Monthly Archives: February 2012

Implementing LTBPCS to solve VAR challenge

ExchangeDefender, IT Business
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I’m creating acronyms now – LTBPCS – Long Term Business Process Cloud Sales. I base the following argument (and well.. a multimillion dollar business behind it) on talking to some of my successful partners that are really at the top … Continue reading

Kateless

Boss, Pimpin, Rant, Work Ethic
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I don’t often write about my personal life on Facebook, I don’t think anyone cares and quite honestly it’s not that exciting at all. I am making an exception today because I do not want anyone to have to go … Continue reading

Designing Consumerization

IT Business
on Designing Consumerization

Sidenote: If you’re curious what I’m actually working on, tune in to the ExchangeDefender Executive Podcast series. It’s me and my upper management talking about the projects we’re working on this day/week/month/year. Vladville articles are for the most part my … Continue reading

To hire or not to hire remote workers?

Boss
on To hire or not to hire remote workers?

The question about remote employees comes up a lot and “remote work” is simply the norm these days, regardless of your opinion of it. I only say that it’s an opinion because of the connotation that some of the older … Continue reading

You can’t try to get organized

GTD, Shockey Monkey
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My phone has been on fire since the last blog post. I wanted to address the biggest question we get about Shockey Monkey (and really all of our solutions) and what that question means to me based on the track … Continue reading

Flipping The World of SMB Marketing

IT Business, IT Culture, SMB
on Flipping The World of SMB Marketing

Disclosure: This is a massive pitch. Please don’t misunderstand though, it is not meant to sell you or convince you – it’s a direction that I’m going in and if you’d like to hop onboard with me, you’re quite welcome. … Continue reading

Lowest Common Denominator

GTD
on Lowest Common Denominator

I had an interesting week at work last week. More about that later. Right now I wanted to offer a little bit of realistic take on some of the criticism in general. Some stuff is only popular because it caters … Continue reading

Valentine’s Day At Work

Boss, Humor
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This is meant to be funny. If you don’t have a sense of humor don’t read this. Today is one of my favorite days – nobody is on a diet, it’s cool for guys to buy a ton of roses … Continue reading

What would you like to know?

IT Business
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The vlad@vladville.com mailbox has been flooding for weeks with questions about Shockey Monkey & ExchangeDefender – good news, it means you guys are busy! I figure I’d open up the suggestion box a little and offer answers to any questions … Continue reading

Lifecycle of Ineffectiveness

IT Culture
on Lifecycle of Ineffectiveness

Before you read this: This isn’t Vartruth or Channel Watchdog, I’m not trying to single anyone out or make it a personal hit. That said, you will certainly see the similarities between these descriptions and people/companies you have met. Your … Continue reading