Shockey Monkey 2 Beta Tomorrow

Shockey Monkey 2.0 beta launches tomorrow at 2 PM. All portals, across all continents will be upgraded to Shockey Monkey 2.0 beta. I’m not Microsoft, beta means broken, so it is not recommended for production use but it’s better than the full release 1.0 of Shockey Monkey not to mention that the time & billing, support requests, sla and (read below) are far superior than they were before.

One bit of exciting news is that Stewart Applegate and Nick Whittome have contributed their entire internal asset/inventory management process and warranty frameworks to the Shockey Monkey. This means that what you’ll see tomorrow will be far more useful than the basic info tracking I had designed for Own Web Now and built into SM2. Now, why did Stewart and Nick so graciously donate their IP to Shockey Monkey? Because I am such a nice guy? Yes, but:

“I’d rather give you my IP and let you develop a system around it than doing it myself at my own dime.”

People are buying the dream that I’ve been selling for about two years now, feels great.

Note: The system will go online at 2 PM EST tomorrow, we will have a live IRC chatroom to handle any initial bugs and bugfixes in realtime. I don’t expect there to be a ton of broken stuff but I want to address it immediately, this beta should last a few weeks at best and most work is really feature tweaking to implement best practices.

Note 2: Signup for Shockey Monkey is still closed, there is only one way to get it at the moment but since I don’t want my weekend taken up with a few hundred applications for it, just stand by unless you know what you gotta be and which tab to look under 🙂

Note 3: Training will be painless, before you can open support cases you will be required to watch a 1 hour video that walks you through every nook and cranny of Shockey Monkey 2. There is also a word document for reference but cannot be substituted for the video. If there ever comes a point that I need a “University” to teach you how to use my software, I truly have failed as a programmer. If I need a crack team to actually make my software useful in your practice, you need to dump me, fast. Truth is, the software is as easy as humanly possible because people will not use it otherwise. You SHOULD be spending money training to become a better business and better business planner, so there is a direct relationship and escalation into the services provided by MSPU (Erick Simpson) and SMB Books (Karl Palachuk) who are without argument the best ones in this business to teach you what you need to know to succeed. Why am I such a nice guy? Because I’m selfish and I don’t want my partners being crippled or bankrupted by internal practice management software, you need to be out there making me money (getting clients that need ExchangeDefender, hosting, cloud, etc)