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Vince Tinnirello, CEO of Anchor Network Solutions, Inc. has been voted one of the top 150 worldwide SMB IT channel influencers.

Lone Tree, CO – March 21, 2013 – Over the past several months, hundreds of IT professionals from around the world have been engaged in the SMB 150 Channel Influencers contest. The SMB 150, which is a collaboration between SMB Nation and SMB Technology Network, is the SMB technology channel’s annual list of its 150 most influential members.

On Friday, March 8, 2013, Vince Tinnirello, CEO of Anchor Network Solutions, was named to the SMB 150 Channel Influencers List. Tinnirello joins a group of esteemed colleagues who were chosen during a two-phase voting process. In the initial stage, channel community members voted on 450 nominees at SMB150.com. Following the community vote, a panel of industry experts consisting of Harry Brelsford, (SMB Nation); Karl Palachuk, (Great Little Book Publishing Co., Inc.); Josh Peterson, (MSP Score); Dave Seibert, (IT Innovators); and Dan Wensley, (Level Platforms), evaluated each nominee based on a pre-established rubric. The community vote accounted for 40% of each nominee’s overall rating, with the expert panel’s decision contributing the remaining 60%.

“I’m thrilled to be in the company of such well-respected professionals. Building Anchor has been very challenging and rewarding. I’m thankful to my colleagues, partners, and clients for recognizing the success of Anchor along with everyone involved with making it what it is today,” said Tinnirello. “I’ve enjoyed learning from colleagues and peers over the years and have been working to pay it forward and share what I’ve learned with others in our community.”

Tinnirello and his/her fellow SMB 150 influencers are invited to attend the SMB 150 Awards Gala on May 4, 2013, during SMB Nation’s Spring Conference at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, WA. The event is hosted by SMB Nation and SMB Technology Network and sponsored by BlackBerry. Each SMB 150 winner will receive a personalized award plaque, recognition in the SMB Nation magazine and other media outlets, and a new BlackBerry Z10 device.

“I encourage everyone in the SMB channel community to join with me in recognizing and celebrating the winners of this year’s SMB 150,” said Harry Brelsford, Founder and Chairman, SMB Nation. “Each individual whose name appears on this esteemed list has strived to ensure that our SMB community is one that will continue to thrive and succeed. I am beyond excited to toast them at the awards dinner on May 4 in Redmond.”

About Anchor Network Solutions

Anchor Network Solutions is a Lone Tree, CO based technology consulting firm that provides managed IT services and CTO level consulting to small business clients in the Denver Metro area.

About SMB Nation

SMB Nation is a media integration and events community, targeted at the small and medium business (SMB) channel partner/reseller/consulting/VAR community. SMB Nation spreads the knowledge of SMB technology trends through its conferences, books, print magazine, online services, and worldwide seminars and workshops. As an active participant in the technology community, SMB Nation has a long history of enthusiastic advocacy and evangelism. The SMB Nation tribe exceeds 54,000 followers worldwide. For more information, visit www.SMBNation.com, www.CloudNation.co and www.Telephonation.com.

If there is one single thing that makes Anchor Network Solutions great, it’s the amazing team of employees we have. Everyone on the team is instrumental to the company’s success and we want to take time to recognize them and help you get to know them better. So let’s kick off this month by sharing more about Help Desk Engineer, Mike Stewart.

Mike reports to Jacee Dobbs, our Help Desk Manager and Jacee had this to say about Mike:

“In a very short time, Anchor has already began to reap the benefits of having Mike on our team. He is level headed, calm, and possesses a drive to learn and improve. Mike has worked on several projects with Michael McFarland with great success and is quickly becoming well versed in server and network troubleshooting. His personality makes him a great candidate to work with those people who need a bit more reassuring and patience, which is a must in our industry! We are excited to see what the future holds for Mike and have big plans for him with Anchor.”

Want to know more about Mike? Read on!

Q. What do you do at Anchor?

MS: I am a Help Desk Engineer.

Q. Is there a specific project or projects that you have worked on recently that you are most proud of?

MS: The Project I’ve been most proud of is the Client Onboarding and Network Documentation of Christ Lutheran Church. It has given me the opportunity to meet the new clients and personally make a good impression of who Anchor is and the quality of service that we stand for.

Q. Specific clients that you have enjoyed working with?

MS: All of our clients are a pleasure to work with. One client that sticks out is Rocky Mountain Youth Clinics. I got to spend some time at the Aurora office and all the ladies there were a pleasure to work with. Plus what they do is simply amazing.

Q. What do you feel is your “power move” within the company?

MS: My calming personality. I can take a stressful situation and make it easy going. I have a calming effect on the people around me and I can turn their problems into solutions.

