Social Selling Hits the Road

Social media is now an inescapable part of our lives. For many of us, it is our primary source of information. It allows us to connect and interact on so many different levels and with people from all around the world using a variety of platforms. Once looked upon as a curiosity
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Lexmark Acquired by Apex

The rumors circulating for the last month or so seemed too fantastic to be true, but true they were. In a jolt to many, it was announced on April 19, that printer OEM, Lexmark, was acquired by a consortium led by Apex Technology Co. Ltd. and PAG Asia Capital and including Legend
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MWAi Rides for Jillian

Rolling Thunder began in 1988 as a motorcycle ride to bring attention to reports of unaccounted for POWs and MIAs from the Vietnam War and to help generate political action for their return. The founding members chose Memorial Day weekend as an appropriate time for the event, and
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Marketing: How is it measured?

In last week’s enews, Dominic Pontrelli, Marketing and Strategy Advisor, Pontrelli Marketing, debunked some notions of what marketing is and explained why strategic initiatives are necessary to define objectives before embarking on an effective marketing campaign. But for many
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Epson Goes to Work

Epson has entered the workgroup color print space and everybody is watching. In an arena historically dominated by laser, Epson just might disrupt the status quo with their Replaceable Ink Pack System devices that offer significantly lower costs per page than their laser rivals.
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Marketing Talk: The Strategy

What is marketing? Like MPS, it seems to mean many different things to people. We spoke to Dominic Pontrelli, Executive Director of the Business Products Council Association, and longtime industry marketing professional, to get his thoughts on the subject as well as some insights
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Y Soft: New Platforms, New Dimensions

Y Soft was founded in 2000 by students in the Czech Republic. The print management software company is headquartered in the Czech Republic, but has global operations, including a U.S.-based office in Dallas, Texas, responsible for pre-sales and post-sales support as well as local
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Who Dat? BTA Southeast Spring Break, of course…

Not even a late winter rain storm could dampen the spirits at the Business Technology Association’s (BTA’s) Spring Break event, hosted by BTA Southeast, which took place in New Orleans this year at the InterContinental Hotel on March 18 and 19. Brent Hoskins, executive director
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Learning Lessons and Moving Forward in Light Production and Wide Format: OEMs and dealers discuss their challenges and successes

When you question dealers about one of the fastest-growing areas of their business, they almost always cite light production and/or wide format. It is clearly a great opportunity to diversify and enter into new spaces and many are taking advantage of this. But how are dealers
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IBPI New Orleans 2016: Rebates, Deals, Networking and all that Jazz

The annual IBPI meeting came marching in to the InterContinental Hotel in New Orleans on Wednesday, March 16 and ended on a good note on Friday morning of March 18. Just like in 2015, it partnered with the BTA Southeast Spring Break event. The IBPI bills itself as the largest
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PaperStream Server: Efficiency and Flexibility from Fujitsu

On March 7, Fujitsu announced the release of PaperStream Server, a web-based, enterprise-class document processing platform that enables organizations to collect, process, index and route business critical content to Line-of-Business (LOB) or Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
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Ch-ch-changes: Look out you baby boomers…

It doesn’t seem to matter which industry seminar or keynote you attend these days, eventually somebody at some point will bring up the subject of millennials. Mostly, it’s about their habits and expectations and how businesses need to adapt, but increasingly it’s also about how
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SEALs and Sharp Form Partnerships to Fight on

February 18, the first full day of the Executive Connection Summit (ECS), began with a bang when Echelon Force, a leadership consulting company comprised of two combat-trained Navy SEALs, delivered a powerful message on leadership. Jocko Willink and Leif Babin recounted in
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LMI’s Doug Johnson Envisions a Service-based Future

One of the key overlapping themes at this year’s Executive Connection Summit (ECS) was the importance of exploring alternatives and adjacencies.  Driven by the habits of millennials, among other factors, the ecosystem of the print environment is changing, and many of the
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Select Dealer Group: A Band of Brothers

ENX Magazine was honored to attend the 2016 Select Dealer Group’s (SDG) Owner’s Meeting, held at the Wild Horse Pass Hotel and Casino in Chandler, Arizona from Tuesday, February 16 through Wednesday, February 17. Formed in 2003, the SDG counts 39 members, representing territories
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