Business Speak

Paul Bay, Executive Vice President and Group President of the Americas, Ingram Micro, discusses how Ingram Micro is responsive to the small and medium business partner with its SMB Alliance – a subset of its reseller community. It's a home for managed services providers (MSP) as well! 

The ratio of fraud across businesses is getting miserable day-by-day, both in the number of cases and the ample of money that is being lost. However, according to researchers, small companies are more prone to frauds, and around 88% of the US companies reported that most of the scams were in the business finances. Why so?

In this report, I interview Andy Higgins from Dripping Springs, TX. He flew north to Montreal to attend the SherWeb Accelerate 2018 conference and offers insights from the floor. In particular this event was impactful in 

Years ago when knights were bold, and telecom owned the gold, a wise man (the publishers of Telecom Reseller) shared that you should be disturbed when you attend a professional conference. Fast forward the movie and Kirk Robinson, SVP & Chief Country Executive of the U.S., Ingram Micro intimated

Watch a community grow up is like child rearing. Frustrating at time but ultimately rewarding. The good news is that our SMB Nation managed services providers (MSP) partners are embracing the role of sponsors in the community. I call it the fourth leg of the stool

As I sit here overlooking South Lake Union in Seattle – the neighborhood that Paul Allen restored and the home of Amazon HQ1, I wanted to reflect on what Paul Allen has meant to Seattle and myself. I’ve expressed my thoughts on today’s Northwest Digital News (NDN) where I’m a regular contributor for the Tech Tuesday segment. You can watch that