Yearly Archives: 2012

The only thing that disappoints me..

Posted: 9:47 am
May 7, 2012
IT Business, IT Culture
6 Comments

One of the reasons why ExchangeDefender is on a roll this year is because I’ve been able to stay at work for over 6 months straight and keep my top talent focused on what we’re doing. It’s not like we … Continue reading →

What it’s really like to work for Vlad

Posted: 10:42 am
May 2, 2012
Boss
1 Comment

Warning: This is really how our creative process works. Sometimes the Vlad from Vladville spawns off it’s entire fantasy land of what it’s really like to work for the real me. We’re cool. It took like 50 attempts to write … Continue reading →

Not sure what I’m doing right but.. thanks!

Posted: 4:47 am
May 2, 2012
Misc, Vladville
4 Comments

Yesterday ExchangeDefender posted the biggest month both on revenue and profits. ExchangeDefender is booming thanks to Essentials ($0.50/user/month), the cloud is taking off with our premium offering that will include Lync (launch in May) and to be honest I’d love … Continue reading →

RMM Design Contest & Data

Posted: 10:56 am
April 30, 2012
Shockey Monkey
1 Comment

Over the past few months we’ve been running Vlad the Imp Aler survey to find out what you manage, what you consider to be important and what your clients tend to pay attention to when you try to justify your … Continue reading →

Lumia 900 Windows Phone

Posted: 4:04 pm
April 29, 2012
Mobility
1 Comment

I’m an iPhone user, it’s my personal cell phone that I use for pictures, Facebook and texting. My work cell phone is an Android and I’m not a big fan of it’s email application or Touchdown – which is my … Continue reading →

Change of Scenery

Posted: 5:46 pm
April 23, 2012
Vladville
7 Comments

I’m not about to share anything worthwhile. Tomorrow you’ll find out what I’ve been up to for the past year or so, I hope you join us for the webinar at noon. ExchangeDefender as a company has roughly another year … Continue reading →

Things are gonna get easier

Posted: 10:45 am
April 20, 2012
ExchangeDefender, Shockey Monkey
on Things are gonna get easier

If you haven’t signed up for this meeting yet, you should now. It’s our quarterly meeting and it’s also going to lay out the year ahead in terms of how I’m spending our money to make my partners more successful. … Continue reading →

The second dumbest thing I ever did

Posted: 10:32 pm
April 10, 2012
ExchangeDefender, IT Business
on The second dumbest thing I ever did

One of the biggest failures you can have as a software business is not offering a product that the market demands. This is quite possibly one of my biggest mistakes and I’ve written and deleted thousands of words in this … Continue reading →

Final day to fill out the Shockey Monkey RMM Survey

Posted: 3:40 pm
April 5, 2012
IT Business
on Final day to fill out the Shockey Monkey RMM Survey

Today is the last day to win some beer money from me, just hit this link: Vlad the Imp Aler Survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/smrmm We’ve gotten a lot of responses and some really surprising data and every little vote and piece of … Continue reading →

Arguments With Idiots: Part 1

Posted: 11:03 pm
April 4, 2012
Boss, Friends, IT Culture, Legal
1 Comment

There are a lot of stupid people out there. Most of us are stupid about something – and there are plenty of legitimate reasons for it. Every now and then you will encounter a select subsection of people that are … Continue reading →