Armando D'Accordo revamps business strategy
Quick ReadWhen an information-technology solutions provider lost some major clients. His solution was to diversify with smaller accounts.
Photo credit: Newsday/Audrey C. Tiernan | From left, Armando D’Accordo, president of CMIT Solutions, speaks with Larry Schweitzer, also of CMIT; Steve Sternlieb, a CPA on the board of directors of the Nassau/Suffolk Chapter of CPA Practitioners; and John DiBlasi of UBS Financial last month. (Jan. 25, 2012)
Armando D'Accordo could have never imagined that two of his largest clients would close their doors last year and a third would scale back its workload significantly.
Within a matter of months, D'Accordo, president of CMIT Solutions of South Nassau, a Merrick-based information technology services provider, lost about 25 percent of his revenue.
"It was a punch in the stomach," said D'Accordo,...
