The ultimate do-it-now guide to getting started in Managed Services. Now includes chapters on Cloud Services, bundling, and more.

Whether you're a NEW Computer Consultant or an experienced technician making the move to managed services, this is the perfect book for you

The book includes step-by-step instructions for creating service offerings, reformulating your business, creating service agreements, and more Downloadable content includes forms, checklists, and spreadsheets you can customize for your business.

The #1 selling book on managed services Now with ten new chapters, this is the ultimate guide to building a successful managed service business.

Cloud Services in a Month is a step-by-step, no-nonsense guide to building an extremely profitable cloud service business for the SMB (small and medium business) market. Filled with practical advice based on the author's experience over more than a decade, this guide is the playbook you will use for success in the Cloud.

Karl Palachuk is one of the most well-known and respected authors and pioneers in the Managed Services industry and has sold and delivered millions of dollars of Cloud services to his clients. In this book he shares exactly how he did it.

Palachuk spells out all the details you need to build a Cloud Five-Pack(TM) - The custom bundled offering of services you will market, sell, and deliver to your prospects and customers. Chock full of additional assets such as spreadsheets, checklists, processes, and more, Cloud Services in a Month includes everything you need to hit the ground running - even if you're not a Cloud expert.

Whether you have a time-and materials, professional services, or managed services practice, Cloud Services in a Month reveals how to incorporate Cloud services into your existing solution stack and up-sell and cross-sell the Cloud with your existing services in 30 days.

Palachuk's other books includes Managed Services in a Month, The Managed Services Operations Manual, Service Agreements for SMB Consultants, Project Management in Small Business, and The Network Documentation Workbook.

How can you guarantee that your company delivers great service, has a great culture, and still manages to stay profitable? You need to follow certain Unbreakable Rules for success. Best-selling business author and coach Karl W. Palachuk draws on more than thirty years of owning and running service-based businesses to present the rules his companies live by.

These rules will help you align your personal and professional goals while creating standard operating procedures to automate successful habits. Notice that The customer is always right is not on the list. Why? Because everyone knows that's not true. Customers are frequently wrong, or would make bad decisions if we didn't help them to make good decisions.

Palachuk doesn't waste your time giving lip service to worn out platitudes. Instead, this book is focused on building a great, successful business in the 21st Century. And since the rules are absolutely unbreakable, they will stand the test of time and the changing business environment.

In addition to his unbreakable rules, Palachuk gives advice on identifying your own unbreakable rules. Branding, he says, is everything you do in your company: The way you hire, the way you greet customers, the way you document processes, the way you invoice, how you handle difficult conversations, and much more. Your business is a reflection of your beliefs and values. It should be built with intention, not something that just happened.

Some of these rules help you make money. Some of them keep your work standards high. Some build culture. All of them help your employees and client to understand the culture that embedded in your brand. This book will help you identify and codify the core elements of your success. It will also help you build the definitive list of absolutely unbreakable rules that will guide your business going forward.

About Karl

Karl W. Palachuk is the author of more than twenty books. He has started and run several businesses over the last twenty-five years, including a business training and coaching company that has taken him all over the globe. He is a popular blogger, YouTuber, podcaster, and keynote speaker. You can find Karl's blog at RelaxFocusSucced.com.

Karl has worked with thousands of business owners and managers - and helped several of them make the move to self-employment. With this workbook, Karl will help you make the launch as well. This workbook is guaranteed to help you learn about what it takes to start and run your new business.

This workbook is designed specifically to help IT Consultants to plan - and evaluate - the year ahead. Unlike a basic business book, this workbook focuses on the activities of a successful IT Service Provider.

Yes, you'll document your goals and financial picture for the year ahead. But there's much, much more. Running a managed service business is not the same as other businesses. You need to plan how you'll work with vendors and new technology. You need constant training to keep up on constant changes.

You'll examine:

- Your plans - Your finances - Your vendors - Events you might (and might not) attend - Webinars and online training - and more.

Plus essays, forms, and exercises designed to focus on success.

In other words: There's a lot of work that goes into a successful year. As Karl likes to say: Nothing Happens by Itself

Plus - Lots of forms and checklists to help you build a successful year ahead - with intention!

So, You Want to be Self-Employed...
Congratulations on taking the plunge As scary as it seems right now, starting your own business will be one of the highlights of your life. This workbook will remove the scary part of your decision. How? It will give you information, direction, and inspiration you need to move ahead without (much) fear.

