The Great Office Supplies Caper

Ian M. Elliott

With over 30 years of executive level experience within the printing, imaging and aftermarket industries, Mr. Elliott’s portfolio covers start-up’s, sales, distribution, reverse logistics & asset recovery, business development, executive consulting and management services. With a 15-year executive tenure at Nukote International, followed by 5 years as CEO at CertiCell and more recently 4 years as President & CEO at Print-Rite N.A., Mr. Elliott is well versed in aftermarket distribution strategies, supply chains and the effective use of information technology in business.

Resellers, Local Markets & Revenue Growth Strategies

by Ian M. Elliott | 9/21/16 7:57 AM

As readers of my blog will know, I'm a strong advocate for information technology and its role in helping achieve profitable sales growth in a local market. I'm an advocate because I don't think it's realistic for an independent office products or...

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Topics: Business Transformation, E-commerce, Small Business, Web Traffic

Market Intelligence, Business Intelligence & Online Authority

by Ian M. Elliott | 9/19/16 10:30 AM

The content we've been publishing over the last few weeks has been focused on the path for digitally transforming a business by deploying 21st-century marketing techniques designed for generating new and sustainable sources of web traffic. The...

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Topics: Business Transformation, Inbound Marketing, Small Business, Big Data

Mergers and Acquisitions News - HP & Samsung Announce Combination!

by Ian M. Elliott | 9/15/16 9:25 AM

Like me, did you do a double take when you saw this news? Frankly, I'd have been less surprised if the headline had been the other way around! It wasn't long ago that I was writing about the lack of consolidation at the OEM level in the office...

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Topics: Industry News, Mergers & Acquisitions

Office Supplies, The Reseller & Internet of Things

by Ian M. Elliott | 9/13/16 7:30 AM

According to WhatIs.com, The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a...

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Topics: Business Transformation, E-commerce, Big Data

Social Media Audience Engagement & Development

by Ian M. Elliott | 9/8/16 8:00 AM

Everyone loves numbers .. don't they? Well, no I don't think so, but regardless we all have to deal with them every day of our lives. I've blogged numerous times about the "science" of web traffic development and, as you must now know, that part of...

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Topics: Business Transformation, Inbound Marketing, Social Media, E-commerce, Web Traffic

Email marketing best practices, social, & blogging for web traffic

by Ian M. Elliott | 9/6/16 9:00 AM

I've been blogging about website traffic development, customer churn and acquisition rates, responsive, content-rich websites, and inbound digital marketing. I promised a future post to take a dive into the numbers behind direct email marketing,...

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Topics: Business Transformation, Inbound Marketing, Social Media, Web Traffic

James W. McKee - The Man Who Helped Shape an Industry!

by Ian M. Elliott | 8/31/16 7:00 AM

I've been around the aftermarket office supplies industry for most of my career and have observed and even participated in many of the key events that shaped the industry as we know it today.

In 1988 Nukote launched a "secret" project to study the...

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Topics: Industry News, Intellectual Property