By Ken Stewart on February 24, 2010
Is anything intended for the benefit of others ever safe from being perverted and profaned, twisted to profiteers’ benefit or just maimed beyond recognition at the hands of the unqualified and uncaring?
MPS, an acronym now commonly paraded around by the unsympathetic selling masses, was originally intended at its outset to be a partnership. While MPS stands [...]
Posted in + Featured, Change, MPS | Tagged Adapt, commodity, evolve, MPS, new market
By Ken Stewart on February 22, 2010
Why did I buy a MPS program?
According to the Photizo Group, the new primary buyer of managed print services (MPS) is IT for approximately 60 percent of all transactions. I just happen to have the perspective of being a former customer who launched a MPS program within his company in 2001, working for a dealer [...]
Posted in + Featured, Business, MPS, Solutions Selling | Tagged MPS, secret ingredients to MPS
By Ken Stewart on February 1, 2010
How important is managed print services (MPS) to your business if you are currently a company who specializes in document output? Is MPS a fad, or a get rich quick scheme? Is MPS a platform to simply sell more hardware?
While predictions at the start of any new year abound, those who keep their ear closest [...]
Posted in + Featured, Business, MPS | Tagged Ed Crowley, Managed Print Services, MPS, MPSA, Photizo Group
By Ken Stewart on January 20, 2010
I’m a big advocate for listening to what your customers are telling you – listen to what they say but anticipate what they need. If you don’t, you risk being irrelevant, obsolete, or worse – entering a death spiral, as I gingerly mentioned in my last article, Is 2013 the End of Our Industry.
A more in [...]
Posted in Change, Technology | Tagged IT predictions, Managed Services, MPS, professional services
By Ken Stewart on December 14, 2009
In years past, Management Information Systems (MIS) became the new silicon cowboys, attempting to bring order and enhanced productivity to you and I. Soon enough, that moniker fell out of season and IT became the moniker for all of us pocket-protector-wearing propeller-heads. This subsequently lead to the the dot-com era where IT = SEXY (later [...]
Posted in MPS | Tagged Hardware Sales, IT, Manufacturer, MPS, Sales
By Ken Stewart on December 9, 2009
Tom Callinan just wrote a very intersting article, MPS: the 30% Catastrophe.
While I don’t agree with everything coming out Tom’s mouth, this is where we are going. Over the next ~2 years I truly believe the IT/VAR space will consume the traditional dealer space – taking with it the pieces we have come to love, [...]
Posted in Business, Change, MPS | Tagged Change, Managed Services, MPS, outsource
By Ken Stewart on October 21, 2009
Your Managed Print Services Association (MPSA) is opening it’s doors to members and inviting you to “test the waters” with a FREE three (3) month membership.
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The MPSA is kick-starting it’s membership drive and will be allowing potential members to sign-up for free membership to the MPSA – which [...]
Posted in Business, MPS | Tagged Free Membership, MPS, MPSA
By Ken Stewart on October 14, 2009
MPS is not a menu to order from at a fast-food joint – but it does bear similarities to a recipe.
Posted in + Featured, Business, Change, MPS | Tagged customer, Documents, Managed Print Services, MPS, Strategy
By Ken Stewart on September 6, 2009
A tounge-in-cheek article, reflecting on my start as an IT guy before working in a document-centric industry.
Posted in Business, MPS, Technology | Tagged Copier, fax, Managed Print Services, MPS, printer, scanner
By Ken Stewart on September 4, 2009
Today, the newly formed Managed Print Services Association (MPSA) held its first board meeting.
Posted in Business, Change, MPS | Tagged managed print, MPS, MPSA