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The IT Experts Podcast with Ian Luckett, is designed to help ambitious IT/MSP business owners build a profitable tech business.
In this show you will learn the complete tried and tested strategies that are working today as Ian helps techie business owners in the IT / MSP community on a daily basis.
The content of this Podcast is a blend of expert advice and Interviews with some of the most successful people in the industry, offering massive value and a wise range of topics from his MSP profit Builder System.
Whether his guests are experts from large enterprises, established IT/MSP businesses, serial entrepreneurs, or world class techies, they all have great stories and content to share.
So, if you are preparing your IT/MSP business for growth, then we will help by sharing what IS and what ISN'T working in business right now.
Our outcome for you listening to this podcast is that we help you to spend quality time working ON your business rather than being consumed IN it!
In this show you will learn the complete tried and tested strategies that are working today as Ian helps techie business owners in the IT / MSP community on a daily basis.
The content of this Podcast is a blend of expert advice and Interviews with some of the most successful people in the industry, offering massive value and a wise range of topics from his MSP profit Builder System.
Whether his guests are experts from large enterprises, established IT/MSP businesses, serial entrepreneurs, or world class techies, they all have great stories and content to share.
So, if you are preparing your IT/MSP business for growth, then we will help by sharing what IS and what ISN'T working in business right now.
Our outcome for you listening to this podcast is that we help you to spend quality time working ON your business rather than being consumed IN it!
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In this episode of The IT Experts Podcast, I stretch the wire all the way across to Australia to talk with Peter Ward, founder of Dijital Team, about one of the hardest areas of any MSP: people, costs and operations. Peter Ward helps IT service providers and MSPs find the right people at the right price through dedicated offshore team members based in Sri Lanka. Together we look at whether outsourcing can genuinely make your MSP more profitable, and how to approach it with confidence. Peter brings a strong background to this conversation. Before founding Dijital Team, he was CEO of an IT service provider listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, a business he went on to take private. During his board advisory work afterwards, he kept hearing the same story from business owners. Skilled people were almost impossible to find, and when they did turn up, the salary expectations were eye watering. His previous business had a centre of excellence in Sri Lanka, and that experience became the spark for Dijital Team. We start with the fears many MSP owners carry. A lot of MSPs grow with a flat structure where the owner can see every person, knows what they are working on and feels in control. The thought of a team member thousands of miles away can make that owner shudder. Peter Ward explains that most horror stories come from hiring directly through freelance marketplaces with no support around the person. A good offshore provider handles the vetting, keeps the team member engaged, supports culture and learning, and steps in when something goes wrong. I also asked Peter to get his crystal ball out on the future of the managed service model. His view is refreshingly simple: people buy from people. He expects customer experience and relationships to matter more than ever, and sees something close to the old systems analyst role coming back. That person blends technical skill with a clear understanding of business problems, because business owners want a technology partner who helps them sell more, become more efficient and reduce their costs. One of my favourite parts of the conversation is around hiring ahead of the curve. Many founders wait until they are running at 160 or 170 percent capacity before they feel confident enough to bring someone in, and by then the toll on their health and family life is already showing. Peter explains how an offshore hire lowers both the cost and the risk of that decision, giving the founder room to spend more time with customers and prospects. Our high growth MSPs at The MSP Growth Hub often bring in senior people early, and this approach can make that step far more achievable. Integration matters as much as recruitment. Peter Ward talks about dedicated team members who wear your