{"id":3257,"date":"2012-12-03T14:39:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T14:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweekinimaging.com\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2012-12-03T14:39:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T14:39:58","slug":"whats-hot-whats-not-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/the-week-in-imaging-twii\/whats-hot-whats-not\/2012\/12\/whats-hot-whats-not-23\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Hot &#038; What&#8217;s Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we check back in with Chip Miceli, president of DPOE in Des Plaines, IL about what\u2019s currently hot and what\u2019s not in his market? DPOE sells Sharp, OKI Data, and Konica Minolta equipment.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/flames.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2491\" title=\"flames\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/flames.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a>What\u2019s hot?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Miceli:<\/strong> We\u2019ve been getting a lot of inquiries on the Sharp Polaris products and my sales people have been getting a lot of traction on it. And managed networked services is the topic everybody is talking about right now. That\u2019s the next reoccurring revenue for our industry. I know a lot of guys who sell copiers don\u2019t believe that, but it\u2019s the future. We end up teaching people today how to print less, scan more, archive more, and that\u2019s why our prints have been eroding. Reoccurring revenue is what organizations like ours live on and you need to replace it with something and managed networked services seem to be a good niche for us.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ice-cubes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2492\" title=\"ice cubes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ice-cubes-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>What\u2019s not?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Miceli:<\/strong> Black &amp; white machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we check back in with Chip Miceli, president of DPOE in Des Plaines, IL about what\u2019s currently hot and what\u2019s not in his market? DPOE sells Sharp, OKI Data, and Konica Minolta equipment. What\u2019s hot? Miceli: We\u2019ve been getting a lot of inquiries on the Sharp Polaris products and my sales people have been getting a lot of traction on it. And managed networked services is the topic everybody is talking about right now. That\u2019s the next reoccurring revenue for our industry. I know a lot of guys who sell copiers don\u2019t believe that, but it\u2019s the future. We end up teaching people today how to print less, scan more, archive more, and that\u2019s why our prints have been eroding. Reoccurring revenue is what organizations like ours live on and you need to replace it with something and managed networked services seem to be a good niche for us. What\u2019s not? Miceli: Black &amp; white machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93],"tags":[140,174,224,2412,279,333,334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}