For Immediate Release: April 30, 2009, Dallas, TX
ConsultantRegistry.Org announced today that the Owners and Managers voted unanimously to move the company incorporation to a 501(c)3 not for profit corporation. President Greg Bernardo states: “This helps us solidify that the intent of the organization is to provide support to the independent security and convergence consultants that are joining our organization. It is also our hope that this move will reaffirm our commitment and help provide more funds to our organization to do just that.”
ConsultantRegistry.Org was started February 10th, 2009 and has grown to over 160 members as of today. The organization is funded entirely from member dues, advertising and sponsorship support to market and provide tools with collaborative support to their membership in the Security, IT, and Communications marketplace. Their website is www.consultantregistry.org
Last week ConsultantRegistry.Org achieved a major hurtle by breaking the 100 member mark. This week we achieved 135 members and a long list of new developments on our members site. Read the full article to learn all that has happened and what is next.
What we’ve added this week is:
- New Mobile Version for CRO News Blog – Point your iPhones at blog.consultantregistry.org
- Member’s Blog Added – Certified Consultants and Association Directors can moderate thier own blog on the inside of the site. All members can comment & post.
- Similar to our adopting an open source platform for the CRO News Blog, CRO has also this week adopted an open source forum which was integrated into the site Wednesday. There will be some additional tweaking to fully integrate the look and feel but it is substantially complete.
- Confirmed Consultants were polled to validate our initial grading scheme for the ConsultantReady Report. We in process of evaluating security vendors against the modified criteria to deliver our complete report in early May.
- All membership types were confirmed this week for members who signed up to take advantage of open enrollment. Free Open Enrollment continues until May 1st.
Additional Features Coming Soon
- Official First Release of ConsultantReady Report (Preliminary snapshot shown last month)
- ConsultantRegistry.Org Store
- More Project listings for our Consultant Members
- New “Widgets” Customizable User Interface (you select what and where everything is displayed on your home screen)
- Improved Consultants Search – Currently the Consultants Search screen allows you to differentiate between consultants and non-consultants, very soon you will be able to do granular searches by all member types.
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ConsultantRegistry.Org News is now configured for the iPhone and other Mobile Phones. While portions of the ConsultantRegistry.Org site are proprietary by design, we have tried to use as many open source components as possible.
The CRO News blog is built on the hugely successful WordPress platform which offers advanced features like support for both desktop and mobile phone viewing.
Keep an eye on ConsultantRegistry.Org News for additional upgrades and developments coming soon.
ConsultantRegistry.Org News is a resource found on the ConsultantRegistry.Org website serving independant consultants in the converging industries of Security, IT & Communications.
ConsultantRegistry.Org, an organization supporting independent consultants in the converging Security, IT & Communications industries, has reached 100 members today. The organization was started February 10th 2009 to promote collaboration between independent consultants. The rapid growth can be attributed to open enrollment ending May 1st and the organization’s ConsultantReady™ initiative.
This achievement is substantial since the organization is only two months old. The idea for CRO came together when the principals’ security consulting firm needed to collaborate on a large nationwide project and had a hard time finding consultants with complimentary skill sets in a short period of time.
With 100 subject matter experts located across the United States, ConsultantRegistry.Org now has a substantial resource pool which the organization can begin to offer to Project Holders.
ConsultantRegistry.Org is back from a busy week at the ISC West trade show in Las Vegas promoting the organization to vendors. The intent of our trip was to generate awareness about CRO and to start generating advertising revenue for future CRO projects (until now CRO has been entirely funded by its principals). In short the trip was a huge success!
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95% of Security Product Vendors Miss the Consultant Target
Under a recent study performed by ConsultantRegistry.Org, 95% of security product vendors completely miss the consultant target.
Bid projects make up greater than 75% of large systems sales. Subject matter expert, systems architect, engineer, specifier, technology consultant…. It doesn’t matter what you call them, they all influence the system technologies that go into these bid projects.
As security product vendors develop their marketing plans and build their sales pitches, most of them completely miss one of the most important decision makers; the consultant.
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For immediate release, ConsultantRegistry.Org (CRO) has selected Dallas, TX based private investigative firm Walnut Investigations to process Certified Consultant applications. Walnut Investigations has provided a custom program to qualify for this contract. Walnut developed an internal process which built on existing processes for the collection and processing of personal and confidential information to maintain a high level of security and housing of personal data of our members.
CRO Intends to offer Certified Consultant Memberships later this year to assist independant consultants looking to collaborate. Certified Members will be vetted through a background check and confirmation of references.
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ConsultantRegistry.Org has officially launched its affiliate program. The affiliate program is designed to find organizational sponsors with a collaborative effort in mind. The affiliates that we seek offer a unique service or benefit to the CRO membership. Some of the affiliate types that the organization is looking for would provide education, substantial discounts, or special access to their products and services.
CRO President and spokesman Greg Bernardo states: We are looking for companies that provide a true value-add to our members in areas of educational services, webinars, discounts, or unique services. We believe that our members have alot to offer, and conversely there are sponsors out there that can do the same for our members. It brings home the true focus and intent of our organization as a collaborative environment that benefits all of the participants.
One of the first affiliates to advertize on the site and see the enormous benefit of the affiliate program is SecurePro Software, Inc. which offers a supporting software product to Consulting experts conducting Site Vulnerability Assessments and Regulatory Compliance Reports. Consultant Registry is looking for additional value-add companies to collaborate with their members site and support the efforts of the organization through advertizing, education and other medium. For more information contact [email protected]
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