Author Archives: Vlad

An exercise in futility: What to do when nobody wants your products anymore

Posted: 7:15 am
February 18, 2013
Gadgets, IT Business, Microsoft, SMB, Web 2.0
4 Comments

Extremely long blog post cut short: When nobody cares about you, your products, your services or what you think you want to sell they still care a lot about their data. Never lose sight of what your client wants and … Continue reading →

382 Shades of Vlad

Posted: 1:23 pm
February 15, 2013
Boss, IT Business
1 Comment

When I started this business my goal was to make $100,000 a year which was the average college dropout salary in Silicon Valley at the time. I never quite expected the company to grow to what it has become and … Continue reading →

What is it you’d say you do around here?

Posted: 12:15 pm
February 4, 2013
Uncategorized
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One of the best parts of my gig is hanging around and talking to entrepreneurs and small businesses. ExchangeDefender does business worldwide with all sorts of organizations, I’ve been lucky to travel the world with it, and small business is … Continue reading →

Virtual Management

Posted: 5:00 pm
February 1, 2013
Shockey Monkey
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There are thousands of books written about management, I’ve read more than I’ll ever be willing to admit, but I will sum them all up for you in one line: The only thing separating a good manager from a bad … Continue reading →

Vendorification

Posted: 5:44 pm
January 30, 2013
Shockey Monkey
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We do an amazing job tracking our clients. Meanwhile, we do a terrible job tracking our vendors and more often miss out on the potential opportunities to grow our business together. Some of you choose your vendors poorly and see … Continue reading →

HR tips for effective sexual harassment

Posted: 10:36 pm
January 28, 2013
Boss, IT Business
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The easiest thing you’ll ever do in your business life is hire tons of ineffective employees. It’s easier than coming up with blog post titles that have nothing to do with the content of the post! So I’ll keep it … Continue reading →

What is your exit strategy?

Posted: 2:09 pm
January 24, 2013
Boss, IT Business
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The performance of ExchangeDefender and Shockey Monkey have been a fascination for many of my friends and partners and to be honest I’m the one that’s least surprised by it: which is why I’m always shocked when people ask me … Continue reading →

NBQ–Never Be Qutting

Posted: 4:47 am
January 15, 2013
Vladville
2 Comments

I’ll make this brief as I’ve discussed this subject before but I’m reminded of it’s truth every day in just about everything I do. Ready? Success is not so much a factor of ___ (insert any random motivational garbage that … Continue reading →

Angry Vladendar

Posted: 11:13 am
January 10, 2013
Boss, Pimpin
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In the few spare minutes a day I get to think about something other than work I like to think about all the business ideas I could pursue if I wasn’t successful. One of them would be a “realist” calendar … Continue reading →

Surface After Honeymoon

Posted: 3:55 pm
January 7, 2013
Gadgets, Microsoft
1 Comment

Three months ago I wrote about my initial impression of the Microsoft Surface tablet. I was pretty happy with the device (it has actually replaced my iPad) and it has gotten better since. People keep on asking me about it … Continue reading →