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MSPs’ Key Tactics to Reach Bigger Clients

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MSPs’ Key Tactics to Reach Bigger Clients

So, you feel like it's time to grow your managed IT business to the next level. Your operations are sublime, your services all form a perfect stack, you onboard new clients with ease, and they are excited about how you do your services and praise you month after month. It's time to meet bigger clients and bigger MRRs but, as time passes, you still don't land any that are significantly bigger than your typical lead.

In this article, we will define key tactics to reaching bigger clients and best practices for other MSP sales processes while you are striving towards bigger MRR.

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Selling MSP Services with a Cloud-First Approach in Mind

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Selling MSP Services with a Cloud-First Approach in Mind

If you’re an MSP who has decided to take a cloud-first approach to managed services, you know the value of cloud-based offerings.

But that doesn’t mean your prospective clients will recognize the value of the cloud-based managed services that you may choose to offer. For that reason, it’s critical to develop a sales strategy that clearly communicates why customers should choose the cloud-first managed services that you offer over traditional alternatives.

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Cloud-First Approach Benefits
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Best Practices to Develop a Cloud-First Approach and Increase Margins

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Best Practices to Develop a Cloud-First Approach and Increase Margins

The IT industry has shifted toward a cloud-centric model over the past decade. But many MSPs have not. To a degree, that makes sense. Many of the managed services that MSPs deliver aren’t obvious candidates for disruption by cloud computing. An MSP who sets up and manages workstations or local services may not seem to have much to gain from cloud computing, for example.

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IAM in the cloud
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Identity and Access Management in the Cloud

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Identity and Access Management in the Cloud

Cloud is becoming so cheap, reliable, and safe that more and more companies are moving workloads there. Anything from database management to IoT, from data storage and backup to email exchange servers, can nowadays be run in the cloud in a scalable and cost-efficient manner. In fact, you can build a company solely upon the infrastructure of one of the cloud giants: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. And, in fact, many companies do this.

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Top MSP Certifications in 2024

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Top MSP Certifications in 2024

The nationwide lockdown has many people going up the wall during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, you can reduce the boredom by keeping yourself occupied. How about getting a certification? It will not only be a better use of time, but it will also make you more marketable. Getting a certification can keep you focused on your career goals and validate your newly acquired skills.

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MSP Employee Retention- Three Areas of Improvement
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MSP Employee Retention: Three Areas of Improvement

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MSP Employee Retention: Three Areas of Improvement

Retaining employees is just as important -- and challenging -- as finding them in the first place. Although it may sound like a cliché, employees truly are the most valuable asset of any business. Not only do they have the skills and knowledge required to keep operations running, but they are also quite costly to replace. On average, every time an employee leaves, it will cost the business six to nine months' worth of that employee's salary to find a replacement.

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Guide to Efficient Employee Onboarding for MSPs
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Guide to Efficient Employee Onboarding for MSPs

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Guide to Efficient Employee Onboarding for MSPs

When you’re hiring a new employee, it can be easy to treat the onboarding process as an afterthought. You spend so much time conducting the job search, running interviews, and selecting a candidate that you pay little heed to what has to happen after an applicant receives and accepts a job offer: onboarding.

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Hiring Funnel for MSPs- How It Works
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Hiring Funnel for MSPs: How It Works

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Hiring Funnel for MSPs: How It Works

The “hiring funnel” refers to the stages that a hire goes through between first becoming aware of your job opportunity and ultimately being hired. The concept is modeled on that of the sales funnel. Understanding the hiring funnel helps you determine whether you’ve created the right job ad and how applicants will behave during the hiring process.

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