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Life’s Gift of Lemons: Managed IT Dealers Explore Takeaways From COVID-19

It’s tough to discuss COVID-19 in the past tense when it continues to linger well beyond its “welcome,” like a drunk uncle at a holiday cookout an hour after everyone else has left. However, roughly four months into our shared experience, industry dealers of IT-based goods and
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No Day at the Beach: The Art of Delivering IT During a Pandemic

Anyone who has visited the beach with a young family in tow knows the experience can be taxing. It’s not a gas-and-go proposition; the level of preparation involved in delivering more than one child to the shore for a day of fun can be time-consuming.  Sunscreen is only the
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Beyond Compensation and Benefits: Promoting Your Dealership as an Employee Destination

Being a few ticks north of the mid-century mark, this reporter clearly remembers the time when the previous generation removed its graduation cap and gown—or mustered out of the service—then picked up a hard hat and lunch pail, which were to become constant companions for the
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How Dealers Adjust Hiring Focus, Approach in a Tight Job Market

Now, perhaps more than ever in the last 10 years, is the best time to be in the market for a new job. Not only is unemployment nearing historic lows across much of the nation, but wage growth has been improving. According to Trading Economics and the U.S. Bureau of Economic
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Money Equals Happiness: The Art of Maintaining Superstar Account Reps

We welcome February with this month’s state of the industry focus on finding and maintaining quality employees—long viewed as one of the most vexing challenges for not only the office dealer ecosystem but all businesses. As unemployment levels hover at historic lows across the
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Novatech Launches New Managed Office Solution

Business technology firm Novatech Inc. today announced its Managed Office solution, a comprehensive palette of managed print, managed IT, cloud and cybersecurity services. The Novatech Managed Office enables companies to leverage technology holistically to focus on driving
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Talent Acquisition Tops the List of Challenges for Elite Dealers

Each year, in conjunction with the Elite Dealer issue, we ask our nominees to provide a glimpse into the biggest challenges that they face. While we don’t have a comprehensive breakdown by topic, we can tell you that the clear “winner,” by far (approximately 25% of our Elite
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The M&A Numbers Game: What is My Business Worth?

Want a fun exercise? Try saying the words that comprise EBITDA as fast as you can, even just once. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. By the second or third try, it sounds almost robotic. Perhaps it’s appropriate, because we’re talking about cold,
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Training the Key to Getting the Most Value from Workflow Solutions

From discovery to implementation and client training, from setting expectations to delivering on promises, implementing workflow solutions calls upon the dealer, client and the software/hardware solutions provider to be in sync. Brad Yocum, market manager for Function4,
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Novatech Partners with Global CyberSecurity Company Apptega to Bring Intelligent CyberSecurity Management to 15,000-Plus Businesses throughout U.S.

Nashville, TN (July 23, 2019) — Novatech, award-winning provider of Managed Print, Managed IT, CyberSecurity and Cloud Solutions, has announced its formal partnership with global cybersecurity software company Apptega. Novatech will utilize Apptega’s highly intelligent
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Workflow Solutions Selling: Dealers Share Lessons Learned Along the Way

OK, so you’ve sold a workflow solution to the client. That was the easy part. Now the nightmare can begin. Did we say nightmare? We meant to say implementation. When a project ushers in various departments within a client’s operations, it can sometimes lead to miscommunications,
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Communications Challenges Exist for Sales Reps in Offering Workflow Solutions

As you prep the steaks and marinate the chicken for the grill this weekend, we offer you a breezy look at some of the challenges sales reps experience in peddling workflow solutions, as part of our July state of the industry focus. Let’s be honest, an account executive (by
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New Captain at Helm of Novatech: A Q&A with CEO Dan Cooper

Last month, Nashville, Tennessee-based Novatech shocked the industry with the announcement that Founder and CEO Darren Metz was transitioning into the role of executive chairman, to be replaced by Dan Cooper, a 30-year industry veteran with tenures at Xerox’s Global Imaging
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Dan Cooper Named New CEO of Novatech

Trivest Partners (Trivest) has tapped the talent and experience of notable 30-year industry veteran Dan Cooper to lead the day-to-day business of the rapidly-growing Managed IT and Print Services provider Novatech Inc., continuing an expansion and succession plan underway for
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Darren Metz Leads Novatech’s Merger with Managed IT Service Provider DynaSis

Nashville, TN (March 27, 2019) — Novatech, award-winning provider of Managed IT and Print Services, has announced a merger with DynaSis, a leading Managed IT Services Provider in the Greater Atlanta, GA area. In uniting, Novatech will leverage DynaSis’ expertise in Managed IT,
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