Maybe you have a long-held dream of starting your genius business. Maybe you're trying to turn your gig into a business. Or maybe your boss has decided to downsize and you don't fit anymore. No matter why you're starting your business, you'll be a lot more successful if you take it seriously from the start. Everyone wants to quit their job sometime. But when you want to quit your job all the time, then you don't have any choice.

This workbook is divided into three sets of tasks: Planning (before you leave your job); The Launch; and the First Year. There are 30-40 items you need to tackle at each stage. Thinking and planning about all these details will help you move quickly from a business idea to a profitable first year.

This workbook was designed for anyone who feels the pull of self-reliance and self-employment. It's also great for anyone who started their business in the last few years and is wondering if they did it right, but the real audience is the first-time entrepreneur.

If you've never started a business before, you probably don't know all the tiny details that need to be taken care of with regard to licenses, taxes, finances, banking, insurance, and all the other stuff you'll need to take care of in your business. You'll figure it out eventually (we all do), but life will be a lot easier if you figure it out before you make too many mistakes.

Running a business is a never-ending balancing act. The world keeps changing. The tools change, the technology changes, and the customers change. You will make mistakes. And it's always harder than it sounds like to non-business owners. But running your own business is one of the most rewarding things you'll ever do. If you're excited about the prospect of independence and the rewards of self-employment, then this book is for YOU

Modern society is pretty good at pushing us to overwork, stress out, and take on more than we can possibly do well. But most people are no more successful or productive - They're just stressed out, overworked, and their personal lives are in turmoil. It doesn't have to be that way. You still need lots of hard work. But there really is a way to balance your life and become more successful. Success that gives you a heart attack, an ulcer, or a hundred other ailments is no success at all. Learn from a very successful entrepreneur how to find a balance that will also make you extremely effective at reaching your goals in all aspects of your life. Karl achieves dramatic results year after year while working a limited schedule due to his chronic illness. Learn the simple rules to balance your life, find tremendous success, and live longer. Relax Focus Succeed is easy to understand, fun to read, and really can change your life! Karl W. Palachuk is a business owner, entrepreneur, author, father, speaker, publisher, blogger, podcaster, and a community builder. He has written ten books and Relax Focus Succeed is his favorite. Karl has presented the message of Relax Focus Succeed to audiences from Los Angeles to Amsterdam. In addition to simply writing and speaking about a balanced life, Karl works hard to keep balance in his life. He suffers from Rheumatoid Arthritis, an immune disease that limits his activity level and forces him to find ways to do more with less time.

A great gag gift for family members, business associates, and anyone who thinks that success comes easy. This is a gag gift filled with completely BLANK pages. A great book to keep on your coffee table for guests. Excellent conversation starter. Assuming your friends have a sense of humor, this makes a great gift. This thoroughly researched book by motivational speaker Karl W. Palachuk contains detailed information about the real world of easy success. Includes detailed case studies of every known example of successes that happened without any effort whatsoever. This is a 100 page book consisting of scary copyright warnings, followed by blank pages. There is one page for your personal notes at the end.

Managed Service Provider in 1 Monat ist ein sachliches Managementhandbuch um erfolgreich Managed
Services aufzubauen. Ob Sie gerade beginnen oder Ihre exsistierenden L sungsans tze bei Systemst rungen
zu Managed Services konvertieren wollen, dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen den Weg.
Diese neu berarbeitete und erweiterte dritte Auflage beinhaltet zehn komplet neue Kapitel. Die erweiterten
Bereiche im Buch decken Themen ab wie Cloud Services, BDR (Datensicherung und Notfallwiederherstellung)
und vieles mehr.
Fr here Auflagen dieses Buches haben sich in den lezten 10 Jahren als Bestseller im Bereich Managed
Services erwiesen - jedenfalls seit sich der Ausdruck Managed Services als Gesch ftsmodell der Zukunft
etabliert hat.
Managed Service Provider in 1 Monat ist gradlinig und praxisnahe. Karl zeigt Ihnen Schritt f r Schritt wie
Sie ihr Gesch ft transformieren. Und ja - Sie k nnen es wirklich in einem Monat schaffen
Karl W. Palachuk ist Autor von 17 B chern, unter anderem The Managed Services Operations
Manual, Service Agreements for SMB Consultantsund The Network Documentation Workbook.
Er ist ebenfalls Autor einer der popul rsten Blogs zum Thema Managed Services und Standardarbeitsanweisugen
f r I.T. Berater.
Die dritte Auflage von Managed Service Provider in 1 Monat ist das definitive Handbuch zu MSP
Verfahrensweisen, Preisbildung und Lieferung.
- Joshua Liberman, President Net Sciences, Inc.

