Success Stories

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NSCA Success Story: Deciding on Appropriate Staff Compensation

NSCA Success Story: Deciding on Appropriate Staff Compensation

As Dallas-based Master Video Systems (MVS) searched for a project manager and three technicians to work on a specific project, the company was also looking for industry-specific guidance on job descriptions and payment structures so it could be competitive in the market.

After checking in with NSCA, MVS discovered a few different resources that helped the company determine appropriate and attractive compensation levels. Instead of doing broad-brush searches, the company was able to go right to industry-specific data to make decisions. Read more about MVS’ experience here.

NSCA Success Story: Finding Affordable, Reliable Insurance

For many years, Evco Sound & Electronics Inc. had used the same local insurance company. When Kevin Bauer, Evco president, found out that it was having a hard time keeping the same insurance carrier, however, he decided it was time to start looking elsewhere. To get started, Bauer asked NSCA for insurance suggestions, which is how he learned about TrueNorth, an NSCA Business Accelerator. He gave the company a call and, when the representative mentioned other integration firms Bauer was familiar with, he knew he had found an insurance provider that understood the industry. “From the first moment, it was very professional,” says Bauer. “They understood our business, as well as the carriers. When their quotes came back, they saved us between 10% and 15%.” Read more about Evco’s experience here.

NSCA Success Story: The Value of Project Management Training

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After a recent organizational restructure, Lone Star Communications decided to add a new layer of superintendent positions to its operations department. The creation of these positions also created the need for training. Job duties were separated, along with a reorganization of teams and departments, to establish defined superintendent and project management roles. Dan Hiett, senior vice president of operations at Lone Star, reached out to NSCA to learn more about how Enterprise Performance Consulting might be able to help ease the transition for employees impacted by the restructuring. Read about the impact of this training here.

NSCA Success Story: Estimating Labor Units Accurately

NSCA Success Story: Estimating Labor Units Accurately

Coming from a 20-year history in broadcasting, Pat Vaughn felt a little behind the curve when he first joined integrator Simpatico in 2014 and needed to better understand loaded labor costs in his new role. “I started to quickly realize that labor is the single biggest factor impacting profit and loss for a project,” says Vaughn, Simpatico’s vice president of service delivery.

While conducting a search online, he found the Labor Installation Standard guidelines. The document quickly became the most valuable tool he had to ramp up his level of expertise and experience with commercial installations. Hear more of Vaughn’s story here.

NSCA Success Story: Financing to Capture More Deals

Inteconnex was working closely with a client on a complete IT infrastructure upgrade, totaling approximately $120,000 in equipment. To avoid incurring 100% of the expenses upfront, the client was interested in financing the project. After hearing about NSCA Business Accelerator GreatAmerica, Inteconnex did some investigating to learn more about how its financing services worked – and then decided to complete the company’s first GreatAmerica financing deal.

“Our first deal with GreatAmerica was awesome,” says Marc Meyer, Inteconnex president. “If I could route every deal through them, I would.” Find out more here.

NSCA Success Story: A ‘Sound’ Business Decision with Insperity

NSCA Success Story: A ‘Sound’ Business Decision with Insperity

After realizing that a bookkeeper wasn’t the same as an HR manager, Electro Acoustics concluded that it needed help. Electro Acoustics connected with NSCA Business Accelerator Insperity’s full-service HR solution, called Workforce Optimization. It allows the company to focus on the work and its customers while Insperity takes care of HR-related government compliance, training and development, employer liability management, and benefits plan administration.

Now, Electro Acoustics can offer a retirement plan and big-company benefits. Learn about what that’s done for the company here.

Improving Our Value Proposition

Improving Our Value Proposition

“As a result of NSCA, we have more qualified staff, our pricing is consistent, and our value proposition is much more solidified.”

~ Josh Shanahan, Sport View Technologies

Like a Bible for Business Owners

Like a Bible for Business Owners

“From sales and project management to technical services, finance, and accounting, NSCA has developed the bible for a business owner like myself to run a business successfully.”

~ Christina De Bono, ClearTech Media

Helping Me with My Bottom Line

Helping Me with My Bottom Line

“NSCA is about helping me with my business. There is no organization other than NSCA that will help me with the bottom line.”

~ Kelly McCarthy, Genesis Integration

Better Leveraging Sales Staff

Better Leveraging Sales Staff

“NSCA taught us how to leverage our salespeople. Rather than bringing in new employees and training them on how to sell, NSCA recommended that we find ways to free up the time of existing salespeople so they could sell more. At that time, our salespeople were averaging around $500,000 annually. Now they’re all at $1.2 million.”

~ Robbin Reynolds, Sound Products Inc


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