MFP Solutions Top Ten Copier & MFP Blogs for March 2013

Spring comes to the Northeast, finally!  Over the long weekend I found myself thinking about a potential sale, my prospect sent me an email on Friday (day off for me) and advised that he was in the market for a high end color system and would be making a decision ASAP, probably in a few days.

I've got competition from two major players and the last time we did this I lost out on the high end black system.  Friday night saw me exchanging emails, doing a side by side comparison and tonight I'll be preparing my numbers and pay them a visit in the AM.  Just goes to show you that you never know what tomorrow will bring and our job is not a 9-5 effort.

10 Awesome Tips for a Great MFP/Copier Demo	856
New Copiers from KonicaMinolta with Advertisements...	451
Death of "The 60 Month Copier/MFP Lease"	450
A Unique MFP Proposal with the Help of Ben Frankli...	389
Sharp jp Update "Fiscal End of Year Fast Approachi...	330
How to Add More Selling Days without Really Trying...	310
10 Ways to Increase Your Copier and MFP Sales	300
Sharp "What Will Happen" Part Two	260
The Emergence of Utility Printers?	243
Sharp to Sell it's Imaging Division or Not to Sell...	228

Top 20 "MFP Solution Blogs" for 2012

So another year is at hand, last year our MFP Solutions Blog was averaging 14-15,000 page views per month.  This year thanx to all of our readers we've increased to 19-20,000 page views per month! Your comments, emails and page views are appreciated and for all of you P4P'ers out there I've got some special enhancements to the Print4Pay Hotel forums planned for 2013.

These Blogs garnered the most page views in 2012, if you haven't read them, please take the time to check out the links. (not in any order)


10 Awesome Tips for a Great MFP/Copier Demo (4,100 views)
Ricoh MPC4502 Series MFP Review (3,755 views)
The Death of The Direct Copier Channel? (2,912 views)
Copier & MFP Industry in Turmoil... the Final Five! (2,832 views)
Top 5  (#2) Solutions/Products at BTA East Grand Slam Event (1,524 views)
WTF, Memjet Partners with Fuji/Xerox, Canon/Oce  (1,392 views)
Selling Copiers & MFP's "Color Cost Page for 2 Cents" (1,326 views)
Top 19 Old Copier Manufacturers that FADED Away! (1,243 views)
Ricoh  "Where's the ICE"? (1,138 views)
KYOTIER Hybrid Color 3-tier Cost Per Page Pricing tool (1,051 views)
MFP Wars "The Final 5 Prophecy" Sharp is... (1,034 views)
Ricoh MP 301SPF Review (1,997 views)
Document Management can be a strange word for Copier Reps (1,936 views)
10 Phone Cold Calling Tips for Copiers & MFP's (1,908 views)
Oce is to CBS as Ikon is to RBS. True or not True (1,848 views)
Ricoh Americas is now Soliciting Dealer Accounts? (1,837 views)
Top 7 Solutions @ Transform 2012 Conference "Intellinetics @ #1  (1,801 views)
5 Tips for newbie Copier MFP Sales Reps (1,794 views)
Top 7 Solutions @ Transform 2012 ESP @ #3 (1,888 views)
Copiers & MFP's "The Hidden Cost of Staples" (1,654 views)

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Top Ten MFP Copier Industry Predictions for 2013

2012 a not so good year for the MFP copier industry or a good year for the MFP copier industry.  

I'm thinking that most will answer a not so good year at least for the industry as a whole. I guess the biggest question that will need to be answered in 2013 is related to Sharp.  Will Sharp continue as it once was, or will they be forced to sell off divisions to remain in business.  Lately there's been a little good news with the investment from Qualcom. 

Another question is how many more dealers will make the jump to managed services and will managed services live up the hype?  Anyone you slice it I can see that 2013 will be another year of change in an industry that is in turmoil.

Last year we posted this blog Top Ten MFP & Copier Predictions for 2012, and it seems we got a few of these right such as: 

• Kodak files for Bankruptcy or is bought
• Ricoh USA finally comes clean and announces that Ricoh Corp USA is headquarter is Malvern, PA
• Managed Print Services...the hype continues
• Xerox announces additional layoffs in the US
• USA MFP Copier manufacturer sees the introduction of the first A4 Segment 5 MFP (Lexmark MX812 & there was also an announcement of an HP 70ppm color A4 device for 2013)

5 out of 10 is not so bad since some of the predictions are off the wall and meant to be lighthearted. 

Without further ado listed below is our Top Ten MFP Predictions for 2013

Top Ten Predictions for the Copier Industry in 2010

It's that time of the year again!!

Can we all be thankful that 2009 is going, going, gone!!!

The office equipment industry was rocked this year with additional consolidation with the likes of Canon, OCE, Nuance, e-Copy, Xerox and HP.

I've got good news, this is going to continue into 2010!

Who will the players be in 2010?

Here's my predictions for 2010, enjoy!


1. HP makes Hostile bid for Xerox


2. Kyocera acquires Sharp's MFP business


3. KonicaMinolta acquires Toshiba's MFP business


4. Ricoh acquires Kodak Print Production Group


5. Matt Espe is announced and new Ricoh CEO


6. Samsung purchases Memjet technology


7. Samsung is number #1 in world wide MFP placements


8. Panasonic finally throws in the towel!


9. Print Management Software is now a standard bid spec for the federal government (GREEN rules)


10. Okidata acquires Lexmark


Yeah, I know some of these are far fetched, who knows we've seen crazier things happen in the industry, right? If you've got anything to add, post it here and I'll add the comments!





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Top Ten Copy Machine or MFP Tweats!

#1 No one uses Copy machines anymore.....ur so stuck in the year 2000 =P jk

#2 feels like I hate MONDAY! All of the copy machines are BROKEN! (angry)

#3 Rampant Jamming: a problem/condition with my copy machines here at work, AND a kick-ass name for a band!!

#4 sticking fingers and sharp metal objects into giant hot copy machines falls under the "bad ideas" category. but hey, I got the jam out!

#5 You'd think in 2009 we'd be able to create printers/ copy machines that didn't need to warm up.

#6 Copy machines suck when copying chapters

#7 I am a epic failure with copy machines lmfao

#8 Whyyy do BOTH copy machines at work have to be broken? Happy Tuesday!

#9 I hate the copiers at my school. And by hate I mean loathe, despise, wish they would spontaneously implode. #fb

#10 Wishing I could be somewhere else. anywhere else! Tired of being in this hamster wheel I call my life. I hate paper!!! And broken copiers!

Do any of these comments surprise us?

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