Diversifying My Business Webinar Series

Assisting dealers seeking to add new products & services
Length: One hour
Cost: Free to BTA members
The following webinar has been scheduled:
October 2026
Add to Your Portfolio, Not Your Headcount
4 p.m. Eastern, Wednesday, Oct. 21
Doug Murphy, co-founder, PrintCentric Solutions
Independent dealers are uniquely positioned to deliver the personalized service customers value, but expanding into software can often seem complex and resource-intensive. During this webinar, Murphy will examine the growing demand for print management, document management and cloud fax solutions, and how these technologies solve real business challenges for your customers. You will learn how PrintCentric Solutions works behind the scenes as an extension of your team, helping you deliver high-value solutions that generate recurring revenue and deepen customer loyalty.

Murphy is a seasoned technology and software solutions leader with more than 30 years of experience in the office technology industry. A U.S. Persian Gulf War veteran, he began his career in 1994 as a service technician before advancing into network engineering, leadership and software solutions roles. Throughout his career, Murphy has specialized in print management, document management, workflow automation and business process optimization, helping organizations improve efficiency and reduce costs through innovative technology. He has held leadership positions with organizations including IKON, Xerox-affiliated companies, Technocom and VisualEdge IT, where he served as national software solutions director and grew software revenue by more than 400% in under five years. In 2026, Murphy co-founded PrintCentric Solutions, a company dedicated to helping independent office technology dealerships deliver world-class software and workflow solutions without the complexity of maintaining internal software teams. Today, he continues to leverage his extensive industry expertise to help businesses streamline operations, increase productivity and achieve long-term success through strategic technology consulting and innovative software solutions.
November 2026
Power Issues Affecting Your Equipment? Protect Your Investments With ESP/SurgeX Power Protection Solutions
4 p.m. Eastern, Wednesday, Nov. 4
Brent Stanphill, senior technical account manager, AMETEK
Power quality issues such as surges, spikes, sags and electrical noise can quietly damage sensitive equipment, reduce system reliability and lead to costly downtime. Join this webinar to learn how ESP and SurgeX power protection and remote management solutions help safeguard critical technology investments in imaging, IT and A/V environments. Stanphill will explore common power-related threats, best practices for mitigating risk, and how advanced power conditioning can improve equipment performance and longevity. Discover practical strategies to protect your customers' systems while reducing service calls and unexpected failures.

Stanphill, CTS, CQT is a senior technical account manager at AMETEK, supporting imaging technology and commercial A/V power solutions throughout the United States and Latin America. With more than 25 years of experience in technical sales, business development and strategic account management, he specializes in power management, A/V technologies, OEM partnerships, and helping organizations improve system reliability and operational performance.
November 2026
Sell Past the Box: The Discovery Questions That Win the Next Copier Upgrade
4 p.m. Eastern, Wednesday, Nov. 11
Tyler Ebnet, president, revenueify
In one live hour, your team will build and practice the discovery questions that move a copier/MFP conversation off of price and lease rate, and on to the business outcomes that justify upgrading now. You will walk away with questions you can ask in your very next copier/MFP upgrade meeting.
What You Are Up Against in 2026
- The stall — The box costs 12% to 18% more and financing is expensive, so customers are stretching leases, printing less and pushing the upgrade out.
- The price trap — Lead with cost per copy and a lease rate and you hand the customer a reason to wait. The industry's own 2026 forecast says it plainly: renew leases and you get outsold.
- The growth gap — Dealers may need to grow copier revenue 23% to 26% a year just to hold profitability. Renewals at a higher price will not get you there.
- The solution gap — The revenue is in workflow, security and document management, but no one is a product expert in all of it, so the conversation stays on the box.
Selling Past the Box Starts With Better Questions, Not a Better Price
The dealers winning right now are the ones evolving from box movers to trusted advisors, and that shift does not start in the demo room or the proposal. It starts with the questions your salespeople ask in the first meeting. You cannot close a 23% to 26% gap by renewing leases at a higher price. You close it by attaching workflow, security and document management, and you attach those solutions by asking better questions first. This session closes that gap — and you close it by doing, not watching.
What the Hour Gives You
- A reason to upgrade now — Move past price and lease rate to the workflow, security and cost outcomes that make acting this year worth more than waiting.
- Net new, not just renewals — The same questions open the door to the net-new accounts the industry calls the greatest growth opportunities in 2026.
- Recurring revenue beyond the click — Outcome conversations attach managed print, security and document workflow, the higher margin revenue a box renewal never reaches.
A Working Session, Not a Webinar You Catch Later
This is a live, interactive working session. There is no recording and no notetaking bots. You join with your video on and your voice in the room. What you build here, you build with the group — and you take it straight into your next customer meeting.
Meet revenueify, a New BTA Member
revenueify is a sales training and consulting firm built for the office technology channel, and we are proud to join the Business Technology Association as a new member in BTA's 100th year. Our work centers on Customer-Focused Selling, the F.I.N.D. Interview System and the coaching cadence that turns better questions into a repeatable sales process. This webinar is revenueify's introduction to BTA members, and it is the same working format it runs with dealer sales teams every week.
Bring your team. Bring your hardest renewals and the accounts you most want to win. One live hour to build and practice the discovery questions that move every conversation past the box.

Ebnet is president of revenueify, a BTA consultant/trainer member. He built his career inside one of the country's largest office technology dealerships, where he carried the bag and sat in the leadership seat. Today Ebnet trains, manages and builds dealership sales teams that sell past the box. He will run the full hour of the webinar, introduce the F.I.N.D. Interview System and show why discovery, not a sharper number, is what wins the upgrade in a higher-price market.
Members: Click on the registration link above to register. You will need your BTA username and password to access the registration page. After registering, you will receive an email containing information about joining the webinar.
Watch this page for additional "Diversifying My Business" webinars, to be announced as they are scheduled.
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