{"id":5644,"date":"2013-08-15T09:08:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T13:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweekinimaging.com\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2013-08-15T09:08:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T13:08:29","slug":"mixed-mps-messages-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/feature-articles\/2013\/08\/mixed-mps-messages-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed MPS Messages Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Keep-Out.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5645\" alt=\"Keep Out\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Keep-Out.jpg\" width=\"254\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a>Quality Business Systems in Towson, MD might be considered a smaller dealership when one looks at its revenues, but they continue to be a viable contender in the Towson, MD market ever since CEO Jerry DiMartino founded the company in 2001. DiMartino, who started in the copier industry in 1984, has approached his business wisely and isn\u2019t skittish about adding new product categories such as mailing systems or services such as IT and MPS to add value to Quality\u2019s traditional product offerings.<\/p>\n<p>DiMartino is honest about why he\u2019s in the MPS business. \u201cThe main reason I do it is not for the revenue, but to keep other vendors out of our customer base and to provide our customers with a total office solution. \u00a0What happens is a third party comes in and they\u2019re recommending other printers and they\u2019re taking your supplies base and your revenues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is he getting rich off MPS?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it very profitable, I don\u2019t think so,\u201d responds DiMartino. \u201cBut it\u2019s very profitable in terms of keeping our client base and keeping our customers happy with one source.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quality Business Systems in Towson, MD might be considered a smaller dealership when one looks at its revenues, but they continue to be a viable contender in the Towson, MD market ever since CEO Jerry DiMartino founded the company in 2001. DiMartino, who started in the copier industry in 1984, has approached his business wisely and isn\u2019t skittish about adding new product categories such as mailing systems or services such as IT and MPS to add value to Quality\u2019s traditional product offerings. DiMartino is honest about why he\u2019s in the MPS business. \u201cThe main reason I do it is not for the revenue, but to keep other vendors out of our customer base and to provide our customers with a total office solution. \u00a0What happens is a third party comes in and they\u2019re recommending other printers and they\u2019re taking your supplies base and your revenues.\u201d Is he getting rich off MPS? \u201cIs it very profitable, I don\u2019t think so,\u201d responds DiMartino. \u201cBut it\u2019s very profitable in terms of keeping our client base and keeping our customers happy with one source.\u201d &nbsp; \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82],"tags":[729,2409,730],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644"}],"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=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5647,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions\/5647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}