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Vacation? What's a Vacation?

I always seem to find myself either within a team or being the sole member of an IT department and really struggling to be able to take vacations. And when I was in that space as an employee managing Mac workstations for all of my users, but desperately trying to take time off I reached out to several consultants in the area and I was shocked to, to learn that there were very few sort of choices to pull from, and all of them did consulting, but not all of...

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Beyond Money: The Journey of Learning, Growing, and Creating Opportunities in Business

I didn’t realize the monster I had created. Every time I would go outta town, I’d still be fielding phone calls, doing remote support by phone. There was no real plan in place for handing the reins to somebody for a while. So that was my big motive to grow my team. How did you handle that? Did you grow your team over those years and where do you stand? I learned a lot about myself. I learned that I’m a little bit of a control freak and it was...

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Shout Out to MacAdmins!

So how many is your team now, Jon? We are a team of three full-time, me and two others, and we have one part-time person. And then we’ve got about 4 1099 contractors that help us out as needed. Joe and I and over the years have talked about the hiring process and how frustrating it can be and I, I toyed with the idea of someone working maybe on a part-time basis or 1099 basis. You mentioned your staff, getting them accustomed to talking with the community on Mac...

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Unlocking Business Growth: Building Partnerships and Acquisitions for Success

On the other end, you could acquire all the assets of the business, you could acquire formal relationships with clients and so on. So do you wanna speak to some of your experiences doing that. Yeah, I was fairly fortunate and as I was building the business, I was reaching out and building relationships with business owners who were in the exact same space as me picking their brain, trying not to step on their toes and trying not to intimidate them or be threatening and, would refer business to...

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Navigating the Consultant Journey: Self-Reflection and Partnerships for Business Growth

When you are starting as a consultant, you are everything. You are the one person that does everything. And then you realize pretty quickly, these are the things I don’t like to do, and so maybe I should partner with somebody who can help me be a better CEO. Or maybe I shouldn’t be a CEO. Maybe the company would be better off with me, not in that role. And if I merge with this other company, or if we have these conversations with other companies in our, within our...

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Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt

It just reminds me how much like the kind of the fear, uncertainty, and doubt plays into this. Mm. For years and years. I mean thats, been, just the way the industry responds to this, and I have this maybe self-censoring that kicks in when I’m making like too hard of a sale and I’m trying to really convince someone. I think I back off from that and I really don’t like to rely on the fear of it, but this is an example where the fear is very justified....

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