Coming Today: The MSPmentor 100
Two things are competing for my time and attention today: A blizzard here in New York, and the launch of the third-annual MSPmentor 100 — which debuts at 2:00 p.m. eastern today during our special webcast. How will I escape from the blizzard to moderate the webcast? Here’s the answer…
Actually, the answer is pretty logical: I’m heading to a Long Island network operation center (NOC), managed by one of the world’s fastest-growing solutions providers. I’ll share more details today during the webcast.
Also during the webcast: Two CEOs representing two of the world’ top MSPs will cover your most pressing business, financial and sales questions. And we’ll unveil the complete third-annual MSPmentor 100 list. Plus, ConnectWise CEO Arnie Bellini will share real-world perspectives from IT Nation.
I look forward to your questions. Please note: ConnectWise is sponsoring the webcast, but the MSPmentor 100 research and related results are not sponsored.
How come the folks in the MSP100 aren’t more visible in the “community”? I don’t recognize a majority of those names (other than linked from press releases).
There are some tremendous resources available in the newsgroups and forums (I’m a CW users, so stop there frequently). To me it’s the smaller shops that are most valuable to me. There confidence and comfortness to share thoughts, opinions, ideas, etc. are more important than the number of seats the manage and $ they make.
I’ll be curious to see the list of blogs and twitter accounts to see what these larger MSP are doing to help the IT Nation.
All typos were intentional. And comfortness may not be a real word, but conveyed what was in my mind. 😉
Go the IT Nation! Woot.
Hi Abe: Plenty of MSPs are active in various communities (MSPAlliance, CompTIA, vendor user groups, peer groups, etc.). I don’t think there’s a one-size-fits-all approach to MSPs. For instance, the needs of a $50 million MSP are far different than a $2 million MSP…
-jp
Hi Abe,
We are most interested in being visible to our clients and then building strong relationships in the MSP community. No one has made it on the MSP 100 by just being visible to other MSP’s.
There are also different reasons individuals join a community…… to learn, share, network, inspire and many others.
I am sure many of the bigger MSP’s would welcome a coffee or beer next time you see them at an event. You might be surprised to find them asking you how you do what you do as no one person has the right to all the best ideas in the world :).
Reflecting on my experiences with a number of different communities (ConnectWise user groups, Kaseya user groups, MSPAlliance, HTG peer groups, community groups, etc.) the more I get involved the more I get out of it…so my encouragement would be to continue to invest in your communities, partnerships and relationships. You might be surprised on how much you and your company gain in return.
Kindest Regards
Tim