{"id":26204,"date":"2018-11-06T15:41:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T11:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/?p=26204"},"modified":"2020-12-15T12:36:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T08:36:27","slug":"msp-voice-episode-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/msp-voice-episode-23\/","title":{"rendered":"MSP Voice Episode 23 &#8211; &#8220;Association Nation&#8221; with Michael Drobnis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MSP-Voice-Episode-19-with-Bart-Barcewicz-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"825\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MSP-Voice-Episode-19-with-Bart-Barcewicz-2.png 825w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MSP-Voice-Episode-19-with-Bart-Barcewicz-2-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MSP-Voice-Episode-19-with-Bart-Barcewicz-2-768x233.png 768w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MSP-Voice-Episode-19-with-Bart-Barcewicz-2-624x189.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s guest is Michael Drobnis from OptfinITy. Michael has been in business for 17 years. He started with basic break\/fix doing a lot of the technical work but then moved to managed services where Michael took a more active role in managing the business. OptfinITy now has 14 employees and they focus a lot on associations. They also encourage their employees to be a member of a chamber of commerce.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Guest: Michael Drobnis<\/p>\n<p>Company: <a href=\"https:\/\/optfinity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OptfinITy<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"perfect-pullquote vcard pullquote-align-full pullquote-border-placement-left\"><blockquote><p>All episodes can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/mspvoice.com\/\">MSP Voice website<\/a>, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLRkCwqyZ6K-ZNtEpJAy1dtTf-y0C1nRSU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube (video)<\/a> as well as popular podcast channels such as <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/msp-voice\/id1387820734\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/msp-voice-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SoundCloud<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/msp-voice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anchor<\/a>. You can also subscribe to new episodes via <a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3fcba40\/podcast\/rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RSS Feed<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<h2>Watch on YouTube<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MSP Voice #23: ASSOCIATION NATION with Michael Drobnis\" width=\"578\" height=\"325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kk2CHoo7yJA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Best of Reddit<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/msp\/comments\/9ub2fg\/hr401khealth_insurance_packages_for_small_12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>HR\/401K\/Health Insurance for small business<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brief: Who do you use for benefits for a small 1-2 person shop?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/msp\/comments\/9t9cep\/authentication_over_the_phone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>How to authenticate a user when the call in?<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brief: How do you verify identity when a user calls the helpdesk?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/msp\/comments\/9txm6u\/have_you_ever_hired_a_freelancercontractor_to_do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Have you ever hired a freelancer\/contractor to do your MSP's online advertising? Did it work? What were the results?<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brief: Can you get results with a freelance advertising person?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/msp\/comments\/9tljps\/an_msp_without_vcio_is_a_fixedfee_breakfix_shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>An MSP without vCIO is a fixed-fee break-fix shop<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brief: As you can imagine, a lot of comments and opinions on this one<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/msp\/comments\/9tjii9\/job_survey_should_i_move_to_a_msp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Job Survey! (Should I move to an MSP?)<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brief: OP is asking if he\/she should take a job at an MSP.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelpronetwork.com\/news\/channelpro-exclusive-itboost-takes-it-glue-documentation-adoption-and-migration-push\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The new version of ITBoost!<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelpronetwork.com\/news\/channelpro-exclusive-itboost-takes-it-glue-documentation-adoption-and-migration-push\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brief: For everyone looking for documentation software, looks like they\u2019re going to be taking on IT Glue pretty hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s guest is Michael Drobnis from OptfinITy. Michael has been in business for 17 years. He started with basic break\/fix doing a lot of the technical work but then moved to managed services where Michael took a more active role in managing the business. OptfinITy now has 14 employees and they focus a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[877,884],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-articles","category-msp-business-articles"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}