It's no secret that your experience, your skills, your expertise are valuable -- very valuable. They're the result of big investments. The mystery is why you'd ever give away any of the service value those investments have created. Yet MSPs often offer up their capabilities at no charge.
Learn how to leverage the art of assumptive selling to always receive the fees you've earned. What do you sell? There are so many ways to answer that simple question, and the way you choose to answer it says a lot about who you are, where you're at and what you should be thinking about next. More
Posted by Howard M. Cohen on November 12, 2020 at 11:13 AM0 comments
Today's IT requires more telecom services, more cloud services, more subscriptions than ever. Each one has its own pricing complexity to confound and confuse.
The MSP who is as adept at configuring the most cost-effective licensing and subscription strategy earns far more appreciation by protecting their customers' budgets. Here's some guidance on how to master the services catalog.
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Posted by Howard M. Cohen on October 30, 2020 at 10:06 AM0 comments
You're traveling through a land not of sight nor of sound, but of mind. Well, no, it's not like that. This is not another dimension in the multiverse; it's just another channel. But it's about as large as the one you're in.
If you're from the IT channel, I'm referring to the telecom channel, and if you're from telecom, I'm talking about IT. Two remarkably separate channels operating side-by-side and intersecting far less often than you might think. More
Posted by Howard M. Cohen on September 25, 2020 at 12:55 PM0 comments
You've likely heard that there are only two ways to make money: Sell more to your existing customers or create new customers to sell to. You've probably also heard that selling to existing customers is five times easier than creating new ones. As they say, "In your heart, you know that's true."
The next thing you need are new things to sell to your existing customers that they want and haven't already bought. Back in the "reseller" days, that was easy. You just looked through your distributor's catalogs or the back of industry magazines and found new things, items and products your customers might like. More
Posted by Howard M. Cohen on September 08, 2020 at 11:04 AM0 comments
Value. Cutting right to the heart, managed services providers (MSPs) sell and deliver value to their clients. Otherwise they don't have clients for very long.
When you restore a user's workstation to full function, you are enabling them to resume work. They then work to deliver value to their customers, which returns value to their company. You created value. More
Posted by Howard M. Cohen on August 25, 2020 at 12:59 PM0 comments