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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
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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
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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
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Netflix increase prices by 33% in 14 months
Netflix is increasing its prices for the 2nd time in 18 months… We’re on the family package, which first increased by 17% in December 2020, and will now increase again by an additional 14% from next month. That’s a whopping 33% increase in just 14 months! Not sure how to feel about it really, as
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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
Facebook puzzle
How Facebook solved their huge problem?
In 2006 Facebook faced a huge problem affecting their ability to scale fast… They were becoming one of the world’s most popular websites and weren’t ready to handle this kind of growth. Facebook required more software engineers in hurry to keep the wheels turning. At the time Facebook were a band of just 20 engineers,
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The alleged $500 million printer fraud
The office technology industry has a history of fraudsters… Which is the important reason why we started our business – to change the negative perception of the industry – which has been created over the years by these fraudsters. We’ve talked openly how print technology and telecom suppliers inflate prices by stealth, get you to
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How office technology is planting trees?
Fantastic news, our plant a tree campaign just keeps growing… 31 more trees have been planted in March on behalf of our customers. We plant them at Meadows Farm in-conjunction with our charity partner Shiva Trust. Whose mission is to enact social change by providing a sanctuary for the environment, wildlife, nature, and animals. At
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How to conserve cash on office technology?
When you’re a new business cash conservation is critically important… But it’s hard to conserve cash when you’ve non or not much trading history, making it impossible to have a positive credit rating. This makes life extremely difficult, as instead of conserving cash and spreading payments you seem to be constantly paying out, and the
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Why we just want our freedom?
You’re not allowed to sign a print technology agreement with another company… This is what an East Lancashire business found in their print technology contract. They’d signed an agreement with a local supplier to them, for a refurbished multi-function device. Before the machine was delivered, they looked at the contract terms in more detail, and
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Major League Baseball business insights
Baseball is said to be America’s favourite pastime… Together with being an amateur sport for the masses, it’s also a professional sport, with Major League Baseball being awash with cash for the best players and successful clubs. Professional sport is a business, where the aim is to win and make as much money as possible
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HP’s instant ink price hike!
Fixed priced guarantees are a vital element of our DNA… Why? Because we seek long-term customer relationships, and in return we guarantee our customers service agreement price will not increase for the life of their existing agreement. What do we mean? Let us give you a good and bad example: Customers signing up to our
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How Amazon is changing our lives…
Amazon has changed lives… The world’s best companies (both large and small) are learning quickly what they’re doing and implementing strategies so they can still compete. If you want to know about Amazon (we mean really know about Amazon), then you must read ‘Bezonomics’ written by Brian Dumaine. It’s not a superficial book, Dumaine get’s
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Why think hard about your business name?
Did you know Jeff Bezos wanted to originally call his company relentless.com? It’s true, go put relentless.com in Google and you’ll still find it takes you to Amazon.com, as Amazon have owned the URL since Bezos had the idea. American journalist and best-selling author Brad Stone discusses this very topic in his book ‘The Everything Store.’ Stone wrote: “Friends
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Our solution to the semiconductor (chip) shortage
Hardware manufacturers hit hardest by the global semiconductor (chip) shortage are said to have had less than five days of chips in their inventories during 2021… We’ve experienced it in our office technology business, with delays in supply of new Konica Minolta print and scan technology, and new Brother Canon Epson multifunction printers. Interestingly, even
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