Category: Better Business
Are you portraying yourself as a strategic partner?
Being an MSP has changed markedly over the years. In the early days (going back as far as being an application service provider or ASP), it was a given that most of the business would come from a web search....
SMB cybersecurity confidence creates a challenge for MSPs
A survey of 600 SMBs (small-to-medium businesses) with revenue between $1 to $40 million, conducted by Provident Bank, finds that about half of the respondents believe their organization is fully prepared for a cyberattack. An equal percentage of respondents, however,...
An overlooked way to boost MSP proposal acceptance rates
To improve their MSPs profitability, most firm leaders focus either on increasing sales volume or reducing fixed costs. Sadly, a one percent of sales volume increase adds only 3.2 percent, and a one percent fixed cost reduction adds only 2.3...
3 keys to hiring top talent
MSPs have always struggled with hiring top talent. One reason is many IT professionals aren’t comfortable with working in fast-paced environments. They are used to working in a single-tenant environment and can’t handle what’s required of them when there are...
Ask an MSP Expert: Should my MSP have its own company vehicles?
Q: I’m an MSP owner and business is booming. In fact, I’m planning on hiring two technicians to assist me in servicing customers. Should I have them take their own cars on service calls or should I purchase company vehicles?...
Security is the foundation of an MSP’s relationships with its customers
Everything’s moving along quite nicely: your customer is happy with the service you are providing, there have been no significant service interruptions, costs have remained in line with inflation, and so on. The relationship between the MSP and customer is...
Smarter MSP’s top 12 posts of 2021
When reflecting on 2021, one thing is for certain: It was not a boring year. From new cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities identified, to a ramp in digital transformation projects for MSPs, not to mention a continued global pandemic, and much...
Savvy MSPs never let a crisis go to waste
As Winston Churchill once wryly noted, a good crisis should never be wasted. A zero-day Log4j vulnerability that has roiled enterprise IT organizations, is only the latest in a series of cybersecurity incidents in the last year, that have left...
Partner Spotlight: Barracuda partnership drives MSP efficiency
CMIT Solutions of the Northeast Valley has been serving the Scottsdale, Arizona community for over 13 years as Scottsdale’s premier managed IT services provider. Bruce Newman, the MSP’s President, and his team bring decades of knowledge and experience to small...
How one important metric can make or break your MSP business
I previously wrote a blog post for SmarterMSP on Why your MSP needs to stop relying on gut feelings. When I was running my Managed Service Provider (MSP) business, I was always taught that “What can be measured, can be...