polo shirt, join your daily huddles and take part in your all hands meetings. Your mission, vision and values show up in how the phone is answered and how emails are handled, wherever that person happens to sit. I shared how we have treated our own team in the Philippines as UK employees from day one, involving them in decisions, inviting them to challenge us and talking with them regularly. We then move into some myth busting. Peter challenges the idea that you need to hire two people in case one does not work out, along with the belief that offshore talent is limited to level one tasks. His rule of thumb is clear: if you can hire it onshore, you can hire it offshore. He also shares some sobering numbers. The average MSP makes around 6 percent net profit, a quarter of MSPs are losing money, and labour accounts for roughly 42 percent of the cost of running a services business. In his view, a best in class service gross margin of 60 percent or more is out of reach without some form of offshore capability. Skills play a big part too, especially in automation, where tools such as n8n are creating demand that is hard to fill in the UK. To finish, we run a quickfire round. Peter suggests the first role to outsource is the founder, freeing yourself from the busy work that does not drive growth. He tells a great story about a friend who had not spoken to his new team member in three weeks and wondered why things were going wrong. He points to accountability frameworks such as EOS or Scaling Up, and says most of his clients see a return on investment within three months. The most common role MSPs come to him for is the level two engineer, often after the market has moved and salaries have jumped by 10,000 to 15,000 pounds. Peter Ward closes with two actions for any MSP owner who is curious. First, ask yourself honestly whether you are making enough money for the effort you put in. Second, think about how your own internal automation work can become a sales tool, showing customers what is possible and building a modern automation practice around it. If you have ever wondered whether outsourcing could ease the pressure on you and your margins, this conversation with Peter Ward gives you a practical and grounded place to start. The real shift is to treat offshore team members as part of your team, and to use that extra capacity to free yourself up to lead and grow your MSP. You can connect with Peter Ward through his LinkedIn and website. Make sure to check out our Ultimate MSP Growth Guide, a free guide that walks you through a proven process to take your MSP from stuck to scalable, without working even more hours. It's 44 pages rammed with advice, insights and inspiration to help you decide what support is available to you now if you want to grow and scale your business. Click HERE to get your copy. Connect on LinkedIn HERE with Ian and also with Stuart by clicking this LINK And when you're ready to take the next step in growing your MSP, come and take the Scale with Confidence MSP Mastery Quiz. In just three minutes, you'll get a 360-degree scan of your MSP and identify the one or two tactics that could help you find more time, engage & align your people and generate more leads. Once you know where to focus, the next step is fixing it. Chances are, what needs fixing looks familiar: proposals still waiting for you to price, discount requests sitting on your desk until you're back, and a pipeline that goes quiet the moment you stop chasing it. That's growth tied to your calendar. Sign up for The MSP Growth Bootcamp, where you'll get the 5 frameworks Ian and Stuart built with more than 200 UK MSP owners, so growth no longer depends on you being in every deal. It's 5 self-paced sessions with a workbook for each, plus 3 months of live monthly implementation calls with Ian while you put them to work. Most growth plans are forgotten by March, buried under onboardings, resignations and whatever is on fire that week. Join us for Build Your 2027 MSP Growth Plan LIVE on Wednesday, 25th of November, at 11:00 AM UK time. In 90 minutes, you'll set your targets, decide which projects come first and who owns them, and build the weekly routine that keeps your plan moving once January gets busy. You'll leave with your plan written down, ready to share with your team. It's £100 + VAT, recording included. Book your place HERE. If you're serious about growth and want to explore what this could look like for your MSP, you can book a Right Fit Clarity Call with us HERE. OR To join our amazing Facebook Group of over 400 MSPs where we are helping you Scale Up with Confidence, then click HERE Until next time, look after yourself and I'll catch up with you soon!
