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Tech Industry

Digital Transformation Is Top IT Priority in 2019, TechTarget Reports

Nearly 70% of businesses have digital transformation as their top IT priority in 2019, according to the 2019 TechTarget IT Priorities survey.
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Network Management

How to Manage Your Client’s Network—Even When the Network Isn’t Available

Let’s say one of your techs is configuring a client’s firewall and makes a mistake that results in the firewall (and the rest of the network) no longer being…
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Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

Onboard New Clients Quickly and Confidently

After using Auvik to expedite client onboarding, you can repurpose the time you’ve saved to optimize their IT environment. That’s a recipe for happy customers.
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Cybersecurity

Network Device Security: Guide and Best Practices

Network device security is one of the most important elements of network management. Learn what it is and best practices to follow.
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Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

Financial Control Methods To Keep Your MSP Running Smooth

Once you find a bookkeeper to handle the day-to-day accounting tasks in your MSP, it becomes very tempting to hand it all over. But problems can arise when you…
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Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

Using Cybersecurity as an MSP Sales Tool

An increasing number of European MSPs are winning managed services clients—by not leading the sales conversation with managed services. Instead, they’re…
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Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

How a Daily Huddle Agenda Your MSP’s Efficiency

Every (and I do mean every) successful IT business I’ve ever worked with has had some form of daily huddle built into its routine.
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Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

MSP Hyperspecialization: Building Your Niche Offering

So you get the business benefits of hyperspecializing your MSP to serve a particular business niche, and you understand the five criteria of niche expertise…
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Tech Industry

MSP Hyperspecialization: A High Margin Opportunity

Jay McBain, an IT channel analyst at Forrester, says the MSP industry won’t die any time soon, but the opportunity to generate revenue is certainly shrinking….
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Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

Streamline Your Service Delivery Without Scaling Your Team

Auvik automates many tedious network management tasks to rocket your team’s efficiency. With Auvik in your tech stack, you can grow your MSP client base…
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Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

Top 6 Frankly MSP Podcast Episodes From Our First Year

Tomorrow marks the official one-year anniversary of Frankly MSP, the podcast for managed service providers who want to boost their productivity, efficiency,…
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Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

How to Transition Clients to Managed Services with Monthly Retainers

When a client has become used to paying only for the time you spend, rather than the value you deliver, it can be a big leap to ask them to pay for a flat-fee…
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Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

How to Retain Technical Staff in a Red Hot Job Market

Staff turnover is costly—there are recruitment costs for the replacement, lost productivity while that’s happening, and ramp up time for the new hire. So smart…
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Tech Industry

Managing Network Vendor Diversity: The MSP Challenge

As an MSP that may manage anywhere from a handful of client networks to more than 100, you face a big challenge: high diversity in the network hardware you…
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Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

What IT Advice Would You Put on a Billboard for Clients?

I went to Twitter and asked the MSP community a hypothetical question: If you could put a message on a giant billboard that your clients would see and learn…
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