When Ricoh Americas holds a dealer event like Convergence, it's usually something special. The Convergence theme was born a few years ago in an attempt to merge the Savin, Ricoh, Gestetner and Lanier Dealers all into one dealer meeting. Before the Convergence dealer meeting each brand has it's own dealer meetings. I can see why Ricoh made the move to one dealer meeting for all dealers, savings.... and one unified message.
Before the Ricoh Convergence Dealers meetings the Ricoh Dealers meetings were called Vision. I can remember many excellent Vision & Convergence Meetings. Tops on my list was San Diego and one Vision Meeting that was held in Orlando at the Disney's Contemporary Resort. Since 1998 I've been with Century Office Products and most years as long as I hit my quotas I was off to the meetings with the owners of the company.
When hard times struck in 08 and 09 I was not there. 2009 saw Century under new ownership and since then I've only attended one meeting last year in 2011 (I paid my way to go). More importantly, I do want to stress that these dealer meetings are awesome and a lot can be learned from the seminars, workshops, exhibitors and networking with other MFP dealers and sales people. I'm also concerned tha...go here for more
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