Nothing Happens by Itself
Copyright © 2022 Karl W. Palachuk
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Greetings!
I have been to a few events this year, and I have to say: CompTIA's CCF - Communities and Councils Forum - was the most normal event in two years!
Other than wearing a mask on the airplane, everything about the event was pretty normal. The rooms were as full as we could ask for. People were almost universally glad to be "back at it." And there we plenty of outings for dinner. Of course the content was great as well.
(Note: If you're on this list, you received a note from me about the IOTSSA event. That was a paid announcement. This one is not paid.)
If you have or know of any in-person events I should add to me calendar, please let me know.
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*I* have some travel scheduled!
As I blogged last week, I am headed back to Chicago in August for CompTIA's Channelcon.
And then I'm headed to Scotland and England for some get-togethers. I have to work out the details with everyone, but I'm hoping to have beerfests (or dinner-and-drinks events) in Edinburgh, Glasgos, and Manchester.
Ideally, we'll be talking about community generally, with an emphasis on CompTIA, The Tech Tribe, and the Small Biz Thoughts Technology Community. We'll see how things shape up. You can count on the dates - and the fact that we'll do something. Stay tuned for details.
BTW - that photo is a picture of the Falkirk Wheel, which I'm planning to visit as I head from Edinburgh to Glasgow. Details on my blog.
I've listed the events down below as "Not a Roadshow."
ALSO headed back to Australia in October. Would love to see you there - no matter where you live.
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Quick note on the class that starts this week: My brother Manuel and I take turns teaching, and even co-teach a few classes. This course is all about Checklists. And if you haven't seem my employee onboarding process, I promise that week two is worth three times the cost of the entire cost.
Please do yourself a favor and check it out. I think we have 30-some people enrolled. Join us.
Have a great week.
- Karl P.
:-)
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Great Five-Week Course Starts March 22nd |
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Revised for 2022!
The Most Important Checklists for Any IT Service Providers
Learn how to standardize your operating procedures for both your internal company as well as externally with your client relationships and their technology.
Taught By: Karl Palachuk and Manuel Palachuk
- Five Tuesdays - March 22 - April 19
- All classes start a 9:00 AM Pacific
Features
- Build a Checklist-Centric Business
- Improve your team and culture
- Increase customer satisfaction
- Increase profit on all fronts
- Build a scalable process for all future SOPs
This course is intended for managers and owners of a managed service business. It covers many facets of the “checklist mentality” that the instructors have used at a variety of successful IT consulting businesses.
In addition to building hundreds of checklists and standard processes for KPEnterprises in Sacramento, CA, the authors have both written books, trained individuals, and coached teams on successful processes and habits for running a modern, successful managed service business.
This course will cover daily the use of checklists in daily operations as well as the “larger picture” of running the entire company. It will address both internal checklists for running your own company and external checklists for managing client relationships and client technology.
This is an intensive live webinar course over a five week period. All assignments are voluntary, of course. But if you want feedback on assignments, please complete assignments during this course and email them to the instructor.
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Sample Handouts for this course:
- Class Syllabus
- Slides from all classes
- MPI Checklist Template
- MPI Doc with TOC Template
- NMW Discovery Checklist
- NMW Remote Workstation Migration
- How To Document Any Process White Paper by Manuel Palachuk
- Personnel Folders
- New Hire Checklist
- Hiring Folder (ZIP)
- Employee Goals Template
- Employee Evaluation Template
- Client Onboard Checklist
- Client Removal Checklist
- Roadmap Questionnaire
- Roadmap Template
- Roadmap Meeting Notes Template
- Monthly Maintenance Checklist
- New Workstation Checklist
- New User Checklist
- Welcome New Employee Orientation
- Server Build Checklist
- Troubleshooting and Repair Log
- Time Stamp Version Standards
Class Content
Unit 1 What is a Checklist / Sample: Daily Backup Monitoring and Maintenance
Unit 2 Employee Hiring Process / Exit Process
Unit 3 New Client On-boarding / Client Off-boarding / Quarterly Client Roadmap
Unit 4 Monthly Maintenance Checklist / New PC Checklist
Unit 5 The Pre-Discovery Checklist / Class Summary
Delivered by Karl Palachuk and Manuel Palachuk, authors of the Network Migration Workbook and many other books for MSPs – managed service providers.
Note: * Members of the Small Biz Thoughts Technology Community attend at no additional charge. See details in the Community
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Recent Blog Posts, Podcasts, and Videos |
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Small Biz Thoughts Blog:
SMB Community Podcast - New episodes drop every Thursday
The Killing IT Podcast - New episodes drop every Tuesday
National Society of IT Service Providers News Blog
Relax Focus Succeed:
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Selected Recent Videos and Webinars:
A quick guide to my Playlists:
- Total: Over 800 videos on the Small Biz Thoughts channel
- 335+ SOP videos
- 265+ Relax Focus Success videos
Plus . . .
