{"id":2691,"date":"2012-08-02T12:27:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T12:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweekinimaging.com\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2012-08-02T12:27:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T12:27:04","slug":"between-the-lines-how-the-other-half-sells-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/the-week-in-imaging-twii\/editors-blog\/2012\/08\/between-the-lines-how-the-other-half-sells-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Lines: How the Other Half Sells MPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_191\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0139.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-191\" title=\"IMG_0139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0139-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Cullen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Have you had enough of MPS yet? At the risk of over-generalizing, everybody\u2019s talking about it, everybody is either doing it or thinking about doing it, and if you\u2019re not doing it, you\u2019re done for. That pretty much sums up every single article ever written about MPS. However, the way it\u2019s done has the potential to be interesting as is who\u2019s doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Last year I wrote an article for <em>Independent Dealer<\/em> magazine about office products dealers who are selling MPS. It\u2019s a segment you don\u2019t often see written about in the imaging industry rags. In case you\u2019re interested in how the other half sells MPS, I\u2019m reprinting the article in two installments over the next two weeks in <em>The Week in Imaging<\/em>. It\u2019s a good read if I might say so myself.<\/p>\n<p>And if you also sell office products and supplies or simply want to monitor what\u2019s happening in the office products industry, I recommend you sign up to receive the monthly notification from <em>Independent Dealer<\/em> magazine at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idealercentral.com\">www.idealercentral.com<\/a>. It\u2019s online only, and as a frequent contributor, I unabashedly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, don\u2019t forget to fill out your Elite Dealer nomination forms.<\/p>\n<p>New content this week includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How the Other Half Sells MPS<\/li>\n<li>Leafdoc Looks to Bring Online OCR Services to the Masses<\/li>\n<li>What Does Good Look Like per Photizo\u2019s Hybrid Provider Index?<\/li>\n<li>Art Post\u2019s MFP Prospecting Secrets Revealed<\/li>\n<li>What\u2019s Hot &amp; What\u2019s Not?<\/li>\n<li>August News Bytes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks for reading and please support our sponsors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you had enough of MPS yet? At the risk of over-generalizing, everybody\u2019s talking about it, everybody is either doing it or thinking about doing it, and if you\u2019re not doing it, you\u2019re done for. That pretty much sums up every single article ever written about MPS. However, the way it\u2019s done has the potential to be interesting as is who\u2019s doing it. Last year I wrote an article for Independent Dealer magazine about office products dealers who are selling MPS. It\u2019s a segment you don\u2019t often see written about in the imaging industry rags. In case you\u2019re interested in how the other half sells MPS, I\u2019m reprinting the article in two installments over the next two weeks in The Week in Imaging. It\u2019s a good read if I might say so myself. And if you also sell office products and supplies or simply want to monitor what\u2019s happening in the office products industry, I recommend you sign up to receive the monthly notification from Independent Dealer magazine at www.idealercentral.com. It\u2019s online only, and as a frequent contributor, I unabashedly recommend it. Finally, don\u2019t forget to fill out your Elite Dealer nomination forms. New content this week includes: How the Other Half Sells MPS Leafdoc Looks to Bring Online OCR Services to the Masses What Does Good Look Like per Photizo\u2019s Hybrid Provider Index? Art Post\u2019s MFP Prospecting Secrets Revealed What\u2019s Hot &amp; What\u2019s Not? August News Bytes Thanks for reading and please support our sponsors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}