Alternative Advantage Education Services
Train Your Customers with Vendor-Authorized Education Services
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As a reseller, you are constantly faced with declining margins and increasing competition. Through technical education, you differentiate your-self from other resellers and create additional business opportunities by engaging your customers in long-term partnerships. Alternative Technology can help you provide greater value to your customers by delivering the technical education they need - all while generating additional revenue for your organization.
The Alternative Advantage Education Services program delivers flexible, vendor-authorized training designed to educate your staff and increase your profitability by reselling training to your customers. We provide a turnkey training solution - instructor, courseware, computers, and expertise as a complete education experience.
Training customers does not eliminate their need for your support services; it adds per-customer revenue to your company’s bottom line.
The Alternative Advantage Difference
Alternative Technology offers value-added resellers (VARs) an opportunity to enter or expand upon existing service revenue markets by offering technical training for profit. By utilizing Alternative Technology’s Education Services, you can greatly enhance your offerings, generate significant revenue and profit, and ensure your competitors do not train your customers. We also offer additional incentives (25% to 35% discounts) for Alternative Advantage Partner Program members.
Increased Margin: We do not sell to end users, nor do we attempt to recruit end user business. Instead, we provide discounts to you on all our training classes, allowing you to boost revenues by reselling our classes to your customers.
Added Flexibility: Coordinating training schedules can be difficult. That’s why we provide training at our training centers or on-site - whatever works best for you and your customers.
Extensive Offerings: Our instructors are cross-trained in a variety of operating systems, LAN and WAN technologies, in addition to the security and wireless products that enhance them. We offer you a wide array of programs: from server-based computing, to bandwidth management and security. Our staff has practical experience in analysis, design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
Core Learning: Our classes, conducted in a real-world environment, enhance the student’s learning experience. Students are encouraged to actively participate in the training process, raising their level of absorption exponentially.
Current Classes: Alternative Technology currently offers classes for Blue Coat, Fortinet, Packeteer, SonicWall and VMware technologies, with new vendors and classes added on a regular basis.
Alternative Technology instructors are cross-trained in a variety of operating systems including LAN and WAN technologies, in addition to the security and wireless products that enhance them. Our instructors are highly skilled engineers with years of practical “real world” experience.
- Our classes are conducted in an environment that enhances the student’s learning experience. Students are encouraged to actively participate in the training process, raising their level of absorption exponentially. As your distribution partner, Alternative Technology is a neutral training facility. We do not sell to end-users nor do we attempt to recruit end-user business.
- If your clients cannot attend class in one of our fixed training centers, we also have on-site training options and online courses.
- Alternative Technology’s vendor-authorized classes train both your staff and your customers. We provide flexible class schedules, both in our learning centers and on-site. You gain product knowledge, fulfill vendor certification requirements, and better serve your customers with the training they need to use the products you sell to them.