IT and Business Insights for SMB Solution Providers

Karl Palachuk

A blog for Small Business Consultants and the vendors who serve them. It contains Opinions on business success, News in the SMB consulting space, and Information on what I'm up to.

Small Biz Thoughts
June 22nd, 2012 | Karl Palachuk | Small Biz Thoughts
IT Troubleshooting: Eight Rules and Thirteen Techniques for Success Troubleshooting is a very interesting piece of our jobs. It is almost never taught. Yet it is central to our success. After all, if you have no troubleshooting skills, you'll spend lots of time NOT solving problems. - Read More
 
June 21st, 2012 | Karl Palachuk | Small Biz Thoughts
We just put out a major press release about the SMB Online Conference June 26-28. We have an amazing line-up of speakers. One is my brother and co-author Manuel Palachuk of Conceptual Age Consulting. Manuel is a coach and "outsourced COO" for managed service providers. One of the things he - Read More
 
June 19th, 2012 | Karl Palachuk | Small Biz Thoughts
We just put out a major press release about the SMB Online Conference June 26-28. One of our speakers, Stuart Selbst, is a business coach specializing in the SMB market. Stuart will talk about measuring the success of your business . . . and more. All of our amazing speakers have great topics - - Read More
 
June 15th, 2012 | Karl Palachuk | Small Biz Thoughts
One of the things I always say is that you have to stop doing some things in order to be more successful in others. Well, I am actively taking my own advice. I have recently made a decision to cut out several of the  activities I have been engaged in. I wish I could say that they're not - Read More
 
March 10th, 2010 | Karl Palachuk | Small Biz Thoughts
Sorry for the delay (busy). I attended the first-ever SMB VOIP show in Vegas. It was pretty funny for me to be presenting there. The SMB show was "inside" the larger Channel Partners show. Two years ago some folks from Channel Partners called me because I had proposed a paper for their conference - Read More
 
August 27th, 2009 | Karl Palachuk | Small Biz Thoughts
If you're interested in cloud computing, then keep an eye out for upcoming "Cloud Considerations" posts. I want to make it easy for you to highlight these if you wish. This is kind of the first installment, but I have to say that it's founded in my past postings on cloud computing. For those, go - Read More
 
June 24th, 2009 | Karl Palachuk | Small Biz Thoughts
In 1998 I got a new client because the phone guy pulled me into the job. The telephone business has historically been pretty profitable. It consists of selling "systems" that are too complicated for the client to understand, plus all the labor to pull wiring, and configuration labor. The bad part - Read More
 

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