Company History:
Founded: 2001 as SMG, Inc.
Company name changed in 2002
to Revenue Rocket Consulting
Founder: Mike Harvath Link to Bio (PDF)
What We Do? We are
the premier growth strategy firm for technology companies. We help with growth strategies and tactics. Marketing research services. We represent our clients as their agent in Merger
and Acquisition related activities.
Who We Do it For: IT Consulting and Services Firms Hardware and software companies
Revenue Rocket Buys Wire the Market, Inc.
Revenue Rocket CEO Mike Harvath announced today that the company purchased the research division and selected assets of the executive appointment setting divisions of Wire the Market, a Savage, MN based market intelligence firm specializing in the IT industry. Ryan Barnett, Vice President of Analyst Services at Wire the Market, will join Revenue Rocket in the same capacity.
According to Mike Harvath, "This acquisition will greatly enhance our ability to help our clients grow their IT services businesses by having access to timely and actionable industry, market and competitive information, insights and intelligence. The pace of change, the ongoing introduction of new technologies and the intense domestic and global competitive nature of this industry demands that we and our clients stay current with everything happening in the industry. This added value to our strategic arsenal will hellp us and our clients do just that." Harvath added, "By embedding Wire the Market's Executive Appointment Setting capability into our integrated set of sales, marketing and research solutions, we will position our clients for ideal revenue opportunities that have the highest likelihood of closing."
Did you know that system integrators and VARs seriously planning to move into services should be looking at deriving at least 50% of their revenues from this side of the business? Those that do are seeing gross margins of 35% and net margins of 10%.