SMB Community Podcast

Host Karl talked to Abe Stein, Co-founder and General Manager at Matter365. Matter365 is a practice management solution for law firms, accounting firms, and SMBs of all kinds. It is built on top of Microsoft 365. As an experienced entrepreneur and sales leader, Abe has led Go-To-Market and business development for early stage and growth stage cloud software businesses across North America and Euro...

Host Karl interviews Jim Goldman from Trava Security, Inc. Jim wrote the book on cyber security, literally! He is a nationally published author and frequently requested speaker and subject matter expert on relevant technical topics such as cybersecurity. He was a university faculty scholar at Purdue University, started a cybersecurity research lab serving the FBI, and built the company's first Sec...

IT/MSP Business Growth Coaching Services Host Karl interviews Ian Luckett from Innovate to Success. Ian Luckett is a multi-talented IT & MSP business growth expert with over 20 years' experience as a mentor, coach and business strategist. Over the years of working at various blue-chip companies holding a variety of senior positions, no one fits the profile better than Ian to help you build a profi...

Host Karl caught up with Paco Lebron from the MSP Unplugged podcast to talk about their upcoming LIVE event in Chicago - TechCon Unplugged. Juicy details at https://techconunplugged.com/ . Paco Lebron is the CEO and Founder of ProdigyTeks Inc. an MSP located in the West Loop of Chicago. Paco also co-hosts MSP Unplugged, a live, weekly podcast for aspiring IT business owners and vendors in the MSP...

Host Karl Palachuk talks about how he got started in the SMB consulting business, and a few early decisions that made all the difference. Feedback welcome. You can find the 68-point checklist at https://store.smallbizthoughts.com (it's free). :-) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Host Karl caught up with Ryan Morris from Morris Management Partners and the Secure Connections Podcast by IOTSSA. Ryan is a longtime member of the SMB IT Community and a well-known speaker and trainer in the industry. And, of course, he's one of the hosts of The Killing IT Podcast - https://killingit.smallbizthoughts.com . Ryan is the principal at Morris Management Partners. MMP provides: Go-To-M...

Host James interviews Karl Palachuk from the National Society of IT Service Providers on their new initiatives and what they're up to. What is the National Society of IT Service Providers? A new IT-central professional association dedicated to education, professionalism, and advocacy on behalf of the SMB IT industry. For more information on NSITSP, visit https://www.nsitsp.org Karl Palachuk is one...

Building an "Operating System" for your Business Brett Jaffe is a strategic coach and advisor for IT professionals. Host Karl caught up with him to discuss the topic of creating a business operating system. Over a period of 25 years, Brett has built and sold three companies (including an MSP, cloud reseller, and digital forensics business), led hundreds of soldiers as an officer in the US Army, an...

Host Karl interviewed Ali Imran from Boundless Digital. Boundless Digital provides a system for Managing Cisco Meraki Organizations. With the Boundless Digital service, one engineer can do the work of many, including automate the deployment, troubleshooting, and overall administration of Meraki organizations. Imran is a Solutions Consultant working in the pre-sales process, as well as aiding in pr...

Host Karl interviews Frances Moore from Inbay Ltd. Inbay provides more than just a "back office" NOC or SOC: They can provide almost all of your remove support. We discuss everything from hourly support to outsourcing major projects. Frances Moore is Marketing Director of Inbay Ltd, bringing more than 12 years of experience, marketing high-end leading brands, streamlining business processes and im...

Colin Knox, founder of Passportal, has launched a new venture called Gradient MSP. Gradient MSP is launching the first module of their data intelligence platform, focused on data hygiene and cleaning up all the dirty data that has accumulated in MSPs PSA solution. Colin has spent the past 20 years deeply embedded in the technology field. Founding both XCEL Professional Services (MSP) and Passporta...

Host Karl talks with Alan Rihm from CoreDial - www.coredial.com . CoreDial is a leading provider of high-quality and scalable cloud communications, contact center, and video collaboration to more than 32,000 businesses. The company's solutions are quickly and easily auto-provisioned through its CoreNexa™ platform, which seamlessly integrates with other essential business applications. For small- t...

Host Karl caught up with Jason Bystrak from D&H Distributing. Jason is D&H's VP of Cloud and Services Cloud and XaaS is positioned to grow as more companies have been compelled to embrace digital transformation throughout the pandemic, moving greater amounts of their infrastructures and services to the cloud. Small to mid-size businesses have shown themselves to be especially agile in light of the...

