Small Biz Thoughts by Karl W. Palachuk

Per the PayPal "Changes" Page . . . . https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/upcoming-policies-full Effective July 28, 2022: - U.S. business accounts will not be able to receive person...

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 The National Society of IT Service Providers is holding elections for ALL positions: Every committee position and every board of directors position. Please join us for a live Zoom meeting�...

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MYTIE AND I ARE BUSY PACKING FOR CHANNELCON - JOIN US! In case you haven't seen the vendor hall at ChannelCon . . . it's pretty amazing. The one defining factor is: It's a very egalitarian ...

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Here's an idea to consider: The next time you get a pitch from a vendor, ask this a simple question: HOW DOES THIS PRODUCT/SERVICE/SOLUTION MAP TO CMMC PROCESSES AND PRACTICES? By now, I'm...

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MANAGING YOUR SERVICE BOARD 5 Consecutive Tuesdays STARTS: JUL 05, 2022 Ends: Aug 02, 2022 9am Pacific - 50 minutes Handouts & Resources Register Now - Only $299 Learn how to p...

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OK. Good clean fun: 1) Everyone should attend CompTIA's ChannelCon event. Seriously. If nothing else, register so you can get the content that's streamed and all the related materials. 2) YOU...

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My Mission/Vision Statements - 1995 to today. WE GET MAIL . . .  Marty asked me a simple question recently: What was my mission statement at KPEnterprises (my first managed service busines...

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CAN IT THE CONSULTING INDUSTRY REGULATE THEMSELVES? In the last post,  HERE , I talked about some lessons we can learn about industry regulation from automotive repair. In this post, I want to...

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THE IT INDUSTRY IS BEING REGULATED. "Not being regulated" is no longer an option. Regulations come from many places, including state and federal agencies. Actual laws are a little ways down the r...

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News from our friends over at D&H . . . D&H Adds HPE Greenlake and CTO Capabilities, Creating New Ways For MSPs to Benefit from Consumption-Based Cloud — D&H Selects HPE GreenLake and Confi...

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I received this press release from my friends over at Field Effect . . . AITE-NOVARICA GROUP REPORT EXPLORES NEW MANAGED SECURITY SOLUTION FOR MSPS SEEKING GROWTH The firm found MSPs see t...

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I am a member of CompTIA and have been on various councils and forums for years. THE event of the year is COMPTIA'S CHANNELCON event. Now you can attend for free, compliments of Small Biz Thou...

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 I was re-listening to Mitch Joel's book SIX PIXELS OF SEPARATION recently (via Audible). Early on, he throws out an important statement and then scurries on to make a bigger point. But the key ...

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My daughter made an interesting observation about social media yesterday. We were talking about how TikTok is currently for "younger" people while Facebook is more for "older" people. But someday...

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THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF IT SERVICE PROVIDERS has a new VENDOR PARTNER PROGRAM! CHANNEL VENDORS: PLEASE JOIN US - LITERALLY. AMY BABINCHAK (NSITSP Board President) and I are hosting an onlin...

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OUR INDUSTRY IS UNDER ATTACK ON SEVERAL FRONTS - AND YOUR CLIENTS KNOW IT! Yesterday, I attended a meeting of the California Society of Association Executives - Cal SAE, a part of the American S...

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Class - Highly Successful Project Management for Small Business  - Based on the book Project Management in Small Business Taught By: Karl Palachuk, author and coach - Five Tuesdays  - ...

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My friends over at ChannelPro dropped this in my inbox . . . CALLING ALL TEXAS MSPS: THE CHANNELPRO NETWORK ANNOUNCES 2022 CHANNELPRO SMB FORUM EVENT IN DALLAS JUNE 6-7 ChannelPro’s in-p...

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From my friends at GreenLink . . . ----- Addison, Texas – May 17, 2022 - GREENLINK NETWORKS, a channel-only provider of Business VoIP services, is pleased to announce the release of two hig...

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 I'll repeat this and more on the NSITSP blog (https://www.nsitsp.org/news/ ), but this blog has more readers, so reporting here makes sense. The NATIONAL SOCIETY OF IT SERVICE PROVIDERS had ...

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My friends at ASCII slipped this under the door . . . -- -- --  Bethesda, Maryland – May 5, 2022 – The ASCII Group, a large membership-based community of independent North American MS...

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR . . . EVERYONE WELCOME! The NSITSP has set May 11th for the the next all-member meeting. 9AM Pacific / Noon Eastern I know a lot of activity has been going on quietly, bu...

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HOW TO BUILD A VALUABLE LOCAL LINKEDIN NETWORK - by Amy Babinchak, Microsoft MVP and owner of three technology-related businesses. UPDATED: Version 3 - April 2022 Long-time community member ...

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THE SMB IT COMMUNITY MAY NOT HAVE CHOSEN THE PATH WE'RE ON, BUT WE HAVE BUILT IT ONE BRICK AT A TIME. When I ask, "How large is your company?" how do you answer that question? Some people im...

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