Eakes Office Solutions

We welcome February with this month’s state of the industry focus on finding and maintaining quality employees—long viewed as one of the most vexing challenges for not only the office dealer ecosystem but all businesses. As unemployment levels hover at historic lows across the Read More

Each year, in conjunction with the Elite Dealer issue, we ask our nominees to provide a glimpse into the biggest challenges that they face. While we don’t have a comprehensive breakdown by topic, we can tell you that the clear “winner,” by far (approximately 25% of our Elite Read More

This time of year brings about two certainties: little (and not so small) people dressing in various costumes with the intention of getting a piece of candy or two from your bucket of goodies. And just before Halloween, we have the Fall Classic—Major League Baseball’s World Read More

Selling, in its purest form, is the ability to reach out to prospects in a manner that, though it may be uncomplicated in its mechanics, has a tendency to resonate with people. A campaign need not be so elaborate and complicated to capture attention, for sometimes the smallest, Read More

Lincoln, NE, May 26, 2016: Eakes Office Solutions made a donation of printers in support of printer service and connectivity labs that began this spring at Southeast Community College and The Career Academy. Dan Nickel, the Computer Information Technology Instructor at SCC, Read More

Grand Island, NE, April 19, 2016: Steelcase has recognized Eakes Office Solutions as a Platinum Partner for 2016. While all Steelcase furniture dealers in the United States and Canada meet high standards for quality and performance, some stand out as extraordinary partners – Read More

Grand Island, NE, October 13, 2015 – Eakes Office Solutions, a leading provider of business products and solutions, is celebrating its 70th anniversary this month. Founded in 1945 by Howard Eakes, the company has grown from two employees in Grand Island, NE to over 235 employees Read More

Continuing with the theme from my Between the Lines column in the January issue of ENX magazine, I asked office technology dealers from across the country to share with us their New Year’s Resolutions for 2015. Here’s what they shared. I’ll bet you can identify with some of those Read More

It’s not easy being a document imaging dealer. Consider that you are in a business—the technology business—that’s ripe with challenges—some new, some ongoing—every day of the year. Last year when we were soliciting our Elite Dealer nominations for 2014 we asked the ques Read More