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Whenever I talk with MSP Owners or Sales People about their challenges in sales, the topic of QBRs almost always immediately comes up. Typically that they aren’t doing them and if they just implement a tool it’ll magically solve all their problems. Having been an Account Manager in an MSP who successfully converted clients from […]
 
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Reselling cloud resources, SaaS licenses and other online services is nothing new. In fact, on average every MSP does it across approximately 10-20 different vendors, every month. You’d think it should be easy then, right? The problem It’s purely a margin game. Take Microsoft for instance; everyone under the sun resells it, and unless you […]
 
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Our team has been hard at work, making enhancements to our partner portal! If you missed our previous updates, here’s a list of  the latest improvements we’ve done, including new security features, tools to streamline your work , new API capabilities and a lot more! Free FTTP upgrade with new API from nbn® Our Service […]
 
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With the IT services market’s projected growth of $48 billion this year, and volume of $64 billion by 2027, MSPs battle to get the lion’s share of the market. For MSPs who are always looking for ways to expand their business and generate more revenue, M&A is typically a part of their growth playbook. Whether […]
 
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Getting and retaining clients remains to be one of the toughest challenges MSPs go through, yet most service providers don’t have a sales or marketing game plan as it gets left behind when they are fighting other fires in their business.   In MSP marketing, you don’t really need to go big quickly – this […]
 
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Did you know that  there’s a government entity that can help your MSP deal with a difficult customer or a complicated issue?  If you aren’t familliar with it, the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO), is an industry-based dispute resolution scheme for customers of Internet and telco providers.   While the common misconception is that being a TIO […]
 
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I  recently took a meeting with the sales director of an IT distributor who told me that constant downward pressure on margins – which are already razor thin – were his biggest worry. So I asked them what they were doing about it and he said his team needs more training, and need to be […]
 
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As an industry we are stuck! We are stuck in our mindsets, our process and our actions! Us MSPs are still managing our operations the same way we mature MSPs were around 2010! I want to change this and shift everyone’s thinking to being a modern TSP instead. So lets start with understanding why we […]
 
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Imagine you are meeting with an operations manager and finance director, pitching a cloud solution that will help the organisation to increase revenues by moving its data in an off premise storage and running its business systems in the cloud.  You start to provide benefits and case studies of how the cloud solution has helped […]
 
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To me the single biggest challenge of the MSP industry is the level leadership experience and expertise. This is because as an industry we have done very little to develop the next generations of leaders to step up as many of the experienced people have moved on to Corporate, the Channel or out of the […]
 
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