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6 Tips MSPs Should Know About Going Into 2023
CJ Fairfield
‘It’s not a buying conversation anymore. It’s much, much broader than that. It’s a service conversation around marketplaces,’ says Ryan Walsh, chief operating officer of Pax8.
MSPs can take lessons learned from the pandemic and leverage different strategy efforts to transform their businesses in 2023, according to a panel of channel executives.
At CRN’s parent company The Channel Company’s XChange Best of Breed Conference in Atlanta this week, Ryan Walsh, COO of Pax8; Dan Tomaszewski, EVP of channel at Kaseya; and Ryan Bowman, director of solutions engineering for ThreatLocker, came together to discuss the channel outlook, what partners can do to adapt going forward and what to leverage to grow their business.
The panel was moderated by Tom Colleary, president and CEO of West Hartford, Conn.-based MSP F3 Technology Partners.
When discussing strategy and partner engagement, Tomaszewski said that vendors want to make sure that its solutions are profitable for the partners.
“It’s one thing just to have a solution and have it be the right thing in your stack,” he said. “But how do we make sure that it’s profitable? How do we make sure it’s easy to deploy? In going through that whole strategy with our customers, we found that being able to really get in the trenches more and through that go to market and that onboarding process with you…we’re seeing customers go to market in 30, 60 days with products.
“Seeing success in recouping the cost of what they just shelled out, they’re now able to go out there and do things profitably,” he added.
At Pax8, Walsh said they’re driven by two things, time to value and ease of business, “especially now with the economic landscape the way it is.”
The panel discussed partner engagement strategies, go forward strategies and marketplace and how they can help partners help their end customers.
Adam Goebel, director of partner management for Missouri-based MSP All Covered, said what the panel said validated what his company is doing coming out of the pandemic.
“It seems like they’re doing the same thing and they’re trying to do things that we want to do to help us grow,” he said.
The panel discussed partner engagement strategies, go forward strategies and marketplace and how they can help partners help their customers.
Here’s a breakdown of what they said.
