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Move All of your Business Transactions Online in Less Than One Year

October 20, 2016

I have two longer term customers that pay me via a monthly check. Other than that, all my customers do business with me via my website www.mpstoolbox.com.My business is 100% service. Here are three things that made this possible..
Massive Growth Continues for Shopify: The Marketplace is Betting on E-Commerce. Should You?

September 30, 2016

Question: What has a market cap of $3.2 Billion, E-comm sales of $3.4 billion, and over 300,000 customers? Answer: Shopify. They are the biggest e-commerce platform in the world. Here’s why you should care. Shopify.com has become the choice of Small Business (Read: your business) e-commerce systems. Tangent/MPSToolbox.com is proud to announce that we have been certified as Shopify Experts. Last year 150,000 businesses opened up a store with Shopify.
Digital Marketing vs. The Old School Sales Rep

August 11, 2016

Digital Marketing vs. The Old School Sales Rep I got a call the other day from a company professing to be experts of search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). They said they could transform the way my company generated sales leads. Funny thing though, when I did a Google search to find “SEO and SEM marketing help” they did not show up. So I asked the sales rep on the phone “If you’re so good, why are you calling me? You say you know everything about SEO and SEM, but...
Inception Selling: The art of planting an idea in your potential customer’s mind

September 01, 2016

Recently, I had an unsuccessful call with a potential customer in the imaging industry. From a sales point-of-view it was great because I got a firm no and thus little time will be wasted. From a business in 2016 and onward point-of-view, it was troubling -yet another dealer firmly telling me his customers do not want to buy his products online. I know that this call isn’t likely to go anywhere, but I always try to leave it with a couple simple but helpful questions: How do you know your cus...
What Will Be The Print Industry Equivalent to ‘Uber’?

July 20, 2016

At a recent dealer meeting, I was asked to include in my presentation an answer to the question above. It really is a great conversation starter, and forces us all to think about how our industry can (and will) be fundamentally disrupted. We often think of change as incremental, but eventually all industries get knocked on their collective behinds. I’ve seen a post that explains that the biggest hotel company in the world owns no rooms (Air BnB) and the biggest taxi company owns no vehicles (...
Before You Adopt Seat Based Billing or Change Your MPS Program, Fix This Sales Model

June 20, 2016

In 1995, the richest man in the world, and the CEO of the (then) most powerful company in the world, Bill Gates, wrote a book called ‘The Road Ahead.’ In it, he predicted what technologies would change our lives, and how. In the original publication there was one concept he missed completely: the World Wide Web.  While the second edition was laced throughout with the profound changes brought on by the Internet, it’s clear that sometimes we miss the most obvious things when we look too hard at...
Management and Support

Our team is here for you. We'll make sure you have everything you need to get the most out of your new e-commerce functionality. Our team is here to help with anything from product admin to system training (and everything...

Creating Customers

  When you log into your MPSToolbox account, you will see the dashboard first. From there, navigate to the Customer Management drop-down and select Client Settings. On the next page you can view existing customers and create new ones.  ...

What to Expect: Site Builds

Let's build an online store. Your Project Lead and Account Manager will be your go-to contacts as we make our way through the following: 1. Onboarding Introductory Meeting The goal of this meeting is to understand YOU, the client, and...