Systel Business Equipment

2022 Elite Dealer Challenges: Pandemic Aside, Physical Health Always a Priority

It starts with a sneeze, then devolves into a runny nose, aches and pains, chest congestion and other maladies that indicate a cold (at best), the dreaded flu, or, even worse, coronavirus. The reaction to coming down with an ailment is somewhat universal and sad, but we’ve all
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Elite Dealer Challenges: Keeping the End-User’s Needs in Mind

In this week’s installment of the challenges facing our panel of Elite Dealers, we kick off with insight into serving the evolving needs of clients. Clearly, the pandemic has caused all dealers to mobilize and assess their own processes and structure. But by the same token,
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Dealers Suggest Factors to Weigh When Evaluating Production Print Foray

Analysts and pundits may sometimes give the impression that they believe the path to generating significant revenue for an office dealer’s bottom line is by simply adding high-margin product and service offerings. Ah, if it only were as simple as clearing a spot in one’s showroom
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The Full Production Monty: Dealers Talk Service, Supplies and Finishing Equipment

This week’s look into the State of the Industry report on production print examines the opportunities offered by supplies and service revenue, as well as its challenges. But what can really spice up a dealer’s production catalog, and provide that extra boost to profits, is the
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Selling Production Print Gear: Dealers Discuss the Sales Cycle, Manufacturer Support

While the length of any sales process is difficult to pin down, many of our dealers participating in this month’s State of the Industry report on production print agree that given a number of variables inherent in vetting a solution, it tends to take somewhat longer than an MFP
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Systel Business Equipment Acquires Baker Office Solutions

Fayetteville, NC (June 23, 2021) — Systel Business Equipment is pleased to announce its recent purchase of Baker Office Solutions of Florence, South Carolina; the acquisition was closed on June 15. The company also purchased the 7,146-square-foot facility located at 1512 Second
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Beyond COVID-19: Elite Dealers Ponder 2020’s Greatest Challenges

As we work our way through the balance of a thoroughly unforgettable year, we take solace in knowing that while every business has its share of adversity and challenges, the global pandemic was a shared experience that impacted all of us in different ways. Solace, you say?
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Elite Dealers Find Reconciling Growth, Garnering Efficiencies to Be Top Priorities

In this installment of the greatest challenges facing our Elite Dealer family, we take a wide-ranging look at a number of talking points that have office technology dealers engrossed and looking for solutions to improve not only their client-facing processes but
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M&A Roundup: Systel Adds Complete Business Services, Advanced Imaging Nets Comworx

A pair of transactions announced this week sees Systel Business Equipment of Fayetteville, North Carolina, obtaining fellow Tar Heel State dealer Complete Business Services of Kill Devil Hills. In the second deal, Advanced Imaging Solutions of Las Vegas acquired telphone, video
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Difference Maker Spotlight: Systel’s Keith Allison

You could say that Keith Allison’s introduction to the office technology industry was both indirect and eye-opening. Soon after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill he took a job with a CPA firm in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Looking for a roommate, one of his fraternity brothers
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15 More of Our 2014 Elite Dealer’s Biggest Wins

It’s been an excellent year for many office technology dealers, including our 2014 Elite Dealers. Those dealers enjoyed some big wins and they shared those with us in their Elite Dealer nomination forms. We’ve been highlighting those big wins throughout the month of December,
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Between the Lines: The Spirit of Giving

For those of us who celebrate Christmas, the time eventually comes when we realize it’s more fun to give than receive. I guess that’s all part of growing up. That’s okay, but I wish growing up didn’t have to mean that the hands on the clock start turning a whole lot faster the
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2013 Elite Dealers Round 3

ATLANTIC, TOMORROW’S OFFICE www.tomorrowsoffice.com New York, NY President/Owner: Larry Weiss Year founded: 1959 Number of employees:  296 Primary hardware vendors: Ricoh/Savin, Konica Minolta, Toshiba, Kyocera, HP Primary solutions and services offerings: Docuware, NSI
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More Big Wins in the Dealer Channel

I’m continuing to read the Elite Dealer nomination forms that have arrived over the past couple of months along with the flurry of nominations that came in late last week and it’s still fascinating to see how well some dealers have been doing over the past 12 months. Once aga
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