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Sandler Sales Tip! – March 2019
Why do need to write down own my goals? I worked with a saleswoman once named Gail. Gail never wrote down goals, but at my urging she agreed to give it a try. Gail shared with me that she always drove a junky car and dreamed of someday having a brand-new car. She figured out how much she would need to save in order to get that car in three…
Join the Beta for OneDrive & Sharepoint Backup
– Seeking partners for early access to new Backup365 features. After our initial launch of Backup365, the key feedback from partners was that they were looking for a simple “tick box” solution for backing up all of the cloud services they were moving their customers to. You asked for something “simple to provision”, “easy to scale and invoice”, with the quality of “local support” that you were used to. We…
MSP Mentor – 501 Worldwide List and Rankings of MSPs in Australia and Global
It’s the 10th anniversary of the 501 Worldwide annual survey of our industry. Don’t miss your opportunity to be listed as one of the biggest MSPs in Australia and globally. Every year, many of our partners are listed within the MSP Mentors 501 Worldwide list. Click here to find out more; entry ends on the 1st of May 2017! MSP mentor: http://bit.ly/2mw9irz
Autotask/Soonr Upgrades
A number of our partners have started trialling the File Server Agent/ Autotask Workplace Server under the beta agreement. If you would like to trial the new File Server Agent please contact your account manager or sales@manageprotect.com. Soonr/AWP This month also brought a server side bug fix for the IOS mobile agent that allows it to upload and render images a lot quicker. There was also a significant bandwidth…
Manage Protect StatusPage
Just a reminder, for all updates on services, outages, blacklists, and basically anything that will affect your customers – please subscribe to our StatusPage to receive these updated through email or SMS.
New Zealand Trip
At the start of the month, I visited our NZ distributor “Soft Solutions” and their partners across the ditch. The NZ market is dynamic, and has one of the highest adoption rates of cloud services, particularly Office 365, in the world. We are seeing significant interest and growth in both CloudAlly Office 365 backup, and Autotask Workplace (Soonr) with our New Zealand partners.
New Team Members – March 2017
To help us understand and work more closely with partners, our Partner Development team has grown by two people this month – both based out of our Sydney office. We hope you will welcome Valerie Gleeson [Partner Account Manager] and Rubi Stitt [Marketing & Communication Co-ordinator] who will be working with David, Helene and myself to ensure that our partners have everything they need; and that we are doing everything…
Technology Update – February 2017
Spam, Content, Quarantine … Since introducing the updated MPmail platform, we have had a number of partners ask more about what these different types of spam mean, and what is the best practice for configuring MPmail to work for their customers. Damon Bree has put together a brief one page outline of how MPmail anti-spam works. We also encourage partners to login and attend either our Tuesday or Thursday training…
MPevents: Mandatory Serious Data Breach Notification to become law
On the 13th of February, the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016 was passed through the Australian Senate and will become law within 12 months. Australian businesses (with some exceptions), with a minimum turn-over of 3 million a year will be compelled to notify the privacy commissioner and their customers of any serious data breach or face a fine of up to $360,000 for individuals or $1.8 million for…