{"id":5429,"date":"2013-07-10T13:53:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweekinimaging.com\/?p=5429"},"modified":"2013-07-10T13:53:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T17:53:34","slug":"whats-hot-whats-not-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/the-week-in-imaging-twii\/whats-hot-whats-not\/2013\/07\/whats-hot-whats-not-47\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Hot &#038; What&#8217;s Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/whats-hot-what-not380x2701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4134\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/whats-hot-what-not380x2701-300x213.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/whats-hot-what-not380x2701-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/whats-hot-what-not380x2701.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Tim Seeley, vice president of sales, with Seeley Office Systems in Glens Falls, NY, shares what\u2019s hot and what\u2019s not in his market. Seeley sells Konica Minolta and Muratec products as well as office supplies through United Stationers.<\/p>\n<p><em>What\u2019s hot?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seeley: <\/strong>[An MPS program that focuses on] remanufactured toner cartridges. We\u2019re keeping MPS simple and that\u2019s done really well for us and makes a lot of sense to people.<\/p>\n<p><em>What\u2019s not hot?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seeley: <\/strong>IT services. You\u2019re seeing these manufacturers, particularly Konica Minolta, pushing it hard. They\u2019re doing everything they can to incentive you to sell it, but they\u2019re missing that one piece of the pie, and that it\u2019s hard for any of us to guarantee the great customer service we\u2019re all used to doing [with our office technology customers]. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d say it\u2019s not hot though because it hasn\u2019t really gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Seeley, vice president of sales, with Seeley Office Systems in Glens Falls, NY, shares what\u2019s hot and what\u2019s not in his market. Seeley sells Konica Minolta and Muratec products as well as office supplies through United Stationers. What\u2019s hot? Seeley: [An MPS program that focuses on] remanufactured toner cartridges. We\u2019re keeping MPS simple and that\u2019s done really well for us and makes a lot of sense to people. What\u2019s not hot? Seeley: IT services. You\u2019re seeing these manufacturers, particularly Konica Minolta, pushing it hard. They\u2019re doing everything they can to incentive you to sell it, but they\u2019re missing that one piece of the pie, and that it\u2019s hard for any of us to guarantee the great customer service we\u2019re all used to doing [with our office technology customers]. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d say it\u2019s not hot though because it hasn\u2019t really gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93],"tags":[213,224,2409,658,657,656],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429"}],"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=5429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5430,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429\/revisions\/5430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}