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  Planning with Potential Clients
  consulting cost analysis planning fee potential client it consulting • • EddieJennings  

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  @EddieJennings said in Planning with Potential Clients: @scottalanmiller said in Planning with Potential Clients: @marcinozga said in Planning with Potential Clients: You said meetings with potential clients. That sums it up, you're trying to sell them something, so you don't bill for that. You also don't give away any consulting or "answers". That's something I, or anyone else, would have to take care to avoid. I could see someone getting carried away and end up trying to design a solution before an agreement is reached. I've seen that happen a lot. Even people implementing the solution for free. With nothing whatsoever left to pay for at the end.
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  Chromebook shopping
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  @ysapir Thanks Yonah. My rep is Rithy. Already ordered, shipped, received, and prepped. Ordered 20 2018 Acer 15.6" HD WLED Chromebook with 3x Faster WiFi Laptop Computer, Intel Celeron Core N3060 up to 2.48GHz, 4GB RAM, 16GB eMMC, 802.11ac WiFi, Bluetooth 4.2, USB 3.0, HDMI, Chrome OS
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  Asset Management - From an Accountants Perspective
  asset management accounting functions formula • • DustinB3403  

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  So anyways, what features do accountants need for asset purposes?
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  I am going to start an ISP
  isp wisp • • NerdyDad  

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  @StorageNinja said in I am going to start an ISP: @NerdyDad said in I am going to start an ISP: @Reid-Cooper Tell that to rural America that is still on less than 1 Mbps speed DSL while cities like New York, Dallas, and LA are pushing towards 1 Gbps. Given, it is the peoples choice to live in rural America, but the phone companies also have no interest in upgrading their infrastructure because the ROI is crap. People who can't live without 50Mbps do not live live in non-rural area's. In theory, a WISP might open up housing markets for people like me who work remotely but the other inconveniences of rural life (no 1-2 hour delivery for groceries/Amazon, poor restaurant choice, crazy bad schools, long distance to airports, poor job opportunities for my spouse) stack the deck that the Total Addressable market is going to grow much except for area's JUST outside the city that a telco will eventually expand as they get denser. You have to hope for a large enough TAM to break even, but NOT too BIG of one that Comcast comes in and fucks up your monopoly. Welcome to being an ISP where your break-even can't get too good before someone ruins it. Also, your access to capital for refresh can dry up at any moment, regulations could 10x your operational costs. And people who need the speed, but also want to be rural, have often already moved to countries where doing so is even cheaper. This is one spot where the US really struggles. So many countries offer great Internet, and dirt cheap rural living, that allows for working from home while being completely remote.
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  Consultancies Advertise People; VARs Advertise Products
  msp it business itsp consulting service provider var • • scottalanmiller  

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  @Dashrender said in Consultancies Advertise People; VARs Advertise Products: @EddieJennings said in Consultancies Advertise People; VARs Advertise Products: This may seem simplistic, but if I were in this scenario, on which side of the MSP / VAR would I stand? A person hires me to help spec out a server for their office. I'm paid to help them determine how much RAM, storage, processors, etc. they need. This part is clear, I'm being paid for advice; thus, MSP. A point of clarity - advising only this is not being an MSP - you'r not managing anything (managed service provider). ITSP or Consultancy would be better terms for this portion... heck - the whole thing, including recommending a hardware vendor, because again, you're not managing anything. True. I ought to have used those other terms.
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  Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?
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  @denis_mcgee said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?: Of course, it is better to choose an area, in which there are constant orders or customers who are looking for specialists to support existing projects. But specifically in the same web development, there is quite a strong competition, especially for beginners. It's a developer's market. Companies can't find qualified people, it's hard to even get people to interview.
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  Freelance websites?
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  @stuartjordan said in Freelance websites?: You have two good companies that would be able to help you from this forum: NTG or Bundy Associates, give them a shout. LOL yep I was late
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  OffsiteDataSync - Anybody have any experience with them?
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  I live in Rochester, and I've never heard of them.
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  Recommendations for Cameras
  ubiquiti camera nvr ubiquiti nvr • • NerdyDad  

