The Swenson Group

Growing Pains: Elite Dealers Seek to Implement Internal Processes to Reconcile Growth

The 2018 campaign has largely been a rousing success for the office technology dealer universe, aided to some degree by a healthy economy (the December stock market swoon notwithstanding). Beneficial though it may be, dealer growth is always tempered by the need to have an
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The Swenson Group: People, Passion, Purpose

Dean Swenson, President and CEO of The Swenson Group (TSG), began his career at Xerox in California soon after graduating from UC Santa Barbara in 1991. He recalled that at that time Xerox was in the early stages of channel marketing and they were incentivizing employees to start
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Oh No, Not Again: Common Mistakes Made by Dealers Looking to Move into Managed Services

Everybody makes mistakes and the dealer community has made its share as they struggle to make a go of it in the Managed Services business. This month in the print version of ENX magazine the main feature is “Managed Services Made Easy.” The individuals we interviewed for that
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Fear of Managed Services

The main feature in the July issue of ENX is “Managed Services Made Easy.” That piece examines how to get started in Managed Services and whether or not buying an IT company is the easy answer. I also asked the experts I interviewed for that story to identify the biggest fears
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News Bytes

  Industry Veteran Barry Taylor Passes Nov. 21, 2013 – Barry Taylor, CEO of Taylor Made Business Systems, a managed print services company, died Saturday, Nov. 16 from a heart attack at the age of 74. According to the Taylor Made Business Systems Website, Taylor founded his first
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