of my goals for Friday was to make sure that I reached my goal of contacting twenty-five businesses. The plan was to get them all done in the morning since I had I thought my afternoon would be spent with one appointment and the writing of the large net new order for $58K. Just about Noon I received an email from my VP about that potential order. I responded with "I'm being patient", he responded with "don't be patient after...

COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Thirty-Four of Selling Copiers On Monday of this week which was day 132 I wasn't in a good place. All of the hard work that I put in wasn't going to come to fruition for September. All of the calls, emails, inmails, posting content on Linkedin and my own Jersey Plotters site just didn't get me to where I wanted to be. It was the end of a quarter and a quarter that I had a decent shot to rack up some bonus dollars. In the end I finished with one of...

COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Eighty-Four of Selling Copiers The blog I wrote last week centered more about how I feel about the state of our industry. There's no getting around the fact that business is not what it used to be for copiers. But who the frak needs copiers when you can also offer up content solutions? Today I received a referral for a content opportunity and it's going to be a decent sized one. Thus in the last 30 day I have three content deals working. Yes, one of...

COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Ninety-Two of Selling Copiers Last night one hell of a night. I could barely sleep with the sheets of ice that were bouncing off our slider window in the bedroom last night. What was suppose to be a snow event was more of an ice event with wind gusts hitting 55 miles per hour. We didn't lose power thus a traditional work snow day was just another work day because of our remote technology. I'm also grateful that I'm able to write this blog tonight.

Great blog Art! Thanks for being my 'daily start-up'! Merry Christmas and a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous 2021 for you, your family and loved-ones.

Thanx Martin! Merry Christmas to you and your family also. Let's have a GREAT 2021!

Well......, nothing today. I wasn't able to connect with any one of the five opportunities today. All I can say is thank goodness there are still two days left! I'm sure some are probably trying to avoid me like the plague at this time, however that's not going to stop me from going my job tomorrow and day after tomorrow. I was able to get some prep work for some of the accounts that may have a chance of moving forward in January. There was no sense if making a ton of calls or emails since...

COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Ninety-Six of Selling Where do I start since I've come to the end of my selling days for 2021? Do I start with the fact that I was down the last day of the year this morning and knew that anything can happen to screw things up? The year is finally over, it was the year that started when I got back from vacation this time of year. My end of year vacation is a stay at home vacation and it allows me to get some things done at home and just relax. I was...

Wow, how 'tight' can it be... Best wishes for 2021!