As the big game approaches this Sunday, I’ve been thinking about the NFL’s introduction of instant replay and how it makes the league much more enjoyable! Whether you’re rooting for the Patriots led by Tom Brady … or the Rams, you can’t deny that instant replay makes every Super Bowl much more efficient and adds … Continued
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In its 14th year, IT Nation is the largest conference of its kind for MSPs and IT solution providers. This year’s event, held next week in Orlando, promises to be better than ever. Here’s why our team is looking forward to it: The speaker lineup is amazing Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Need I say more? Recently … Continued
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An MSP’s ability to do effective work depends on their technical expertise. However, their ability to ensure customer satisfaction is what really grows their business. This is because high levels of customer satisfaction retain current clients and win over future ones. Given this reality, MSPs need to be strategic about how they approach their work … Continued
read moreCritical alerting allows MSP managed security to separate noise from attack At ConnectWise 2016, CEO Arnie Bellini said if you’re selling managed services without managed security, you’re selling a hot dog without a bun. And indeed, this is true. But it is equally true that most MSPs worth their salt are already offering cybersecurity to … Continued
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The habits of highly effective MSP At OnPage, we spend a lot of time speaking to MSPs, providing MSP support and learning about the growth of IT services. There is an increasing realization by businesses that having the right firewall, endpoint security and monitoring tool is not a job that small businesses can or should attempt … Continued
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IT professionals rely on monitoring tools to let them know about events such as serious outages, downed servers or viruses. Monitoring tools are designed to send emails through standard protocols when any of these serious events occur in the infrastructure. However, when you can learn about incidents through monitoring tools, there is very little … Continued
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While after-hours support might be seen as overkill, you can’t live without it either. As soon as you remove it from your quote, you increase the chance of losing the deal. As such, after-hours service is a fact of life for most MSPs. While not the most pleasant aspect of the job, there are ways to … Continued
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OnPage announced its collaboration with ConnectWise in 2015. Since that time, has seen its MSP customers flock to the integration to solve many of their Incident management needs. Today, OnPage leverages the robust capabilities of the ConnectWise API to allow its users seamless access to OnPage from within the ConnectWise interface. Not only can IT … Continued
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If you’re an MSP and you’re not providing 24x7x365 IT support, you’re cheating your clients out of services they really need to keep their businesses afloat and stay productive. – Jaq Baldwin for MSP Blog It might be seen as overkill, but you can’t live without it either. As soon as you remove after-hours service … Continued
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How do you handle your clients as an MSP? Your clients are your stakeholders and they are the ones on edge whenever a crisis happens in their fort. They look at MSPs to fix their burning issues and so it’s very important to manage their exceptions. Stakeholder management enables MSPs to not only think about … Continued
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