I liken this interview with Lance Crosby, CEO of StackPath, to my being a long-time listener, first time caller on a radio show. What? I’ve been tracking Crosby’s successes for years and SMB Nation members would best remember SoftLayer,

John Hill, TechSage Solutions (San Antonio, TX) leads all client engagements with SECURITY! He does this before even starting the managed services conversation.

It’s a double hitter with contributor Denis Wilson this month. He’s on a tear publishing heaps of articles. Topic one is “Google Ads Now Steal Information” and topic two is “12 Email Clients Found To Have Serious Flaw.”

Harry joins with Kevin Hunter (Northwest Digital News) for the weekly Tech Tuesday contribution from Continuum Navigate. In this segment, we talk about

Community member Lisa Hendrickson recently returned home to Minnesota to start graduate school and continue to grow her thriving social community of technicians (known as “Call That Girl”). We play a round of “what’s your story” and that includes over ten books (including a best seller on social media). Fast

I spent a few minutes with Davin Cooke, president of the Austin-area IAMCP right after the SxSW 2019 conference I Austin, TX. I said to Cooke – “Let’s talk security!” Cooke said SURE!

 

This week’s Northwest Digital News “Tech Tuesday” segment dives into the recent Ziff Davis B2B acquisition of Austin-based Spiceworks. I also review the SpiceWorld 2019 conference – the funnest technology conference in our industry (hey – 2,500 attendees can’t be wrong!).

Liongard’s Vincent Tran represents the spirit of the exposition hall at IT Glue’s GlueX 2019 conference in Scottsdale. This right-sized conference has a vendor hall that makes sense. Each sponsor somehow, someway truly integrates into IT Glue.

This contribution from Michael (MickyJ) Jenkin is very special. It’s a case of while the cat is away; the mice will play! Jenny and MickyJ filmed the rogue conversation while harry was gone. The content is a solid and the new format is worth the view alone!

It wouldn’t be the dog days of summer without a chit-chat with contributor (and fellow MSP) Denis Wilson. He reveals his secret to social selling success to attract new clients (he’s grown a prospect base using these tactics.

The proverbial lost opportunity appears to have been found. Forever and a day, smart minds have struggled with how to right size Azure consumption for small businesses.

Contributor Michael Fraser (CEO, Refactr) joins us for a security double-click. This month with discuss a range of topics that fall under the auspices of the Microsoft Trust Center: Audit and review, compliance plus a look at how data is protected,