@Dashrender said in Consultancies Advertise People; VARs Advertise Products:

@EddieJennings said in Consultancies Advertise People; VARs Advertise Products:

This may seem simplistic, but if I were in this scenario, on which side of the MSP / VAR would I stand?

A person hires me to help spec out a server for their office. I'm paid to help them determine how much RAM, storage, processors, etc. they need.

This part is clear, I'm being paid for advice; thus, MSP.

A point of clarity - advising only this is not being an MSP - you'r not managing anything (managed service provider). ITSP or Consultancy would be better terms for this portion... heck - the whole thing, including recommending a hardware vendor, because again, you're not managing anything.

True. I ought to have used those other terms.

Smart switches are cheaper than managed switches, normally by quite a bit. And they are way easier for a small business to manage as they normally just use a web browser or a simple utility instead of making you use expensive and complex central management tools for SNMP.

@scottalanmiller said in Organizing Documentation with MediaWiki:

@Dashrender said in Organizing Documentation with MediaWiki:

@scottalanmiller said in Organizing Documentation with MediaWiki:

@Dashrender said in Organizing Documentation with MediaWiki:

@scottalanmiller said in Organizing Documentation with MediaWiki:

Yeah, but we can't access that. It's $20 for us. That's just the price, can't get around it.

If you're really planning on dropping all the way to the $4/u/m exchange only plan, then you can probably move to the $5/month plan (you have less than 250 users, right? and get what I have today.

MSP, doesn't work that way. We need our E3 plans. Seriously, we don't have any option for the $5 stuff.

then you're paying $20 already - so what difference does it make?

That we can't get the $5 plan. So we can't have OneNote and SharePoint without paying the $16 premium per user. We are going in circles. I'm back to explaining the original price post.

Also, FFS, quit cluttering up the wrong damned thread.

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In reality, it mostly comes down to the contract working itself.