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		<title>Why use professionally certified IT technicians?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[All Mountain Technologies&#160; has more professional certifications and professional channel partners than any of our competitors in our market here in Eagle County, Colorado (and surroundings areas).&#160; We have invested resources in&#160;our channel partners&#160;such as&#160;Microsoft, Dell, and Cisco so let&#8217;s briefly examine the benefits this effort confers&#160;on us for&#160;our customers vs. less qualified and less [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.allmtntech.com">All Mountain Technologies</a>&nbsp; has more professional certifications and professional channel partners than any of our competitors in our market here in Eagle County, Colorado (and surroundings areas).&nbsp; We have invested resources in&nbsp;our channel partners&nbsp;such as&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dell.com">Microsoft</a>, <a href="http://www.dell.com">Dell</a>, and <a href="http://www.cisco.com/">Cisco</a> so let&#8217;s briefly examine the benefits this effort confers&nbsp;on us for&nbsp;our customers vs. less qualified and less well staffed&nbsp;competitive alternatives.&nbsp;</p>
<p>First,&nbsp;AMT is <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/benefits/whyhire.mspx">professionally certified with all&nbsp;Microsoft offerings that are likely the IT cornerstones in your business</a> (MCSE, MCP, etc.).&nbsp; Second, AMT&nbsp;has a staff large enough to cover our clients 24/7/365 which doesn&#8217;t take vacations &#8211; someone will always be available to help.&nbsp; Our size and&nbsp;available resources allow us the freedom to invest in&nbsp;utilities to resolve and even proactively prevent IT issues that are cost-prohibitive to smaller companies.&nbsp; Third, we constantly&nbsp;work with our channel partners to educate and certify&nbsp;our technicians as new products are introduced in order to get our certifications current and so AMT can stay up to date.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.allmtntech.com">All Mountain Technologies</a>&nbsp;believes it is important to&nbsp;invest in&nbsp;this training and professionally certify our staff.&nbsp;&nbsp;Let&#8217;s look at one&nbsp;example: Cisco &#8211; one of the leading providers of routing, networking, and IP telephone equipment. All Mountain Technologies is a <a href="http://cisco.com/web/partners/pr11/pr8/partners_pgm_category_page.html">Cisco Certified&nbsp;Premier partner.</a>&nbsp; Our staff takes classes and receives training with regard to&nbsp;the exact software and hardware that we offer.&nbsp; Using our example, our certifications allow us to offer <a href="http://www.cisco.com/web/LA/microsites/smb/index.html">partner only Cisco resources</a>&nbsp;(such as <a href="https://www.cisco.com/authc/forms/CDClogin.fcc?TYPE=33619969&amp;REALMOID=06-59fc1640-c46c-104a-a635-83846dc9304d&amp;GUID=&amp;SMAUTHREASON=0&amp;METHOD=GET&amp;SMAGENTNAME=-SM-zjGKGqr62shoVBG6cNUdYNajdKPzmOFLa%2fZkeebT0%2bNV%2bEcoXFhv%2fvB8k65Cw%2f%2bx&amp;TARGET=-SM-http%3a%2f%2fwww%2ecisco%2ecom%2fcgi--bin%2flogin">superior levels of Cisco support inaccessible to non-partners</a>).&nbsp;</p>
<p>We believe that our customers are best served by technicians that are prepared, ready, and qualified to deal with your IT issues and&nbsp;that is what we try and provide.&nbsp; We have also partnered with IT&nbsp;industry leaders in these areas for that same reason.&nbsp; Those industry leading vendors recognize our commitment and will often give&nbsp;AMT significant &#8216;partner discounts&#8217; that we can in turn pass on to our current customers as well &#8211; they don&#8217;t want to see their expensive equipment being used improperly out there either!</p>
<p>We have seen instances of misdiagnosed issues or technicians who are unfamiliar with rapidly evolving and ever more complex IT equipment causing serious downtime and weeks of problems at some companies.&nbsp; In fact by coming in, diagnosing, and&nbsp;promptly resolving issues&nbsp;just like this we gained several of our current and more loyal clients!</p>
<p>So, do we charge more the guys working out of garages for our consulting services?&nbsp; Maybe&#8230; but if you had a need for a medical procedure &#8212; say ACL knee surgery &#8212; wouldn&#8217;t you expect to pay more to have a certified physician perform the procedure in&nbsp;an appropriate environment&nbsp;instead of a witch doctor?&nbsp; The answer is probably &quot;yes&quot; because then you would also expect standardized methodology and someone who has more than his or her word to prove competence in that field!&nbsp; You don&#8217;t want to find out after the fact you&#8217;ve bought the wrong equipment or your technician doesn&#8217;t have the IT knowledge that he should either.</p>
<p>No offense to witch doctors but that&#8217;s how&nbsp;we&nbsp;approach it with IT.</p>
<p>If keeping your business up and running&nbsp;really matters to you then&nbsp;professional certifications should matter too&nbsp;and you should give us a call at 970-748-8880 to see if we can help you with your IT needs.&nbsp; We can also be found on the web at <a href="http://www.allmtntech.com">http://www.allmtntech.com</a>.</p>
<p>&#8230;or you can keep relying on the witch doctor and hoping!&nbsp; Good luck <img src='http://blog.allmtntech.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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