Yearly Archives: 2010

Taking a leave of absence

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on Taking a leave of absence

Effective Jun 1st, I will be taking a 2 month leave of absence from my role at Own Web Now Corp. While I will live up to my commitments on the road and webcasts that have been scheduled, I will … Continue reading

About Superpowers

IT Business
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Knowledge is crack, just try it and you’ll be hooked. And you’ll find out how clueless you were beforehand, or how clueless everyone around you is. That’s what’s so wonderful about technology, Internet, etc – it’s possible (given time, effort … Continue reading

Getting to Android Froyo (2.2) now!!!

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on Getting to Android Froyo (2.2) now!!!

You have to hand it to Google, they really don’t stop. The announcements that came from the Google I/O conference this week (regarding TV, mobile, etc) are just amazing. They are pretty much the fastest moving IT business these days … Continue reading

Best blog post comment ever: “Nice Eulogy”

IT Business
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It took over a week to catch up with the comments regarding the “Death of a Services Salesman” blog series. I’m glad so many of you enjoyed it, I got more comments on this and more ad money than ever … Continue reading

Comment Moderation

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on Comment Moderation

Sad to say it, but for the time being I have enabled comment moderation on Vladville. If you post a comment, it will not immediately show up. The recent series of DoaSS has increased the traffic and pushed Vladville earnings … Continue reading

How do you back up a ton of stuff?

Gadgets
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This one is for my buddy Howard Cunningham (CEO of Macro Systems LLC, our go-to service provider in the Washington DC area) who has a unique challenge in backing up clients monster SAN. What Howard ran into, and the challenge … Continue reading

Book Club

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I’m back at work today, trying to implement all the things I had a chance to think up during my vacation and I’m facing a bit of a reoccurring problem in trying to improve my staff. Once upon a time … Continue reading

DoaSS: Coping & Profiting

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Over the last four posts I looked at the major factors contributing to the death of the IT solution providers in the SMB sector. To quickly review, we’ve seen a lot of people hang up the hat because: They were … Continue reading

DoaSS #4: Thinking it’s the economy

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on DoaSS #4: Thinking it’s the economy

In late 2009 through early 2010 we’re seeing an unprecedented death rate of technology businesses involved in SMB (VARs, MSPs, technology experts), traditionally reseller-friendly companies going direct and the rapidly changing set of rates (from netbooks to computer service to … Continue reading

DoaSS #3: Thinking local

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on DoaSS #3: Thinking local

In late 2009 through early 2010 we’re seeing an unprecedented death rate of technology businesses involved in SMB (VARs, MSPs, technology experts), traditionally reseller-friendly companies going direct and the rapidly changing set of rates (from netbooks to computer service to … Continue reading