Don’t leave your customers in the dark!
In 2022, office technology and supplies shopping is done on the phone, over email or online… Global IT and office product sales are predicted to hit $5 trillion in 2022; making it more important than ever to ensure the shopping experience (no matter the platform) is smooth from start to finish. Shipping and delivery doesn’t
What is the rise of the referral model?
Been reading a marketing report today that talks about sales models… # The rise of the platform model – such as Amazon and eBay. # The rise of direct to consumer – where brands like Apple, Samsung and Nike sell direct. # The importance of bricks and mortar – in-store distribution still accounts of 80%
Want to help us reverse climate change?
2-year ago, when we saw the Amazon burning, we never dreamed of creating a new forest… Initially we thought. how can our small office technology company impact climate change and de-forestation? After understanding that planting trees was a sure-fire way to address these issues in an affordable way, this is what we decided to do.
Harley Earl and the rise of General Motors
Along with our office technology business, we’re also involved with an electric vehicle charge point installation business, so you’d expect I’d be mad into cars, wouldn’t you? To be honest cars are not the main interest, its business, and if cars form part of the business interest it’s a win win for me. Which is
Why master the art of leading yourself?
Are you delivering the best version of yourself? Most of us are underachieving at life and struggle to break out of the hum drum of the daily grind, floating around in the ether without any real purpose. This is true for leaders too, those people whose job, is to inspire others. But if leaders don’t
Lego opened 165 stores last year. Wow!
These days. it’s rare that you hear of a retail success story… And it’s even rarer when this success story includes physical store sales and not just internet sales. This year, as the company celebrates its 90th anniversary, Lego is dominating the toy industry as it follows its mission to “be a global force for
Why great talent is as rare as Gold?
Anyone who recruits people faces the same challenge… We all wonder how to tell the outstanding prospects from the ones who look great on paper or say all the right things on interview but then fail on the job. It’s been a real issue for us in our electric car charge point installation business, particularly
Epson service costs more and is frustrating
Epson have launched a service in competition to our unlimited ink home & home office print solution (Infinity)… They call it ReadyPrint and say you get a printer and unlimited colour prints for £14.99 a month. But the caveat is you pay a one off £79.99 activation fee too. Which basically means you are paying
Netflix increase prices by 33% in 14 months
Dangerous to put service costs in a technology lease
Once upon a time a print technology solution company went bust… Just before this happened, they signed an unsuspecting company onto a 3-year lease for a new high-end print & scan digital machine. On the face of it, this doesn’t sound like a problem, as the machine was financed through a third-party leasing company, and