– Vol. 1 – Front Office Mastery: SOPs for Office Management, Finances, Administration, and Running Your Company More Efficiently – Vol. 2 – Employees and Internal Processes: SOPs for Hiring, Employee Evaluations, Team Management, and More – Vol. 3 – Running the Service Department: SOPs for Managing Technicians, Daily Operations, Service Boards, and Scheduling – Vol. 4 – Support and Service Delivery: SOPs for Client Relationships, Service Delivery, Scheduled Maintenance, and All about Backups
Service agreements literally define your business. If you re not using them, you need to start today. If you are using them, great! Just make sure that they truly represent who you are and how you want to define your business. Whether you sell your services hourly, in blocks of time, or with a Managed Services plan, you need a good service agreement. You need this book! As with his other books, Karl gives you more than just the forms. This book includes best practices and lots of great information to help you run your business more prosperously! Includes sample contracts with commentaries. All text, as well as some other great resources, are available as a download.
Cloud Services in a Month is a step-by-step, no-nonsense guide to building an extremely profitable cloud service business for the SMB (small and medium business) market. Filled with practical advice based on the author’s experience over more than a decade, this guide is the playbook you will use for success in the Cloud.
Includes three of Karl Palachuk’s most popular books for small IT companies. – Managed Services in a Month – Cloud Services in a Month – Service Agreements for SMB Consultants
How can you guarantee that your company delivers great service, has a great culture, and still manages to stay profitable? You need to follow certain “Unbreakable Rules” for success. Best-selling business author and coach Karl W. Palachuk draws on more than twenty thirty years of owning and running service-based businesses to present the rules his companies live by.
Karl has worked with thousands of business owners and managers – and helped several of them make the move to self-employment. With this workbook, Karl will help you make the launch as well. This workbook is guaranteed to help you learn about what it takes to start and run your new business.
This great little book provides a simple process project planning and management process that is easy to learn and easy to teach to your employees, fellow technicians, and sub-contractors.
You’ll learn to track any project, explain all the stages to clients and employees, and verify that everything is completed on time and under budget. The authors show you a great technique for making sure that scope creep is a thing of the past!
The IT Consultant’s Year of Intention – A Workbook Dedicated to Your Success by Karl W. Palachuk.
Launched October 2023.
This workbook is designed specifically to help IT Consultants to plan – and evaluate – the year ahead. Unlike a basic business book, this workbook focuses on the activities of a successful IT Service Provider.
Includes Paperback or Ebook version of these Books: – Service Agreements for SMB Consultants – Revised Edition by Karl W. Palachuk – Managed Services In A Month 3rd ed. by Karl W. Palachuk – The Managed Services Operations Manual – 4 volume set – by Karl W. Palachuk – Relax Focus Succeed by Karl W. Palachuk – Project Management in Small Business by Dana Goulston and Karl W. Palachuk
The premise of this book is simple but powerful: The fundamental keys to success are focus, hard work, and balance. Too often, the advice we receive gives plenty of attention to focus and hard work, but very little to balance.
This great little book will help you believe that you need balance, show you the power of focus, and help you move forward with the new you — a happier, healthier, better balanced, and more successful you.
Volume 1 is all about the Front Office. Here you’ll find SOPs for Office Management, Finances, Administration, and Running Your Company More Efficiently
Let’s be honest, anyone can perform a network migration WITH downtime. You simply kick everyone off the system, put the client out of business for some period of time, and push through until you’re done.
Without downtime is another story. Without downtime . . .
You can do network migrations during the workweek The client doesn’t have to ever send people home because of you You can work when 3rd party support is available You don’t have to pay overtime and neither does the client You look like a hero!
Getting to the next level is a never ending journey for you and your business and now you have the definitive guide book. From the design of the business to the execution on strategy and all the tools you need in between this book covers it. It shows you how to gauge your business maturity and your progress along your roadmap to stratospheric success. Complete with a well defined case study and Example by the author that are built from years of experience in business management and guidance.
Learn to design your business from the top down using the Pyramid of Purpose and Value and then build it from the ground up by leveraging Business Agile Strategy Execution (BASE).
