Hello Education Committee -There has been an active post here this week about a long time partner retiring of sorts. But as part of this discussion, Wayne proposed the following session ideas. I would love to get your comments, feedback and/or ideas of what this could look like and who. See below:
1. Why VARS are leaving the business
The industry IMHO has gotten a lot harder in the last decade and feels much more like a trading customer and support game than a true automation game. Long gone is the thrill of taking people from typewriters and paper and having them realize how much better the software and services we offered could make their business and their lives.
Also, the stress of never knowing if next year will be as good or better than last year due to the project nature of the business. Sure there is a lot of recurring services, but the ability to build wealth through a client base because of maintenance and other recurring income has been slowly sucked out of the channel by greedier public company publishers. I bet, in after inflation dollars, many of us had better standards of living in the past.
2. My journey from VAR to Owner: A view from the inside
I would love to hear more about:
Now I get to see how to automate a business from the inside, instead of from the outside. It's going to be a challenge because how much software is designed for wholesale, retail, e-commerce, corporate gift sales and manufacturing all in one without a million 'glued' syncs and expensive subscriptions/licensing? That's a lot of moving parts for a relatively small biz.
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Anne Sawyer
Executive Director
90 Minds, Inc. 1
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