Publish Your First Book: A Quick Start Guide to Professional Publishing in the Digital Age by Karl W. Palachuk is a no-nonsense guide for self-publishing authors. The author has self-published nine books, including several best-sellers in his area of expertise. He has published more than a dozen books. This guide is intended to help new publishers avoid the mistakes that make their books look cheap and unprofessional. As publishing becomes easier for amateurs and first-time publishers, many people fall into the believe that it's easy to create a quality book. From the writing to editing, cover design, layout, and proofreading, there's a tendency to cut corners and produce a bad book where a good one could exist. This guide helps those self-publishing authors make good decisions and produce a professional book the first time. Publish Your First Book covers three primary areas for producing a quality book. First, it covers the basic mechanics of getting ISBNs, registering the book with the Library of Congress, and finding a quality printer. Second, it also covers interior and exterior design, copy editing, and the mechanics of presentation. Third, it addresses marketing, promotion, and sales of the book itself. Throughout it is filled with business advice and tips from a professional who makes a living with self publishing. The emphasis here is on modern, digital self-publishing.

Servicios gestionados en un mes es una guía práctica para crear una empresa exitosa de servicios gestionados. Tanto si está empezando de cero como si está convirtiendo su negocio preexistente de consultoría tecnológica ruptura y arreglo (break/fix) en servicios gestionados, este libro le enseñará cómo hacerlo. La segunda edición recientemente revisada y ampliada tiene nueve capítulos, que cubren los más recientes productos y servicios disponibles en el mercado--incluyendo las tecnologías en la nube. Karl deja claro que los servicios gestionados es el modelo de negocio del futuro. Servicios gestionados en un mes es muy práctico y va al grano. Karl le enseña cómo transformar su negocio paso a paso. Y sí, realmente se puede hacer en un mes! Karl W. Palachuk es autor de diez libros, incluyendo The Network Documentation Workbook, Service Agreements for SMB Consultants - A Quick-Start Guide to Managed Services, y The Network Migration Workbook. Es también autor del blog más popular sobre servicios gestionados. Durante diecisiete años, Karl fue propietario de una empresa consultora y actualmente es ingeniero superior de sistemas en America Tech Support. Además, proporciona asesoramiento técnico a pequeñas y medianas empresas en Norteamérica, ofreciendo servicios de asesoramiento comercial y capacitación de máximo nivel en temas técnicas.

The Network Migration Workbook - 2nd Edition for 2012 - gives you everything you need to migrate a Windows network - with emphasis on the SBS 2011, SBS 2008, and SBS 2003 environments. It won't fit in your back pocket. It's on full letter size paper and it's 536 pages But it definitely has everything you need. The authors start with a discussion of the entire process so you see the big picture. The authors talk about the scope of work and how critical it is to your internal processes and your relationship with the client. Next, they introduce the pre-discovery process. That means making a list of all the things you need to discover so you really understand the project. After the pre-discovery is complete, you can quote the project. They lay out a process based on 10+ years of SBS Migration experience. The book divides the migration into seven distinct stages. It shows you how to estimate the labor required for each stage. So you can always create a quote that's exactly suited for each client. Those seven stages become seven service requests. You and the client agree on everything. As you finish each stage, you track every minute of every job. ALL work is inside the scope of the project. If it's not inside the scope, then it must be outside the scope. In that case, you create a new service request that's billable. The client agrees because they've bought in from the beginning. Now you've delivered your migration project on time and inside the budget. All other work is outside the scope of the migration project and therefore billable. Don't worry. The authors show you how to complete every piece of this process. Includes Excel spreadsheets with quotes, the wording for the service requests, and click-by-click every keystroke it takes to deliver a migration with zero downtime. This process has been used successfully in network migrations small and large - all around the world - in thousands of networks. Zero Downtime means that all client operations remain live while you migrate the servers, desktops, and databases during normal business hours. Because the old system remains completely intact, you can now have stress-free migrations that can be scheduled over time. No more evening and weekend migrations No more client downtime