Category: Business

If you’re thinking about getting into my line of work, read this first. It may not be a complete list of reasons why NOT to become an IT consultant, but what’s there is pretty accurate.

Reflections a year after my taping of Vladfire …. There are many names for people and businesses who do what I do. IT consultant Trusted advisor Outsourced IT vendor Value added reseller (VAR) Value added provider (VAP) Managed services provider (MSP) Channel partner Solution provider God (on our good days) Those idiots (on our bad [...]

I got this by e-mail today from my software distributor: With the launch of Windows Vista™ and the known reliability of Windows Server 2003, Software Assurance, a multifaceted maintenance offer from Microsoft, is more compelling than ever. Whether your customers have 5, 50 or 500 PCs, Software Assurance provides the support and features so your [...]

A couple folks have made the point that one shouldn’t evaluate a conference immediately after it ends, because the true impact of the event can only be measured days, weeks, or months later. But I’ve got some time to kill before I have to get a cab to the airport, and chances are I’ll never [...]

But Vlad, buddy, you spelled my name wrong in the permalink! http://www.vladville.com/2007/02/vladfire-20-david-scrhag.html

The caption to this YouTube video says “only lawyers will be amused by this,” but I think accountants, consultants, therapists, any many other professionals will enjoy it, as will anyone who went to high school in the 1980s. But stay away if you can’t stand a cappella.

Last year, Microsoft introduced Small Business Accounting, its answer to QuickBooks and other small business accounting packages. They pushed it heavily to partners like me, and like me, many partners completely ignored it. It had a pretty limited feature set and seemed to get no traction in the CPA and banking communities. Yesterday, almost completely [...]