{"id":30653,"date":"2019-05-01T17:57:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T13:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/?p=30653"},"modified":"2020-12-15T13:35:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T09:35:26","slug":"msp-voice-episode-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/msp-voice-episode-45\/","title":{"rendered":"MSP Voice Episode 45 &#8211; \u201cIt\u2019s not 9 to 5\u201d with Jorge Prieto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week we have Jorge Prieto out of Texas. Jorge has been in services for 14 years and joined forces with his friend about 3 years ago and business has been great. Like most, Jorge started out with break-fix but now almost all of his clients are on a monthly contract. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jorge decided to start his own MSP after getting frustrated and what he had to deal with as a contractor at other companies. Now if he has a difficult customer he can just fire them instead of having to just deal with it for the sake of the contract. Blackland\u2019s main verticals are health care, title companies, and professions services companies. Towards the end, Jorge explains that running your own business isn\u2019t 9 to 5, it\u2019s a bigger commitment. He also explains that MSP does not mean \u201cbreak-fix on retainer\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guest: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jorge-a-prieto\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jorge Prieto<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Company: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blacklandtech.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blackland Technologies<\/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 #45: IT&#039;S NOT 9 TO 5 with Jorge Prieto\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qcn7QYm-MLc?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>News of the Week<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelfutures.com\/business-models\/no-msp-is-an-island-says-tim-conkle\"target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>No MSP is an Island<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brief: Tim Conkle of The20 explains the importance of MSP peer groups<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crn.com\/news\/channel-programs\/msps-security-almost-pointless-if-it-service-management-tools-compromised?itc=refresh\"target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>MSPs: Security \u2018Almost Pointless\u2019 If IT Service Management Tools Compromised<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brief: Should tool providers be more accountable for security breaches?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelfutures.com\/business-models\/channel-convergence-will-never-happen-and-thats-a-good-thing\"target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Channel Convergence will Never Happen - and that\u2019s a Good Thing<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brief: Rob Spee gives his opinion on why telecom agents and MSPs operate under different sales models and most likely will not coverge.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channele2e.com\/channel-partners\/msps\/solarwinds-acquires-passportal\/\"target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SolarWinds Acquires Passporttal<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brief: Another acquisition in the MSP vendor space<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we have Jorge Prieto out of Texas. Jorge has been in services for 14 years and joined forces with his friend about 3 years ago and business has been great. Like most, Jorge started out with break-fix but now almost all of his clients are on a monthly contract.<\/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-30653","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\/30653","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=30653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}