Unfortunately, some of you will be disappointed to find out that I for one will not join the incredible waste of time of trying to figure out how to solve the culture war within the BTA industry. David Ramos is NOT the sender of this reply!!!!!

Most of you are missing the point from the buyers side of the desk and will destroy credible opportunities by jumping into the “I want to replace your owned devices with the ones I sell.”

I appologize for the anonymous message and will not provide e-mail or contact information yet. I am not an industry outsider and in fact am very much an insider. My compliments to the fairly few consultative comments from people that appear to “get it”. Culture is hard to change and with such disparate and self servicing approaches, I applaud the efforts of a few to develop consultative methods that don’t live through so many assumptions that inevitably result in a proposal for new “consolidation” strategies” that always result in “buy my hardware”. As long as manufacturers require dealers to have quotas to buy equipment, and reps have comp plans to sell copiers, no one will appear to be selling solutions…only replace with my copier! Transparent as hell….!

Tirelessly toiling away, the founding members of the MPSA carved out the charter and pulled together an election process yielding the “charter” Executive Staff and Board members.

Some thought it folly.

Some tried to create it in their own likeness…either way, agree or disagree, cheer or jeer, the MPSA is real, it’s here, and it is ready to include ALL who wish to partake.

In a post over at the LinkedIn Managed Print Services Group, newly elected President, Jim Fitzpatrick, announced the results of the first election for board members and Executive staff.

Here is the announcement, http://bit.ly/2IFZ9

The Definition of MPS is reaching solidity.

The Awards have been given out.

The MPSA is newly formed and actually conducted two votes.

The nay-sayers…where are you?

Surely, there must be something to criticize from the sidelines…

There are constructive criticisms: The show was too vague, needed a separate “how to” track; The sessions, at times, seemed to have a “commercial” feel to them; The chili was, “unusual”.

That’s all I heard…

I was only foolin’

Max @29: I agree with your point fully. All are welcome to comment on MSPmentor, but cheap shots from anonymous folks aren’t welcome.

I for one will vote for anyone taking a leadership role at this point to help bring some definition and education to this movement.

In defense of Ed and his group, I think they are hitting things spot on in many areas. With Kearns, we had fashioned MPS programs for over 8 years well before it was “in fashion.” From my experience and research, the research being presented to date is rather accurately capturing what is happening out there.

I support the right and need to ask these questions, but I did want to chime in and let you know I’m finding the juice is in the research. BTW, since when did a great football coach have to be the best football player anyway?