Category Archives: IT Business

Maintenance (Continued)

GTD, IT Business
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Yesterday I wrote a blog post about Start of Year Maintenance cycle most successful businesses people go through. Fact is, unless you’re remarkably organized and suffer absolutely 0 external interference, you’ve got to dedicate some time to straightening things out. … Continue reading

New Year Maintenance

GTD, IT Business
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If you’ve got any work ethic, it shouldn’t matter what day/date it is, you should be ready to kick ass any day of the week. But even if the calendar doesn’t matter to you, it does to the government, state … Continue reading

The PSA Carol

IT Business, IT Culture, Vladville
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Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, young Vlad set out to write a free PSA. He failed, big time. The longer he kept on lying to himself about the next beta being useful, the further away … Continue reading

Shockey Monkey Automates Time Billing

IT Business, Shockey Monkey
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Before I even begin talking about how much we’ve simplified your life, I need to extend some thanks. I would like to thank Vince Tinnirello of Anchor Network Solutions in Denver, Colorado and Howard Cunningham of Macro Systems LLC serving … Continue reading

My god Vlad, what did you do? (Part 2)

ExchangeDefender, Google, IT Business, OwnWebNow
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Yesterday I held a big webcast to announce our big plans for 2011. To say it went well is an understatement. But in January we start offering all of these services and I want to make sure we are completely … Continue reading

Let me dumb it down for you

IT Business
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I’m on family leave till 2011 and the only thing I forgot to do in my checkout checklist was to redirect my cell phone back to the office. So yesterday as I was cleaning up I got a phone call … Continue reading

****, I hope I’m right

IT Business
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There are times in business when you make a decision and just hope for the sake of everyone involved that you’re right. If you own a business, perhaps that roll of the dice came when you started your business. Perhaps … Continue reading

MSP: What would you do?

IT Business
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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 … Continue reading

Update on MSP Shark Jumping

IT Business
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Little while ago after finishing a brutal summer of conferences and launch of Shockey Monkey I posed a question and opinion to my audience on whether or not the MSPs have jumped the shark. One of my awesome partners wrote … Continue reading

The Big Account

IT Business
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This is the third in the series of dumb things I see small businesses say or do. First one was about being proud of ignoring business opportunities: We don’t do that.. Or do we? Then I talked about the poor … Continue reading