Recent Articles
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‘Leave It to Beaver’ for VAR Marketing
Cal Net Technology Group CEO Zack Schuler understands that to succeed in business you need to market your capabilities and what differentiates you from the competition. He also understands the power of video in conveying such messages, and that a solution provider needs more than just a rack of servers and a pithy tech story…
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Apple: Smoking Bad for Computer Technicians
The Consumerist reports two cases in which Mac owners have been denied repair service covered under their extended warranties first by the service agent followed by Apple corporate because of smoking. While Apple hasn’t made any official comment on the matter, those filing complaints with the Consumerist say Apple claims that the PCs have been…
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SonicWall Partner Shows Value of Trusted Adviser Relationship
Channel Insider literally receives dozens of press releases each week, most of them not worth reporting on. Mundane press releases are about customer wins, executive speaking engagements, commentary on news trends and routine business. Press releases are really perfunctory so vendors can say they’re doing everything they can to stay in the press. Last week,…
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VSR Business Optimization Summit a Success
Vertical Systems Reseller Magazine – commonly known as VSR – this week held its first conference in Philadelphia, and Channel Insider was both a partner and participant. The event drew a small but respectable group of resellers that crossed the spectrum of the channel – the point of sales, mobility and data capture resellers that…
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PC Mall Gets Social
During economic recessions, while there’s certainly attention to how to cut costs, many businesses also look at how they can better serve their customers. And in an age of social networking, plenty of solution providers have launched blogs, become active on LinkedIn or Facebook or Twitter, or continued to rely on the tried-and-true e-mail newsletter…
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Take 2: N-Able’s CEO Goes On the Record
Gavin Garbutt talks with Channel Insider Editor Carolyn April at N-Able’s partner conference this, waxing on topics from the managed services market to cloud computing to the company’s latest investments in partner enablement. Click here to view the video.
