Got Assets? N-central Makes it Easy! (Part I)

Aug 30, 2010

Categories: Best Practices, Company Announcement
You may already know this, but N-central is a very powerful asset management tool. How so, you ask?  Well, because it leverages multiple technologies (WMI for Windows machines and SNMP for networking gear, amongst others), N-central obtains lots...
 

Little Known Facts about N-central 7.0 (Part 1)

Jun 23, 2010

Categories: Company Announcement, Best Practices
As one of the resident tech guys at N-able, I thought it would be cool to offer up some good dirt on N-central 7.0 that would ultimately make your job as the MSP easier.  For example, did you know that N-central 7.0 comes standard with more than 1...
 

Less Leads to More – à la carte Managed Services

Jun 9, 2010

Categories: Best Practices, Industry Predictions, Market Dynamics
Over the last six months, we’ve seen a growing number of our MSP partners take an à la carte approach to managed services using our freemium software offerings. By turning their focus to one or two managed service offerings such as endpoint secu...
 

PC Assistance Relies on Trust to Grow Managed Services

Mar 2, 2010

Categories: Best Practices
Here's a great success story from one of our MSP partners - PC Assistance in Little Rock, Arkansas.  Enjoy! When PC Assistance launched its managed services business in 2005, it first explained the idea to a small group of its top customers an...
 

How to Create a Hot Business Topic for Your Next Presentation

Feb 25, 2010

Categories: Best Practices
One proven business-building technique that works for virtually any service business is to conduct seminars and workshops on topics that will attract and appeal to your target market. In addition to the Lunch and Learn format, which is logisti...
 

Doing More with Less Increases Demand for Remote Technology and IT Support Services

Oct 21, 2009

Categories: Best Practices, Company Announcement
Great partnership & trending release from N-able Partner AllSector.  http://www.allsector.com/AllSector/NewsReleases/AllSector%20Nable%20Final%20Release_10_21_09.pdf Like what you see?  If you're an N-able partner and want to share your MSP...
 

MSP Boot Camp on Thursday in Philly

May 27, 2009

Categories: Company Announcement, Best Practices
N-able is hosting an MSP Channel Boot camp in Philly this Thursday (open to all service providers).    The event is being led by Precision IT, one of our Elite Partners, and will focus specifically on how to build a MSP practice and exactly how...
 

Goal Setting is Critical

Sep 25, 2008

Categories: Best Practices, Market Dynamics
I have to say (and in case you haven’t seen it), Josh’s post on Putting Goals on Paper and Sharing Them is really encouraging to see. http://smbitpros.com/2008/09/12/putting-your-goals-on-paper-and-sharing-them/ As manager of N-able’s business ...
 

"So You Want to be an MSP?"

Apr 30, 2008

Categories: Market Dynamics, Best Practices
I read an interesting article today in ESP Magazine called “So You Want to Be an MSP?”  http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Tech-Analysis/So-You-Want-to-Be-an-MSP/   It’s a well written piece and the author, Frank Ohlhorst, has obviously don...
 

Guesswork OUT, Profits IN -- Quick Tips for Qualifying IT Assessments

Apr 14, 2008

Categories: Best Practices
Over the past couple years I’ve seen an increasing number of IT service provider websites that advertise free IT assessments. It’s not that a free assessment isn’t of any value – it is indeed and that’s the problem.  By not charging to do an IT ...
 
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