“Membership in the HTG Peer Groups offers IT Matters a valuable resource for the overall effectiveness of our company. Teaming up with like-minded member organizations gives us an extension of our management, operations, marketing and technical teams. We benefit from the expertise and experience of our peers, and they benefit from ours. Membership also opens new doors to vendors. Getting these types of connections would have normally meant dancing through hoops, climbing huge obstacles and spending hours attempting to navigate through their mazes.”
-Stuart Crawford, Business Development, IT Matters - Calgary,
Alberta |
| “Joining HTG3
has been invaluable for our business! Agendas feature relative,
timely topics through which I’ve learned how to refine our
processes. I’ve left each meeting with ideas I’ve implemented
that have had a positive impact on our business. As a direct
result of HTG3 we have deepened existing vendor relationships
and created new ones that have made a difference in our
marketing, effectiveness in serving our customers and our bottom
line. The peer group members have become the first group I think
of when I need an answer or advice. We have been a profitable
company for 18 years and committing to a peer group is among the
best decisions we’ve made.”
-Brad Schow, GM, Compudyne - Minnesota |
| “Participation
in HTG has impacted our business more than I could have
imagined. Connecting with peers from non-competing markets in
the open and honest format of the HTG meetings allows for a
rapid exchange of information, ideas, and industry best
practices. Our management team makes critical businesses
decisions based on the collective successes and lessons learned
by the group. We react faster and avoid mistakes while
delivering more relevant products and services to our customers
than ever before.”
-Dan Shunhoff, President, Intellicom
- Nebraska |
| “HTG has been
an invaluable experience for me. Not only do I get time to get
out of the office to strategize about my business, I’ve got the
time to strategize about my business with other ambitious and
intelligent business owners in a non-competing territory, who
have the EXACT same types of issues that I do.”
-Zachary Schuler, President, Calnet Technologies
- California |
| “HTG helps me
run my business more effectively for two main reasons. First, it
is a group of entrepreneurs engaged in the same business I am
who can provide insight and opportunities that I wouldn’t see as
quickly or at all by myself. Second, and maybe more importantly
the group helps me thoroughly question and review the decisions
I am making for my business, which in the end translates into
more effective actions and in turn profitability.”
-Dan Hay, President, ISOutsource
- Washington |
| “Our business
was positively impacted by the HTG peer group primarily in two
areas. The first is from a positioning and best practice
standpoint. The second area we feel like we made major progress
is in regard to the major strategic vendor partnership programs
that are available, the advantages they offer, and how to engage
with those vendors. We don’t usually receive detailed
information from most vendors on how to take full advantage of
their partner programs, so meeting with folks that have those
relationships currently, turned out to be very productive and
informative.”
-Jeff Wood,
President, Wood Networks - Texas |
| “Making
measurable, time-specific commitments to HTG3 is definitely
driving my behavior, and is already getting results. My staff
and I are focused on the sales/marketing commitments we made
last month, and we're also in the process of documenting a sales
training process with complete documentation.”
-Eric Thorsell, President,
Success Computer Consulting - Minnesota |
|
"The biggest
asset our relationship affords is partnership. With only 11 staff
members, it is impossible for ACES to get trained and stay certified on
all of the solutions our customers expect from us. Our partnership with
[HTG] allows us to leverage solution skill sets we do not currently have
to provide value to our clients without the risk of losing control of
the client relationship.”
-Phil Kenealy, President, ACES
- Waterloo, Iowa |
| "SMB
technology providers often work in a vacuum. We are not big enough to
justify a lot of time and effort from vendors on their needs and
discussing technology issues with other local technology providers
introduces competitive issues. The HTG has been a medium where we have
been able to share freely the issues and details of our organization
with other similar organizations. More importantly, the organizations
in HTG have been willing to share the solutions to these issues which
has led to significant improvement in our operations, which has led us
to more success and allowed us to grow."
-John Pritchard, Catalyst
Systems - Sioux City, Iowa |
|
“Not only
has working with my peers improved my attitude, my ambitions for growth,
but it has directly affected my total sales and revenue. Growth
requires confidence in your self and in your market. By working with
others in my industry I have built the confidence I need to take that
next step and continue the growth process soundly.”
-Jeff Howard,
President, NetRes - Texas |
|
“In a fast
paced, ever changing and dynamic environment like IT, only agile
companies survive and thrive. Peer consulting has helped Applied
tech not only to survive but to surpass the mediocre firms and has
helped our firm to become one of the most respected and best SMB
integrator in the area."
-Kurt Sippel, President, Applied Tech
- Wisconsin |
|
"The
help and review [we] received from Arlin was invaluable. It was great to
have a peer who understood our business but could look at it from an
outsider’s viewpoint and make suggestions. Just having someone help us
set the compass for direction has made all the difference in the world
for our company, and I would recommend it for anyone wanting to grow
their business."
-Mitch Miller, President, Dynamic Computer Solutions of Topeka, Inc. - Kansas |
