Since the dawn of time, psychopathy has been positioned as a negative “grouping of personality characteristics” – the makings of a serial killer or the beginnings of an epic con man. But, in all reality, is psychopathy really such a bad thing? Think about it for a minute. It’s been said that out of every [...]
Over the last few years, there’s been a movement towards Progressive Reduction, where the design of something is gradually simplified for the sophisticated user. The outcome can have a variety of results – like an icon that no longer needs a label or a logo that has been reduced to a quarter of what it [...]
For you, being a nerd is simply part of your biological makeup; it’s who you are. But knowing nerd-like things… now that’s another story. Building up that beautiful “nerdness” requires a different kind of dedication. A case in point of this careful character crafting is that it takes far more than one viewing of Lord [...]
Marketing is all about vision and risks. It’s about making connections, delving into the analytics, crossing those fingers, and encouraging creativity. It’s about forcing your products and solutions to come to life in different ways, for different people. But for everyone outside of the marketing world, marketing is about having fun. It’s about crayons, PDFs, [...]
As a Managed Service Provider, you’ve got this whole content thing in the bag. For once in your life, you are the popular kid. You are king of online engagement, and everything you create drips of interesting, useful, and exciting information. Right…? Let’s hope so. You have the freedom to write on topics like smart [...]
It feels so very right to let distractions have their way with you at work. It’s like when go grocery shopping on an empty stomach. You don’t really need that ham or that ice cream or that bag of chips or that family pack of extra-large chocolate puddings. But your growling stomach says otherwise. When [...]
We all know the curse of the MSP well – everyone does the same thing, boasts the same features, and promises the same level of service. We’re all in the same ocean, sinking in a pathetically small boat, and each one of us is paddling desperately to the only life preserver within a 50 mile [...]
When you’re just beginning this whole running-a-business-thing, it’s easy to fall into the whole go-with-the-flow mindset. You take things as they come, learn as you go, and hope for the best. And for a while, this might actually work. But eventually, it won’t. Things will become harder to manage and more difficult to keep track [...]
You know that feeling you get when you try to talk to non-technical people about technical things? It feels like you’re speaking to a brick wall, except this brick wall has the ability to make things incredibly awkward and uncomfortable. When we speak to our members about business operations, we tend to receive this same [...]
Many people like to assert that selling Managed IT Services is in no way, shape, or form sexy. And to that… we 100% agree. Tell anyone that you work in Managed IT Services and the only thing they’ll ever think about when they see you is glasses. It’s inevitable – even if you are a [...]
