My wife has been a paying member of a national massage chain for years. Honestly, it’s never been a great relationship, but the service was just barely good enough to keep coming back and paying the monthly fee. Over the past few months she’s determined that the value just isn’t there any longer. The services were no longer justified the price they were charging. She made the decision to cancel the service. In order to…
Over the years I’ve learned a bit about business, small businesses, and MSP business in particular. While I’m not exactly an expert, I’ve seen some things… Today’s post is about the top 5 things you need to be competent in to run a successful small business. You don’t need to be an expert across the whole range, but you need to know enough to interpret what’s going on in several facets of your business. It’s…
I’ve been a lifelong gadget guy. If it looks neat, has any sort of utility that might help me, and is tech related there’s a good chance that I’ll spend money on it. I’ve been known to spend money on things that just seemed cool – helping me out in any way being an afterthought much of the time. My job at Pax8 has me on a LOT Microsoft Teams calls (and a few Zoom…
“You don’t happen to know anyone that does computer work do you?” My chiropractor asked while I was getting adjusted one day. He was opening a new office across town and needed some help getting his network up and running in the new office. That’s how it started for me. At the time I was working as IT Support at a nationwide brokerage firm, but my job was boring. I was able to do the…
Welcome to my blog. That’s about as unoriginal as an opening line for any blog gets, but there you go… I have had various blogs throughout the years, but never really stuck to writing. That said, I do enjoy writing so here’s attempt number 7 or so. The purpose of this blog is mostly to flex my writing muscle and occasionally I’ll have something insightful to say. I don’t expect many readers, but we’ll see…