Arm Yourself Podcast - Presented by Arlenco Distribution

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. Our goal is to educate all of our … Continue reading "Arm Yourself Episode 13 – IP Training – The Basics – Coming your way"

SimpliSafe, Ring, and all of the DIY systems are severely lacking [to say the least] when it comes to REAL and complete solutions for security, automation, and surveillance. Sure, they integrate relatively seamlessly with the ever growing Amazon-supporting brands, but they fall short in so many ways. That said, the offering can actually do damage … Continue reading "Arm Yourself Episode 12 – Napco’s answer to Ring and SimpliSafe"

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. Show Sponsors: Today’s show is brought … Continue reading "Arm Yourself Episode 11 – Pricing and Availability – Commercial Fire and Commercial Security. Napco GEMC and Firewolf"

Things have become tricky with all of the price increases and manufacturing anomalies that seem to have plagued the Honeywell fire lines (Silent Knight, System Sensor, and Fire Lite). Our own price lists saw almost 30% increases accross the board for all Honeywell-fire parts! This is incredible! We don’t mean to brag, but the great … Continue reading "Arm Yourself – Episode 10 – Fire Systems, Simplified"

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? This episode provides a basic … Continue reading "Arm Yourself – Episode 9 – IP CCTV and How will UNV save me bandwidth?"

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. In this episode, Cameron covers three of the new features built in … Continue reading "Arm Yourself – Episode 8 – We’ve been busy"

We had the privilege of having Jeff and Dallan come to our store to talk about the genesis of PDK, pdkio, and PDK’s sales philosophy when it comes to integration and it’s customers. In this episode you meet the men behind the product. We learned that PDK care very much for it’s dealer base (installers, … Continue reading "Arm Yourself – Episode 7 – PDK, or ProDataKey. Discussing pdkio, the Genesis of PDK, and PDK’s philosophy when dealing with Integrators. An interview with Jeff Perry (COO) and Dallan Labrum (Director of Sales) from PDK about their revolutionary Access Control System."

In this episode we talk about Arlenco CONNECT and Arlenco ORBIT. We also talk about a brand that we had omitted from the original Arm Yourself brands, PDK or ProDataKey Cloud Access Control Systems. A basic overview of Arlenco CONNECT and how it utilizes inbound marketing to stoke business for our customers, and outbound marketing … Continue reading "Arm Yourself – Episode 6 – Arlenco CONNECT – a background, Arlenco ORBIT – an overview, and a NEW Brand added to the Arm Yourself showcase."

In this episode, we summarize all of the brands that are included in the Arm Yourself Showcase, presented by Arlenco Distribution. We take a bird’s-eye-view of the problems confronting the Low Voltage industry including: Fire Alarm, Security Systems, Access Control Systems, CCTV Systems, and Cabling Solutions. More problems with Product availability from manufacturers relocating plants, … Continue reading "Arm Yourself – Episode 5 – What is the Arm Yourself Showcase? How, specifically can Arlenco help me face today’s industry challenges? Arm Yourself Brand Summary. SOLVED."

In this episode, we cover the price increases everybody is confronted with when they call to order “that panel they’ve been installing for years.” Why has the pricing increased so dramatically? Why is it so difficult to get “that panel they’ve been installing for years.” Digital phones have affected alarm transmission – addressed here. POTTER … Continue reading "Arm Yourself – Episode 4 – Pricing increases? Tariffs in today’s world of Fire Alarm (and security) and digital communicator issues. SOLVED"