Surprising Security Sales Stats

Surprising Security Sales Stats

Security salespeople are in it for the money! It’s a common belief and one you may think is true. If so, you might be tempted to construct a compensation plan that heavily favors pay for performance.   Of course, salespeople want to be paid well. Everybody does. And I whole-heartedly...
Leading from the Inside Out — Jennifer Currence to Keynote at Leadership Summit

Leading from the Inside Out — Jennifer Currence to Keynote at Leadership Summit

Jennifer Currence, founder of The Currence Group and leadership trainer, will be a keynote speaker at the 2021 ESA Leadership Summit on October 4-7 at the Omni Frisco. Jennifer teaches leaders how to focus on their people resources to achieve...
Rise of the Machine: When and How to Leverage Artificial Intelligence

Rise of the Machine: When and How to Leverage Artificial Intelligence

For decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) lived only in the imaginations of novelists and filmmakers. For many, their first exposure to AI was in the film 2001, where an intelligent supercomputer (spoiler alert) murders human beings. Terminator: Rise of the Machines, along with numerous other films...
The Future of Marketing is Credibility

The Future of Marketing is Credibility

“It’s who you know,” as they say. But I disagree. It’s not who you know, it’s who trusts you. The same principle applies to marketing. It does not matter how many people know about your business if no one trusts it.   The future of marketing is credibility, and...
Legislative Report July 2021

Legislative Report July 2021

Here are highlights of legislative activity that could impact the electronic security and life safety industry.   Federal Legislative Summary – July 2021 Congress continued to wrangle over infrastructure in July. It seemed most of the news coming out of...
Sometimes It Takes a Coalition to Protect a Profession

Sometimes It Takes a Coalition to Protect a Profession

We are monitoring 122 bills related to occupational licensing just passed the halfway mark in the year. Many are innocuous. But many others could have or will have a significant impact on your business, if passed. As the electronic security...
Don’t Miss DMP’s X1 Series™ Output Solution

Don’t Miss DMP’s X1 Series™ Output Solution

The next time customers ask if their lights, locks, and any other item they wish can be controlled with the X1 Series, the answer is yes, all of them — now they can manage any output across their entire site....
Jeff Butler to Advise Security Leaders About Winning the Talent War

Jeff Butler to Advise Security Leaders About Winning the Talent War

The 2021 ESA Leadership Summit programming continues to get stronger! Adding to the two prior announcements where Dr. Ivan Joseph and Chad Porter were unveiled as keynote speakers for this year's Summit — Jeff Butler now officially joins the line-up...
2021 ESA Youth Scholarship Winners Announced

2021 ESA Youth Scholarship Winners Announced

The electronic security industry works closely with the public safety sector and we greatly appreciate the contributions that police, firefighters, paramedics, and EMTs offer to our communities. To show our appreciation, the ESA Youth Scholarship program was developed to provide...
Telguard Announces First 5G LTE-M Communicators with Internet and Cellular Dual Path

Telguard Announces First 5G LTE-M Communicators with Internet and Cellular Dual Path

The TG-7FE and TG-7E allow customers to cut traditional landlines and use internet connectivity and cellular for a flexible dual path solution. Telguard, a leader in security and life safety communications, is pleased to announce its first line of dual...