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Casey Chin
Consumer debt, credit card debt, and personal loan debt are at all-time highs. Meanwhile, investors who purchase debt for cents on the dollar and then try to collect the whole amount, and the collection agencies they hire, are getting increasingly aggressive. One in four consumers contacted by debt collectors feels threatened, and most consumers say the calls persist even after requests to stop, according to a 2017 study by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
In the past, people sometimes couldn’t find proper data to support their analysis. After entering the Big Data age, our world is full of data, lack of data for many businesses isn’t a problem anymore; Instead, there is often too much information available for people to find the answers for their business questions.
I caught a few moments with well-known MSP business coach and speaker Manuel Palachuk at the recent CompTIA ChannelCon 2018 conference in Washington DC. A frequent guest at leading industry events, Palachuk shared his background and his roadmap in this interview that I conducted. His basic philosophy is starting with culture to get to the next level. His niches include agile service delivery.
At the recent CompTIA ChannelCon18 conference in Washington DC, I interview first timer John Cooper about his career change from being a security guard (18+ years) to becoming a Managed Services Provider (MSP). He's tapped into one of the things CompTIA does best: workforce training. As you'll see int he interview, he was dazed and amazed by the conference content and networking opportunities. It's how the game is played.
In this segment on Northwest Digital News, we discuss five cool tools that are no cost or low cost to take your business sales and marketing to the next level. The key is to “just do it” as its both easy and hard. Easy to actually use the tools. Hard in that most people are either busy or lazy and don’t want to do it or don’t’ want to work hard.
By: Bernard Marr
Hey everyone – nothing like the dog days of summer to reflect on new money makers and booty shakers! At the recent CompTIA ChannelCon 2018 conference in Washington DC, I caught up with Robert Cooper, the general manager for Wildix. His firm is an established European unified communications ISV and is just entering the US market. He imparts both wisdom from his current position plus his body of work in the technology sector over the years.