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Managed Services channel vendor teams with largest online business improvement and transformation resource and independent community for IT solution and managed services providers
Garden Grove, CA - Managed Services Provider University (www.mspu.us); the largest consultancy, online resource and independent community dedicated to business transformation and improvement strategies for information technology (IT) professionals and managed services providers worldwide, announced today its collaboration with Virtual Administrator as a strategic Sponsor of its online educational platform and Boot Camps.
"This new relationship will help provide our members the opportunity to get the technology they need to use the strategies we are teaching them every day," said Gary Beechum, President and CEO of MSP University. “Our ability to effectively help MSPs is greatly magnified when our members can access quality industry tools without worrying about huge upfront investments.” continued Beechum.
With a membership channel forecast to grow to 100,000 IT providers in 2011, MSP University takes pride in educating their members in the best software and services in the industry as well as ways to increase net profits by focusing on 8 critical areas of an IT practice, which include Leadership, Financial Acumen, Organizational Structure, Talent Management, Marketing, Sales, Service Delivery and Vendor Relationships.
Scheduled for 11 US and 3 international locations in 2011, MSP University’s Boot Camps educate their attendees in best practices for increasing net profits by developing effective marketing strategies to increase lead generation, learning sales techniques that dramatically improve sales success, discovering the most effective ways to deliver managed services agreements, understanding effective sales engineering strategies that result in accurate, effective solution design and proposal creation, managing projects effectively to eliminate scope creep, and learning effective incident management and resolution processes for their service desks that increase efficiencies and customer satisfaction.
"We are excited to engage with MSP University as a strategic sponsor of its platform and 2011 Boot Camp Series. We have been recommending MSP University for years and this partnership gives us the opportunity to provide an onramp for MSP University members who are ready to really embrace managed services." said Chris Amori, President of Virtual Administrator.
About Virtual Administrator
Virtual Administrator; a division of Network Depot, LLC, is based in Reston, Virginia. Network Depot has twice been named as one of MSPMentor’s TOP 100 MSPs. Virtual Administrator was created from a desire to help small IT shops become bigger ones by allowing them to have access to the same quality tools that only larger companies could previously afford. Our business model is a simple one. We extend the same Managed Services tools and best practices we use in our own Washington, DC area IT Services business to other IT Providers, helping them become more productive and profitable. Our partners are provided with detailed training and support on how to use these “best-of-breed” tools in a real world setting. This “hands-on” approach separates us from our competition. We understand Managed Services.
To learn more, please visit http://www.VirtualAdministrator.com.
About MSP University
MSP University provides IT business operations, sales and marketing and technical service delivery improvement education, training, fulfillment and consulting services to Fortune 50 manufacturers, distributors, membership organizations, vendor channels, franchises and thousands of independent IT service organizations worldwide. MSP University is the ultimate resource for IT solution providers, whether preparing to transition to an annuity-based Managed Services delivery model, or who are already delivering Managed Services, and wish to increase their knowledge of IT and Managed Services vendors, services, solutions and business, technical and sales and marketing best practices to drive revenue and increase profitability. For more information, visit www.mspu.us.
