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The SaaS Sales Model That Sails At 80 Knots

The SaaS Sales Model That Sails At 80 Knots

The SaaS Sales Model That Sails At 80 Knots I am very fortunate to have worked with many SaaS organizations, either for a three-month consulting period, or a full six months to a year service to help them in bootstrapping their sales and marketing engine. We believe...

Modern MSPs Win with High-Value, High-Margin Cloud Services

Modern MSPs Win with High-Value, High-Margin Cloud Services

Modern MSPs Win with High-Value, High-Margin Cloud Services Reselling licenses does not yield a high-value business. Let's say you've been reselling XaaS apps licenses at $50 per user per year with a 20% reseller commission. As a license-only business, you will...

We Asked Our Developers: What Work Annoys You?

We Asked Our Developers: What Work Annoys You?

We Asked Our Developers: What Work Annoys You? At BitTitan, if you ask one of our developers how long it will take to fix something, a popular answer is “two hours or six days.” It’s harder to convey in text than through voice, but rest assured there’s a dash of...

Change Your Approach to Profitability with Automation

Change Your Approach to Profitability with Automation

Change Your Approach to Profitability with Automation The cloud is not keeping ITSPs from being more profitable.   A new ModernMSP article by George Mellor, President and CEO of  KloudReadiness, points out that a focus on how external forces are hurting...

Solving the Profitability Problem: Automation

Solving the Profitability Problem: Automation

Solving the Profitability Problem: Automation Gartner predicts that by 2020, a corporate "no-cloud" policy will be as rare as a "no-Internet" policy is today. What else is trending up? Competition in the channel—and frustration, too. The outlook on cloud has shifted...

Make 2017 the Year of Recurring Revenue

Make 2017 the Year of Recurring Revenue

Make 2017 the Year of Recurring Revenue We’ve said it again and again: one-off, project-based revenue won’t sustain profitability in the cloud era. It’s time to walk the walk, but you don’t have to do it alone. We’re here to help.   The case for recurring revenue...

Make 2017 the Year of Recurring Revenue

Marketing Essentials for the Modern MSP, Part 2

Marketing Essentials for the Modern MSP, Part 2 This is the second installment of our marketing essentials recap for the modern MSP, looking at the final three of six articles by Saher Ghattas from ModernMSP.com. Read our first post here. In our last post, we looked a...

Make 2017 the Year of Recurring Revenue

Marketing Essentials for the Modern MSP, Part 1

Marketing Essentials for the Modern MSP, Part 1 As the new year approaches, are you thinking about how to modernize your sales and marketing efforts? Saher Ghattas, a sales and marketing expert for MSPs, recently finished a six-part series for ModernMSP.com, MSP...

How to Sell More Azure as an MSP/CSP

How to Sell More Azure as an MSP/CSP

How to Sell More Azure as an MSP/CSP Microsoft Azure is a gold mine, and just like mining gold, there are many ways to sell an Azure project. If you’re looking to sell the value of Azure to your customer, here are a few things to consider for an MSP or CSP (cloud...

A Christmas Carol for Modern MSPs

A Christmas Carol for Modern MSPs

A Christmas Carol for Modern MSPs You're probably familiar with the classic Dickens tale, A Christmas Carol, as it surfaces in one form or another every holiday season. There are many great versions inspired by the original, indeed! Maybe you're like us and your...