Tag: John Campau
Comtronics switches monitored accounts to NMC
November 14, 2016Spencer Ives
JACKSON, Mich.—Earlier this year, Comtronics decided to move its monitored accounts to National Monitoring Center, based in Lake Forest, Calif. Previously, Comtronics operated its own UL-listed, CSAA Five Diamond central station for the past 48 years.
“The industry's just moving so fast—I think you're going to see more and more alarm companies make the decision we have � just because it's harder to do it all and do it all great,” John Campau, Comtronics'...
Comtronics goes retail with alarm sales
November 13, 2013Martha Entwistle
JACKSON, Mich.—Comtronics is the latest security company to take alarm sales retail. In the first quarter of 2014, it will begin selling residential alarm systems through a Verizon retail store that the company owns.“We're pioneering an initiative to sell alarms out of our Verizon retail store,” John Campau, Comtronics CEO, told Security Systems News. The full-service security company has a separate cellular division—it owns a Verizon retail store—here in Jackson, Michigan.Campau...
Comtronics increases revenues 23 percent with KPIs
November 13, 2013Martha Entwistle
LOS ANGELES—Comtronics CEO John Campau is a KPI evangelist these days. One year after tying employee compensation to a number of “key performance indicators” the $21 million full-service security company saw revenues increase by 23 percent.“KPIs are awesome, guys,” Campau, a Honeywell CSS dealer, said to a group of colleagues during an educational session at Honeywell's CONNECT 2013 dealer event, which took place here Nov. 8-10.In addition to the 23 percent jump in revenues...