{"id":4864,"date":"2013-04-25T10:09:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T14:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweekinimaging.com\/?p=4864"},"modified":"2013-04-25T10:20:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T14:20:21","slug":"between-the-lines-calling-all-elite-dealers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/the-week-in-imaging-twii\/editors-blog\/2013\/04\/between-the-lines-calling-all-elite-dealers\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Lines: Calling All Elite Dealers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/megaphone-people-e1366899421195.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4871\" alt=\"megaphone people\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/megaphone-people-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>I know it should be obvious, but I\u2019m going to draw attention to the Elite Dealer nomination form anyway. Indeed, there\u2019s no time like the present to start working on your Elite Dealer nomination forms. You can link to it on the home page of <em>The Week in Imaging \u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/elite-dealer-nomination\/#.UXk4K8qtMtU\">Website<\/a> or in the newsletter, where I\u2019ve placed it so that you can\u2019t miss it. Because of the redesign, I\u2019m a couple of weeks behind in posting the 2013 nomination forms, however, considering that the deadline is Sept. 1, you\u2019ve still got plenty of time to get your nomination in.<\/p>\n<p>I had a great response last year and I\u2019m expecting it to be even bigger this year. Over the next few weeks I\u2019ll be asking my contacts at the OEMs as well as others who work closely with the dealer community for potential nominees as well.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great to be nominated by a third party, but I still need a completed nomination form by the dealer to make the final decision. So if you\u2019re nominated by someone else, I hope you\u2019ll respond to my request to complete a nomination form. That said, many of the Elite Dealers last year took it upon themselves to nominate themselves. And that\u2019s okay too.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, this is the 25<sup>th<\/sup> year of the Elite Dealer awards. The tradition started back in 1988 with <em>OfficeDealer <\/em>magazine and continues to this day in The Week in Imaging. I can tell you right now I\u2019m not going anywhere and as long as there are office technology dealers out there doing what they do best, I\u2019m going to be here celebrating those folks here in <em>The Week in Imaging<\/em>. I truly hope you\u2019re one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading and please support our sponsors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it should be obvious, but I\u2019m going to draw attention to the Elite Dealer nomination form anyway. Indeed, there\u2019s no time like the present to start working on your Elite Dealer nomination forms. You can link to it on the home page of The Week in Imaging \u00a0Website or in the newsletter, where I\u2019ve placed it so that you can\u2019t miss it. Because of the redesign, I\u2019m a couple of weeks behind in posting the 2013 nomination forms, however, considering that the deadline is Sept. 1, you\u2019ve still got plenty of time to get your nomination in. I had a great response last year and I\u2019m expecting it to be even bigger this year. Over the next few weeks I\u2019ll be asking my contacts at the OEMs as well as others who work closely with the dealer community for potential nominees as well. It\u2019s great to be nominated by a third party, but I still need a completed nomination form by the dealer to make the final decision. So if you\u2019re nominated by someone else, I hope you\u2019ll respond to my request to complete a nomination form. That said, many of the Elite Dealers last year took it upon themselves to nominate themselves. And that\u2019s okay too. Incidentally, this is the 25th year of the Elite Dealer awards. The tradition started back in 1988 with OfficeDealer magazine and continues to this day in The Week in Imaging. I can tell you right now I\u2019m not going anywhere and as long as there are office technology dealers out there doing what they do best, I\u2019m going to be here celebrating those folks here in The Week in Imaging. I truly hope you\u2019re one of them. 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":[2407,328,343],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864"}],"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=4864"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}