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A step-by-step guide to reselling for VARs and MSPs

Rich and Erick discuss Gradient MSP’s new billing reconciliation tool and long-term strategy, urge you to unplug (like, really) during your Thanksgiving break, and finger the unlikely culprit responsible for damaging a U.K. family’s car.

Erick and Rich discuss the new platform and RMM solution from ConnectWise, the wisdom of identifying your worst customers now so you can fire them come January, and the latest oddball limited edition holiday offers from America’s fast-food restaurants.

This Expert Guide offers some helpful advice on incident response management, how to expand your security offerings by partnering with security providers, and what you should know about zero trust. It also provides some tips for protecting customers against phishing attacks and deep fakes, and highlights some common mistakes to avoid in your own practice.

This Expert Guide dives into some current opportunities, including adding services on top of Microsoft 365 rather than just selling licenses, developing deep expertise in Azure features to solve customer problems, and building high-margin cloud bundles.

Erick and Rich discuss Atera’s new AI-powered RMM automation feature, why you should ask vendors and distributors regularly about new resources for helping you grow, and a local election in Maine set to be decided by drawing straws.

Feel free to tackle only simple challenges, channel pros. Just don’t expect to make much at it. Take it from this week’s guest host, podcaster and industry analyst Dave Sobel, it’s the hard stuff that produces big money. Dave, Matt, and Rich have plenty to say about that topic, as well as the news from Acronis’s CyberFit Summit, and Dave has a few thoughts to share about Kaseya’s efforts to harden its software against future breaches too.

Live together from sunny Miami, Erick and Rich discuss the strategic implications of the Acronis Cyber Network, the challenges of preserving office culture in a work-from-anywhere organization, and the misadventures of what may be the world’s stupidest hiker.

This Expert Guide offers planning tips for selling your business, a checklist that will help you find just the right M&A candidate if you’re on the hunt, and advice on how to ensure a smooth onboarding process once you do buy another MSP. It also includes some perspective from an MSP business owner who has successfully gone through the M&A process.

This Expert Guide includes tips on building a work-from-home security stack, a look at the IoT security minefield (and opportunity), some best practices for cloud security, and a first-hand account of how one channel pro is expanding the circle of safety for her business, customers, and employers.