SMB Community Podcast

Report from SMB Nation Fall 2012.

Mike Bayless

Near the end of this year’s SMB Nation, I caught up with Mike Bayless from America’s Tech Support in Sacramento. Mike says that networking with other…

Report from SMB Nation Fall 2012.

I was wandering past the Datto booth at SMB Nation and stopped to chat with Shannon Kohn, the Director of Marketing and Channel Relations. She invited me to watch th…

Report from SMB Nation Fall 2012.

I had a good chat with Regina Ciardiello, Editor of SMB Nation magazine while I was in Las Vegas. Regina wrote the Daily Gazette “newsletter” for the event.

In addi…

Interview with Jon Sastre

One of the best interviews I had at SMB Nation was with Jon Sastre, one of the IAMCP leaders at the state, national, and international levels. Jon is also a very successful…

One of the reasons I love working with my brother Manuel is that he is AMAZING at defining and implementing successful processes. Earlier this year he started a new coaching program geared specifical…

Rob Patterson talked to me at SMB Nation about his very successful IT Pro group in New York City – the New York Small Business Server Group. He revealed to us the secrets of holding a meeting, plus t…

One of the fun things at this year’s SMB Nation event was the whole “Back to the Future” theme. In addition to the lovely Claudia Wells (see previous podcast), StorageCraft and Intel paid to bring th…

I caught up with Jeff Middleton at SMB Nation over the weekend. We covered several topics, including:

– Update on the SBS Migration / IT Pro Experts conference (the annual conference that is held fr…

As I said on my Facebook page, two of my favorite people in the world have been honored as the SBSers of the year: Rayanne Buchianico and Bob Nitrio.

This award is officially the Jim Locke Memorial C…

I talked to Bob Godgart from ChannelEyes (www.channeleyes.com) about what’s new with their cool channel partner tools.

The coolest new product – Channel Candy – is an app that allows vendors to creat…

Report from SMB Nation Fall 2012.

I caught up with Jessica DeVita – one of my favorite people in the IT space. Jessica is an IT consultant, technical wiz, advocate for education in the IT community, …

Report from SMB Nation Fall 2012.

Highly Reliable Systems Provides a New Approach to Backup Hardware

Many people don’t like tape backups. But most hard drive-based backups have their own problems.

I…

The theme of this year’s SMB Nation is “Back to the Future.” Basically, it’s wrapped around all the cool new things we have . . . and understanding them in light of the fact that SBS Server end of li…

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This is a very different Freeday Friday podcast . . . and the l…

While attending the Microsoft TechEd North America confere…

June 2012 – Orlando, FL – A buncha people gathered in Orlando…

One of my favorite people in the SMB/MSP space is Mark…

June 2012 – New Orleans – Jeff Middleton’s IT Pro Conference …

May 16th – Los Angeles – SMB Nation put on a nice banquet to celebrate the 2nd …