The Toner Pirates and Slick Sales Reps are at their shady game again!!

Every year we have clients call us to help them figure out what has just happened to them.  They are typically approached by a company (sometimes several different companies!) telling them that they offer a super deal on toner or on a device or something that just sounds so good, and is presented so slickly…

Managed Print Services: A Smart Cost Management Strategy

We offer our clients a new way of thinking and a unique service – creative strategies to manage their printed page output to their best cost and productive advantage. We become each customers partner by providing them exceptional business page management advice and world class customer service. We interact with our clients just as we…

Why Does a Lean Printing Environment Matter To Your Business?

We all work every day at making our businesses leaner and more efficient.  And, we generally focus on our prime processes to reduce our costs to the minimum!  After wringing as much as we can out of our vendors for direct costs, we then look to related costs and utilize the same methods to reduce…

Lean, Green and Blue

If you have ever looked closely at the colors in the SPS logo, you will notice that the design features prominent use of the colors green and blue.  And the letter font is lean and fast looking.  This isn’t just by chance! All of our SPS Team Members have earned certification as Green Business Consultants. …

What you can’t see can tickle you so hard it hurts!

I recently had an opportunity to spend some quality time with the three year old grandson of one of our friends.   And I took great delight in watching his performance as we played a bit of peek-a-boo.   When I caught him, I would tickle him till he squealed. He would dodge around furniture and around…

Moving at the Speed of Business

This tag line has been adopted by quite a number of businesses recently in an effort to promote their ability to deliver results quickly and efficiently.   Quick, efficient delivery of results is, of course, highly desirable in almost all endeavors. This got me to thinking about what the characteristics of a quick, efficient and effective…

Visibility is the Key to Cost Control

Not too long ago I had the opportunity to learn just how much I didn’t know about the cost of owning and maintaining a telephone system.  Oh, I knew about the acquisition cost, and the costs of a maintenance plan to cover the equipment, the upgrades to voice mail and on hold messaging.  Not to…

Spring Economic News Report

The economic news reports are kind of unsettling this spring.  We see little rays of hope glimmering that the national economy is getting better.  Items such as housing starts are up, economic growth is improving or unemployment may be moderating.  However, it seems that every time we get a little hope building the good news…

Nationally Recognized Expertise in Managed Print Services!

Strategic Print Solutions is the only resource in this region that has this added and unique advantage.  The President of our company is a nationally recognized expert in the area of Managed Print Services. Mark Shelton is a highly sought after trainer, mentor and consultant in the Managed Print Services space.  Mark performs hundreds of educational…

Mixed Economic News

Well, the economic news is mixed here early in 2011.  And that is some better than all bad!  Everywhere I go and talk to people, I am hearing that business people are very ready to get this economy moving forward again. I also hear that while people are anxious to get going, they are still…

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