Sales & Service

Riso Stops Offering Printed Brochures for Their Products?

Just about 18 months ago,  Toshiba American Business Solutions offered up National No Print Day.  Within a few days or weeks Toshiba cancelled the campaign. I heard they cancelled due to a not so
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The Eyes Have It: When Does Your IT Provider Start to Care About Your Cost Per Page?

In the last month I’ve had to visit the same doctor’s office about six times. Seems I developed cataracts in both eyes. I opted for the surgery and everything went very well. Not
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Building a High Performance Team

No one would disagree that people are a company’s most important asset.  If I were a CEO I would be challenging my management team to develop their employees and search for highly qualified
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Copier Dealers Need to Embrace the Next Big Thing

I was born in the late fifties, by the time I was three years old, Xerox had introduced the first plain paper copier. The Xerox 914 was capable of producing 400 copies per hour. The speed per
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Just Another Day of Prospecting for Demos…On the Weekend

I’ve pretty much reached a wall when prospecting for new accounts. Sometimes, I wonder if companies conduct an internal contest to see who is the rudest person in the company. The winner is
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6 Reasons Why Not to Get Your Copier/MFP at Discount Stores

I received another e-mail asking me if I had written a blog about educating end users of copiers why they should get a new copier from a dealer and not get one from a retail establishment. I’m
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10 Awesome Tips for a Great MFP/Copier Demo

Demo, what the heck is that?  In other posts I’ve mentioned that demo’s were the way we used to sell copy machines many years ago. One of the requirements of a copier sales person is
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8 Tips to Keep Your Copier Clean

Here’s another interesting thread that I found on a forum:  This company had purchased a small brother MFP to only find out that the system died in about six months because of the
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