About Us
Thank you for your interest in who we are.
Hello, my name is Brad Barton.
In 1996 I pioneered online software sales when I started Speedy Software (speedysoftware.com), which was basically an early version of an e-commerce web site. This online software portal grew to include computer hardware and local on-site service, as well as early versions of online technical certification training. With a bit of an expanded business plan, Speedy Software became My Tech Guru (mytechguru.com) in August of 2001.
Around the middle of 2002, My Tech Guru began to specialize in office printers, in addition to our normal network, server, and data center equipment service. I eventually sold SpeedySoftware.com in 2004 and we proceeded solely under the My Tech Guru banner. As I continued to expand our service offerings I saw a need for affordable, high quality technical services, so I created and implemented my own set of standards, and developed cutting-edge technical training that allowed for rapid learning and technical proficiency. In 2004 I packaged our training developments and began providing cost effective technical training to businesses, educational institutions, government facilities, and individual technicians.
My Tech Guru has provided outsourced technical services for a variety of clients such as Sprint, Verizon, Siemens, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Quest, Kohl's, Grainger, The Social Security Administration, Office Depot, and global service providers such as Logical Maintenance Solutions, and Image One, to name a few. In 2005 I opened Printer Coach (printercoach.com) to train technicians to work on office printers. I also created a DVD training program that year for Printer Coach and a couple years later a digital downloadable version. This DVD and digital version training turned out to be an incredibly successful format. Feel free to visit the Printer Coach web site to get a feel for a handful of the customers I was able to help with their training.
So, I am basically a sales oriented hardware guy that studied offline and online marketing as a way to help build my own businesses.
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Dell Certified
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Lexmark Certified
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Site Steering began in 2007. My original concept for the name was to create services that helped customers "steer" traffic to their "site." We have stayed true to that goal. The site was initially created to offer assorted SEO (search engine optimization) services, but soon morphed into a local search video advertising portal to capture local search leads. Shortly after, I created SiteSteering.net to host the email autoresponders that I had originally set up for the local search clients and the My Tech Guru and Printer Coach businesses. I opened it up for retail clients a couple years later. Our mail server is and has been blacklist free, and we immediately stomp out potential spammers.
As of January 2016, the original email only autoresponder business was shut down and those clients moved over to the new Prospect Power Pro platform that you see here at Site Steering. Although a longer story for a different time, I built my My Tech Guru business using many of the techniques available with Prospect Power Pro, but I had to use three different platforms to do it. And that's why I created it.
During the 1980's and early 90's I worked in sales management, and provided sales training for corporate America. During that time, I trained thousands of sales people from coast to coast.