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.

Everyone knows it - spoken agreements aren't worth the paper they're written on. The IT Consultant today is facing changes we never imagined a few years ago. Managed services are everywhere. Franchised tech support is everywhere. And now big corporations are trying to compete in the Small Business Space. Whether you like it or not, you need to make some changes in order to meet the challenges of the next few years. Service agreements literally define your business. If you're not using them, you need to start today. If you are using them, great Just make sure that they truly represent who you are and how you want to define your business. Whether you sell your services hourly, in blocks of time, or with a Managed Services plan, you need a good service agreement. You need this book As with his other books, Karl gives you more than just the forms. This book includes best practices and lots of great information to help you run your business more prosperously Includes downloads of all the critical forms and agreements

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.

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

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!

One cannot collect great quotations for very long without finding some great one-liners by Coleman Cox. His favorite topic is sales, but he covers all areas of business and life. Coleman Cox is inspiring and humorous. Originally published almost a century ago, this timeless wisdom remains fresh and useful in the 21st Century.

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.

Small Business project management is simply not as complicated as project management in the enterprise. But small business projects have the same challenges as enterprise projects: They need to achieve their goals effectively, on time, and within budget. They also face the same primary challenge - staying inside the scope of the project This great little book provides a simple process project planning and management process that is easy to learn and easy to teach to your employees, fellow technicians, and sub-contractors. You'll learn to track any project, explain all the stages to clients and employees, and verify that everything is completed on time and under budget. The authors show you a great technique for making sure that scope creep is a thing of the past Make every project a successful and profitable project This book jumps right into a down-and-dirty, get-it-done process for creating and implementing projects that work. The primary audience is the technical consultant. But this process, with very little fine-tuning, should work for just about any SMB project. We show you how to -Meet all the project goals -Maintain excellent communication with the client -Manage expectations -Stay profitableand -Avoid scope creep

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 Joe Kerr contains detailed information about why Joe Biden would be a good president. Exhaustively researched and succinctly presented. There is no better summary of Joe Biden's talents available in America today. Consists of 100 blank pages.

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.

Getting to the next level is a never ending journey for you and your business and now you have the definitive guide book. From the design of the business to the execution on strategy and all the tools you need in between this book covers it. It shows you how to gauge your business maturity and your progress along your roadmap to stratospheric success. Complete with a well defined case study and example by the author that are built from years of experience in business management and guidance.

Learn to design your business from the top down using the Pyramid of Purpose and Value and then build it from the ground up by leveraging Business Agile Strategy Execution (BASE).Your Shared Vision is the heart of your business even more so than your product and service value proposition. Your shared vision must be embedded in your organization's culture so it can permeate all the way down to the ground level. The Pyramid of Purpose and Value allows you to design your business from the top down and to share it in a meaningful way. It paints a clear and enticing picture and tells a very compelling story of how you intend to create stratospheric success. It attracts the right people to back your endeavor and the right people to get on board.

Your ability to define a clear business roadmap & Strategy and then execute on it is one of the biggest determinants of your success. Imagine taking the most advanced methods of Agile development and applying them to your business roadmap & strategy execution. That's Business Agile Strategy Execution. BASE is the most innovative advancement for small and medium size business roadmap development and strategy execution and you can harness and leverage its power for your self. The entire process is clearly defined and broken down in step-by-step fashion using real life examples.Today more than ever there is a demand for value in everything we create or do. Tap into the authors insights on creating a value proposition for your customers that endears them to your business because they see you are a value drive organization. Learn about the elements of success that determine your organizations overall Business Maturity Index and how to drive them in the direction you want. With this book you will have the most important component of a true significant competitive advantage for your business, the blueprint for success.

About the author: Manuel Palachuk is the coach who will take you to the gym not just send you there. He believes that small business is the backbone of the world and the service industry in particular is the heart He has nearly 30 years of business, management and training experience in the computer and electronics industries including owning and managing successful IT and MSP companies.He holds an Associate degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Automated Manufacturing Technology. He is an expert of process, systems, and their efficiency who is driven toward continuous improvement in all aspects of business.

Manuel is an experienced speaker and trainer at industry conferences and other events. He is also the co-author of the Network Migration Workbook, an expansive 600 page document covering the complete processes and checklists required to migrate your network with zero downtime.

Life coach and columnist Jenifer Novak Landers presents fifty ways to reach your full potential by putting the spotlight on your fullest expression. You, fully expressed From that perspective, you have room to love yourself more, express yourself more, reach more of your potential, and give more of yourself to the world. Each chapter was written to guide you into an experience of fulfillment. Enjoy the journey as you see things differently one chapter at a time. Getting stuck in life happens when we see only one perspective. Choosing a higher view, being willing to look from a new angle, or whatever it takes to broaden your original perspective is the way to go from stuck to fulfilled. Use this book to bring on a positive perspective, make moments matter by taking action, and ultimately move forward with a sense of eager anticipation for fulfillment.

Life coach and wellness educator Debbie Leoni presents twelve elements to empower your courageous self and fulfill your ability to live fearlessly in the life of your dreams. By putting the spotlight on embracing the statement, I am Fearless, you are able to experience greater fulfillment and give more to the world. Each of the twelve elements are written to guide you into the experience of your most courageous self. Enjoy the journey as you gain new perspectives and release blocks of fearlessness one chapter at a time. Choosing a fearless mindset requires the awareness and courage that are available through the exercises, meditations and stories shared throughout the book. Learn from others on the path, including the author's personal journey, of being willing to look from a new angle and do whatever it takes to go from fear into courage. Use this book to eliminate stuck places holding you in smallness, limitation or any other form of fear. Make your insights matter by taking action on journal topics and meditation suggestions. You will ultimately move forward with a sense of eager anticipation to enjoy living fearlessly.

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.

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