Alarm.Com And Alarmnet360

Hi Jay, we have been an Alarm.com dealer since 2010. I am almost certain that the Alarm.com platform works with most central stations if not all. They receive signals via GSM radios and relay the information to your choice of central station. In my opinoon they have the most complete platform in the industry. The dealer support is second to none and they are constantly moving forward with new features. They have and excellent customer referral program. You can now offer your customers even more options for a hands-free, digital assistant,  like google home or Alexa...

Although Alarm.com compatible with Dsc, Honeywell vista series GE interlogix panels, I think Qolsys is an exellent choice of panel for small residential with a ton of features that can make installation and troubleshooting  a breeze.

I may be wrong but I believe Alarm.com accounts can be linked together, however it may only be available on certain enterprise plans.

As for integration the one thing I like about DSC is the complete solution/integration you can have with the other tyco security products: kantech (access control) and exaqvision (surveillance). Being able to control the alarm, open/lock doors and view cameras on one app is a nice benefit. For nost other systems you will need expensive third party devices for integration.

We are about 70/30 commercial to residential. The features that I have found that are most in demand are the basic phone app controls, cell communication and ability to track open/close. Video verification is a nice touch but that requires another service (such as Iviewnow which is becoming mainstream at the big monitoring companies as well). Also most customers don't know what video verification is so it is only valuable once properly explained.

We are fortunate that most of our clients are word of mouth but we do use hyper targeted facebook adds to drive lead generation. Also we get a few calls every month from people finding us on google maps. I would caution you against lead generation services such as homeadvisor and yelp because they send a lot of garbage and end up costing way more than they are worth and usually have year long contracts that just adds insult to injury (never used either service myself but did the research last year then decided against it due to literally hundreds, if not thousands, of business owners who have been burned... and now am currently watching a friend of mine blow through $2000 on about 60 worthless leads).