Since selling his Managed Service Provider business, Richard has helped dozens of MSPs to grow their own companies. He works with the owners of IT businesses to help them free up their time, concentrate on doing what is important and making more money. In his interactive presentations, Richard offers some practical advice on how he would run a great MSP today — including his tips for selling MSP services. Richard has a great book called...
Today’s guest is Mr. Tim Taylor, author of How to Start and Run a Successful I.T. Company – Without Using your Shirt, available on Amazon, Amazon Kindle, and Audible. Tim is from Memphis, TN. He has always worked in the IT field. When he was 40, he started his own practice out of the trunk of his car. Today, he runs a multi-million dollar practice in Florida and employs over 15 people. Tim Taylor Tim likes to help people...
After a 20 year career as a commercial general contractor and 25 years as a small business consultant and IT provider, Bob Nitrio made two major decisions. The first was to move from California to Arizona for family purposes. The second was to move way from managed services and concentrate on his partnership with a software developer who had some amazing ideas for how mobile phones could be used by businesses and organizations. Bob...
I caught up with Terry Hedden from Marketopia for this podcast. Normally, I see Terry on the road, but we’re going to miss each other for the next few months. AND he’s got a big sales coaching event coming up while I’m down in Australia. So, it was good to catch up on the podcast. Terry started out as an IT service provider. He built and sold a 49 person MSP in 6 years. Now he runs Marketopia, the largest demand...
Jay McBain is Forrester’s Principal Analyst, Channels, Partnership, and Alliances. He’s always fun to talk to. And get ready to listen to this one two or three times. Jay drops numbers all the time. So go get a pencil before you hit “play.” You can connect with Jay at: https://go.forrester.com/blogs/author/jay_mcbain/ Jay is one of the most visible thought leaders in the global technology channel. He...
Peter Melby is the CEO of Greystone Technology, a globally recognized MSP. He has lead record-breaking growth by reshaping how a technology-first industry engages people. Greystone has been included on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Companies six times and is a perennial winner of top workplace and industry innovation awards. His topic is: Why Leaders End Up Feeling Like Babysitters. The bottom line, he says, is that bosses...
I had a great chat with Susan Bradley, long-time Microsoft MVP and SMB community builder. Susan Bradley has been patching since before the Code Red/Nimda days and remembers exactly where she was when SQL slammer hit (i.e. trying to buy something on ebay and wondering why the Internet was so slow). She writes the Patch Watch column for Brian Livingston’s Windows Secrets, and was one of the authors of Windows Server 2008 Security...
