Posts by Geoff Kohl, Senior Director of Marketing, Security Industry Association
Video: How to Prepare for Your Sales Calls
Want to be better at sales or improve your accounts team’s performance? Our SIA Integration Insights video series for security integrators returns with the second in a multipart series designed to improve your sales skills. Vector Firm Co-Founder and President Chris Peterson has been providing modern-day sales training for the security industry, and he joins…
Keep Reading »Nominate Our Next SIA NPS Awards Committee Chair
Call for nominations open through Sept. 30, 2022. Attention Security Industry Association (SIA) members! As you may know, Guidepost Solutions’ Christopher Grniet, who has served in the position of chair of the SIA New Products and Solutions (NPS) Awards Committee for several years, will soon complete his term. We appreciate his vision and strong support…
Keep Reading »Video: 5 Sales Qualifying Questions That Work
The Security Industry Association’s (SIA’s) Integration Insights video series for security integrators returns with a look at how sales professionals for security integrators can use qualifying questions on your sales calls. Vector Firm Co-Founder and President Chris Peterson has been providing modern-day sales training for the security industry, and he joins us for the latest…
Keep Reading »What You Told Us in Our Annual Membership Satisfaction Survey
We hear you loud and clear, SIA members! SIA recently concluded its 2022 Membership Satisfaction and Awareness Survey, and we want to thank all of you who responded and share with you some of the top-line results. As part of the survey promotion, we randomly selected from the respondents a couple winners of two free…
Keep Reading »Video: Top 10 Financial KPIs for Security Integrators
We’re back with the newest episode of SIA Integration Insights, a series of video content designed to help integrators like you succeed and grow your business. And back with us is SAGE Integration Chief Operating Officer (COO) John Nemerofsky with another excellent summary of key performance indicators (KPIs) you should be studying in your security…
Keep Reading »Video: Top 10 Sales KPIs for Security Integrators
SIA’s Integration Insights video series shares business tips for security integrators to help you improve your business, refine your strategy and be more successful. In this video, featuring guest John Nemerofsky, chief operating officer at SAGE Integration, we cover the key performance indicators you can use to better manage the sales team at your security…
Keep Reading »Video: Top 10 Business KPIs for Security Integrators
Want to improve your security integration business? We’re back with a new video in our SIA Integration Insights series, designed for owners and management and any entrepreneur who is thinking of opening their own security integrator/security dealer/security installing company business. In this video, guest John Nemerofsky, chief operating officer at SAGE Integration, covers the key…
Keep Reading »Video: Top 10 Hiring KPIs for Security Systems Integrators
In the first of our new SIA Integration Insights video series, we address the fact that hiring is hard, really hard! But just like sales and business operations, if you want to improve performance, you need to measure it and apply some key performance indicators (KPIs). SAGE Integration Chief Operating Officer John Nemerofsky stepped up…
Keep Reading »In Memoriam: Joseph Freeman, J.P. Freeman & Company
Security Industry Association (SIA) members and the security industry have mourned the recent loss of Joseph Freeman, Ph.D., a longtime strategist, researcher and business leader in the security industry, who was especially influential in the residential security and home automation space. A veteran of the Korean War, Freeman had a lifelong dedication for protecting citizens…
Keep Reading »Call for Volunteers: SIA Education and Training Committee
The Security Industry Association (SIA) is seeking qualified volunteers for its Education and Training Committee. This standing committee, led by Chair Chris Peckham, Ph.D. (Ollivier Corporation) and Vice-Chair Rob Hile (GC&E Systems Group) with the assistance of SIA Director of Education and Training Elli Voorhees, Ph.D., is responsible for the direction of existing professional development…
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