Böcker av Karl W Palachuk

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.Yes, you'll document your goals and financial picture for the year ahead. But there's much, much more. Running a managed service business is not the same as other businesses. You need to plan how you'll work with vendors and new technology. You need constant training to keep up on constant changes.You'll examine:- Your plans - Your finances - Your vendors - Events you might (and might not) attend - Webinars and online training - and more.Plus essays, forms, and exercises designed to focus on success.In other words: There's a lot of work that goes into a successful year. As Karl likes to say: Nothing Happens by ItselfPlus - Lots of forms and checklists to help you build a successful year ahead - with intention!

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.

Are you ready to turn your passion into a profitable business?The Nonfiction Book Publishing Plan is loaded with proven strategies, real-world examples, and fascinating interviews with successful authors who started from scratch just like you. In this content-rich book, you will learn how to: Identify profit opportunities from and around your book Set up a legitimate and professional author-publisher business Write your manuscript faster than you thought possible Avoid mistakes new authors make and get your book published the right way Enlist beta readers, get endorsements from well-known authors, and generate book reviews Launch your book into the world with as much buzz as possible As nonfiction authors, publishers, and internet entrepreneurs with over three decades of combined industry experience, we understand your unique goals and challenges. We also have the experience to show you how to produce your nonfiction book in the most professional way possible, while you turn your passion into a profitable business. Whether you're writing self-development, business, memoir, how-to, spiritual, narrative, or other nonfiction book, this authoritative guide by experienced industry professionals will provide you with the solutions you need to achieve your publishing goals.

Small Business project management is simply not as complicated as project management in the enterprise. But small business projects have the same challenges as enterprise projects: They need to achieve their goals effectively, on time, and within budget. They also face the same primary challenge - staying inside the scope of the project! 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! Make every project a successful and profitable project! This book jumps right into a down-and-dirty, get-it-done process for creating and implementing projects that work. The primary audience is the technical consultant. But this process, with very little fine-tuning, should work for just about any SMB project. We show you how to -Meet all the project goals -Maintain excellent communication with the client -Manage expectations -Stay profitableand -Avoid scope creep!

Servicios gestionados en un mes es una guia practica para crear una empresa exitosa de servicios gestionados. Tanto si esta empezando de cero como si esta convirtiendo su negocio preexistente de consultoria tecnologica ruptura y arreglo (break/fix) en servicios gestionados, este libro le ensenara como hacerlo. La segunda edicion recientemente revisada y ampliada tiene nueve capitulos, que cubren los mas recientes productos y servicios disponibles en el mercado--incluyendo las tecnologias en la nube. Karl deja claro que los servicios gestionados es el modelo de negocio del futuro. Servicios gestionados en un mes es muy practico y va al grano. Karl le ensena como transformar su negocio paso a paso. Y si, realmente se puede hacer en un mes! Karl W. Palachuk es autor de diez libros, incluyendo The Network Documentation Workbook, Service Agreements for SMB Consultants - A Quick-Start Guide to Managed Services, y The Network Migration Workbook. Es tambien autor del blog mas popular sobre servicios gestionados. Durante diecisiete anos, Karl fue propietario de una empresa consultora y actualmente es ingeniero superior de sistemas en America Tech Support. Ademas, proporciona asesoramiento tecnico a pequenas y medianas empresas en Norteamerica, ofreciendo servicios de asesoramiento comercial y capacitacion de maximo nivel en temas tecnicas.

Avoid the biggest mistakes of first-time publishers! Make money self-publishing your books professionally. This book will teach you to design your book professionally, create a business plan and marketing plan, address the legal issues of publishing, copyright your book the right way, create spin-off products and alternate versions of your books, assign ISBNs to your books and spin-off products, register your book with the Library of Congress, find the right printer and distributor, price your books for maximum success, set up your online sales machine, and market and promote your books successfully.

"Written by and for the small business specialist community"--Cover.