Author Archives: Vlad

Reloaded: Shockey Monkey Derrivatives: Who does the IT work?

Posted: 1:51 am
November 24, 2011
Cloud, GTD, IT Business, IT Culture
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In the last few posts I have been laying out the multi-year strategy for Shockey Monkey and the changes IT Solution Providers need to come to terms with and adapt in order to survive and thrive. The core underlying concept … Continue reading →

unPSA – Whose business is being managed?

Posted: 4:14 pm
November 18, 2011
Boss, Cloud, ExchangeDefender, GTD, Shockey Monkey
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Thank you for joining me in the third post in the series pondering the future of IT and how it will be utilized, at least in small business. If there is one trend line in the technical evolution over the … Continue reading →

Reloaded: Shockey Monkey unRMM–What is managed?

Posted: 4:01 pm
November 17, 2011
Boss, Cloud, IT Business, IT Culture, Shockey Monkey
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Yesterday I wrote the first in the Reloaded Shockey Monkey articles covering the grand scheme of consumerization of IT and how the business models need to evolve as we transition from the world of IT to the world of the … Continue reading →

Reloaded: Shockey Monkey Reprise

Posted: 12:43 pm
November 16, 2011
Cloud, IT Business, Shockey Monkey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 →