Q. What are your hobbies?

MS: I enjoy bowling and golfing, I also love to figure things out by taking them apart. I wasn’t always able to put them back together but I’ve gotten much better over time.

Q. What is the last concert you saw?

MS: The last concert I saw was Nickelback, and Papa Roach. It was awesome!

Q. What is the last movie you saw?

MS: I go to movies at least once a week. I just saw “The Cabin in the Woods”

Q. If you were stranded on a deserted island, what is the one food you could not live without?

MS: SUSHI!

Q. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?

MS: Ireland. I have Irish in my blood and I always wanted to go to Ireland.

Q. If Hollywood made a movie about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role as you?

MS: Jason Segel. He is very funny just like me.

Q. Favorite sports team and/or athlete?

MS: The Dallas Cowboys, since I was nine years old!

Q. If you could have three wishes, what would they be?

MS: 10 Billion Dollars. That my friends and family live a long healthy life. For 100 more wishes to use when I need them.

Q. What have you not done that you really want to do?

MS: I would love to Skydive.

Q. What is the wallpaper on your cell phone?

MS: Assassins Creed Brotherhood. It’s a video game.

Q. What can you do that most people cannot?

MS: When I bowl my ball curves.

Q. What is the last book you read?

MS: I don’t read much but I just finished the Hunger Games

Q. How would you describe yourself in three words?

MS: Calm, Caring. Trustful.

Q. Anything else we should know about you?

MS: My son Michael Edward Stewart JR was born on April 18th 2012 at 7:26pm. He weighed 5 pounds, 13 oz and was 18.5 inches long. Michael is our first child. Our parents are over the moon especially Rosa’s mom because this is her first grandchild. Michael is my parents 6th grandchild although he is their first grandson.

Congratulations to Mike and Rosa and thank you Mike, for all your hard work on our Help Desk team. We are very happy to have you as part of the Anchor family.

Each month Anchor Network Solutions will spotlight one of their many unique clients that look to us to manage their IT needs.

We will highlight best business practices, the challenges they face and why their relationship with Anchor is crucial in the running of their day-to-day business. We then give each client an opportunity to ask Anchor a question. It may be technical, personal or out in left field.

Read on to find out more!

Up this month: Metro West Housing Solutions.

Located at 575 Union Blvd, Suite 100 Lakewood, CO 80228, Metro West Housing Solutions is a non-profit property developer, manager, and human services provider. Metro West Housing Solutions’ staff of 54 owns and manages apartments in Lakewood and Denver, provides Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers to eligible Lakewood residents, and facilitates a wide range of human services for clients.

We thank Kim Buehler, Chief Administrative Officer of Metro West Housing Solutions for her responses to the following questions:

Q. What brought you to your current role with Metro West Housing Solutions?

KB: After 20 years of managing human services for the City of Lakewood, the Housing Authority made the decision to become a stand-alone agency and no longer under the umbrella of the City of Lakewood. Metro West Housing Solutions needed someone to handle the administrative functions including employee relations, payroll, risk management, purchasing, etc. and the Executive Director asked me to make the move to the “new” agency. I said yes and the rest of is history.

Q. What are some of the daily business challenges you face?

KB: Every day is new and interesting. We are never sure when a client will call with a concern, a resource we have never encountered is needed, a personnel issue may arise or there’s a hail storm and we have to figure out how to quickly replace 10 roofs damaged by the storm. The challenges keep our jobs interesting and allow each of us to creatively solve problems and grow with each decision that is made.

Q. What service do you provide that no other organization provides? (i.e. what makes your organization unique?)

KB: Metro West Housing Solutions is unique in our culture and quality customer service. There are many other Housing Authorities, but we take pride in our quality staff, values, and ability to provide quality housing to those we serve. Metro West Housing Solutions is “more than a roof”.

Q. What’s a success story for Metro West Housing Solutions?

KB: Our success is built around our clients. By assisting families with housing, they are able to maintain jobs, better provide for their families and further they education. As they do these things, they are able to move off housing assistance and become self-sufficient and contributing members of our community. Many of our activities, from development, educating staff and clients on being green, providing resident services and managing affordable housing provide members of our community with the tools they need to transform their lives.

Q. What do you do when you aren’t working?

KB: With two kids in college, it seems that we are always on the road to watch a performance or deliver something needed or forgotten at home. It’s nice that both kids chose colleges close enough to home that it allows us to do these things. Otherwise, I’m still a volunteer for Girl Scouts, coaching and mentoring young ladies through their Gold Awards, the highest award in Girl Scouts.

