Category Archives: IT Business

What does this have to do with anything?

Posted: 2:07 am
January 5, 2011
GTD, IT Business
on What does this have to do with anything?

Can you tell the difference between a detail and the big picture? It depends on perspective. I’ve gotten a lot of email over the past few days thanking me about writing the GTD stuff that’s helped transform my own performance … Continue reading →

Maintenance (Continued)

Posted: 1:05 am
January 4, 2011
GTD, IT Business
3 Comments

Yesterday I wrote a blog post about Start of Year Maintenance cycle most successful businesses people go through. Fact is, unless you’re remarkably organized and suffer absolutely 0 external interference, you’ve got to dedicate some time to straightening things out. … Continue reading →

New Year Maintenance

Posted: 8:28 pm
January 2, 2011
GTD, IT Business
on New Year Maintenance

If you’ve got any work ethic, it shouldn’t matter what day/date it is, you should be ready to kick ass any day of the week. But even if the calendar doesn’t matter to you, it does to the government, state … Continue reading →

The PSA Carol

Posted: 6:44 am
December 27, 2010
IT Business, IT Culture, Vladville
on The PSA Carol

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, young Vlad set out to write a free PSA. He failed, big time. The longer he kept on lying to himself about the next beta being useful, the further away … Continue reading →

Shockey Monkey Automates Time Billing

Posted: 8:15 pm
December 23, 2010
IT Business, Shockey Monkey
on Shockey Monkey Automates Time Billing

Before I even begin talking about how much we’ve simplified your life, I need to extend some thanks. I would like to thank Vince Tinnirello of Anchor Network Solutions in Denver, Colorado and Howard Cunningham of Macro Systems LLC serving … Continue reading →

My god Vlad, what did you do? (Part 2)

Posted: 11:10 pm
December 22, 2010
ExchangeDefender, Google, IT Business, OwnWebNow
on My god Vlad, what did you do? (Part 2)

Yesterday I held a big webcast to announce our big plans for 2011. To say it went well is an understatement. But in January we start offering all of these services and I want to make sure we are completely … Continue reading →

Let me dumb it down for you

Posted: 6:42 am
November 17, 2010
IT Business
3 Comments

I’m on family leave till 2011 and the only thing I forgot to do in my checkout checklist was to redirect my cell phone back to the office. So yesterday as I was cleaning up I got a phone call … Continue reading →

****, I hope I’m right

Posted: 12:55 am
November 12, 2010
IT Business
1 Comment

There are times in business when you make a decision and just hope for the sake of everyone involved that you’re right. If you own a business, perhaps that roll of the dice came when you started your business. Perhaps … Continue reading →

MSP: What would you do?

Posted: 5:01 pm
November 9, 2010
IT Business
on MSP: What would you do?

Last week I spent a lot of my time hanging around the conferences we sponsored in Orlando surrounding the ConnectWise summit. I was not officially a part of any of them which allowed me to have one-on-one meetings with a … Continue reading →

Update on MSP Shark Jumping

Posted: 11:25 am
November 1, 2010
IT Business
on Update on MSP Shark Jumping

Little while ago after finishing a brutal summer of conferences and launch of Shockey Monkey I posed a question and opinion to my audience on whether or not the MSPs have jumped the shark. One of my awesome partners wrote … Continue reading →