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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.
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B2B Lead Generation, Conversion & Customer Acquisition

by Ian M. Elliott | 8/30/16 7:30 AM

Web traffic has proven elusive for most small to medium sized office products resellers. Many have dabbled with e-commerce efforts but, for the most part they've not been successful. Obviously, there can be no e-commerce without web traffic so,...

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

Office Products, Reducing Churn & Increasing Customer Acquisition

by Ian M. Elliott | 8/25/16 8:00 AM

We're all constantly striving for sales growth, right? After all, if we sell more we make more, don't we? Well, sales growth has to be based on profitable sales before we make more - but, that's another topic.

Here, I'm going to write about...

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Topics: Business Transformation, Business Planning, CRM, Web Traffic

The Silent Killers - Office Products, Market Shrink & Customer Churn

by Ian M. Elliott | 8/23/16 8:00 AM

Most business owners and operators intuitively understand it costs much more to win business from a new customer than it does from an existing customer. Most everyone in business also knows that it's an expensive and involved process to win new...

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Topics: Business Transformation, Small Business, CRM

Business Transformation Requirements For Office Products Resellers

by Ian M. Elliott | 8/17/16 8:30 AM
Part 4 - So .... what's the web traffic development roadblock?

We've already established there's a $20 billion growth opportunity in the office products industry, and that there's already an experienced and knowledgeable sales organization in place...

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Topics: Inbound Marketing, Social Media, E-commerce, Business Planning, Big Data, Web Traffic

The Science Behind Successful Web Traffic Development

by Ian M. Elliott | 6/29/16 9:30 AM

Part 3 - So .... what's the web traffic development roadblock?

In the first two posts of this four-part series I established the foundation for arguing the importance of a world-class website and the creation of content published and accessible from...

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

Developing Successful E-commerce for Small Business

by Ian M. Elliott | 6/23/16 8:30 AM
Part 2 - So .... what's the web traffic development roadblock?

In part-one of this four-part series I laid the foundation for the creation of sustainable web-traffic explaining the importance of the website. It's pretty logical - if a business...

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Topics: Business Transformation, E-commerce, Web Traffic

So .... what's the web traffic development roadblock?

by Ian M. Elliott | 6/15/16 11:00 AM

In this four-part series of blogs my objective is to explain the roadblocks currently preventing small business from developing sustainable traffic for the purposes of conducting e-commerce.

In this first post in the series I'm going to explain the...

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

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