Posted by Tom Callinan on Thursday, August 19, 2010
If you are a manager and have attended any event using your e-mail address and title you probably found yourself on a SPAM e-mail list. If that be the case I am sure you have been notified of the great honor of being nominated for the Who’s Who of (prestigious name). I remember the first time I received this exciting e-mail: I quickly clicked through to complete my biographical information for the listing, and just as quickly discovered the $50 “listing fee.” Wow, I looked around to make certain nobody saw me click through to what was now obviously a scam.
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Posted by Kelli Jones on Wednesday, August 18, 2010
To keep your finger on the pulse of what your peers are thinking and doing, Strategy Development will be conducting monthly surveys, on hot topics in the imaging industry. Results will be published in our monthly newsletter: sddigest. Not registered for our newsletter?
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Posted by Kelli Jones on Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Strategy Development has worked with a leading software developer to translate their knowledge and insight of proper pricing of managed print services (MPS) engagements into a comprehensive Excel-based pricing tool: ClearView. ClearView is user-friendly and easily blends expenditures for mixed fleets, related consumables, and services into a single cost-per-page (CPP). The blended CPP can enable a customer to reduce costs and/or allow print providers to improve margins.
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Posted by Tom Callinan on Monday, August 16, 2010
Words of wisdom I learned from the great sales trainer Tom Hopkins when I attended his three day boot camp in the 1980s. I was in my twenties and new to the outside sales game, but they are words I have lived by throughout my business career, and not simply as a sales professional. The words are so simple and logical, yet have such profound implications.
Would you take medical advice from the guy who failed high school biology and works at the tire store installing your new tires? Would you listen to the doctor who thought you could install your own tires with two crowbars?
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Posted by Kelli Jones on Monday, August 16, 2010
This month Strategy Development is launching WebEd, a free educational webinar series to provide monthly training for sales, operations, and service professionals.
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Posted by Guest Blogger on Thursday, August 12, 2010
by Charles Brewer
It’s increasingly difficult to make money marketing remanufactured toner cartridges in the United States. Remanufacturing cartridges that perform well consistently has always been a challenge and that challenge has been compounded significantly with the introduction of new imaging technology, particularly color. Finding vital supplies has also become an issue. The supply of empty cores--the remanufacturing industry’s life blood--has been drying up for the past few years and the price of empties has skyrocketed.
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Posted by Tom Callinan on Wednesday, August 11, 2010
As the preeminent MPS consulting firm you probably wonder how this title made it onto Strategy Development’s blog. Does Strategy Development really think that MPS will die? The answer to that question is the same as the answer to a few others: Will CPP leasing die? Will digital products die? Will color output devices die?
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Posted by Guest Blogger on Tuesday, August 3, 2010
By Scott Cullen
St. Louis has the Cardinals, Rams, and the Blues, but one of the most successful teams in the market by far can be found at GFI Digital, an independent office technology dealership that’s grown into a $50-million business in 11 years.
The GFI Digital team covers a good portion of Missouri along with western Illinois, and has emerged as a leader and trend setter in the markets it serves.
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Posted by Guest Blogger on Wednesday, July 21, 2010
By Scott Cullen
Business is doing just fine thank you at Oklahoma Office Systems, Inc. (OOSI) in Oklahoma City. Established in 1981, OOSI has established a reputation for meeting the challenges of the ever-changing office equipment landscape head on.
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Posted by Tom Callinan on Monday, June 28, 2010
You survived a tough economic environment; let’s hope the toughest you’ll need to endure in your career. You made the necessary expense cuts and hopefully, you’ve optimized your service operations so you are experiencing returns greater than 52% (if not contact Mike Woodard at Strategy Development) and invested in an MPS program. Stay that course: keep driving down expenses, improving service returns, and growing your MPS program.
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