Yearly Archives: 2011

Reloaded: Shockey Monkey Reprise

Posted: 12:43 pm
November 16, 2011
Cloud, IT Business, Shockey Monkey
on Reloaded: Shockey Monkey Reprise

It has taken us more than a year to get Shockey Monkey right. At this point, I would like to encourage you to read the following five posts about Shockey Monkey regardless of what you think of it, me or … Continue reading →

Getting to great takes time and effort

Posted: 1:33 am
November 15, 2011
IT Business
on Getting to great takes time and effort

Once upon a time, Arnie stood over me at the airport trying to figure out why I was telling partners not to expect the same levels of integration in ConnectWise as we do in Autotask. We were at a conference … Continue reading →

Optimizing Communications

Posted: 2:45 pm
November 5, 2011
ExchangeDefender, GTD, IT Business
on Optimizing Communications

One of the biggest challenges in running a software/service company is communications. We have technical users who need to implement our software to fit different business requirements and we also have business users just reselling cloud solutions. As these companies … Continue reading →

How To Work With People and Companies

Posted: 10:30 am
November 1, 2011
Boss, IT Business
4 Comments

Over the years I’ve used Vladville to put up as big of an a@#hole act as possible because nothing turns away abusive and rude people away quite like another one of their kind. In reality, I’m actually very nice and … Continue reading →

The Meaning of Work Life

Posted: 9:47 pm
October 30, 2011
Boss
on The Meaning of Work Life

It’s Sunday night and I’m sitting on the couch hanging out with the family, catching up on TV and work, planning a week ahead, a month ahead a year ahead.. and I figured I’d offer you this insightful observation: You … Continue reading →

So apparently conferences suck for you too

Posted: 9:50 am
October 25, 2011
Events
1 Comment

Wow. What was meant to be an explanation of why we’re dropping a lot of our road schedule in favor of more digital and partner focused content sure resonated with many of you. I’m always humbled by the number of … Continue reading →

If you want to see us, call us anytime

Posted: 10:40 pm
October 23, 2011
Events, Pimpin
13 Comments

I’ve had this on my mind for a while and seeing how it’s the time of the year for trade show sales I figured I’d write one post both and lay out my opinion for the event sales and the … Continue reading →

Vision Deconstructed

Posted: 11:48 pm
October 19, 2011
IT Business
on Vision Deconstructed

My inbox is flooded, my cell has 3% battery life and the housekeepers organized all the charging cables… somewhere. So instead of doing something useful to make up for taking a 2 hour nap at work today – hey it’s … Continue reading →

ConnectWise IT Nation, State of Vlad, Cheap Xerox

Posted: 9:40 am
October 9, 2011
Boss, Cloud, ExchangeDefender, IT Business
on ConnectWise IT Nation, State of Vlad, Cheap Xerox

It’s been almost a week since the last blog post. I’m ashamed not only because it’s been a week since the last post but because I’ve written dozens of them in that time but just haven’t hit publish… yet. On … Continue reading →

Allow me to introduce you to Arnie

Posted: 8:43 pm
October 3, 2011
Shockey Monkey
4 Comments

As I have mentioned before, Shockey Monkey Pro is going away, as is Shockey Monkey Free and Fro. With Shockey Monkey just over a year old, we’re stepping up our game – as a matter of fact today we got … Continue reading →