What's up this week in IT/MSP FB Group

Hi everyone, my name is Lisa Hendrickson aka Call That Girl and I’m helping Stetson run the IT/MSP Entrepreneurs Facebook Group and newsletters. My goal and main reason I’m helping is to help this group become more of a higher-level tech community. In the past 13 years I have learned so much by being active in tech communities. I learn and I help too, that’s how communities work. Many of us are solos working from home all day alone and have no co-workers. These groups are invaluable to us for help, chatter, questions, or just to have a laugh with.

With that said, I noticed this group was in need of a tech community feel, it’s a large group of over 10,000 members and very little vendor/sponsor ads. Kind of amazing for a free group. Now that I’m helping approve posts, I read this in a post “Not sure if I can ask for help in this group” Yes, we encourage you to ask the group, there is no better group of people to ask than a large group of IT colleagues. I’d rather submit a post if I’m stuck on something than to spend hours figuring out something that I could not figure out on my own. I have list below of the topics I’ll use for the newsletter, leaving room for extra’s I discover during the week.

Group chats

Other paid memberships may have a forums area and have sub forums. Since Facebook doesn’t have that option, we will be using the group chats in the group for specific topics. You can request a chat anytime by going to the group and in the lower left, “Suggest new chat” is an option. I’ll help promote the chats on occasion to bring in more folks for you.

You can join the first chat group I created New to IT Consulting

Learning topics

I started a post series “How to start your own IT consulting business” a few weeks ago. Each week I have been adding on a lesson for the new consultants to follow and learn. If you are new to the group and have questions, I encourage you to post them. Other new consultants/MSP will most likely answer and help, that’s one thing I know about IT techs, we all do like helping and teaching.

How to start your own IT Consulting business

• Lesson 1, Create your services list

• https://www.facebook.com/groups/itentrepreneurship/permalink/1790002004747630

• Lesson 2, Narrow down to your favorite niche

• https://www.facebook.com/groups/itentrepreneurship/permalink/1793558657725298/

• Lesson 3, What services do you not want to support?

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/itentrepreneurship/permalink/1795429180871579/

• Lesson 4, Research your competition/referral partners

  https://www.facebook.com/groups/itentrepreneurship/permalink/1797726030641894/

Hot topics of the week

Instead of me going out finding articles to put in the newsletter, I’ll be adding posts from the group that I found interesting. So if you don’t check the group often, this email should have the highlights.

Here is a post last week that generated some feedback for the author:

Interviews with other members

I decided with this group to try a different twist on video interviews, I’m going to be interviewing other successful IT entrepreneurs as well as new IT entrepreneurs to give them encouragement.

First one should be up this coming week

Sponsors

We’ll have a section for the sponsors to post a video, a link or article.