Topics Discussed: Building tribes of clients and building tribes of MSPs, scalability and national footprints, an MSP marketing retrospective, why 94 percent of MSPs never see a million dollars, self-awareness and corrective action, what if you don’t get anything back for your marketing? What if you do? Education as the ROI on failure, everything’s easier with a set of plans.
Topics Discussed: Tom Clancy (Valiant Technology), Paul DeMore (Force Management) Mark Haskelson (Compliancy Group), and Butch Langlois (Vend) engage in a transparent conversation about what's right and what's wrong with channel/vendor partnerships from the perspectives of VAR/MSP, software company, and consultancy.
Topics Discussed: Why most MSPs don’t treat their business like a business, the dangers of ambiguous contract language, the business, financial, and personal repercussions of legal action, how to avoid sales-slogging contract language yet remain protected, best practices for legal risk mitigation.
Topics Discussed: The value of a legal background in managed services business leadership, merger and acquisition strategy and law, change management among personnel, salespersons' egos, transparency and altruism in the IT channel.
Topics Discussed: An unlikely path to managed services, sleepwalking in the Air Force, why peer groups matter, surviving tornadoes (literally), keeping reliable peers, building a financial cushion, KPIs, business performance benchmarking, the discomfort of accountability and transparency, and more.
Topics discussed: From farmer to IT advisor, the birth of a peer group, the evolution of HTG, the definition of legacy, what legacy means to MSPs versus individuals, the unfair stigma around “lifestyle” service businesses, intentionality and the importance of a “why statement,” habits that make business and personal legacy real.
Topics Discussed: The glamour of the MSP industry, the beginnings of the technology marketing toolkit, whether or not it's hard to fly a rocket ship, inspiring leaders, the power of industry knowledge, the channel’s cyber security services opportunity, big box IT threats.
Topics Discussed: Building personal brands and professional legacies; overcoming hardship and developing grit; religious cults and faith healing; Zig Ziglar; learning and mastering sales; quitting excuses; accepting responsibility and making good choices.
Topics Discussed: Football and the channel; elevating the RSPA brand; payment security and QIR standards, RetailNOW 2018; RSPA educational calendar 2019.
Hosted by Channel Executive Chief Editor Matt Pillar, Channel Voice brings you twice-monthly intelligence, inspiration, and entertainment from the leading voices in the IT channel.
