"Not in Our House!...er...no...wait..." Rikon Takes One Right out of Lexmark's Backyard - U of Kentucky, in LEXington

Managed Print Services, she's a fickle beast.

Always moving, like smoke.

One minute she's with you on the dance floor, all yours.

Three months laters,  she's calling you for bail.

Of course you go back. 

But you'll never introduce her to your parents; she's just THAT kind of girl.

Battle: Los Angeles - How many times are the Aliens going to destroy L.A.?

Coming in March -

The Jig is Up, The News is Out, IT Budgets Grow in 2011 - More Managed Print Services Opportunities?

I just read a great article over at CRN here, regarding The Everything Channel survey of VAR's and service providers.

The study was conducted back in November and surveyed 384 senior level managers within VARs/IT providers.

The survey calls the available North American IT market for solution providers at $428.1 billion in 2010, up more than 6 percent from $402.1 billion in 2009.

Remember, the North American MPS market is calculated at around $25b(Photizo).

The channel accounted for 68 percent of IT sales, and direct sales making up the remaining 32 percent.

The survey found that many VARs are dependent on a small number of SMB customers for a majority of their business.

"...Nearly 30 percent of solution providers had fewer than 25 customers while 10.9 percent had between 25 and 49 customers, 9.9 percent had 50 to 99 customers and 9.9 percent had 100 to 149 customers. Only 20.1 percent had 250 or more customers..."

"No Rules Managed Print Services" - Who Do You Think You Are?

2011 -

The Mafia, does not exist. Never has, except for in the movies.

The "Illuminati" is another example of propaganda and marketing. Fear motivates, just ask Little Red Riding Hood.



The Free Masons, Skull and Bones, Templars, The Thule Society, The Black Hand, and my personal favorite, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, these groups, these societies, whether real or imagined, were formed to fill a vacuum.

And nature abhors a vacuum.

Cowboys And Aliens

OK- I am not sure how I can figure MPS into this, so I won't even try.

James Bond, and Indiana Jones.

In the Western US fighting Aliens. From outer space.

I ain't kidding, either.

The cast is interesting, and I would smell flop, but, the director gave us Iron Man, Ron Howard is one of the producers and Spielberg is an executive producer.

Big, Friggin, Guns.

Coming July, 2011.

2011 Managed Print Services Outlook - Photizo drops a metric-ton of MPS/ITO Information. The Year of the Metal Rabbit.

This is a webcast discussing 2011 outlook in MPS.

Presenters were in Kentucky, New York,   the Carolinas and Singapore - The Photiz/MPS World.

Tidbits -

1. The Fourth Stage of MPS is described.  A bit more on this here.
2. Interesting point of comparison between the three stages of MPS and the three stages of IT management.
3. From the ongoing, three year, MPS Decision Maker Tracking study, respondents place MPS/Imaging Projects in the Top 3 IT priorities.
4. Non-MPS Stage Zero, "click" charge, transactional market revenue is declining as S1 and S2 revenue is growing and growing quickly. Numbers and trends supported by information present at the Lyra Symposium, last week.
5. Europe, by 2014 will be the largest MPS market; shifting to channel driven from direct supported MPS.
6. The Asian Pacific area offers huge MPS potential; Japan referred to as the "sleeping Giant" a huge market leading the region.
7. "Multinationimbles" - leaders will combine scale with agility...
8. "...Profits, like sausages..are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them..." Toffler
9. 2011 is the year of the Metal Rabbit
10. What is "Prosumer-Driven"

This is good stuff.

Check out the MPS Insights here.


Market Research Spotlight: 2011 MPS Outlook Webinar from Misty Hamel on Vimeo.

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