Host Karl interviewed Tom Watson, Channel Chief Advisor at NinjaRMM. Tom is a former owner of an MSP for 15 years. He's now with Ninja, working to deliver quality information to MSPs to help them grow their businesses and increase profitability. Tom is also the Co-host of NinjaRMM's MSP Live Chats webinar series, host of the MSP Breakthrough podcast series. Links: https://www.ninjarmm.com/msplivec...

Host Karl caught up with Mario Pirolozzi, VP of Sales at Zomentum, to talk about their Sales Acceleration Platform. Mario is a 10 year industry veteran whose career has been dedicated to assisting thousands of MSPs and IT service providers in their go-to-market plans, sales strategy, and execution. As a former VP of Sales for Datto, and current VP of Sales at Zomentum, Mario is uniquely positioned...

Host Karl caught up with Greg Edwards, founder of CryptoStopper, about the details of how Cryptoware works. He's a great source on this topic since he's built a product to stop ransomware in its tracks. CryptoStopper creates randomly-named files of random sizes to monitor in key locations. Then, they monitor those files as well as other activities on your clients' computers. When CryptoStopper see...

Host Karl talks to ASCII CEO Alan Weinberger about his new book - The Doctor's In: Treating America's Greatest Cyber Security Threat . Of course, we also talked about the state of the industry and what's ahead for IT consultants. Alan book illuminate for the general public how important a Managed Service Provider is in maintaining the health of our economy and our infrastructure itself, in the new...

Host James Kernan interviews Dave Scott from Scott Digital Marketing. Dave Scott is the Founder, President and CEO of Scott Growth Strategies. Dave has over 20 years of experience working with MSPs, Tech and IT firms and B2B companies. He pours his wealth of marketing knowledge into clients making sure they're seen, heard and valued in the current tech climate. In the end, Dave delivers digital ma...

More and more every day, you need privacy policies on your web site. These requirements change every day. How can you possibly stay legal and up to date? The quick answer: You pretty much can't. That's where Termageddon comes in. Host Karl interviewed Hans & Donata Skillrud from Termageddon. Termageddon aggregates privacy policies and generates valid privacy policy text based on your business and...

Host Karl talked to James Norrie from CyberconIQ. CyberconIQ takes a new approach to educating users about security - based on their demonstrated behavior. As we've all seen, pure education has limited success. This program helps users alter their behavior. Guest Dr. James Norrie is a Professor of Strategy and Cybersecurity and former Dean of the Graham School of Business at York College of Pennsy...

Host Karl interviewed Rom Hendler, CEO of Trustifi Email Encryption Solutions. We start our discussion discussing what makes Trustifi different from other email security solutions. Trustifi provides email encryption delivered on a software-as-a-service platform. They provide both inbound and outbound email security from a single vendor. Most email security systems address inbound traffic only. But...

Host Karl interviewed Guillaume Boisvert, Director for Product Innovation at Sherweb. The topic of the day is: Take Office Security to the Next Level. Guillaume has been instrumental in commercializing Sherweb's Infrastructure as a Service solutions for public and private cloud. He has more than 15 years of experience developing and marketing web services for both B2B and B2C platforms. Prior to h...

Host Karl caught up with Tom Lawrence of Lawrence Technology Services. Tom runs a very successful IT consulting business - and uses YouTube as his primary marketing tool. That's a very rare thing, but Tom's been making videos since 2014. His channel has really taken off in the last few years. The "Lawrence Systems" channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHkYOD-3fZbuGhwsADBd9ZQ - and has...

Host Karl sat down with Kevin Coppins, President and CEO of Spirion. Kevin wakes up every day on a mission to protect what he knows matters most—your sensitive personal data. With a team of passionate data privacy professionals at his back, Kevin is working to re-envision the culture of entire industries, putting privacy at the forefront where it belongs. One of the biggest problems today is that...

Host Karl interviews Eric Anthony, the founder of the hot All Things MSP Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/allthingsmsp ). Eric also manages a YouTube Channel focused on his photography/videography hobby. Eric has been helping people with technology since high school. He has owned his own break/fix and managed services companies, spent time in internal IT and for the last 7 years has...