FOUR NEW MAJOR LINES AT ARLENCO. The feedback from our effort to re-vitalize our branches in the Pacific Northwest has been tremendous. Sometimes we get tunnel-vision and forget about the things that we need to be doing better at each of our locations.
Continue reading “Four new MAJOR lines at Arlenco”It’s easy to secure your CCTV Network
Lately our industry has been inundated with news and misleading information regarding network security, and the ‘FACT’ that IP cameras aren’t secure. Article after article has claimed that all of our surveillance systems are compromised with secret ‘back-doors.’
Continue reading “It’s easy to secure your CCTV Network”Do I deny that these ‘back-doors’ exist? Not necessarily. But any professional who has installed surveillance systems since the early 90’s can say, “I know how to secure those systems.”
Arm Yourself Episode 13 – IP Training – The Basics – Coming your way
At the first of the year we’ll be launching a 4 episode training series: IP Technology, The Basics. It will be the first of many trainings that we’ll deploy this year using the Arm Yourself Podcast.
THIS TRAINING WILL BE FREE TO STREAM/WATCH ON YOUR OWN TIME.
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Arm Yourself Episode 11 – Pricing and Availability – Commercial Fire and Commercial Security. Napco GEMC and Firewolf
The two challenges we’re addressing relate to the Fire Alarm industry, and the Commercial Burg industries. In this episode we’ll talk a little about how other manufacturers have struggled getting products to us. We’ll also talk about price increases from some of the more prominent manufacturers in our industry.
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Arlenco ORBIT 3.0 – Launched
We know, we know. We talk a lot about our online purchasing platform, ORBIT. Version 3 is the largest and most significant release of ORBIT so far. We’ve put a lot of thought and work in to version 3. Our primary goal is to make ORBIT the “iTunes of distribution.”
With all of the manufacturers we purchase from, and with all of the products in our database (over 97,000), how can you ever find what your looking for?
We’ve created KITs, or examples of systems on ORBIT that give you an easy answer to the simple question: how do I find Cat5?
Our KITs are typical systems that you can browse (by pressing the more info button from any kit index page). Once you’ve landed on the kit information page, you can add ANY items from those kits directly to your cart. Even better, you can add an entire kit to your cart to get a discount on all the parts in the kit! If the kit fills your needs, get a discount on that order. To take it even another step further, you can increase the quantities of those kits from your cart page! In other words, you can increase the kit quantites (with discounted price) from your cart for big savings.
With version 3, we added these awesome features (and many more not included in this list):
- Saved Carts (accessible from the “My Accounts > Pending Carts” menu option).
- Customer Kits. When you build your own kit (add items to your cart, and then choose “Build My Kit”), we get an email and have the ability to give that Kit a discount! You automatically get an email telling you, you received a discount. We’re pretty “liberal” with customer – kit discounts, just sayin’.
- Branch pages. You’ll be able to see promos that are running at your branch! This page is the “My Arlenco” page.
- Order History. Browse your previous orders, and order from those orders!
- Arm Yourself Promos. Look for the Arm Yourself badge (under the On Sale option). These are limited time, special offers on Arm Yourself brands. What is an Arm Yourself brand? Simply put: brands that are easy to get, the highest quality, and brands whose sales-reps are the easiest to work with (for events, trainings, etc.). Brands that we love.
- Order from ANYpage. Previous orders, kit pages, promo pages, all have product lists. Just scroll down and look for the add to cart button!
- Purchase WITH credit card. Shop, purchase, and get shipping updates, right from within ORBIT! If you can’t make it in to the store, it’s VERY easy to “complete a purchase” on ORBIT 3.0.
See below for some screen-shots!
Don’t wait to register with ORBIT if you don’t already have an account. Register by clicking on the “Register” option at the top of the page.
Build your own kits, receive discounts!
Arm Yourself – Episode 9 – IP CCTV and How will UNV save me bandwidth?
Digital Video has completely changed within the last 25 years. In today’s episode Cameron discusses the nature of video surveillance, the primary differences between old video storage solutions, and today’s video storage solutions. HOW, for example, does UNV specify 1000 foot runs between video sources on an IP Video installation?
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Arm Yourself – Episode 8 – We’ve been busy
We’ve been away for a while, but trust us, it’ll be worth it! We’ve been busy developing ORBIT v.4. You may have noticed that we added some features to the site, but most of what we’ve been up to lives under the hood.
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We’ve been busy…
If you hadn’t noticed, we just launched Orbit v.4 .
There are too many feature built in to this powerful purchasing tool to highlight here, so we’ll just hit the high points. Our Favorite? Shopping for individual items by browsing ORBIT Kits. *Pricing shown in images doesn’t reflect actual pricing.
*With 97,000 [ish] products in our database, we think you’ll enjoy shopping right from our kits.
Continue reading “We’ve been busy…”Arm Yourself – Episode 2 – Meeting Supply Needs, and Pricing Increases – No bueno
Presented by Arlenco Distribution
In this Episode we discuss the challenges associated with getting access to products. We discuss difficulties with back-ordered products. We talk about products that don’t seem to have these issues in addition to some of the technological advantages of products like the Napco Gemini panels, the Alula Integrated Security platform, the Starlink communicators and the Universal Touch Panels that provide a portal to Napco’s iBridge platform.
Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3898-ice-flow
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Arm Yourself Showcase – 2020 – Date Announcement.
What to expect
The showcase is not a scheduled meal. Think of it as a “counter day on steroids.” We’ll have a refreshments bar and just the below 5 manufacturers who are prepared to talk about the challenges of today’s climate. Each, with products to feel and touch, and to understand.
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