Find the Right Mix for MSP Success

Business Solutions Newsletter | March 09, 2015 | View web version here.   In This Issue: Savvy MSPs Take Role Of Outsourced CIOs 7 Key Consideration To Help Get Your MSP Service Desk Up And Running — FAST! What's Delaying Your Transition To Managed Services? Online Backup Speed Is Critical! Throw Your B2B Marketing Strategy Out The Window Building Backup As A Service (BaaS) 5 Things Every MSP Needs To Know About Cybersecurity MSPs Changing Roles: Managing Devices To Managing User Experience Sponsor   Drive Your Business Forward With MAX Backup Accelerate your backups, recoveries, and your business with MAX Backup. The new Backup Accelerator feature enables you to: • Supercharge the backup windows of large files and systems • Meet business continuity and disaster recovery objectives with ease • Make more money offering Backup-as-a-Service and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service Offering hybrid-cloud backup and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service allows you to grow your business and increase your recurring revenues. Take a FREE 30-day trial today.. Find The Right Mix For MSP Success In addition to the insights in his presentation “The Perpetually Valuable MSP” at the ASCII Success Summit, Dave Sobel, the director of partner community for MAXfocus by LogicNow, shares his views on the channel landscape, finding success as a managed services provider, and focusing on business agility — in this exclusive interview with Jim Roddy, president of Business Solutions. Featured Articles Savvy MSPs Take Role Of Outsourced CIOs As solution providers have evolved along the services spectrum, their method of engagement has also changed. Many IT providers started life as resellers. In the early days of the channel, manufacturers would provide a product that IT providers would resell, making a healthy margin. 7 Key Consideration To Help Get Your MSP Service Desk Up And Running — FAST! As a managed service provider (MSP), the quality of your service delivery can be vital for the growth and success of your business. What's Delaying Your Transition To Managed Services? This break-fix VAR-turned-MSP shares his five-year struggle to become an MSP and get 50 percent of his customers on a fixed-price program. Online Backup Speed Is Critical! When a managed service provider or an IT support company comes to choosing an online backup tool, there are several criteria to consider: price, ease of use, trust in the vendor, and of course speed. Speed is arguably the most important issue when it comes to backup, perhaps second only to reliability. Throw Your B2B Marketing Strategy Out The Window Despite having no formal marketing program and no sales force, this managed services provider is projecting 54 percent revenue growth this year. Building Backup As A Service (BaaS) Everyone needs backup. But, it is a thankless job, one that adds no real competitive advantage - and when things go wrong there is nothing but blame. And things far too often do go wrong. Tape backup in particular is prone to error. 5 Things Every MSP Needs To Know About Cybersecurity It turns out factory workers enjoy scrolling through their Facebook News Feed as much as you and me. Maybe that doesn’t exactly raise eyebrows, but this should: connecting to the social media site via a flat network that controls all facets of production. MSPs Changing Roles: Managing Devices To Managing User Experience Alistair Forbes, general manager at GFI MAX, shares insights on how managed services providers (MSPs) can help their customers leverage cloud services while continuing to engage with those customers and solidifying their role as trusted business advisors. Connect With Business Solutions:       Ensure our newsletter reaches your inbox by following these whitelist instructions. If you need to update your Business Solutions user profile, please visit here. This newsletter is being sent to ignoble.experiment@arconati.us. To cancel your subscription to the Business Solutions newsletter, please opt out here. You may also send an email to newsletter@vertmarkets.com.     © Copyright 2015 Vertmarkets, Inc, 5340 Fryling Rd Suite 300, Erie, PA 16510. All rights reserved. All product names contained herein are the trademarks of their respective holders.