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Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | December 2022 | Spend More Time With 5 People Smarter Than You
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Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | December 2022 | Spend More Time With 5 People Smarter Than You

All of us at ErickSimpson.com wish you Happy Holidays and a Joyful New Year! Spend More Time With 5 People Smarter Than You Have you ever heard the motivational speaker Jim Rohn’s quote, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”? I’ve also heard this adapted as: “Show me…

Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | November 2022 | Truing Up Pricing for Legacy Clients
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Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | November 2022 | Truing Up Pricing for Legacy Clients

We are thankful for so much this year and wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving! Truing Up Pricing for Legacy Clients One of the challenges of growing your MSP business profit is the struggle to “true up” or align your legacy clients’ service rates with your current prices for new clients. In working with MSPs,…

Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | October 2022 | It’s Time To Fire Some Customers
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Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | October 2022 | It’s Time To Fire Some Customers

It’s Time To Fire Some Customers… As I write this, it’s Q4 of 2022, and the year isn’t material to my thoughts here, but rather the time of year. If you’re like many MSPs, the fourth quarter of the year begins your preparations to renew expiring Managed Services agreements with your clients to continue your…

Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | September 2022 | MSP Valuation: What’s Your MSP Worth?
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Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | September 2022 | MSP Valuation: What’s Your MSP Worth?

MSP Valuation: What’s Your MSP Worth? You can be well prepared to sell your MSP at the highest valuation when the time is right by taking the appropriate action now. The recurring revenue model of managed IT services offers unique benefits over traditional time and materials, hardware resale, and project-based business models. Delivering remotely provisioned…

Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | July 2022 | Getting Performance Reviews Right
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Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | July 2022 | Getting Performance Reviews Right

Getting Performance Reviews Right I recently had an opportunity to chat with Martin Sinderman to provide my perspective on performance reviews for his article in ChannelPro. I stressed the importance to Martin of changing the execution of performance reviews away from a potentially one-sided and subjective yearly (or longer!) audit by a manager, supervisor, or…

Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | June 2022
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Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | June 2022

How to Deal with Toxic Employees What’s your definition of a toxic employee? Is it someone that: Interferes with teamwork and collaboration? Sabotages the success of the team or individual team members? Demoralizes the rest of the team due to their behavior or attitude? Has damaged good relationships with some of your vendors or customers?…

Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | April 2022
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Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | April 2022

Perfecting The MSP Service Dispatch Process In this context, the service dispatcher participates in your service delivery incident lifecycle management processes, and schedules and assigns resources to address incidents and problems experienced by the clients and users you support; whether technical support is delivered remotely or onsite at a client’s location or elsewhere, such as…

Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | March 2021
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Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | March 2021

10 Business Tips for Selling Virtually How is your business growing during quarantine? Growth during what’s being called the “new normal” is on every one of the partners I work with’s minds – and I’m sure it’s on yours too. The pandemic has forever changed the way we and our clients will do business in…

Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | February 2021
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Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | February 2021

Want to really grow your MSP practice instead of just running it? Attend my 4th MSP Mastered®Business Transformation Masterclass FREE! I’m delivering my NEW MSP Mastered® Certification Program FREE! My fourth Webinar in the Series Starts Thursday, Feb 25th @ 9am PT Pricing and Bundling for Profit: Whether your MSP business is a mature practice, or you are…

Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | January 2021
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Erick Simpson’s MSP Newsletter | January 2021

It’s a New Year and I’m doing something I’ve never done… I’m delivering my NEW MSP Mastered® Certification Program FREE! The MSP Mastered® Masterclass series is a free certification program to help you gain the skills you need to be a Rockstar MSP by gaining clarity amid chaos. MSP Mastered Certification Program includes 4 Levels….