Episode 82

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21st Feb 2021

[82]: Who are the New Breed of Customer-Focused Vendors?

In this special episode, Richard talks to three people he believes best represent a new breed of customer-focused vendors: Andrew Wallace, Managing Director and Chief Product Officer of SmileBack; Jason Kemsley, Technical Director of UpTime Solutions; Tim Swainson, Sales Manager at Kemp Technology. 

They talk about how SmileBack don’t rely solely on automation to make decisions about clients, how UpTime stand out from the competition by making the customer the focus, and how Kemp radically overhauled licencing to suit their MSP clients’ needs. 

They also touch on the importance of empowering staff and improving customer relationships, why you should be flexible with the contracts you ask people to sign up to, and how working from home actually makes learning easier for engineers.

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TubbTalk: The Podcast for Managed Service Providers
Putting Managed Service Providers back in control!
Richard Tubb has been a leader and keynote speaker in the MSP community for the last two decades. At the helm of media company and MSP advisory business Tubblog, Richard loves to showcase tech companies disrupting the industry, as well as shining a light on new tools you might not be aware of.

His long-running and successful interview-style show, TubbTalk, features fireside style chats with the CEOs and CTOs of these businesses, to dig deep into how they got started in the industry, what inspired them to start something new and what their advice would be to anyone who wants to do the same.

But it's not all tech focused! As a former MSP owner himself, Richard knows that there are many facets to being a business owner, which is why his guests reflect that too.

Previous topics include mental health, sales, marketing, business growth, productivity, customer service and more. Wondering why you should listen? Well, as one fan put it: "It's like eavesdropping on a conversation between two friends, who are sharing their knowledge and wisdom with each other. You learn while you're being entertained."

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Richard Tubb

Richard Tubb is one of the best-known experts within the global IT Managed Service Provider (MSP) community. He launched and sold his own MSP business before creating a leading MSP media and consultancy practice. Richard helps IT business owner’s take back control by freeing up their time and building a business that can run without them. He’s the author of the book “The IT Business Owner’s Survival Guide” and writer of the award-winning blog www.tubblog.co.uk