Retail MSP Featured Editorial

1. MSP Owners: If You Were Hit By A Bus, Would Your Business Survive? 5/31/2018

   The difference between being the owner of a business or being self employed is at the end of the day when you consider exiting or selling your business, how does the business transition without you? As you grow your IT business, the way you make operational decisions to increase the equity of your business is very important. It will determine if you have established your MSP as a lifestyle business or a scalable enterprise.

2. TSP Sales Growth Starts With Ownership 3/23/2018

   Douglass Miller is the CEO of Straightedge Technologies. Like many MSPs, he was frustrated with his sales results. He had very few net new clients and sales to existing clients was uneven. In two-three years, he has doubled the size of his MSP; attracting one net new MRR client a month and growing his sales to existing clients by 3-4X. What changed? Douglass did.

3. Is Apple Ready For The Channel? 2/15/2018

   Seven historically valid reasons for VARs and MSPs to ignore Apple, and seven counterpoints on why that might be a mistake today.

4. MSPs And Resellers Can Amplify Their Social Media Reach With Employee Advocacy 9/21/2017

   Studies have shown that businesses are starting to increasingly rely on social media to help build brand awareness and drive the sale of their products and solutions. For example, according to a recent Forrester report, 98 percent of sales and marketing leaders see value in social selling in the short and long term, and 49 percent have already developed a formal social selling program. Many Channel companies would agree with the potential benefits of social media marketing, but they also acknowledge they’re a long way from realizing its full potential.

5. Looking To Sell Your MSP Practice - Better Consider These Issues Now 7/26/2017

   The managed services market got its start as early as the 1990s as the recurring revenue business model sparked a new era of change in the technology industry. As managed service providers (MSPs) emerged, the market for their offerings grew, and it is expected to reach $193 billion by 2019, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 12.5%, according to Markets and Markets.

6. VARs And MSPs – Are You Penny Wise And Pound Foolish With This Revenue Stream? 7/12/2017

   One of the notable highlights of Admiral Nelson’s win at Trafalgar is that he believed his better trained forces would be superior in a battle against overwhelming opposing odds, and he was correct. The more educated the workforce, the greater the productivity: we all know this, or we should.

7. How Offering Compliance-as-a-Service Can Help MSPs Shine 7/12/2017

   Businesses turning to MSPs have no shortage of options in the marketplace, making the solution provider’s ability to distinguish itself crucial to its long-term viability. In my opinion, perhaps the surest path to differentiating a managed service is providing expertise that goes beyond simply delivering technology, and gets to really helping clients navigate the real-world complexities that govern how technology must be applied.

8. The Channel Faces Another Difficult Transition: And This Time It Is Not A Technology Or Business Model Change 7/6/2017

   Forrester is reporting that 65% of technology decisions are influenced and/or made by line of business executives. It's predicted that this number could rise to 90% by the year 2020. Here's how VARs should adjust their pitch accordingly.

9. Staying Ahead Of The Trends 11/13/2014

   In recent years, there has been a lot of attention surrounding tablet-based mPOS systems.