Showing posts with label MFP Sales Data Spreadsheet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MFP Sales Data Spreadsheet. Show all posts

Monday, December 7, 2009

Copier Sales "Position Yourself as an Expert"


Do you feel that you are the one of the best at selling MFP's? Do you consult more to the end user and then let the customer buy from you? Are you consistently producing print assessment reports for customers that have and instant ROI?

If so, you need to add this weapon to your arsenal. In your territory look up the 10 largest CPA firms. Once you have them, be prepared to make the calls to success!

CPA firms are in the business of making money as are all of us, they have many business clients that have trusted their services for years and years. What we want to do is to add value to the CPA's service's that they provide to their business clients, by added a new service for their customers. A customized Print Assessment Report for their clients.

Positioning yourself as an expert in the field of print assessments, meaning you are offering your services to the CPA firm for their clients, the CPA firm can either bill out this service or include it as an additional service that they offer for their clients. Your goal is to sell your knowledge and nothing else. Have copies of Print Assessments that you have completed to show the accounting firm what the typical report entails, here you are breaking the mold from the common copier salesperson and establishing yourself as the expert. You can even offer a FREE print assessment to the accounting firm to show them your expertise and your creative ideas for print assessment and print migration.

You can start by telling them about the high cost of printing to multiple devices and that you specialize in provided a detailed print assessment cost of what they are spending and a solution to save their clients money and or productivity. Your fees can be as much as $150 per hour plus expenses for your work.

All of the information needed is at your finger tips, companies like Ricoh offer a COG (customer opportunity generator), this software program gives you real life per page cost for about 95% of all the print devices that are on the market. For the other 5% you can do your research on the Internet.

In reference to all of the print device software that is on the market..... they are ok, however nothing is better than visiting every single print device, generating a report and then interviewing the end user for their needs. Interview can uncover tremendous savings and opportunities for all.

If you would like a copy of my print assessment report please log in to the Print4Pay Hotel and become a member www.p4photel.com/eve. I'll have the document posted in the Industry Proposals and Quotes forum (you'll need to purchase a Premium Membership for $15.00)

-=Good Selling=-

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Copier Quotes Uploaded on Print4Pay Hotel

Over the past few days I've been able to upload some new copier quotes that were emailed to me (Special thanx to those Print4Pay Hotel Members). These quotes are located in the Industry Proposals and Quotes Forum.

Xerox ColorQube 9203
Toshiba e-studio 305
Ricoh W3600 Quote
KIP 3100
XEROX 6279 WIDE FORMAT PRINT SYSTEM
Xerox 6204_KIP 3000 Bid Pricing
Wide Format Bid _KIP_OCE_XEROX
Ikon Pricing for Ricoh Bid
OCE CM4010 Color MFP
Canon C4080i Quote
Xerox 7655 Copier Printer Quote


I have also uploaded documents that I've created over the years:

P4P's "Top Ten Rules for New Reps"
Objection Sales Document
ROI Spread Sheet for Wide Format
Interesting Paper Factoids
Faith Based Sales Intro Letter

You'll need to become a member (it's FREE) for access to the Print4Pay Hotel, click on the above links and you'll be guided through the process. The Print4Pay Hotel has over 2,200 members from around the world!

-=Good Selling=-

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Thursday, November 6, 2008

So, You Wanna Buy A Color Printer

I had a demo to do today on a color printer, however the color printer had to a have a fiery. Well, the only printer I could think of was the OKI 9800 hn or the OKI 3461 (Print Shop in a Box). I arranged a visit to Oki for the customer, it was close. however six miles away from the house I got a flat, and I didn't have a spare (all baseball equipment). So, I took a 5-10mph ride home.

The demo went ok, and my rep tried to show the 3641 MFP more however client the has his heart set on a printer. Now, when it comes to printers we do not offer a cpp, why?? is beyond me, however the client is not interested in service. So he would buy the consumables as needed and service as needed.

As I am a numbers man, and I'll make more selling the MFP than the printer. I ran some numbers based on a cpp for the Oki 3641 and the Oki 9800hn getting supplies an service as you need them. To tell you the truth I was astonished at the numbers. I complied a spread that encompassed 20% coverage to 100% coverage.

Here's the document for you all, MFP vs Printer Workbook this is also great to use for other comparison's when up against printers, its quick and easy and all you have to know is the cpp of the printer you are working with.

So, here's a freaky number I got, if you did 5,000 pages of 100% color per month, you would spend approximately $2,460 per month for service, parts and consumables, on the other hand if you had an MFP at a flat cost per page your cost would be $425.00 WOW. I know these are not real world usage however even on the low end the flat cpp is the way to go on a color mfp!

-=Good Selling=-

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Track Your MFP Sales Data!

How many of you write the MFP Sales order and then complete all of the paperwork that's needed to get the machine installed and then WHEW! You're glad that you finished the paperwork . If you're like me we have a Sales order, Lease doc, Bill of Lading, RGA (for lease return), Site Survey (God forbid if someone didn't know there was a few steps or stairs), Network Survey, Connectivity Cafe Doc, Commission Doc and any addendum's that may have to deal with the lease returns. Man that's a lot of paperwork!

Well, you're still not done, any sales rep worth their weight in gold, will also have a Sales Data Spreadsheet! Within this spreadsheet they will input Customer Name, Term of Lease or Buy, Lease Payment Amount, Name of Leasing Company, Gross Sale, Units, Model Numbers, Gross Profit, What type of Pricing Plan from Manufacturer, Cash Spiffs, MU to you the sales person, the wholesale cost of the unit, the profit on the entire deal, the amount of pages captures for each system and percentage of new business compared to old business.


Most of you may ask why do all of this extra work when my company tracks all of this data? I would say to you that the company tracks the data for themselves and will not ever give it to you, you think they want you to know what type of profit you are making for them? Plus there are many other benefits to tracking you own data. Within seconds you can go back years and get a better handle of you is ready for an upgrade, or do you have enough commissions coming through to take care of bills.


However, the single most reason to track your data is that most owners of Dealerships will state that sales never makes them any money! Certainly, I believe this is hogwash! However, when you are in need of a raise or looking for greener pastures your MFP Sales Data Tracker is your road to negotiating a better deal with your current employer or you future employer. Percentage of Profit, and Percentage of New Business along with New Pages Captured will put you in the drivers seat and will help you negotiate a customer comp package.


Dealerships need to act quickly with reps who are not making the numbers, and sales guys who are not making the numbers might want to think about getting another job, maybe taking orders for cars.