Powerhouse of One: How To Be A Super Successful Solo MSP

If you prefer to run a very small managed service business, you can be extremely successful – but you have to create excellent processes to make that happen. Multi-state MSP owner Lori Hardtke shows you how to grow your business to $350K and beyond without any additional full-time staff on your payroll.

Description

Updated for 2024!

You hear it all the time, you need to work “on” your business not “in” your business. You need to hire staff and delegate in order to grow. But what if you could grow your business to $350K or more without any additional full-time staff on your payroll?

Tired of sitting in traffic to make that meeting across town and filling up at the pump every few days? What if you could master running your MSP practice remotely nearly 100% of the time?

Ever dream of having no monthly A/R and no debt?

Then this class is for you!

“The class Lori did was simply awesome. I learned so much. She is what I want to be when I grow up!”
– David Streit, Stephill Associates, LLC

Here’s what you will learn:

  • How to pick the right vendors who become an extension of your company
  • How to position your micro-MSP to prospects and clients as though you have an army of employees behind you!
  • A different approach to packaging and pricing your offering
  • How to sell additional technology services that are pure profit
  • How to land new MSP contracts without leaving your office!
  • Tactics on raising rates and going after low hanging fruit
  • Creating automation so your business runs like clockwork
  • Conducting Technical Business Review (TBRs)
  • Finances – Learn how to break through to a 6-figure salary
  • How to Live Your Business Dream
  • …And more tips-n-tricks to help you be different and think different!

Delivered by Lori Hardtke, MSP and Peer Advisor. Lori has been an MSP (managed service provider) for many years and runs a two-state business with no full-time employees.

This course is intended for business owners and managers. It is particularly useful for the Service Manager or Operations Manager.

Additional information

Elective Pathway

Front Office, Management, Sales/Marketing, Service Manager

Topic

Automation, Entrepreneurship, Financial Processes, Hiring & Training, Managed Services, Management, Marketing, Office Admin, Organize Your Business, Sales, Selling an MSP, Service Agreements, SOPs, Sustainable Growth

A different, simplified approach to packaging your Managed Services

How to grow revenue and net income without hiring any full-time staff

A quick start guide to Profit First and establishing quarterly bonuses

Tactics on utilizing engagement letters, pre-paid support agreements & raising rates

Automating your business to run like clockwork

Lori Hardtke smiling at you

Lori Hardtke

MSP and Certified Profit First Professional and Certified Fix This Next Advisor

Lori Hardtke is an MSP, a Certified Profit First Professional, a technology educator, author, and coach. Lori has been an MSP for many years and lives and runs her MSP remotely (in Hawaii) for clients in 7 different states with no full-time employees. It is her mission and passion to help business owners of any size eliminate debt, prioritize profits, provide clarity, and reduce financial stress.

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Specialist Certification Pathways

Meets Elective requirement:

This class will be recorded. Each unit is generally posted within 24 hours of the live class. These recorded units will become the On-Demand class and you’ll have lifetime access to it.

Course Outline

Module 1 Class Introduction
Unit 1 Introduction  - Preview  
Unit 2 Live Class Information  
Module 2 Class Content
Unit 1 Vendors/Affiliations/Peer Groups  
Unit 2 Sales Processes for Services that are Pure Profit  
Unit 3 Plans, Pricing & Agreements  
Unit 4 Finances – Learn how to break through to a 6-figure salary  
Unit 5 Automating Your Business to Run Like Clockwork  

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