BTA’s FIX: Cost Management for Service 2.0 Scheduled for March 1

For Immediate Release For More Information Contact:

Jan. 24, 2019 Brent Hoskins

Executive Director

Business Technology Association

(816) 303-4040

BTA’s FIX: Cost Management for Service 2.0 Scheduled for March 1

BTA members may apply their $150 or $250 educational discount promo code received with their membership toward the tuition fee

Kansas City, MO — On March 1, the Business Technology Association (BTA) will present FIX: Cost Management for Service 2.0 at UBEO Business Services of Austin in Austin, Texas. Successful BTA dealers use their service departments to maintain profit margins as new equipment sales margins decline. FIX, BTA’s popular service workshop, teaches attendees how to compute the cost of the service labor hour (burden rate) and improve overall service department profitability.

Workshop instructor Ronelle Ingram will cover first-call completion and proven management and customer service programs to improve morale within a service department. Those struggling with MPS and IT issues can learn new management skills to help transition their staffs to the realities of solutions-based servicing. This is a highly interactive, energetic classroom experience.

Attendees will learn:

• • How to determine the actual cost of a service hour; items to consider with costing MPS, CPC, document management, etc.; and vehicle operations

• • How to establish profitable "markup-method" pricing for prepaid field service, solution-based servicing and overtime

• • How to maintain a winning service team by creating competitive compensation plans

Attendees will take home: An Excel file that will enable them to calculate their own cost of the service hour (service burden rate); a workshop manual for reference; sample prepaid service agreements; service department worksheets and action plan templates; and cost/price spreadsheet templates (Excel) with formulas.

Ingram has 40-plus years of experience as a service professional in Southern California. She has served BTA for many years in many capacities: as an instructor at BTA-sponsored classes and trade shows, BTA’s 2008-09 national president, BTA West president, BTA Southern California president, BTA Volunteer of the Year and BTA Trainer of the Year.

BTA member tuition for the FIX: Cost Management for Service 2.0 workshop is $495. BTA members may apply their $150 or $250 educational discount promo code received with their membership toward the tuition fee. Non-member tuition is $925 and includes a one-year BTA dealer membership.

For more information or to register, visit www.bta.org/FIX or call (800) 843-5059.

Founded in 1926, the Business Technology Association serves office technology dealerships, resellers, manufacturers, distributors and service companies. Its core members — office technology dealerships — consult, sell and service hardware, software and supplies with the goal of helping businesses maximize their investment in devices and technology. Through the association's various educational programs, information, research, legal services, publications and guidance, BTA member dealerships are positioned to be the premier source of the office technology used by businesses throughout the United States every day. For more information on BTA, visit its Web site at www.bta.org.