Yearly Archives: 2021

3 Tips to Help Integrators Grow Services Revenue

Posted on January 18, 2021 in Achieve Business Growth ,Blog ,Solutions360 by

Integrators regularly ask Solutions360 for advice about how to grow their services revenue. It often goes something like this, “How do we start this, because we have a break fix business? We get calls from our clients and we are very reactive and we take care of them, but we really want to build that business to be a higher percentage of our overall revenue. How do we do that?” Today, Steve Riley, from Navigate Management Consulting, outlines the three steps integrators should take to […]

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CFO Perspectives on Liquidity and Cash Flow for MSPs

Posted on December 29, 2020 in Customer Success Stories ,Improve Financial Management ,Industry Discussion ,Q360 ,Solutions360 by

CFOs Say Cash is King!  At NSCA’s 2020 Pivot to Profit Virtual (P2Pv), Solutions360 CEO, along with three leading integration firm CFOs, offered their perspectives on understanding liquidity and cash flow for MSPs. 2020 P2Pv Session Presenters: Brad Dempsey, CEO at Solutions360 Inc. Eric Morris, CFO at Wayne Automatic Fire Sprinklers Chris Mounts, CFO at AVI Systems Dave Taccone, Executive Vice President of Finance at Spinitar During the past year, as integration companies battled through the pandemic, it has been important for CFOs to step […]

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Best Practices for Building Recurring Revenue

Posted on December 21, 2020 in Blog ,Improve Financial Management ,Increase Project Profitability ,Solutions360 by

In order to build recurring revenue, integrators are making the shift from a reactive to a proactive support model. There has been a lot of discussion in the integrator community about best practices for developing services and support revenue, and how to embrace a recurring revenue model. In previous blogs we have discussed how customers are asking for AV-as-a-Service, as well as how to create predictable cash flow with monthly recurring revenue. Today, Steve Riley is joined by Chad Sowers, Director of Business Development with […]

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Organizational Change Management Drives Adoption of the New Revenue Recognition Standard

Posted on November 9, 2020 in Around the Web ,Change Management ,Q360 by

How Can Integrators Engage, Enable and Execute Change? Integrators are learning that the new Revenue Recognition standard can have company-wide impacts that affect core business functions and their associated systems and data. Because so many parts of a business are tied to revenue, the new standard is pervasive – touching everything from executive and sales compensation to how products are sold, and how work is done. Systems and processes need to change to accommodate the compliance process, and people need to be trained on the […]

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Solutions360 Releases New Job Costing Survival Guide

Posted on September 21, 2020 in Blog ,Improve Profitability ,Increase Project Profitability ,Q360 ,Solutions360 by

Why Is Job Costing So Important in 2020? Over the last 20 years, Solutions360 has worked with hundreds of businesses to help apply technology that improves business process management and profitability. One of the most complicated issues that Solutions360 has encountered in the professional services space is the practice of proper job costing methods. Less than 10% of the companies that Solutions360 works with do an accurate job of job costing prior to our engagement. The primary reasons for this are: Estimates are based on […]

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The Power of Forecasting for Your Integration Business

Posted on August 17, 2020 in Blog ,Business Process Improvement ,Improve Financial Management ,Q360 ,Solutions360 by

Welcome back to our series of discussions about metrics and how to build the principles of maturity into your integration business. We’ve talked in a number of these sessions about mature companies versus younger companies or immature companies. And what we talk about today, is how do we get those immature companies to emulate what the mature companies, the successful ones that we work with, are doing. “When you look at a mature integration company, they really value the whole concept of the power of […]

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Make Your Scope of Work Statements Stand Out

Posted on June 1, 2020 in Around the Web ,Business Process Improvement ,Industry Discussion by

Good Scope of Work Statements Establish Boundaries and Responsibilities A well-defined and communicated scope statement is one of the primary methods of managing a client’s often-changing expectations of what they will ultimately receive from a project. This is developed during the proposal phase of the project — initiated as part of the sales cycle — and is included within the more comprehensive scope of work document. There are really two types of scope of work statements, each serving a different purpose in clarifying the scope […]

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