{"id":28376,"date":"2019-01-29T15:38:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T11:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/?p=28376"},"modified":"2024-08-06T12:21:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T08:21:48","slug":"msp-voice-episode-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/msp-voice-episode-33\/","title":{"rendered":"MSP Voice Episode 33 &#8211; &#8220;Monthly Recurring Relationships&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My interview with Bob Coppedge of Simplex-IT went a little longer than normal, mostly because we were having a great conversation and Bob is a great guy to interview. While Bob is focusing on the business and not \u201cin the business\u201d he has built a successful MSP that has been around for about 11 years.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simplex skipped the break-fix phase and jumped directly into MSP work from the start. Now with over 13 employees, Simplex is still growing. Bob has written a book, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/CEOs-Survival-Guide-Information-Technology-ebook\/dp\/B079FC1Z2K\/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=%E2%80%9CA+CEO%E2%80%99s+Survival+Guide+to+Information+Technology%E2%80%9D&amp;qid=1547753564&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A CEO\u2019s Survival Guide to Information Technology<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and is working on another one due out later this year that is written specifically for MSPs. Bob\u2019s second book with detail how Simplex has had a lot of success in co-managed IT, basically helping to augment an existing IT staff with MSP services. If you want to connect with Bob, hit him up on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rlcoppedge\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or drop him an email at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bob@simplex-it.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guest: Bob Coppedge<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Company: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplex-it.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simplex-IT<\/span><\/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<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLRkCwqyZ6K-ZNtEpJAy1dtTf-y0C1nRSU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube (video)<\/a><\/span> as well as popular podcast channels such as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/msp-voice\/id1387820734\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/msp-voice-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SoundCloud<\/a><\/span>, and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/msp-voice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anchor<\/a><\/span>. You can also subscribe to new episodes via <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3fcba40\/podcast\/rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RSS Feed<\/a><\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<h2>Watch on YouTube<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MSP Voice #33: MONTHLY RECURRING RELATIONSHIPS with Bob Coppedge\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gbp2B2ZiOOg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Best of Reddit<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mspvoice.com\/chambers-and-msps-community-to-profitability-by-h-michael-wayland\/\"target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Guest blog post on MSP Voice.com!<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brief: H. Michael Wayland gives some tips for working with local chambers to drum up leads.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/msp\/comments\/aknmcc\/considering_transitioning_from_breakfix_to_msp\/\"target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Considering transitioning from break\/fix to MSP...advice?<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brief: This person wants to transition to MSP and is asking the community for advice.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/msp\/comments\/ajhimw\/hiring_a_dispatch_documentation_person_best_idea\/\"target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Hiring a dispatch\/documentation person. Best idea ever<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brief: This person is just 2 weeks in with a new dispatch and documentation person and is seeing great results.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My interview with Bob Coppedge of Simplex-IT went a little longer than normal, mostly because we were having a great conversation and Bob is a great guy to interview. While Bob is focusing on the business and not \u201cin the business\u201d he has built a successful MSP that has been around for about 11 years.<\/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-28376","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\/28376","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=28376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58267,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28376\/revisions\/58267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}