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Welcome to the IT Pro Podcast! The Early Struggles of an IT Service Firm

Gregory and Fernando built a multi-million dollar MSP, but it took 12 years to find the recipe for success. It was a long struggle, but the two of them, backed by a strong team of IT experts, made it happen. Listen in on the struggles and how PPC changed their business.

Episode #1: The Struggles When Operating An IT Firm With Gregory & Fernando

Gregory and Fernando built a multi-million dollar MSP, but it took 12 years to find the recipe for success. It was a long struggle, but the two of them, backed by a strong team of IT experts, made it happen. Listen in on the struggles and how PPC changed their business.

3 Value Bombs:

1. Cold calling is an option if you have a limited budget, but who is the decision-maker?

2. Partnerships are great resources

3. How PPC(Pay Per Click)changed our business

Summary:

This is episode #1 and in this series the founders of Single Point of Contact will dive into the challenges they experienced as a young firm after the dot-bomb and 9-11 attacks on our nation. It was a tough time when it came to generating new business.

1. Challenges to building an IT service firm

2. Challenges with cold calling and locating the decision-maker

3. Online strategy



Host: Gregory Morawietz, has been working at Single Point of Contact for over 20 years.

Co-Host: Fernando Leon, VP of Sales and Marketing joined Single Point of Contact in June of 2001.

Guest: Nick Deck has over a decade of experience marketing MSPs and other professional services companies. His agency is dedicated to helping MSP owners automate their growth so they can scale predictably and truly enjoy the businesses they’ve worked so hard to build. You can reach Nick at nick@heroesof.marketing. Visit his site at Heroesof.Marketing.

Join us!

Greg Morawietz the owner of Single Point of Contact, was invited to speak about Web Security and Big Data on the Unmotive platform. They talk about big data, privacy concerns and how regular users can secure their computers.

This episode is all about how the web can be more secure and how companies look at security. Greg knows first hand it is a hard job for two reasons. Cut backs by companies to infrastructure and security investment and also the nature of the beast. The fact that there is always someone looking to break software for ethical reasons (ethical hacking) or for nefarious reasons (viruses, malware, and computer hackers).

They talk about some of the solutions for small, medium and large businesses such as proxies and next-gen firewalls.

"In security we are the janitors.[…] we aren’t sexy, we are ugly[…] we always bring bad news and technology concepts people don’t understand."

They also talk about some public hacks and what they mean in the larger picture of the web ecosystem. Lastly, they go over some common hacks and systems exploits that could be used to compromise your data or computer.