People often ask if Seattle is expensive. Yes. My reply is yes – it is. The follow-up is often “what does that mean?” I offer economic babble about Amazon-driven job growth, housing, we’re land-locked between ocean and mountains, etc. Such talk tends to cause glazed eyes if not disinterest.
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Investigation: Payroll Protection Program and MSPs
With the second round of Payroll Protection Program (PPP) underway, we investigated how the program is impacting Managed Services Providers (MSP) domestically in the United State (US). One consistent finding was the MSPs who are really Small and Medium Businesses (SMB)
Remote Worker Setups Continue
Today we’re in Dublin, Ireland with analyst Larry Doyle. He shares how the COVID-19 outbreak is impacting his business as well as personal life. What’s cool about this interview is that we stopped his motorcycle in a public park to ring into us and the sound and video quality is amazing.
EXTRA EDITON: Cisco’s Unique Remote Worker Solutions/Support
We’re back on short notice with DD Dasgupta, Vice President, Marketing, SMB Products at Cisco to double-click into how Cisco has a unique end-to-end secure solution for remote workers. Take Cisco security expertise and then add WebEx and you get the picture. Listen to this interview HERE for the dets.
“Service Management = MSP Revenue”
By Gary Audin
MSP revenue growth can occur by acquiring new customers (not easy) or adding new services to the existing customer base.
Hunter and Brelsford: McBain’s 2020 Channel Forecast – Part 1
Harry Brelsford joins Kevin Hunter on Northwest Digital News for a TechTuesday segment to review Forrester principal analyst Jay McBain’s “What I See Coming For the Channel In 2020” report. This is part one (ow two)
Pandemic Business Models: Entrepreneur v Employee
I have a simple question: Would you rather be an entrepreneur or an employee right now?
My answer is simple – I’d rather be an entrepreneur. There are a lot of reasons to this.