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I use to work for Diamond Retail Services and as you may know they are no longer in business. If you have been in the assembly business for any length of time; you will know that at least a dozen national assembly companies have gone out of business or have been absorbed by another assembly company because of losing one or multiple accounts.

Diamond is one of those companies and many of you may think they deserved to lose their business. There are a “small” number of companies like Diamond still in business but they may not be around much longer if an emerging company has their way.

That emerging company is Go Configure. They are cutting what you make even more than companies like Diamond paid or for the ones left, what they are paying now… and most all of us have had enough with all of it!!! Go Configure has this software program and they are using it to sell themselves as the messiah for our industry; but what the software really does is track every single one of your actions that take up even more of your time,, which in turn, you are paying for the software through lost income.

Go Configure is no different than Impact. Today Impact is known as National Product Services (NPS). Impact pretty much dominates the furniture assembly industry and Go Configure will (if we let them) dominate the recreation and sports equipment industry.

I have always had my own business here in central Ohio where (as of today) I mostly repair treadmills; lots of opportunity… lots! If you are interested in treadmill repair, ask me about how I make as much as $225 a day, and sometimes even more that is 100% mine to keep. The great part is I usually only work a morning or afternoon three or four hours a day. I also rarely work evenings or weekends,  I spend that time recruiting.

If you want to see how I am doing this, check out The-Savvy-Tech.com. I would like you to see my Web site so you can see how “you” can do it too. I have a video commercial on the front page and many customers comment on it without me asking. They say the video helped them make their decision to hire my services.

I am also the founder and “member” of the UnitedAssemblers.com network (UAN). The network helps guide technicians how to properly build or even start an assembly/repair business of their own. The network also connects you with other technicians across the country which gives us all “strength in numbers”… to make a difference!

You need to know there are options and it is not always necessary to depend on a national company. However, most of us still work for one or two of those national companies because it fills in the gaps. There are companies like JEZ, General Assembly and Urban who try to do right by their technicians and they may still be hiring and are good companies to contract with.

It would be great if we could have another technician (you) join us to support our cause and help build the largest “network” of professional assemblers where we are banding together for a common cause of quality service, fair business practices and reasonable wages so we are not taken advantage of.

You can be a part of the network with or without a listing by just signing-up and informing us of what part you would like to be involved with. Whichever direction you go, you will be in-the-know with an occasional e-mail.

You can also sign-up for this Blog!

Best of luck to you,


MikeM
http://unitedassemblers.com/ 
http://the-savvy-tech.com/

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