Smartphone sales are booming

Worldwide sales of smartphones will top 420 million this year according to market watcher IMS Research. The company said that smartphones will account for nearly 28 percent of the total global handset market this year and it expects unit sales will surpass one billion devices by the end of 2016. Figures are in line with those from IDC, which say that the worldwide mobile phone market grew 65.4 percent in 2Q – the third consecutive quarter where total shipments exceeded 100 million units.

Get AIRborne with Samsung and go for growth

The Samsung Authorised Independent Retailer (AIR) Programme helps retailers grow their sales and margins with Samsung laser printers by providing access to additional support, marketing materials, demonstration equipment, sales rewards and preferential pricing. Samsung has recently restructured its channel sales in the UK and is really going for growth. AIR Programme benefits include:

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Specialist services receive a warm welcome

The specialist print services that we have recently made available on HP, Samsung and Lexmark ranges have been extremely well-received and a number of promising projects have already come to light, with many more in prospect. On higher-end models from HP, Samsung and Lexmark, we are now offering special delivery and set-up services, giving you the chance to offer a more comprehensive and complete service to customers that have very significant everyday duty cycles and print requirements.

Essentially, this service is addressing the opportunity in the office photocopier- replacement market. You can offer high duty cycle printers and MFPs on lease plans, which we can tell you all about and provide for you, and offer all the added-value services that are needed with such a device – specialist transportation and installation, maintenance and management. That means you can not only offer a more complete service for your customers, you can also generate incremental revenue streams and make more profit – which is something that’s always welcome.

If you would like to know more about this service, please contact the specialist Imaging, Print and Supplies team on 0871 880 3200.

Specialist print services now available on HP, Samsung and Lexmark ranges

Computer 2000 can now offer resellers special delivery and set-up services on high-end models from HP, Samsung and Lexmark. We have offered this service on Xerox for some time now – and it has been extremely popular and successful. Now that it is available on these additional best-selling lines, the opportunities for resellers to provide an improved and expanded service to customers and make additional margins have been massively expanded. Selling lease plans for print devices that are designed to support very high duty cycles and provide all kinds of functionality and options can be lucrative and generate good income for resellers. Often, these devices are being used to replace the old office photocopier, scanner, fax and shared laser printer with a single device that provides all of these functions and a range of options that will suit all users. They are often quite complex devices and assembling them and making them work often requires some expertise and/or experience. Transporting them can also be complicated as they are often hefty and also fragile; specialist transport and stair-lifting equipment may be required.

Computer 2000’s new services for HP, Samsung and Lexmark printers, enables you to offer a complete and professional delivery service to customers. It can easily be added to your roster as an additional chargeable service, or part of your added-value proposition. Once the appropriate forms are completed, we will arrange for the delivery, set-up and testing to be carried out. All that then needs to be done is for the printer to be connected to the network or server and for drivers and software to be installed – so there is still plenty of scope for your own team to add more value to the sale.

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