MSP: What would you do?

Last week I spent a lot of my time hanging around the conferences we sponsored in Orlando surrounding the ConnectWise summit. I was not officially a part of any of them which allowed me to have one-on-one meetings with a lot of my partners from literally around the world. On Sunday night I went out to dinner with one of the more successful people in our business. All of these conversations – from startups to the businesses that have been around for decades (no, not a typo, it’s meant to be plural) are at the same point.

Inflection Point.

I like how we’re doing but there is so much more opportunity to do better.

I feel like we aren’t performing at 100%, I am not meeting my own expectations.

If I could have a do-over…

“I wouldn’t change a thing about my life because I wouldn’t have become the person I am today” is the kind of crap you get to say when you’re done kicking a drug addiction or have just gotten out of prison. In all other instances, it’s just plain and simple ignorance.

Evaluating where we are and were we are going always takes into account how we got here and the experience we got along the way. So start here:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W2SWGYY

Before I share my opinion on all the conversations I had last week and share the trends that people have shared with me first hand, I’d like to know how you feel.

If you were to get a clean slate, how would you build an MSP today. Tell me.

It will take less than a minute if you read fast. Two if you like to sound it out.

Which building blocks would you choose, what would you outsource, what would you sell and how would you promote it. Let’s for a moment make a giant assumption that all other things are just the details, I want to know what the majority out there is thinking.

I’ll let it run for a month and share the results then. The survey itself is anonymous, no contact info is collected at all.