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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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The Benefits of Choosing Collaboration Over Competition: A Win-Win for Everyone

How can we work together as consultants and consultancies and I think that there’s a kind of economy of scale as we partner. . What’s been your experience with partnering with other local consultancies or individual consultants? I’ve tried hiring in the low end and training and investing time to get that person up to a point where I can consider them more or less an expert. It’s a rewarding experience. You end up working really hard to make sure that your image and the product that you’re putting out...

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Grove Technologies a Better MSP Name

I love your your name by the way, Grove Technologies as Grove is a great concept related to of course Apple. Nice. That you ended up there. Do you wanna give listeners an overview of that how you got to this point? Yeah. When I first started, the company really started off by wanting to help businesses that worked in an industry where it was all Apple centric, but I was targeting companies that had one or fewer right IT people. And the struggle that I always had when I...

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