Q. Metro West Housing Solutions have been using Anchor’s services since 2009. Why is the relationship crucial in the running of your day-to-day business?

KB: Anchor manages the IT for our agency. Anchor is crucial to our business because so much of what we do is through technology. The knowledge that our server is taken care of and running efficiently saves me from worrying about whether or not we are able to do business. The best part is the relationship. Anchor knows our business needs and proactively addresses them. The staff at Anchor also know us as individuals. With Anchor, it’s not a business relationship, but rather a personal relationship that they work hard to maintain.

To learn more about Kim and Metro West Housing Solutions, please contact
303-987-7808 or visit, mwhsolutions.com

Last month, Vince Tinnirello of Anchor Network Solutions spoke with Action Coach Susan Roberts on her ESPN’s radio show Coaching Not Just For Sports. In the interview, Vince explains the techniques he uses to keep moral high and staff turnover rates low.

How would you characterize your organization? What are its principal values? What’s your secret to good business culture? Email your response to Anchor Network Solutions at newsletter@networksolution.com for a chance to win a $50 gift card and have “Your Secret To Good Business Culture” highlighted in next month’s newsletter.

You can listen to the interview HERE or download the podcast HERE

Each month Anchor Network Solutions will spotlight one of their many unique clients that look to us to manage their IT needs.

We will highlight best business practices, the challenges they face and why their relationship with Anchor is crucial in the running of their day-to-day business. We then give each client an opportunity to ask Anchor a question.  It may be technical, personal or out in left field.

Read on to find out more!

First Up: AmCheck Payroll Services

Located at 3401 Quebec Street #8000, Denver, CO 80207, AmCheck provides employers with a comprehensive single source for Payroll Services, Human Resources Management, Benefit Procurement and Administration Services along with Worker’s Comp Insurance.

We thank Jim Gosselin, Managing Partner of Amcheck Payroll Services for his responses to the following questions:

Q. What brought you to your current role with AmCheck Payroll Services?

JG: It was blind luck.  I met Dean and Brad, our founding partners through a friend.  I had some money that I was either going to cash out and travel, or I was going to invest it in doing something for myself after a career in corporate America.  The investment paid off…

Q. What are some of the daily business challenges you face?

JG: Well, thanks to Anchor, IT is NOT one of them!  We don’t have many daily challenges after 12 years in business.  We try to create an exceptional client interaction in everything we do.  This is something we have worked very hard on over the past few years, and is something we continue to work on daily.  We try to keep things fun and interesting for our staff.  Great communication is something that can be a daily challenge but is mandatory.

Q. As a leading provider of payroll services, what makes AmCheck stand out from the rest of the competition?

JG: Straight from our marketing material…Customization – Convenience – Customer Service.  We customize our service offering with the specific needs of each of our clients.  We have a menu of services that clients can pick and choose from for where they need help.  We try to re-create as little as possible and will work with clients in their format vs. trying to mold them to ours.  It has to be convenient for clients.  I touched on it in the previous question but customer service is everything!  Especially, when we are dealing with people’s money handling payroll and taxes.  With something as important as this, client’s need to know they can count on someone.  We have dedicated customer service people and clients are not just another number in our company.  We get to know our clients and anticipate their needs.  We try to be a partner for them and not just a vendor.

Q. What’s an ideal client for AmCheck?

JG: An ideal client is someone that packages multiple services with us.  We focus on businesses with 25-500 employees but, we will also handle smaller business as well and payroll only if that’s what makes sense for the client.  We want to show clients other alternatives to outsourcing, and how we can streamline their Human Resources and the administrative burden of having employees.

Q. What do you do when you aren’t working?

JG: My wife and 2 kids keep me pretty busy.  Just like most Coloradans I chose to live in Denver because there is so much to do.  I love to catch just about any sporting event with friends.  I Golf, Snowboard, Wakeboard and enjoy lots of other activities with my family.

Q. AmCheck has been using Anchor’s services for more than 8 years now, why is the relationship crucial in the running of your day-to-day business?

JG: Because IT services are probably one of the most important aspects of our business.  It is also important to us, to do business with people who share the same business philosophies as we do.  Anchor gets it.  We expect a very high level of service and demand that our vendors think about the things that we do not.  We have done a couple of office moves, server upgrades and constant improvement to our software, backups, and a whole bunch of other stuff I won’t pretend to understand.  Any time we have ever done anything IT related it goes off without issues.  Anchor is very methodical about pre-planning and ensuring potential issues are considered.  They are very good about keeping us up to date with latest trends and things we should be doing to stay current.  IT is one of the things I worry least about in our business.  This is due to our confidence in Anchor and the ongoing service they provide.

