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Keep It Local Week is BACK! 15TH-21ST May 2023

Following a successful inaugural year in 2022 Keep It Local Week returns in 2023 even bigger and better as we continue in our quest to transform the buying habits of a nation and make supporting local suppliers the number one factor when choosing where to buy from. Is that ambitious? Of course it is. But

The four minute explainer you need to decode climate action

Climate conversations can be filled with technical language. This is important in some situations, but we need to break through jargon to help the broader community better understand climate change and empower everyone to act. There are so many ways individuals, organizations, companies and governments can contribute, but to do so, we all need to
Secret Diary of a Stationery Lover
This month marks a special birthday for me as I hit the half century in years, or as I like to call it 20 plus 30 years. Twenty years of growing up followed by thirty years in charge of the stationery cupboard at the various companies I have worked at, ensuring the smooth operation of
office solutions certainty and trust
Why people want certain office solutions?
Why people and organisations just want certainty and peace of mind? ✔ They want to be certain that what you have agreed will happen ✔ They want to be certain you’ll turn up on time ✔ They want to be certain you won’t increase their agreement price ✔ They want to be certain you’ll provide
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How did Microsoft choose their name?
Do you know how the name ‘Microsoft’ came about? Gates and Allan wrote the first personal computer operating system (Basic) for the worlds first personal computer (Altair). Cleverly Gates made sure the deal allowed them to keep ownership of the software. This allowed Gates and Allen to license it for use to future PC manufacturers,
The historical digital revolution journey
It seems, the digital revolution took much longer to unfold than the industrial revolution… How do we know? Because author and business professional Walter Isaacson wrote a book called ‘The Innovators,’ which details the first dabbling in computing right through the decades to the present day. It’s amazing to think people (who had brilliant minds)
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Are we being fooled by randomness?
Don’t you find that some people are just lucky? There’s a guy I know (Sean) who wins most of the bottles of booze at the school fair, regularly wins small cash pots from the lottery, and just seems to come up trumps more often than others. In fact, if you dropped him in a bucket
Simon Jordan
How Simon Jordan lost £75 million?
If you sold your company for £75 million, would you go buy your local football club? And I don’t just mean Haslingden St Marys in the West Lancs league or Clitheroe FC in the Northern Premier League. I’m talking about the equivalent of buying Blackburn Rovers or Burnley, not in todays money, but back in
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Why Kendo Nagasaki loves an electric car?
Meet Paul Bolton (AKA Kendo) our technical director at MY Total Office Solutions… For those in the dark, we call him Kendo after Kendo Nagasaki the masked Japanese (not really) TV wrestler from the 70’s and 80’s. And if you want to know why, either ask him or me, it’s funny, but too long for
Here’s our office technology story. What’s yours?
Story is the best way to show people your journey, whilst detailing your why… Our story started 20 years ago when we opened a retail store selling printer cartridge refills. Yes even 20 years ago we were promoting sustainability and being environmentally friendly. Loads has happened since then: ✔  We opened a network of cartridge
cowboy suppliers
Why you need to steer away from Cowboys?
With the economic market getting tougher, organisations will be looking to cut back on unnecessary expenditure, especially with suppliers whose services have increased in price without you realising. Office technology solutions is a sector notorious for cowboy suppliers who tie people into long term contracts, and who hit them with stealth price increases over time.
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How Xerox broke the glass ceiling twice?
Ursula Burns shattered two glass ceilings in 2009… Burns is the first black female to hold the position of CEO in a Fortune 500 company and became the first women to succeed another when she replaced Anne Mulcahy as CEO of the Xerox Corporation. ‘Where You Are is Not Who You Are’ is Burns memoir,
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How to create a winning CSR program?
At MY Total Office Solutions, we look for innovative ways to support our local communities… And the biggest impact we can make within our communities is through charities, as charities are right at the top of the pyramid when it comes to supporting the people around us. Yes, we’re a small business and we don’t
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Charities to benefit through business CSR program
We’ve been thinking how we could help our communities through local charities… In our office technology and supplies business, we’ve created a charity based CSR program which connects local companies to charities without the need for companies to donate extra cash or goods. How it works: The charity refers companies to us for their office
office technology tree planting
Office technology company plants more trees
May and June saw 22 additional trees planted in our quest to help reverse climate change and deforestation. We plant a tree for each new office technology agreement, which then forms part of our customers corporate social responsibility program (CSR), with a certificate to prove the planting. Yes, we really do plant the trees, it’s
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