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Since almost the day we started my consulting company I've been wanting to change the name as I haven't truly been happy with it. Personally I am enamored with the idea of running a company with a name like Architel or Everon, and want to change my name to something similar. I believe we may have[...]

I’ve been keeping what amounts to a blog since 1997 in one form or another, but up until starting this blog had always kept my writings more on the personal level. I had brought up ideas or problems I had run into, but always kept a very personal and sometimes adversarial tone to topics. I realize[...]

I awoke this morning to a post on smbITpros.com about CRM and PSA tools, and the limited scope of products a provider had been looking at for the transition to managed services. What interested me the most was Josh’s mention of how he was shocked to see that the provider had only considered Salesf[...]

One of the common themes I’ve found over the years, especially when dealing with potential or new clients, is disconnect between a client’s pricing expectations versus reality. Often a client has been running their business technology needs at a certain level, and is either moving up to the next[...]

Seems that Microsoft has withdrawn its offer to purchase Yahoo. Easiest way to find more details is to hit the Slashdot article. Frankly I'm very happy to hear this news, as I've had some talks and discussions about possibly using Zimbra recently, but was possibly going to delay or scuttle those pro[...]

Yesterday I came across an addition to a post on the History of Geeks On Call blog that pointed to an article regarding the formation of a new technical consulting company called Tech Herd. The company just happened to be formed by former Geeks on Call Vice President of Operations, Michael Vandersli[...]

When does a person begin to consider someone who is persistent has crossed the line into being overly aggressive or even harassing? There is a company I had spoken to at one point about possibly providing data services for the one company I work for. They have a quality product, at a very reasonable[...]

I’ve read a ton of business blog posts in the past about firing customers, but up until recently have never had to act on any of that information. But as of this past Friday, have finally gone and fired my first client. I have to say I didn’t pursue this particular venue without a bit of trep[...]

I have two hosting companies I deal with on a regular basis. The first of course being HostMySite.com, while the other is the big player over at Rackspace. For the most part, both companies offer dedicated managed servers running Windows or Red Hat, with 24x7 Support and quality networks and top not[...]

Day Two at the SMB Nation conference started a little slow, as I think a lot of people had lots of fun the previous night. Between the happy hour and the dinner that many of us partook in, we were all feeling a little rough that morning. But once things got going it was another great day, with a bun[...]