Tigerpaw just got back from Total Tech Summit in Forth Worth Texas and wanted to share some insights that may help you to decide on coming (or not) next year.
As an MSP (Managed Services Provider) you’ve made your living taking care of your customers’ I.T. assets. If it’s a desktop, server, IP enabled security system or VOIP system, you’re probably changing lives by rocking their management. But the world, as they say, is ever changing.
More and more “smart” devices are...
BELLEVUE, Neb. — The Managed Print Services Association (MPSA) announced today that it has appointed Mr. West McDonald as President of the Association. As well as being a long-standing Vice President and Board Member of the MPSA, Mr. McDonald is the Vice President of Business Development for Tigerpaw Software.
Recessions. Might as well be a four letter word. If you’re old enough you’ve lived through one, two, or a few and they never get any easier. My first was the early 1980s and I’ll never forget it. I was only a boy then but I’ll never forget the day my Dad came home in tears because he
What a summer it’s been for the office equipment industry! The biggest news was the Xerox & HP partnership for managed print. I would love to have been in the boardroom when this deal was proposed. Sheer brilliance and a total bombshell for many. This partnership is an exceptionally big deal and its ramifications are...
If you’re an office equipment dealer and you’ve been on LinkedIn over the last couple days you’ve read some sobering news about an industry giant going into receivership as a "going concern." I don’t think anybody is really shocked. But what does that mean going forward? Let's look.
I work with a lot of business owners and their sales departments who are running into something more than ever: Customers demanding lower and lower page rates. It can be extremely frustrating when prospects and, heaven forbid, existing customers, keep asking you to lower your cost per page (CPP) rate.
I’ve been involved in the Managed Print Services (MPS) space, in one form or another, for more years than I’d care to count now. I’ve worked with a ton of office equipment dealers and office print providers that provide incredible managed print for their end-user customers. I’ve also had the experience of working with...
Do you think that talking politics and religion can be risky at parties? Having worked in the Imaging Channel for as long as I have, I’ve learned there are certain topics that could land you in hot water even more than those. The decline of user print volumes, shrinking margins and the rise of the mega-dealer, to name a...
There’s been a lot of chatter in the last few days about the coming demise of one of the largest providers of toner supplies for the office equipment channel.
Yes, I’m talking about Clover Imaging Group. A company that likely most of us have either dealt with in the past or continue to deal with today. A company that...