Dave Seibert on 2021, 2022, and the SMB IT Community

I love talking with Dave Seibert for lots of reasons: One is his optimism. Before we hit the record button, he just kept going on and on about all the great opportunities he sees in 2022. So I hit record and made him slow down a bit. Dave is a longtime community builder, managed service provider, influencer, Microsoft MVP, and organizer of the SMB Techfest. We sat down for a year-end review and look into the new year. We start with an update on SMB Techfest and their plans for the new year. Q1 (January) and Q3 (July) will be virtual events and Q2 (April) and Q4 (October) will be live, in-person events. As Dave points out, he does his event four times per year because our industry changes all the time. And that's a good transition to our actual show contents. Our industry is typified by "change." Well, the pandemic has sped that up considerably. Dave helps us reflect on what we learned in 2021 and what he sees ahead in 2022. More than half the show is spent on opportunities in 2022! Links: SMB TechFest – quarterly technology conference - www.smbTechFest.com Complementary registration to join a SMB TechFest conference - www.smbTechFest.com/Go/Worldwide ProTier Peer Groups – Building Dream Teams to Accelerate Business Growth - www.ProTierPeerGroups.com DaveSeibert.com – Dave's site for many activities and resources - www.DaveSeibert.com and of course . . . - www.LinkedIn.com/in/DaveSeibert99 -- -- -- Sponsor Note: Dropsuite Dropsuite provides backup, archiving, and recovery solutions delivered at scale to power your business defense of cloud services. Award winning, safe, secure, and scalable – as well as trusted by top channel partners like Pax8 and Sherweb, Dropsuite protects Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and email from the full range of threats – accidental deletion to full-on cyberattacks. All with an understanding of what MSPs need to be successful and compliant. Interested? Learn more right at https://dropsuite.com. :-) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.