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Don’t Let a Hacker Ruin Your Holiday

Posted on November 30, 2022

The Holiday season is a time for family, food, and sharing what we have with others. It’s a time to reflect on the last year and what 2023 has in store. The last thing you should be worrying about is...

Streamlining Accounts Payable Management, Accounts Payable

DocuWare process automation streamlines Accounts Payable

Posted on November 16, 2022

Accounts payable is typically a time-consuming and paper-intensive process. If you’re responsible for accounts payable at any level, you’ve probably wished you had some type of process automation that would streamline the activity. The average cost to process a paper...

5 Ways to Protect your Network From a Breach: The Ultimate Guide

Posted on November 16, 2022

A business today can't survive without its IT network. It's how you keep in touch with customers, employees, partners, and vendors—but it also makes you vulnerable to attack from bad actors looking for ways into your company information or stealing...

Implement Continuity Planning, Business Continuity Planning

How to Implement Continuity Planning

Posted on November 2, 2022

How to Implement Continuity Planning If there is one thing that modern businesses are becoming increasingly aware of, it is the presence of external risks that could seriously disrupt their operations. Whether it is an unpredictable natural disaster, global pandemic,...

Solution to Vendor Consolidation, Total Office Approach

The Solution to Vendor Consolidation is the Total Office Approach

Posted on October 18, 2022

MSI’s Total Office Approach Metro Sales, Inc. (MSI) provides clients with the most up-to-date office technology solutions available, backed by world-class customer support and a commitment to helping clients reach their potential. For the past 50-plus years, MSI has seen...

Celebrate ESOP Month with MSI

Posted on October 4, 2022

In 1969 Jerry Mathwig established Metro Sales. As the business grew, Jerry added more employees and locations and emerged as one of the top document technology companies in the United States. Jerry considered his options for continuity of the business...

From Paper to Password Authentication

Posted on September 21, 2022

MSI’s journey over the last 53 years In 1969 Founder Jerry Mathwig started Metro Sales by selling paper and toner to offices in the Twin Cities. He built that company on the philosophy of providing clients with "cutting edge products...

Managing cybersecurity in an evolving landscape

Posted on September 28, 2021

As stories of large scale cyberattacks like the recent T-Mobile data breach become more frequent, cybersecurity and security infrastructure is more important than ever. While it may seem like a “big business” problem, according to the Verizon 2019 Data Breach...

Leveraging Document Scanning to battle labor shortages

Posted on September 1, 2021

In a modern office, physical documents can bog down day-to-day operations. According to the International Data Corporation, a 21.3% of loss of productivity is caused by document challenges. These challenges include access issues due to time or location and in...

Manage your printing fleet, don’t let it manage you.

Posted on August 9, 2021

Across the industry, studies have shown that organizations spend 3-6% of their revenue on printing. That means a $5 million organization will spend between $150,000 and $300,000 on printing each year. Even spending this much, nearly 90% of companies don’t...

Don’t Fall into the Copier Commodity Trap!

Posted on July 12, 2019

Beware the Copier Commodity Trap So often we hear about businesses that discuss their new copier as a commodity. Once the sale is completed, they think, the relationship with the copier vendor ends. This is what we call the Copier...

Metro Sales Receives 2017 National Award of Excellence

Posted on July 6, 2018

Metro Sales is pleased to announce that Ricoh has once again recognized us with the National Award of Excellence. Ricoh specifically selected Metro Sales from a group of 400 national independent dealers. The National Award of Excellence recognizes Metro Sales’s...

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