100 Top MSPs Revealed…
20 Answers from 2 Top MSPs…
1 On-demand MSPmentor Webcast!
Featured Speakers:
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Vince Conroy, CTO, FusionStorm
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Kevin Crowe, Managing Director, Long View Systems
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Gary Read, CEO, Nimsoft, Inc.
Joe Panettieri, EVP & Editorial Director, MSPmentor, unveiled the 2008 MSPmentor Top 100 list during a live webcast (2/11/09). Webcast attendees heard key trends and research findings and were the first to receive access to the 2008 MSPmentor Top 100 list and the complete research report.
The one hour webcast featured two of the world’s top MSPs, Nimsoft partner FusionStorm and Long View Systems – both ranked in the top 50 on the MSPmentor list.
View the webcast replay and hear Vince and Kevin’s responses to attendee questions: |
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Have you been able to hold steady on your pricing?
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Can you discuss compensation plans for your own internal sales team?
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Tell me more about SAS 70 Type II certification. Do certain vertical market customers or customer sizes demand that type of certification?
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Tell me about your sales cycle, are they getting longer in this economy?
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Are you blending SaaS with your managed services offering? Are you hosting applications and managing them for customers?
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Do you focus entirely on your own NOC or do you depend on partner NOCs as well?
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Can you talk about the tools your sales team works with? Do they have cost models reps can work through with customers? What exactly are your sales tools for managed services?
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Your proposal to customers, is this a multipage comprehensive document or a single sheet with bullet points on it?
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Tell us about ITIL and what it means to you and your customers
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Tell me more about the viewpoints for the next 36 months for the MSP industry, what is your vision for the managed service market, what do you see coming?
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What is the single biggest mistake your company made in the MSP space and what did you do differently to correct it?
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Have you seen any type of business slow down in the first quarter and if so what steps are you taking?
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What is the biggest factor that leads MSPs companies to merge together or acquire, it is geographic coverage, is it service levels?
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Have you made any acquisitions, are you looking to? And if so what would drive it?
Additional webcast highlights:
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Nimsoft CEO, Gary Read, provided market observations from Nimsoft’s perspective
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Vince, Kevin, and Gary provided top tips for MSPs
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Vince and Kevin’s share their top reasons for partnering with Nimsoft






