It's The Stupid Economy

It's hard to discuss the VARBusiness 2009 State of the Market survey without first addressing the gorilla in the room: the economy. The Web-based study fielded during November by the Institute for Partner Education & Development (IPED), analyzed responses from 350 North American solution providers weighing in on where they think the IT market is going in 2009. IPED is the research arm of Everything Channel, which also owns ChannelWeb. And the economy was top of mind, leading off our list of the 10 key takeaways.

VARs say global recession, weak consumer spending and the credit crisis all trouble them going into next year. But despite their concerns, solution providers aren't retreating or retrenching. Instead, SOM results indicate that VARs are identifying areas of opportunity and aggressively pursuing them. VARs listed the global recession, weak consumer spending and the credit crisis as their top three concerns. But waiting in the weeds are rising unemployment numbers -- the Federal Reserve late last month said the prospects for weaker economic activity will push up unemployment. The Fed projected that the national unemployment rate will rise to between 6.3 percent and 6.5 percent this year. The rate in October was 6.5 percent, and last year the rate averaged 4.6 percent. Next year, the Fed expects the jobless rate to climb to between 7.1 percent and 7.6 percent—also higher than its summer forecast.

But some solution providers see opportunities in the unemployment numbers, especially if customers trim ranks in their in-house IT support staffs.

"We are seeing the services part of our business pick up," said Don Richie, CEO of Sequel Data Systems, an Austin, Texas-based solution provider. "The bottom line is that companies that have to cut back on their infrastructure are coming to us and asking if we can provide a person two days per week to manage their data center, and pay us $200 per hour vs. paying someone's salary."

salary extraordinary (part 1)

What they taught me about Anggoro to the extraordinary salaries, the salary that we provide to employees with the opportunity to provide implement the idea ten years and then I praktikkan. When I hold a seminar on the entrance exam in Higher State. Speakers made to tell when a new residence a week. Seminar planned to be held on Saturday. Time is short so it is very difficult to get that many seminar participants. Special strategies are needed to seminar participants polynomial. After all the preparation has been completed, on Wednesday morning at 10.00, I gather my staff to listen to the opinions that the participants of the seminar, many participants. I have been writing the ten strategies in a sheet of paper to bring the participants. But the strategy I save on the table without a stafpun know that. I try to refrain no idea and try to explore the idea of my staff

Learning from the newspaper sellers (part 1)

by : m.suyanto
The newspaper seller who always diligent deliver newspapers to my home. More than ten years, I became loyal customers. Skin, black beetle tersengat sun each day that is covered with clothes greatness jacket and black hat worn to reduce sunburn. Parfumnya drop of sweat patch in the face like the newly-sejadi would cry. Right hand decorated by a sign from God, that does not have fingers. It is towards the elderly who decorated several pieces of white hair, but still radiating a luminous smile, a vibrant show himself a hard worker and that abstinence petarung despair. This is the first lesson that we get from a newspaper seller.

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A Powerful Weapon Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are a good leader must have a soul. The success of an organization or company, is determined by their leaders. The center circle of leadership is communication. Communication is an art or a way to convey something, so that people understand us. "Communication is the most important skills in life. We spend most of the time we wake up to communicate "said Stephen R. Covey. In solving the problem subordinate, we tend to rush in to fix things with good advice. But often we experience a failure, especially failure in taking the time to diagnose the problem to truly understand the depth of the problem first. We usually try to predict intelligibility. Most people do not hear with the intention to Understanding Your but to hear their answer. They were prepared to speak, filter everything through the paradigm of their own, to read their autobiographies in the lives of other people. To try to understand first, we need a change of paradigm, which is not easy. We have been taught since the small talk, read and write. We are not taught, how good to hear that. Hear there are several levels, ranging from trying not listen, ostensible hear, hear only the part that we enjoy it, listening with full attention and active listening hears is the active center of communication.