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SBS Show #13 – Small Business IT Consulting with Harry Brelsford
Posted: 8:21 pm January 12th, 2006	Post a comment SBS Show

It's good to be the king! Harry Brelsford took a break from his skiing trip to stay at his cabin and talk to us about the state of small business IT, franchising, starting and growing and IT practice, world-wide trends even down to new business ideas, personal style and plastic surgery advice. Harry, like everyone else we invite on the show, is a big contributor to the SBS community and will certainly be back to discuss some of the subjects in depth but we wanted to get to know Harry… for those of you that don't get to sit down and have coffee with the big time SBSers this is a good intro and overview on what IT business involves and where its going. Download the SBS Show: http://www.vladville.com/sbsshow/sbsshow-episode13.mp3 Show Notes: Time Description ===== ======================================= 1:37 Who are you? 6:44 Where is SMB Nation going next? 10:12 How did you get started? 12:46 What are you talking about now? 15:49 So whats new? 17:20 How does Microsoft work? Workshops? 20:15 Is there an opportunity in IT franchises? 26:19 How do you build a consulting practice? 32:08 Succcessful franchise organizations 43:00 One-man-band vs. Build-and-grow IT firm? 44:03 Whats the value in SBS user groups? 50:40 Whats the current buzz word in smallbizit? 52:20 Grilling time: Do you have a stylist? 55:00 Where are the ebooks? Opinion on piracy? Harry Brelsford's notes (www.smbnation.com): SMB Nation Amsterdam 2006 (April 6-7 2006) registration NOW OPEN! SMB Nation complimentary evening workshops: January = USA, February-April = EMEA SMB Technology Watch newsletter, free and goes bi-weekly starting in February!!! Join our 7,000 readers.

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9 Comments

CharlesM | January 12th, 2006 at 10:28 pm

Streaming…. Man Vlad, how are you going to top having Harry Brelsford on? Does it get any higher in SBS?

ScottC | January 13th, 2006 at 12:10 am

Can’t wait to hear this one.

Paula Madison | January 13th, 2006 at 12:24 pm

Only two comments? Guess everyone is either busy or listening to the show.

If you aren’t I’ll quote Vlad:
If there is ONE THING… one thing.. you do.. listen to this one.

The show with Harry Brelsford is easilly the most specific and broad-concept show the gang has ever put out. If you are a consultant or want to be one you should listen to this show before you do anything else today.

Susanne | January 13th, 2006 at 12:53 pm

Great show guys – I’m sure I heard Chris at least once or twice!

This show gives a broader perspective of the entire community worldwide which only helps to serve the fact that our SBS world is flat and that through the power of technology we can all help one another.

2006 is a good year to get onboard…. lots of things happening and most because of our community.

Come on in! The water’s lovely!

Percision IT Services | January 13th, 2006 at 4:46 pm

Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome.

Just plain awesome.

Harry, thank you for coming on the SBS Show and talking about everything I wanted to hear. This show touched everything that is on the back burner in my practice and I cannot thank you enough.

This was the best one hour I’ve spent all year.

Guys, thank you.

Long time listener first time commenter

happyfunboy | January 13th, 2006 at 8:44 pm

wow…thanks for the comments everybody.

talking with harry really was quite an awesome experience.

being able to chat a bit with someone who has so much insight and knowledge concerning everything small business…wow.

we felt very fortunate to be able to get 60 minutes of his time.

we hope the rest of you get the same feeling while listening to the show.

and yes queenie…i finally did say one or two things!

sbs show behind the scenes factoid:

when we first started recording #13, neither harry nor i could understand each other at all because we had wicked echo. vlad could hear everybody fine tho, which meant the recording would be solid.

and that’s how sbs show gets done!

Vlad | January 13th, 2006 at 9:32 pm

Nobody ever understands your twang man.

happyfunboy | January 13th, 2006 at 10:21 pm

oh man…

you calling someone out about an accent is like a shoplifter complaining about getting mugged after leaving the store.

Susanne | January 17th, 2006 at 8:10 am

lads, lads, lads…. come on now… play nicely..

see what I have to put up with? tsk!

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