Turning Down A Chance At Paradise Little did I know that my experiences a decade ago would help me to build the cyber security MSP I’ve always wanted to own. Back then, I had a dream job at Amazon-owned Zappos. If there was ever a company that took...
Growing Up With 15 Siblings, I Had To Work Hard To Get Noticed Being the youngest of SIXTEEN kids (I’m the tiny one), I was raised to believe that you get a good education, work at a company for 30 years and then retire. Ever watched the movie...
Who Opens A SECOND Business One Week After Launching An MSP? This Guy… Just one week after finalizing the paperwork for my new MSP, I got a call from a friend about starting a BIOS company with him. “Sure, I can run TWO brand-new businesses simultaneously. Why not?!”...
Our $5 Million Unsinkable IT Business Hit A Massive Iceberg My business partner and I started our first IT services business in 1999. Yet, rather than focus on LANs and servers like most MSPs, our business model focused more on connectivity services, including VoIP, cloud and cyber security....
Without Marketing, There’s Zero Leads And Zero Hope For Growth Living in the small coastal town of Hartlepool in North East England, I believe I bring a unique perspective of running an MSP from “across the pond.” My IT journey began when I left high school at the...
Knocked Down Again And Again – But Never Knocked Out! Standing onstage as a Better Your Best finalist at this year’s Fight Club–themed Boot Camp was most appropriate for me because I have been knocked down more times than I can count. When I came to the US...
Entangled In The Dark Web Of Doubt For 6 Straight Years The dark web is not a thing or a place. It lives among us, learning, adapting, embedding itself into the very fabric of our digital footprint, now synonymous with daily life. As CEOs, we’ve come to know...
Servicing 981 Break-Fix Clients At 375 Pounds, I Was Ready To Drop Customers And Weight! “Wow! He’s the Better Your Best winner…he just won an Aston Martin sports car. He must have it ALL figured out!” Truth is, I’m no different than most of you. Believe me, I...
Not All Marketing Agencies Deliver The RESULTS You Are Chasing Twenty-one years ago, Rishi Patel started Keeran Networks in the city of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. As the owner and a natural-born salesperson, he’s always been a strong closer. Problem was, as his responsibilities grew as the CEO,...
50% Growth For 2 Straight Years Seemed TOO Easy. For the first few years, RoundTable Technology had the great fortune of growing organically through word of mouth, referrals and a couple of small acquisitions. I took my seat at the RoundTable in 2016 to help with sales and...