{"id":28526,"date":"2019-02-05T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/?p=28526"},"modified":"2020-12-15T13:12:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T09:12:03","slug":"msp-voice-episode-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/msp-voice-episode-34\/","title":{"rendered":"MSP Voice Episode 34 &#8211; &#8220;MSP Franchise&#8221; with Rick Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick has been an entrepreneur all his life, starting a DJ business when he was just 16. He found motivation in the US military and then worked for a technology company for a few years before founding Cinch I.T. in 2004. Cinch started off as break\/fix but transitioned to MSP soon after. Cinch has been growing ever since and has won numerous awards. Rick is now taking that success and looking to grow by <a href=\"http:\/\/cinchfranchise.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offering franchise opportunities<\/a> across the country.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guest: Rick Porter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Company: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cinchit.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cinch I.T.<\/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 #34: MSP FRANCHISE with Rick Porter\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xlBKm8G9Gqc?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:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/msp\/comments\/amkqwa\/disparity_across_client_technology\/\"target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Disparity across client technology<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brief: This MSP is managing about 2,000 endpoints for 100 clients and each client has different technology...how do you manage that?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/msp\/comments\/am8av2\/system_for_consistently_hitting_sla\/\"target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>System for consistently hitting SLAs<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brief: When you\u2019re in the weeds, how do you meet your SLAs?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/msp\/comments\/am2rlk\/starting_a_msp_feedback_on_pricing_model_please\/\"target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Starting an MSP - Feedback wanted on the pricing model<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brief: A new MSP startup in Indianapolis is looking for feedback on their proposed pricing model (Bronze, Silver, Gold)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick has been an entrepreneur all his life, starting a DJ business when he was just 16. He found motivation in the US military and then worked for a technology company for a few years before founding Cinch I.T. in 2004. Cinch started off as break\/fix but transitioned to MSP soon after. Cinch has been [&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-28526","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\/28526","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=28526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}