- Training, Courses, Seminars on Managed Services
- Product Reviews
- and more
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Community News
SmallBizThoughts.org
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Apparently, the weekly meetings are great without me! |
We meeting on Zoom every Thursday at 9:00 AM Pacific. The link is always at the top of your dashboard.
I was in Chicago and headed home last Thursday, but we had a GREAT meeting without me. It's recorded, so any SBT Community members can access and download.
We started the weekly Zoom meetings two years as the pandemic was shutting down the world. Our plan was to check in with members and just see how we could help each other. But these meetings have become a major benefit of membership.
If you're new to the community - or just haven't joined us in a while, please join us Thursday.
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April SBT Roundtable: George Sierchio on M&A
Be sure to join us April 7th!
George Sierchio is Executive Vice President & Senior Partner with Cogent Growth Partners, LLC.
George is an entrepreneurial veteran having owned and operated several successful technology services and consulting businesses in the last 25+ years. This includes his work as a consultant and advisor to owners of IT companies, providing them guidance in profitability, overall growth, and mergers & acquisitions related activities.
This should be a great conversation.
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If you haven't see the March news video, check it out here:
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That's it for this week. I'll see you at the meeting on Thursday.
Thank you!
:-)
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I firmly believe we're at a turning point
Not sure what will happen with rides. Cabs have become cleaner and more honest as a result of Lyft and Uber. But Lyft and Uber are far less regulated.
I've noticed several times that Lyft and Uber are MUCH more than cabs during rush hour, big sporting events, etc. In the example above, the cab cost $45 plus tip (which, in this case, was $60 total).
:-)
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What's Here?
This calendar lists two kinds of things: LIVE in-person events from any organization that focuses on the SMB consulting community; and MY events, whether live, webinar, etc.
If you have live events on your calendar that may be useful to others in the SMB Community, please let us know. We'd be happy to list them.
Of course: Everything here is subject to change based on Covid. Click the links for the latest details. Please send updates so we can post them.
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March
MSP World
March 22-24
Orlando, FL
ASCII Success Summit
March 23-24
Kansan City, MO
James Kernan's Millionaire Mastermind Quarterly
March 24-25
Orlando, FL
Cybersecurity Expo, IoT Security Services Association
March 30-31, 2022
Austin, TX
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April
Channel Partners Conference & Expo
April 11-14, 2022
Las Vegas
Join me Live!
SMB Techfest
April 14
Anaheim, CA
KB4-Con
April 20-22, 2022
Orlando, FL
ASCII Success Summit
April 20-21
Chicago, IL
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ACES Conference
Online - Karl is the Keynote Speaker
May 5th
Join Me Live Online!
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ChannelPro SMB Summit
Chicago
May 5th
Ingram Micro Cloud Summit
May 17-19
Miami Beach, FL
ASCII Success Summit
May 24-25
Boston, MA
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June
RSA
June 6-9
San Francisco, CA
ChannelPro SMB Summit
Texas
June 7th
Women in Tech Global Conference
June 7-9
Location TBD
Cisco Live
June 12-16
Las Vegas
Channel Evolution Europe
June 14-15
London
ASCII Success Summit
June 15-16
Long Beach, CA
James Kernan's Millionaire Mastermind Quarterly
June 23-24
Chicago, IL
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July
SMB Techfest
July 21
Anaheim, CA
ASCII Success Summit
July 27-28
Toronto, ON
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August
CompTIA ChannelCon 2022
August 2-4, 2022
Chicago, IL
Join Me Live!
Celebration of Community - Karl W. Palachuk - Not a Roadshow
August 6th
Edinburgh, Scotland
Join Me Live!
Celebration of Community - Karl W. Palachuk - Not a Roadshow
August 9th
Glasgow, Scotland
Join Me Live!
Celebration of Community - Karl W. Palachuk - Not a Roadshow
August 11th
Manchester, UK
Join Me Live!
ChannelPro SMB Summit
Charlotte NC
Aug 9
Channel Company xChange
August 21-23
Denver, CO
ASCII Success Summit
August 23-24
Miami, FL
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September
Channel Futures’ MSP Summit
Sept. 12-15, Orlando
ChannelPro SMB Summit
Washington DC area
Sept 8th
IOTSSA Cybersecurity Expo
Sept. 14-15 --> was January 18 - 20, 2022
Phoenix
ASCII Success Summit
September 28-29
Parsippany, NJ
James Kernan's Millionaire Mastermind Quarterly
Sept. 29-30
Omaha, NE
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October
ASCII Success Summit
October 4-5
Dallas, TX
SMB Techfest
October 20
Anaheim, CA
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November
ChannelPro SMB Summit
So Calif
Nov 3rd
Acronis Summit in Miami
November 7 - 9
Miami, FL
More Info: Coming Soon.
IT Nation Connect 2022
November 9 - 11
More Info: https://www.connectwise.com/theitnation/connect-na
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December
James Kernan's Millionaire Mastermind Quarterly
Dec. 8-9
Las Vegas, NV
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