Monthly Archives: April 2009

Dell Managed Services

IT Business
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Game… over.

From the horses mouth (SMB Consulting Failure Factors)

IT Business
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Yesterday I wrote about the fact that there is a lot we can learn from people that failed in business because books are often written by people that win talking about how awesome they are, not by those that fail … Continue reading

Beating the dead, amotivational horse..

IT Business
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Over the past year I’ve brought a lot of focus to the defunct and failing IT shops, for some reason none of my blogging friends in the SMB space have decided to talk about it. Is this merely a case … Continue reading

The Difference of Effort

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Happy Easter. Happy Easter Bunny Day. Hope you had a wonderful holiday. If you’re lucky, you got Friday off and made it a 3 day weekend. If you’re even luckier, you’re going to take tomorrow off as well. If you’re … Continue reading

Mental Toughness: Surviving the IT Recession

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Have you ever had one of those days when you just wished you could push the reboot button and start it all over again? Do you see yourself working harder and harder toward something with rapidly diminishing benefits and are … Continue reading

And that’s all I have to say about business

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About 18 months ago I started blogging more extensively about business, trying to offer some perspective about what is going on in the SMB space, emergence of cloud services and eventually the unfortunate recession. If you saw it early enough, … Continue reading

That’s not what I meant at all….

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The other day I updated my facebook/twitter, rejoycing about how well we’re doing: ExchangeDefender – seven months ahead of goals for 2009 & competitors employees sending over resumes. Jose, a Microsoft PAL from Slovenia asked if this was a sign … Continue reading

Is this the time to cut pricing?

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This is probably one of those long flow posts that goes on for pages but I will make it rather quick as I’m just waiting for a quick SM replication job to complete. Right now, your smaller peers in this … Continue reading

If Jordan were a lifestyle VAR?

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Michael Jordan was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame today. Here is one of the quotes from his trainer: “Michael would go for 40 or 50 points one night, and the next morning he was right back at it … Continue reading

Shockey Monkey 3 Invites

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We’re ready to start beta testing Shockey Monkey 3, launch of which is anticipated in May. Only a limited number of slots are open and participation is mandatory. If you have a heavilly used Shockey Monkey deployment (as in used … Continue reading