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Velcro your customers to you

Phil Jones is sales and marketing director at Brother UK

The glue of long-term customer relationships is developed through multiple points of trust, says Phil Jones

08 Feb 2012

Forsyth saga continues at Brother

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HP printing veteran takes on newly created channel development post at rival vendor

03 Oct 2011

Flying by the seat of your pants

Phil Jones is sales and marketing director at Brother UK

Thinking differently is not only key to innovation but to long-term success, says Phil Jones

07 Sep 2011

The effect of rising fuel prices

The chancellor may have tried to ease the pain, but fuel costs could still hit resllers in the pocket, says Phil Jones

15 Apr 2011

Expectation economy

Resellers need to make sure they aren't left behind by customers' changing habits and expectations, says Brother's Phil Jones

14 Apr 2011

Pockets of growth

Resellers have to home in on corners of cash-rich customers, says Brother's Phil Jones

12 Apr 2011

The hidden cost of service

This week's guest blogger, Phil Jones from Brother, asks if resellers spend too much on service delivery

11 Apr 2011

Midwich restructures print team and adds broader skills

Brother and Kyocera specialists move up and two hires made outside IT

06 Jan 2011

Sagemcom boosts distributor stable

Beta and Micro-P take on role for latest range of Xerox standalone fax machines

15 Dec 2009

A tale of the heights and depths in 2009

The past year has see-sawed between hope and despair but many did well despite the tough economy, Fleur Doidge discovers

11 Dec 2009

Brother releases print market reports to resellers

Quarterly updates to be made available exclusively to partners

22 Sep 2009

A quarter-century of change in the channel

Phil Jones reflects on some channel lessons of the past 25 years

08 Sep 2009

Multifunction adds colour to global market domination

IDC tracker reveals colour MFDs showing strength compared with other print products

02 Sep 2009

Reaping the right rewards

Going steady is the new mission statement of the day

07 Aug 2009

Focus: Reaching for green shoots

Technology for a greener and more sustainably profitable future is available through the channel, finds Fleur Doidge

17 Jul 2009

Brother celebrates Sell and Select success

Printing vendor claims VARs have embraced latest reward scheme

23 Apr 2009

Short cuts

Audiovisual news in brief

26 Mar 2009

Global print market enters recession

Hardcopy peripherals market slides 17 per cent year on year in final quarter

26 Mar 2009

Canon rejigs European exec team

Printing vendor announces new European and UK management after growing EMEA market share

18 Feb 2009

Gartner pushes managed print services

Printer, copier and MFP sales are in a tailspin, but Gartner says end users should be investing in deployment alternatives

17 Feb 2009

Brother dispels gloom with mono sales drive

Print vendor Brother is upping channel activity to build on solid sales improvements

13 Nov 2008

Brother takes colour printer market by storm

Vendor has commandeered two-thirds of the high speed laser colour market since its entry last year, figures reveal

26 Jun 2008

CRN Partner Connect 2012

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CRN's premier networking event is back on 17 May at the Ricoh Arena

Date: Thu 17 May 2012

CRN Fight Night 2012

One of the fights from CRN Fight Night 2010

Channel fighters preparing to square up once more on 24 May

Date: Thu 24 May 2012

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Departing CEO has done Dixons a service

Mark Needham, founder of distributor Widget, argues that John Browett leaves for Apple with Dixons in better shape than when he arrived