Businesses asking - what should we offer
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But in the above example, this is an Service shop, offering a Fix-IT type service. If the business is looking to change to an MSP you'd expect them to know what they need to offer, wouldn't you?
The business is effectively changing from a single customer (ie broken laptop) to a business customer needing to have something managed.
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It's viable to look at it that way. But also to look at it as moving from reactive to proactive support of the same things.
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It would be really weird, though, I agree, for a company to have customers and want to just "support them better" and yet have no idea what they would need. But this circles back to my MSP vs. VAR question, an MSP should always know what to provide but a VAR relies on connecting people to the right resources. So for a VAR, the question makes more sense.
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Well that's what I mean above with the above questions. As the business, you must be having conversations with your customer base about their day to day life, and things going on in them / in their business.
This should provide the Fix-IT business many conversation points to come up with new business models. Things to investigate if the business really wants to expand.
Instead a random question like this is posted to a public forum, eliminating everyone else in the region from responding. But certainly monitoring so they might gain an edge.
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Even if this business doesn't have any competitors who "care" it still seems odd to ask this sort of question, right?
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Oh, it is a weird question, that is certain. How would random public forum commenters have any idea what services he should be providing? Good feedback or at least highly useful feedback will be lean.
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@DustinB3403 I like the fact that the OP in that post actually directly asks their question instead of beating around the bush.
While iandrewmartin's advice may seem like Captain Obvious, type remarks, I think he does give a clear statement, if not a mostly complete business plan, lol. There's also the chance that the OP really doesn't know how to get past the break/fix type support. Especially if he's not helping his customers do much with virtualization.
You are right about asking their current client base about their needs!
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@dafyre or just doing some research - like having the techs who work with these clients talk about the problems that they see and collect that information.
Or think about how they can improve things for their clients.
Or look at ticket databases to see what issues come up all of the time.
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Wait, OMG, he's local to US!! He's right in our overlapping "local" territory between NTG and @Mike-Davis
SpiceCorps was held in the little town where this guy is based. Okay this makes more sense, this is a rural NY local business. He has NO local business and no local IT people.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Wait, OMG, he's local to US!! He's right in our overlapping "local" territory between NTG and @Mike-Davis
SpiceCorps was held in the little town where this guy is based. Okay this makes more sense, this is a rural NY local business. He has NO local business and no local IT people.
So you're saying I should go down to this guys business and offer him my expertise on expanding his business
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It's a nice little town. If there was work there, living in Auburn is quite nice. I love walking around town at night, it's so peaceful but has great old Upstate NY architecture.
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Auburn is beautiful. I think I know him! I am pretty sure he has been to at least one of the SpiceCorps down there.
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Now that I know he is a document / copier center, not an IT shop, and that he is in Auburn, NY (there are no real businesses to support there) and that he is looking for VAR products to resell it is making more sense why and what he is asking.
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This is basically a Crazy AJ's business but in rural Upstate NY rather than Central America. Sadly, there is far more business opportunity in Central America.
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@scottalanmiller said:
This is basically a Crazy AJ's business but in rural Upstate NY rather than Central America. Sadly, there is far more business opportunity in Central America.
ha.... ha...
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@scottalanmiller said:
Now that I know he is a document / copier center, not an IT shop, and that he is in Auburn, NY (there are no real businesses to support there) and that he is looking for VAR products to resell it is making more sense why and what he is asking.
Actually I know that @Mike-Davis is doing pretty well in Auburn. But he has been in the area a long time and in IT a long time. People know him and trust him.
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I thought we weren't going to be bashing/tearing apart Spiceworks questions on here anymore? It seems unprofessional and undermines the community.
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@Jason This is a discussion about his question not bashing SW.
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@Jason said:
I thought we weren't going to be bashing/tearing apart Spiceworks questions on here anymore? It seems unprofessional and undermines the community.
Yeah I haven't said "Hey Guys look here, this GUY!!"
It's a question of why / how can a business ask others to tell them what they should offer and the frequency to which I've seen these topics.
I would also bring this same question up to any question posted here that matches the same formatting.
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@Minion-Queen said:
@Jason This is a discussion about his question not bashing SW.
No but it seems to bash the OP on the SW thread. it;s like having a hidden topic about the OPs topic.
