NORWALK, CT (July 27, 2011) – MSPNews, the leading media website dedicated to the managed services industry, GFI MAX and MSPAlliance announced today a Webinar event, “Growing Your Managed Services Business the Easy Way” live on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT.

This complimentary Webinar, sponsored by GFI MAX and MSPAlliance, will discuss the challenges and road blocks preventing many IT support companies from growing Managed Services and look at benefits for both your company and the customer, building a recurring revenue Managed Services model for IT support.

In this session, we’ll share our independent research on the key challenges facing established managed services businesses today. We will suggest 5 easy and obtainable ways to mature your managed services business, grow recurring revenue from existing customers, attract new customers and build high value services that will increase the value of your business and protect it from future IT Support trends.

This Webinar will address what the Building Blocks Program entails and take a deeper look at the first two building blocks in the Server and Network component. Additionally, the Webinar will illustrate how to access MPs and start implementing the Building Blocks in your business today.

This Webinar will review:

• The Managed Services challenge
• Overview of the award winning Building Blocks approach 
• Building Blocks to grow Managed Services revenue 

This Webinar is recommended for:

• Business Owners and Commercial Directors 
• Service Delivery Managers 
• Service Desk Managers 
• Sales and Business Development Managers 
• Marketing Managers

Presenters:
Kelly O’Bray, IT channel professional GFI MAX
Trent Peters, Principal/Owner, Umbrella Medical Systems
Charles Weaver (News - Alert), CEO and Co-Founder, MSPAlliance

Register now for “Growing Your Managed Services Business the Easy Way “ live on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT.

“TMCnet Webinars are a tremendous resource and an excellent way to provide training on highly relevant topics, and the fact that it is offered at no-cost to attendees is a huge benefit for companies as a way to educate employees without the travel expense” said Rich Tehrani, TMC (News - Alert) CEO. “Webinars are also a great way to introduce vendors to possible customers in a mutually beneficial and informative manner that often leads to productive relationships.”

For more information, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

About TMCnet Webinars

TMCnet Webinars feature live, interactive presentations covering relevant topics, presented by top industry executives. Attendees watch and listen to the presentation as it happens over their computer, and have the opportunity to submit questions to the speaker(s) in real-time. The TMC Webinar program typically attracts 300 to 500 registrants per event.   

TMCnet Webinars are archived and available On-Demand for up to 18 months.

Companies interested in sponsoring their own Webinar event can contact Anthony Graffeo at 203-852-6800 x174 or by email at [email protected].

For more information about TMCnet Webinars, please visit www.tmcnet.com/webinars.

About GFI Max

GFI Software provides web and mail security, archiving, backup and fax, networking and security software and hosted IT solutions for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) via an extensive global partner community. GFI products are available either as on-premise solutions, in the cloud or as a hybrid of both delivery models. With award-winning technology, a competitive pricing strategy, and a strong focus on the unique requirements of SMBs, GFI satisfies the IT needs of organizations on a global scale. The company has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Austria, Australia, Malta, Hong Kong, Philippines and Romania, which together support hundreds of thousands of installations worldwide. GFI is a channel-focused company with thousands of partners throughout the world and is also a Microsoft (News - Alert) Gold Certified Partner.

About MSPnews

MSPNEWS offers MSP professionals and the end user community up-to-date news and headlines on latest happenings in the Managed Services industry. Managed Services Providers (MSPs) play an integral role in the reliability and dependability of IT services. Through network administration, support and centralized services for end customers, MSPs are able to manage IT for clients - off premise, and for a fraction of the cost. Managed services can include IP telephony, VPNs, monitoring and reporting, and more. MSPNews is powered by TMCnet.

About MSPAlliance

The MSPAlliance is the world’s largest Professional Association and Accrediting Body for the Managed Services Industry. As such, we make sure that every one of our members adheres to a strict code of ethics; which means a great deal to the IT Business Consumer.

The MSPAlliance is made up of over 10,000 providers world-wide, working together in a vendor-neutral manner to define and promote the Managed Services industry by educating consumers on the benefits of using Managed Service Providers.

About TMC

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person, and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, NGN and InfoTECH Spotlight magazines. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world’s leading B2B communications event. TMCnet.com, which is read by two million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries.  In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events: 4GWE; Smart Grid Summit; M2M Evolution; Cloud Communications Summit; Social CRM Expo; SIP Tutorial; VIPeering; Business Video Expo; CVx; Digium (News - Alert)|Asterisk World; StartupCamp; MSPAlliance MSPWorld and more!  Visit TMC Events for a complete listing and further information.

For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

Contact:
Jan Pierret
Marketing Manager
TMC 
203-852-6800 x 228
[email protected]