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SMB Community Podcast by James Kernan


Focused 100% on IT Service Providers and SMB IT Consultants. The SMB Community Podcast is produced by James Kernan and Kernan Consulting. Dedicated to the success of every IT professional. Episodes drop every Thursday. Hosts include Karl W. Palachuk, Amy Babinchak, and James Kernan.

Apr 6, 2023

Segment One: Amy's First Company & Some Updates  

April 1st marks the anniversary of Amy B's first company.

We discuss how she got here.

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Segment Two: MSP Question of the Week & News

Are you keeping an eye out for vendor errors?

And one more thing about AI. Some people want to stop it. Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak: 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-apple-co-founder-103416584.html 

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Segment Three: Five minutes with a Smart Person ft. Rich Freeman and Manuel Palachuk

Rich Freeman is founding editor and executive editor of The ChannelPro Network. One of the tech industry’s most experienced, respected authorities on the SMB channel, Rich has been writing about managed services since 2007.

He has spoken or moderated sessions at live and virtual events for Acronis, Auvik, Axcient, ChannelPro, IT Glue, and SkyKick, among others, and has written for CIO, Computerworld, InfoWorld, Network World, and Redmond Channel Partner magazines. Rich has also produced strategic content for vendors including AMD, Citrix, Dell, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and VMware.

Manuel Palachuk has over 30 years of business, management, and training experience in the computer and electronics industries. Manuel has owned several successful businesses, managed several successful IT and MSP service companies, and coached, mentored, or trained many more businesses all over the world. He is an expert of process, systems, and their efficiency who is driven toward continuous improvement in all aspects of business. He is a well-known author in the IT consulting community for Small and Medium-sized Businesses, and an experienced speaker and trainer at industry conferences.

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Don't miss this: 
Asigra - Don’t Be the Latest MSP Victim. 

Learn how new ransomware threats put your business at risk. - April 19th -https://mspwebinar.com/does-your-backup-protect-you-against-the-latest-ransomware-attacks/

Register Now:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ruK7Mp77TEaZyIXID96DLQ

NSITSP - Amy B., Karl, & Jeff Ponts - Channel Partners Conference & Expo on May 3rd

Channel Partners Conference & Expo Here:

https://channelpartnersconference.com/

NSITSP - Insurance - Brian Mahon - April 26th 
https://nsitsp.org/event/webinar-cyber-insurance-deep-dive-2023/ 

 

Resources & Links: 

Amy’s Facebook communities
Ransomware, Security, Compliance  and Privacy
https://www.facebook.com/groups/RansomwarePrevention

Intune, MeM, Defender and Lighthouse 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/endpointmanager

Legislation and Regulation 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MSPRegulationAndLegislation