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Century Business Products, Inc. has named Kyle Ruhland, Scott Louis and Adam Smith to Century Business Products President’s Club for 2015. Ruhland of the Sioux Falls office, Louis from the Pierre office and Smith from the Madison branch, are recognized for representing Century’s values, product knowledge and excellence in providing exceptional business solutions to both […]

Rudy Karlen is the recent winner of Century’s “Quality Technician Incentive Contest.” This contest is based on the incentive to deliver the highest quality of work to our customers. This follows the company’s philosophy of increasing first time fix rate ensuring our customers complete satisfaction. Rudy will enjoy watching his favorite shows on a new […]

Top Technician in the CountryCentury Business Products is proud to announce that Craig Doeden has won the “Best Technician in the Country” contest for Kyocera. This contest was open to any dealer in the country selling Kyocera products. There are roughly 2,000 technicians eligible to compete in the three stage process. The National contest was […]

Filing/finding paper documents is _________ [fill in the blank]. If you’re like most managers, you probably thought: “annoying,” “tedious,” “frustrating,” “time-consuming,” and maybe even “a pain in the _____!” But it doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, automating your storage and retrieval process is a great way to achieve new levels of operating […]

Happy Thanksgiving from Century Business Products Century continues to be thankful for our many loyal customers, our vendors, our employees and all who put their trust in us. Safe travels to you and your family this thanksgiving weekend.    We will be closed Thursday, November 26 and Friday, November 27 so our employees can spend time with […]

Doeden wins Kyocera’s Regional Best Tech in America Contest Congratulations to Craig Doeden for finishing 1st place in the Regional Competition for Kyocera Best Technician in America.   Congratulations also goes out to Lance Roberts for finishing 3rd place in the Regional Competition which was held in Chicago last week. Craig moves onto the national finals […]

Century Receives Premier Dealer Award Century Business Products received the Premier Dealer Award from Kyocera, the Premier status is awarded to less than 10% of eligible dealers nation wide. Century has received this award over fifteen consecutive years. Pictured from left to right are owners Brett Gildemaster, Aaron Gerdes, Ken Johnson from Kyocera and owner […]

Century Qualifies Two Technicians for Kyocera’s National Contest  Century has two technicians that qualified for Kyocera’s Regional Best Technician Competition in Chicago. Craig Doeden from Sioux Falls office and Lance Roberts from the Pierre office will participate in the grueling competition this week. Only five technicians qualify out of our eleven state region, winner will advance to the national competition […]

It Pays to Use Color Did you know that color invoices get paid 30 percent faster than black and white invoices?    Recent studies show that:  * Color can increase payment response by up to 30%  * Information highlighted in color can be located 70% faster  * People are more likely to pay in-full when the amount is shown in color  […]

Regardless of all the advances in technology, many offices are still inundated with paper records. Clutter control is essential for a business to be truly efficient. If your employees are buried beneath mountains of paperwork, it’s time to consider an electronic document management system (EDMS) instead of continuing to rely on old-fashioned file cabinets. Dakota […]