{"id":7232,"date":"2014-08-13T10:36:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T14:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweekinimaging.com\/?p=7232"},"modified":"2014-09-15T19:23:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T23:23:02","slug":"between-the-lines-always-the-optimist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/the-week-in-imaging-twii\/editors-blog\/2014\/08\/between-the-lines-always-the-optimist\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Lines: Always the Optimist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pollyanna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pollyanna-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"pollyanna\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>I lie; I\u2019m not always the optimist. I can become as pessimistic as the best of them from time to time. However, after finishing this week\u2019s article on Impact Networking breaking ground on new headquarters and the company\u2019s goal of becoming a $100 million company by 2017, I\u2019m feeling positive about this industry\u2019s future.\u00a0 Impact clearly has a sense of optimism. And I doubt they\u2019re the only dealership that has that feeling. There\u2019s a lot of opportunity out there for imaging technology dealers, not just Impact Networking.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also optimistic after reading the Elite Dealer submissions that I\u2019ve been receiving weekly. Many of these folks are doing well, some growing, some holding steady financially, but all taking advantage of new opportunities to expand their reach within their customer base and within their markets or to maintain their current standing.<\/p>\n<p>New challenges and opportunities should always be a source of optimism. If not, maybe the time has come to move on. But let\u2019s not be pessimistic, there\u2019s still way too much going on within the imaging technology, solutions, and services industry to be anything but optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>Keep those Elite Dealer submissions coming in.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lie; I\u2019m not always the optimist. I can become as pessimistic as the best of them from time to time. However, after finishing this week\u2019s article on Impact Networking breaking ground on new headquarters and the company\u2019s goal of becoming a $100 million company by 2017, I\u2019m feeling positive about this industry\u2019s future.\u00a0 Impact clearly has a sense of optimism. And I doubt they\u2019re the only dealership that has that feeling. There\u2019s a lot of opportunity out there for imaging technology dealers, not just Impact Networking. I\u2019m also optimistic after reading the Elite Dealer submissions that I\u2019ve been receiving weekly. Many of these folks are doing well, some growing, some holding steady financially, but all taking advantage of new opportunities to expand their reach within their customer base and within their markets or to maintain their current standing. New challenges and opportunities should always be a source of optimism. If not, maybe the time has come to move on. But let\u2019s not be pessimistic, there\u2019s still way too much going on within the imaging technology, solutions, and services industry to be anything but optimistic. Keep those Elite Dealer submissions coming in. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[149,868,764,1084,328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232"}],"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=7232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7234,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions\/7234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}