  Events

Annual Owners’ Meeting - Each spring, the owners of member companies meet for a few days at attractive locations around the country to compare financials, hear from industry experts, and share recent challenges and successes. A highlight of each meeting is Michael Barnes’ State of the Industry presentation. Others in the industry pay big bucks to hear Michael’s insights at the prestigious Barnes Buchanan conference each year. ESTA members get to experience Michael up close and personal! One of the Barnes Associates financial analysts also attend our Owners’ Meetings to lead the discussion on the members’ financial benchmarking results. How much would you pay to have the preeminent financial experts in our industry personally analyze your financial performance and compare it to other industry averages? ESTA members receive this powerful and priceless service every year!

Add in presentations from industry leading attorneys, leadership experts, and other members, mixed with fun in the sun and recreational bonding with industry friends, and you get an experience that will be a highlight of your year!

Annual Operations Meeting - Each fall Operations Managers, Sales Managers, and other key staff members gather for two days to discuss the challenges they face in the daily operations of their companies. How do you schedule your techs efficiently? How do you handle your on-call support? What type of service vehicle works best? It is a perfect venue to ask questions, brainstorming solutions, and improve operations. The power of the group is priceless as they bring back new ideas to implement in their respective operations!

  Purchasing Program

Your ESTA membership can be free! Through our partnerships with ADI, Wesco/Anixter Distributing, and DMP, ESTA members receive rebate credits toward your ESTA dues for purchases made from our partners. Many of our members purchase enough products to completely offset their membership dues. Imagine receiving the HUGE value of ESTA membership all for FREE!

  Member Email Distribution Group

Members have access to the collective knowledge and wisdom of other members via our Members-Only email distribution lists. You can pose questions to the other owners, and your operations people can pose questions to the ops experts at the other member companies. Facing a new challenge? Chances are someone else in the group has already faced it and conquered it. Post your question. Receive your responses and recommendations. Problem solved!

  Relationships

Success in any marketplace is based on relationships, and the security industry is no exception. The relationships, friendships and personal networks built among ESTA members not only make the meetings more enjoyable but provide a scaffold upon which you can build your personal success. It won’t take long before you realize the ESTA members aren’t just business associates, they are friends… no, they are family!