Welcome to SMBITPros - make sure to sign up for our RSS feed!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 […]

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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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It is often said that one of the values of providing managed services to the small business market is the relationships that are built – you become the trusted advisor.
While I 110% agree with this I would suggest that providing technology solutions alone does not build this type of relationship. We could employ the smartest […]

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It seems like every time I pick up an industry journal or read a press release online it mentions somebody else providing managed services, but the managed services they are referring to don’t have anything to do with the managed services we provide at Everon.
For the sake of everyone that reads this blog, I figured […]

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It is interesting for me to read how Mike came to managed services because for me it was a very different experience. I have always been a service person that happens to be good with technology and at the time I met Mike I had just wrapped up being a one man shop charging my […]

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I figured a little history would be useful so everyone could know where I am coming from!
The idea for what is today known as Everon was first a glimmer in my eye back in 1999 or so. That seems like so long ago!
I had gone to work very briefly for the founders of what is […]

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It is amazing to me when I think back on our start, there was no industry called managed services – no one knew what […]

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