Q. Now it’s your turn to ask Anchor a question:

JG: Seriously, how many ski days does Vince have this season?

VT:

To learn more about how Jim and the AmCheck team can help your business, please contact 303.756.5200 or visit, AmCheck.com

If there is one single thing that makes Anchor Network Solutions great, it’s the amazing team of employees we have. Everyone on the team is instrumental to the company’s success and we want to take time to recognize them and help you get to know them better.  So let’s kick off this month by sharing more about Help Desk Engineer, Stephanie Norton.

Stephanie reports to Jacee Dobbs, our Help Desk Manager and Jacee had this to say about Stephanie:

“When Michael and I interviewed Stephanie, we knew instantly she would be a great asset to our team at Anchor.  Our thoughts have not changed since that day.  Stephanie brings a willingness to dive into issues and a fresh perspective to the group.  I know I can depend on her to handle both the customer service side of her job as well as the technical.  Stephanie recently worked on a server migration project handling all desktop and user related issues and adjustments.  She received praise after praise for her dedication and patience as she worked with varying types of personalities through the changes.  I am excited to have Stephanie as part of our Help Desk team and ready to see what the future has for her”!

Want to know more about Stephanie?   Read on!

Q. What do you do at Anchor?

SN: I am a Help Desk Engineer.

Q. Is there a specific project or projects that you have worked on recently that you are most proud of?

SN: Metro West Housing Solutions and Oxford Mortgage.  Metro West Housing Solutions involved bringing on board all of the computer labs at their property locations, while Oxford Mortgage included a complete server migration.

Q. Specific clients that you have enjoyed working with?

SN: I enjoy working with most clients. Everyone is pleasant when you’re there to help.

Q. What do you feel is your “power move” within the company?

SN: I’m a fast learner and plan to further my education as much as possible.

Q. What are your hobbies?

SN: Snowboarding, Snowshoeing, Camping, Hiking and Video games.

Q. What is the last concert you saw?

SN: RAIN.

Q. What car do you drive?

SN: I drive a Toyota RAV4, but would prefer a 4Runner.

Q. What is the last movie you saw?

SN: Lost Boys.

Q. If you were stranded on a deserted island, what is the one food you could not live without?

SN: Cheese!

Q. What’s your favorite color?

SN: Purple!!

Q. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?

SN: Colorado! Everything I love to do is here!

Q. Any animals living at home?

SN: I have a black lab, 2 bengals and a veiled chameleon

Q. If you could have three wishes, what would they be?

SN: Cure for Diabetes, More snow, and …. IDK

Q. What have you not done that you really want to do?

SN: Skydiving – That’s in one month.

Q. What is the wallpaper on your cell phone?

SN: My son CJ – He’s 6.

Q. What is the last book you read?

SN: Requiem of the Sun by Elizabeth Haydon.

Q. How would you describe yourself in three words?

SN: Happy, optimistic, and vertically challenged.

Thank you Stephanie, for all your hard work on our Help Desk team.  We are very happy to have you as part of the Anchor family.

Vince Tinnirello of Anchor Network Solutions, Inc. has been named as the ActionCOACH “Client of the Year”. His willingness to embrace and implement strategic ideas and change has always been at a tenfold level. Vince spent time planning, strategizing and ultimately taking his business to new heights this year. He added to his role of successful business owner and became a master entrepreneur.

The remarkable performance of Vince did not come easy. At the beginning of 2011, he made a conscious decision to commit himself for one year to attach the areas that he felt were holding his business back from greater success than he already enjoyed. With this came a substantial investment in a new identity campaign, outreach marketing, and a defined sales process. Vince never took his “eye off the ball” of customer service and he has the client retention rates to prove it. Anchor clients are RAVING FANS!!

Vince maintains the ActionCOACH vision of a healthy balance of work and life. He takes time off to ski, golf, travel, climb fourteeners, and spend quality time with his family while attending conferences to learn more about his business. Vince has been asked by his peers to speak at conferences this year, to share his vision and and influence others.

Vince’s thirst for knowledge and his willingness to step outside of his comfort zone to grow his business has led him to tremendous success. Vince Tinnirello was named to the Industry “SMB 150″ and “MSPMentor 250″ Lists.

At Anchor we want to be your one stop shop for all of your technology needs. With the convergence of telecom into the IT world, we’ve started to offer these services to our clients as a value add. Unhappy with your current Internet Service Provider (ISP)? Anchor can help you find another provider with services better suited to your needs. Interested in using Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone services? We can help with that too.

And if the project is outside of our scope or comfort zone, we’ll introduce a partner to help get the job done right for you. Let us know how we can help with your telecom needs today!

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