Every year I take a step back to look at the solutions we’re providing. The goal is to ensure the holistic, “big picture” results DistinctAV is known for are being achieved. In an industry as complex as ours, it’s important to stay one step ahead so we can avoid the rise and fall of all the over-hyped products.
Here’s a summary of my most recent assessment: (more…)
Almost everybody knows the frustration of shopping for home electronics. There are dozens of options with hundreds of features and thousands of combinations.
Add the hundreds of real-life scenarios and situations where and how you will use these systems, and let’s not forget everything that you don’t know or have not experienced yet.
Confused? Frustrated? Vapor-lock set in yet? It should. It’s perfectly normal for any rational person.
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Performance contracting is the practice of selling and installing a system for a client, then receiving a percentage of the savings as revenue over the life of the system.
The PC firms I’ve worked with typically consist of 50% lawyers, 25% Venture Capital providers, and 25% engineers. An indication of how complex the business can be.
Most of the complexity comes from the fact that the property owner has direct control over their use of the system which makes it complicated to measure “savings” from the baseline.