General Consultant Discussion

Anybody seeing a general slow down in net new opportunity leads? Last 3 months seems to have been slower than most summers

Actually many more, and they want to move quickly.

Interesting. Must be a regional thing.

Oil at $40/bbl is affecting us.

Perhaps we should have a drought more often. No water? Great, let's buy new software!

Existing user seeking new VAR type leads are increasingly hourly rate shopping, the person doing the inquiring is not the decision maker, the volume of inquiries seems about same (existing user) but the quality is poorer. Almost all Sage 100 project inquiries (""our Sage 100 isn't working can you help"") is manufacturers looking to fix a screwup in their system. In the vast number of cases, it seems as if there are unsolvable problems (either people problems, no budget or bought the wrong system).

Mid-west is HOPPING with new deal leads.

In Southern Nevada aka Eastern California, we're seeing the same as @JohnHoyt .

Again, I'm very specific here as to net NEW opportunities. Not orphans, no shortage of them Alot of our Epicor business was coming from Oil & Gas and indeed that has hit the skids