Managed Services Magazine

  1. How Selling Managed Print Services Protects Your Business 9/16/2013

    This MSP’s (managed services provider’s) decision to become MPS-certified paid off when it landed a six-figure project with the Major League Baseball (MLB) Network.

  2. Enlist Your Company In MSP Boot Camp 8/15/2013

    This MSP turned to professional coaching to improve its business and realized 30% revenue growth last year as a result.

  3. Sell Network Security As A Service To Reach More Customers 8/15/2013

    As network security threats continue to grow and become more complex, cloud-based security solutions are playing a growing role in helping VARs and MSPs protect their customers.

  4. Don't Assume Your Salespeople Can Sell Cloud Backup 8/15/2013

    Two of the biggest predictors of success with any subscription-based IT service are whether your salespeople embrace it and if they know how to sell it.

  5. Keep Your Managed Services Customers From Reverting To Break-Fix 7/18/2013

    This MSP’s four-step approach to selling managed services created a 98% customer retention rate and 40% sales revenue growth last year.

  6. Why Now Is A Good Time To Take A Second Look At Managed Print Services 7/18/2013

    Not only is selling managed print services (MPS) a good way to earn incremental and recurring revenue, it’s one of the best ways to keep competitors away from your customers.

  7. Turn Your Customer's Downtime Into A Cloud Upsell Opportunity 7/18/2013

    An MSP’s (managed services provider’s) data recovery solution saves a retail customer’s business from downtime and positions the MSP for a cloud backup upsell.

  8. Secrets Of Managed Services Veterans 7/18/2013

    I’ve been pretty vocal lately about transitioning your business to a recurring revenue model. In giving so much attention to this topic, my IQ on the business model increases on a daily basis. I’ve been trying to get everything down in my blog, but sometimes I look back and discover that I missed sharing some lessons or find that what I thought were small lessons were actually fairly important.

  9. PSA (Professional Services Automation) Software Solutions Product Review 6/19/2013

    If you’re an IT solutions provider that’s considering selling managed services, it won’t be long before you’re ready to trade in your Excel tracking and ticketing system for something more robust. Many of the PSA offerings on the market today include modules for project management, resource management, CRM (customer relationship management), and knowledge management. Most MSPs will agree that the time and project management savings from a PSA alone are worth several times the cost of the software.

  10. Win More Cloud BDR Sales With A Network Assessment 6/18/2013

    An MSP earns a 1 TB Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud backup project with PlanetShoes.com and beats out a competitor twice its size — without cutting its price.