Episode 41: Find out where you’re wasting your time

 In this week’s episode Time can drag, time can fly, but there’s always one constant – we all easily spend too much time doing things that other people could be doing for us. Whether it’s implementing your marketing, sorting finance or day-to-day tasks, Paul introduces you to a unique desk toy that can help you see time differently and ultimately transform your MSP Also on this week’s show, did you hear the one about the MSP who also became a vendor because there was a gap in the market? Paul finds out from an MSP what it was like to create their own resellable cloud service and what ‘learns’ they can share Plus there’s a question from a listener that hits the nail on the head – we know we need to do marketing, but how do we know when it’s working? Show notes Out every Tuesday on your favourite podcast platform Presented by Paul Green, an MSP marketing expert In talking about outsourcing tasks, Paul mentioned UK-based firm TimeEtc, also the likes of Fiverr, Upwork & PeoplePerHour Find out more about the brilliant physical time-tracking tool Timeular Paul and his team use Basecamp to organise communication, tasks and projects Check out the free resources and ideas for improving your marketing at paulgreensmspmarketing.com/resources Paul’s special guest was Phil Donoghue from Cloud4 talking about how their Channel Host cloud business was born from their MSP business Many thanks to Steve Macklin from Pure IT for the question about whether your marketing is working or not On September 1st Paul will host a MSP Marketing Podcast Special, dedicated to the story of David Darmstandler from Data Path and how he grew his MSP business in a dramatic way You can join Paul in the MSP Marketing group on Facebook Please send any questions, ideally in audio-form (or any other feedback) to [email protected] Episode transcription Voiceover: Made in the UK for MSPs around the world. This is Paul Green’s MSP Marketing Podcast. Paul Green: Welcome to this week’s show. Here’s what’s coming up today. Phil Donoghue: We simply couldn’t find anybody who could provide the types of service and the levels of service that w...