Depending on your business and current contract language, new revenue recognition standards may have a significant impact on your business. There are no quick and simple answers, so now is the time to prepare for these upcoming … Read More
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M&A Fundamentals For VARs
By Abby Sorensen Advice on selling your business can improve your company now. Every VAR should want to increase recurring revenue, form stickier relationships with customers, maintain organized financial records, and accelerate growth. If you listened to sound bites of Brooke … Read More
Managed Services: What Are You Waiting For?
It’s tough for AV integrators to make money selling expensive gear, but there’s a better way for them to maintain a close relationship: managed services. Bob Lobascio, Nick Points and Josh Shanahan talk about recurring revenue at the 2018 NSCA … Read More
There’s a ‘Disappointing’ Lack of Managed Services Contracts in AV Industry, According to These Findings
Managed services contracts are still considerably low in the AV industry. This is surprising for a space that’s filled with acquisitions. by Tom LeBlanc “If there was one disappointment” in the otherwise glowingly optimistic results of Commercial Integrator’s and … Read More
You’re A Recurring Revenue Believer… Now What?
Four MSPs (managed services providers) share marketing and customer retention tips that have made the biggest impacts on their companies’ success. Lots of break-fix VARs would prefer to exchange their unpredictable sales cycles for the stability of a managed services … Read More
How to Shape Your Company Culture
Your company culture drives your company’s success. It’s formed from the values and mindset of your employees and leadership team. When you design a company culture and work environment that your employees appreciate, they’ll care more about their jobs and … Read More
Establishing Shared Values and Ethics
by Brad Malone, MA, PMP We’ve all heard how different generations of people (baby boomers, Gen X, Gen Y) work and live differently. This sometimes causes frustration for those of one generation who must interact with those of another generation … Read More
Employee Engagement is Essential for a Successful ERP Implementation
It has been two and half years since Dustin Campbell took the helm at Adtech Systems, and over that time the company has focused heavily on internal operations. “Our general thesis is you have to have a very strong operational … Read More
How to Stay on Track Through the Change Management Process
No matter how perfect your change management plan is, there are sure to be bumps in the road. Here are some dos and don’ts to help smooth out those inevitable bumps and keep you on track. When working though a … Read More
Pivot to Profit: Integrators Learn from Major Technology Players
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA, Aug. 22, 2017 The second annual Pivot to Profit event, hosted by NSCA, PSA Security, and SYNNEX, is attracting big names in technology. These companies want to teach integrators how to “pivot” to take advantage of new … Read More