Captain America: The First Avenger

Shield seen in Ironman 2.

The comic-strips continue....



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CNET Needs Managed Print Services - So Says Molly Wood

You may ask, and rightly so, "who the heck is Molly Wood, and who is CNET?"

Molly, here.

"...dude ....what is the deal with that fukin printer?"

"Why can we not fix the printer?  Who doesn't use a printer?'

And according to the CNET Mission Statement:

"CNET shows you the exciting possibilities of how technology can enhance and enrich your life. We provide you with information, tools, and advice that help you decide what to buy and how to get the most out of your tech."

Molly rants professionally for CNET as a technology editor and the following printer reflections are apparently caught "off-line".

So, quick, you're in MPS - How many of your co-workers love their printers and hate the big copier?

Have they "ranted" like this?

Managed Print Services Practices Managers: Are You Selling MPS Internally ? - Over and Over again.

"She not here, she got married..."

"Married?"

"She at the church, she got married to Oily bo-hunk..."

"Married?"

"Married!, sheesh..."

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I mean, when it gets right down to it, selling managed print services is not that much different from selling any service. It is just that the people doing the selling are different.

For now.

The message for MPS, MSP, and Help desk services sales is no different than selling Fax servers, scanning, email, accounting systems, or luxury submersibles.

There is a pattern, a rhythm, and a cadence for the approach, presentation, and engagement, we know this.

But what about selling internally?

Sure, selling a 1,500 device, Stage 1,2, & 3, a national account is tricky. But it's nothing compared to your talk track around your own coffee machine.

How do you convince YOUR help desk people?  How do YOUR bench techs respond to MPS?  And what about your BDM's?. Don't forget upper and executive management.

My one word?  Redundancy.

Finally - A Really Cool, Believable Green Initiative

The Next Great Managed Print Services Dude - Team Sheen, Let Crazy Lead

Hookers, Pornstars, F18's and Total Victory on all fronts.

Chuck Sheen! 

Talk about "To the Right of the Bell Curve".  Wowzie.

He's our MPS Rising star.

Why?  Because he is full on, 100% crazy.  But crazy with a plan, passion and focus.

It's about time we get a nutty male in the "papers" vs. Lindsey, Britney, Paris, etc.

The way I look at it, with Chuck out there, lowering the bar and making 'crazy' more common, all us other MPS Madmen, start to look a bit more normal.

Am I right?

DeathOfTheCopier's Greg Walters to Present at the 2011 North American Managed Print Services Conference

MPS/BPM/ITO/BPO/VAR/BTA/MSP/OEM players Unite!

Imaging Geekdom, Nirvana...ah...yes..

Third year in a row. Mark your calenders. May 4, 2011 - 10:30AM, Orlando, Fla.

Greg Walters - Case Study; Building an MPS Program within an IT / MSP organization(SIGMAnet)

To say I am looking forward to this simple, 50 minute presentation, is an understatement.

I could easily fill 500 slides and if we go by the book, hours would seem like days.

I jest.  Well, no not really.

Thrill packed, adventure filled, fog machines and disco-balls, this harangue will be streamed all over the globe; a brief history of a road traveled.

An Odyssey, or at least one chapter of many. The struggles, challenges and conquests of an MPS within an MSP.

Alert the authorities.

The 2011 Global Managed Print Conference - Why You Should Not Attend

Ed and the gang over at Photizo are going to kill me for the headline, let alone the picture.

Let me explain.

Three years ago few talked about real Managed Print Services - but Photizo was.

Toner re-man guys were saying, "...we've been doing MPS for 25 years..." - this before most defined MPS.

I am not kidding, at ITEX, 2009 one schmoe had the gall to say this to my face, and then try to sell me on remanufactured, color toner cartridges.

Indeed, so many folks tried to define MPS in their likeness, it became really funny to watch. And those doing all the defining had never DONE MPS.  But Photizo had The MPS Adoption Model.

Back then, copier guys were simply trying to stay alive - not much has changed today - the OEM's had no clue and the IT sector saw nothing wrong with 2 point printer deals, attached to CarePacks.  Okay, so maybe that hasn't changed all that much either.

The 2011 Global MPS Conference is going to be huge - to date, the number of registered matches the number of attendees at the 2009 Conference. 

When most  charge for the honor of speaking and need to piggy-back with other, failing conferences, how many shows do you know that are experiencing an INCREASE in attendance?

In the Imaging Industry?