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.

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.

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.