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  I typically run with Dahua (or Hikvision in a pinch) mixed with their own branded NVRs or, if software based, BlueIris. Both models of cameras are professional grade and look the part but can be a little costly. The Dahua cameras have several models with the "Starlight" sensor which makes low light situations look fantastic and easy to identify. Check out https://ipcamtalk.com for tons of reviews, footage, etc of many different cameras. Dahua aren't usually sold to "end users" in North America but there's a guy on Alibaba that ships straight from China cheaply and with NA firmware. He's highly used on IPCamTalk and I've personally purchased a few dozen cameras from him. https://www.aliexpress.com/store/1859367
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  Microsoft Managed Services
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  @dashrender said in Microsoft Managed Services: @scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Managed Services: @dashrender said in Microsoft Managed Services: @scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Managed Services: @dashrender said in Microsoft Managed Services: @scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Managed Services: @storageninja said in Microsoft Managed Services: $7 per user per month is a trivial marginal cost for the US and EMEA. The real question is if they will do regional based pricing or discounts (A $3 China or India subscription). That's a tough one these days. It would easily make you start buying in cheaper locales. Well licensing can prevent you from using cheap licenses in expensive areas.. so you'd have to move your workers. It CAN, but not without often crippling mobility. I don't buy this. If you can afford to send your employee from a cheep workzone to an expensive one, you can afford to pay $7/m instead of $3. Can afford versus will afford aren't the same. Sure, it's only $4, but it's about mobile workers choosing the source of their machines. Again that will come down to the cost of training and software dev to move them to a platform that doesn't have this issue. or just buying in places where the cost is drastically lower.
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  What Includes in PMP Certification Training?
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  Look, someone posted about PMP a week or so ago and boom. Mod move to self promotion. But wow, not a blatant tracking link filled spam post.
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  Liability Insurance
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  @storageninja : Agreed. I have 3 clients that required at least 2M in E&O before they'd sign us.. I had to increase ours as we typically carry $1M.
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  SQL Server Login Connection Failed
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  Some ideas here.. https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/f3c8d2e6-125a-48da-b38f-7b4df534bf8f/repair-sql-database-that-has-been-marked-suspect?forum=transactsql
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  Self Employed expense tracking
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  MileIQ for mileage works great, set it and forget it.
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  Using Bing for growing organic and paid search traffic
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  The birds eye view on bing maps used to be great, until Microsoft decided to get rid of it! It was way better than Google maps for fishing recon.
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  I would like to see that code
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  Where to buy used, refurbished server in Italy?
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  Hi, it’s my business (also)! PM me if you are interested :).
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  Anyone heard of Intratem?
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  @jaredbusch said in Anyone heard of Intratem?: Account with 5 phones. Two of them current being paid for (second column). The plan says 4 lines but they had a promo a couple years ago to add a line for free. So I did.. That's a great deal for 4 lines. Just for myself, ting has been amazing. My usage has been up for the past few months, so my bill has gone up from $25.00/month to $35.00/month (yes, ting still does the tiered billing thing, but only charge for what you actually use.)
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  EDIT: Microsoft Teams Edition Support - Yealink T58V's For Sale
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  @bigbear said in EDIT: Microsoft Teams Edition Support - Yealink T58V's For Sale: Microsoft is going all in on the Teams client as the new softphone for desktop and mobile, Skype for Business will be EOL. Dead before it ever got started. Doesn't bode well for Teams.
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  Where to buy cost-effective server CPU, Memory
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  Auticon: Autistic IT Consultants
  consulting uk autism • • Kelly  

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  Mobile Device Management
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  @sully93 said in Mobile Device Management: I have but in cases of immediate termination we already have their accounts disabled so don't think the phone and our server are able to communicate with each other. Plus if they are backing up their phones then they can restore from the previous backup and be right back to where they were. They'd get around any MDM in those cases.
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  Leaflet Review
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  @thwr Points taken on board, thanks thwr
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  Small Shop Hyperconverged Options
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  @scottalanmiller I knew it had to be fluffyctulhudeepstorage!
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  Scale Computing combines forces with Unitrends
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  @irj I Laughed pretty hard. There are benefits to combining hardware and software together in a purchase, and then there are downsides. Weird trade in/up games is one of them.
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  Alternative TLDs
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  Also many of the new ones seem to only be used by scammers/spammers. Probably due to the fact there are so many of them now(tlds and spammers). .top .xyz .win All of these are newer tlds that legit people can use, but in reality i have only ever gotten spam or a bunch of login attempts from them. I still dont get why some of these new tld are managed by companies like Amazon or Gallo vineyards or this company called Donuts, which seems to have been setup specifically to gank management of as many of these tld as possible.