Friday, April 25, 2008 3:58 PM/EST
Challenging economic conditions are beginning to affect IT sales, if the earnings of IT distributors are any indication. In particular, server sales were hurting at two of the three distributors reporting earnings the week of April 21.
Friday, February 29, 2008 2:43 PM/EST
Strange goings-on from the land of distribution, as one well-known company makes good use of its empty warehouses.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:56 PM/EST
Tech Data has opened up its online tracking tool, so VARs can include deals done through rival distributors, a very mature attitude.
Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:20 PM/EST
With dark clouds apparently on the economic horizon as analysts predict flattened IT spending, lots of businesses that sell to IT are planning on how to weather the storm. But software vendors apparently may have some ideas about how to...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:45 PM/EST
Ingram Micro may not have an official booth at CES, but the IT distributor will have a showroom and suites at the Monte Carlo hotel in Las Vegas during the giant consumer electronics extravaganza, turned all-around tech meeting place. And...
Monday, April 16, 2007 6:54 PM/EST
Distributor Synnex made the latest Fortune 500 list, joining Tech Data, Ingram Micro, Avnet, Arrow Electronics, CDW and others.
Friday, March 16, 2007 5:01 PM/EST
Eighty-eight percent of Ingram Micro's VentureTech Network members are partnering with each other, up from 77 percent in 2006. Other VARs and distributors should take note. Analysts, channel chiefs and many VARs pay lip service to the concept of partnering...
Thursday, March 15, 2007 7:10 PM/EST
How much money are you leaving on the table? Kirk Robinson, vice president of North America Channel Marketing at Ingram Micro, posed that question to a roomful of VARs March 15 at the distributor's VTN conference in Nashville. If you're...
Thursday, March 15, 2007 1:24 PM/EST
Cisco System's five-year effort to engage an SMB channel, has relied almost exclusively on distributors to introduce, recruit and train VARs about the vendor and their SMB value. It has engaged all of the distributors with programs with programs that...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 8:25 PM/EST
Three VARs share successful marketing strategies from celebrity appearances, learning seminars and paid Google searches for $25 a week that netted a six-figure deal.
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