After six years of near tries on Capitol Hill, patent reform finally made it through Congress. The America Invents Act (AIA), which President Barack Obama signed into law Sept. 16, dramatically changes the nation’s patent system. We’ve been discussing the potential changes at Int’l ITC chapter meetings for years, and the changes have finally arrived.
Actionable Intelligence’s Charles Brewer knows third-party supplies vendors have to cope with a laundry list of challenges unique to the aftermarket, but the industry’s biggest challenge to date, Brewer says, is the consistent move by end users away from hard copy.
Tricia Judge explores a major challenge the industry is facing — new-built clones. Every legitimate remanufacturer should be outraged by these products, which are still getting into the North American marketplace and sabotaging the legitimate aftermarket. Their damage in international markets, such as Brazil, is even more severe.
In the remanufacturing industry, as well as many other industries, outsourcing has grown more popular over the years. And like a friendship or even a marriage, you may find you don’t like or agree with everything your partner is or does, but if you’ve chosen well, the relationship will survive through thick and thin.
Email marketing is not something that you can just throw together in a few minutes and expect to be effective. It requires planning and consistent execution to be successful. This article offers some new tricks for getting the right message across to the right people at the right time.
Too often, businesspeople assume that a budget dictates what buyers can spend, when the truth is that in most cases, budgets are guidelines and nothing more than that. Read more about coping with limited budgets in this article.
While your mother may not need a reason for a phone call from you, your clients will want one — one that offers value to both of you. What’s the purpose of your call? No purpose = no valid reason = no appointment = no sale. This article provides a reason that could turn 2012 into your best year ever.
Mike Josiah of UniNet has instructions this month on “Remanufacturing HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 Color M551 Black and Color Toner Cartridges,” which are an all-in-one type of cartridge that consists of the toner supply, drum and waste chamber. New machines ship with full “A”-style LY cartridges, not starters.
Ann Priede looks back on the previous year, highlighting and analyzing industry and market trends, including hardware and imaging supplies shipments and revenue, to determine what might be in store for the year ahead.