I’ve seen it time and time again over the last few years: a hungry entrepreneur likes what he hears about the managed services business and decides to give it a shot.  He invests in some tools, posts some flat fee pricing up on his website, and waits for the money to roll in.
But the money [...]

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This is a CRN article from the Dell-Silverback conference a week and a half ago but I thought the timing was good to post the link. I am curious what others think of Dell’s moves into the SMB MSP space?
http://www.crn.com/article/printableArticle.jhtml?articleId=205900650
I personally don’t think they have an understanding of the market or what a sub 100 [...]

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As I was thinking about having not posted last night, because it was Friday and I wanted to go out, it got me thinking about how nice it is to run a business that is not dependent on billing my time.
When many IT providers first start their hourly business they are enamored by the idea [...]

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Larry Shulman of LMS Technical Services in New York wrote what I thought was a great article in his recent e-newsletter.  I’ve pasted it in its entirety into this post below my notes.
I couldn’t agree more with Larry and Nicholas Carr, the author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google and Does [...]

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As I started thinking of the posts to write for this blog, I thought of all kinds of tips, tricks, and other things I have learned over the years at Everon.  If I had to start all over again, it would of course be very nice to have all of that knowledge from the beginning!
I’ve [...]

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