In this episode of The IT Experts Podcast, Stuart Warwick and I tackle one of the toughest moments any MSP owner can face. The phone rings, your biggest client is on the line, and they tell you they are off. Maybe they have been bought out. Maybe they have decided to go elsewhere. Maybe they simply feel they have not heard from you in months. If you have ever lost your biggest client, or you quietly worry that day is coming, this conversation will give you a calm, practical way forward. Stuart opens with an important distinction. When a client leaving represents ten or fifteen percent of your revenue, it is an inconvenience. You thank them for the years together and carry on. When that client makes up thirty, forty, fifty or even sixty percent of the business, the same phone call can send you into free fall. Cash, profit and people all come under pressure at once, and for some owners it feels like the biggest crisis of their working life. We hear this story far too often inside The MSP Growth Hub, and it is why we wanted to record this episode. The first step, as so often on this podcast, is knowing your numbers. Once you have lost your biggest client, the instinct is to panic or to freeze. Stuart and I see both. Some owners receive twelve months notice and do nothing for a year, hoping it will go away. Others rush into rash decisions. Neither helps. Pause, take a breath and look at what the client is really worth to you. How much profit do they contribute? How much engineering time do they take up? How noisy are they compared with your other clients? Once you have those answers, you can make an objective decision. Stuart makes a point that surprises many owners. Losing that client could be a gift. If they absorbed sixty percent of your engineering time and contributed very little profit, their departure may hand back a large slice of your help desk capacity. The recruitment you thought you needed may disappear overnight. Your turnover may look less impressive for a while, and your business may become stronger, calmer and more profitable as a result. That space creates real opportunity. When you have lost your biggest client, you suddenly have time to step out of being busy and start methodically building a better business. Talk to the clients you have been neglecting. Put proper account management in place, with regular TBRs and QBRs. Revisit the packages and pricing you have been meaning to work on for months. We then talk about planning and risk management. If you have a proper annual plan, a client worth half your revenue should already sit on your risk register as a high risk. The good news is that it is a highly manageable risk. You cannot control interest rates. You can control how you engage with your clients. Stuart shares the strategy we keep coming back to. Strengthen the value of the rest of your client base by reviewing your packages, putting your prices up and cross selling additional services. Keep working on that until losing the big one would be an inconvenience. Do that, and when the call comes, you can enjoy the notice period knowing the business is ready. There is a bigger picture here too. If your business is your pension and one client holds it up, its value on exit can vanish overnight. Client concentration is a valuation issue as much as a cash flow issue. Leadership is the thread that runs through the whole conversation. If you have lost your biggest client, the way you show up matters more than ever. I talk about the shadow of the leader. Run around like a headless chicken and your team will follow your lead, and some of them may start looking for the exit. Gather everyone together, stay calm, show them the numbers and share the plan. When the risk has already been discussed openly in your planning sessions, the news is no surprise to your senior team. Everyone rows the boat together through the choppy water, focused on the controllables, the things you can influence today. Stuart also reminds us not to go it alone. Talk to people who have run a business and walked this road, fellow MSP owners, peers you have met at trade shows, a community that understands your world. Your mate down the pub means well, and they may not have the experience to give you calm, non emotional guidance. That support is a big part of what The MSP Growth Hub exists to provide. We close on mindset. Every service business loses its biggest client one day. The real question is whether it lands as an inconvenience or a crisis. Both are opportunities. A departing client creates space for a newer, better client who values what you do. Stuart calls it client succession planning, and I love that phrase. So if you have lost your biggest client, or you want to make sure it never becomes a crisis, start today. Know your numbers. Look at revenue and profit by client against your totals. Build a plan to reduce that dependency over time. That simple shift turns fear into focus and puts you back in control of your MSP. Make sure to check out our Ultimate MSP Growth Guide, a free guide that walks you through a proven process to take your MSP from stuck to scalable, without working even more hours. It's 44 pages rammed with advice, insights and inspiration to help you decide what support is available to you now if you want to grow and scale your business. Click HERE to get your copy. Connect on LinkedIn HERE with Ian and also with Stuart by clicking this LINK. And when you're ready to take the next step in growing your MSP, come and take the Scale with Confidence MSP Mastery Quiz. In just three minutes, you'll get a 360-degree scan of your MSP and identify the one or two tactics that could help you find more time, engage & align your people and generate more leads. Once you know where to focus, the next step is fixing it. Chances are, what needs fixing looks familiar: proposals still waiting for you to price, discount requests sitting on your desk until you're back, and a pipeline that goes quiet the moment you stop chasing it. That's growth tied to your calendar. Sign up for The MSP Growth Bootcamp, where you'll get the 5 frameworks Ian and Stuart built with more than 200 UK MSP owners, so growth no longer depends on you being in every deal. It's 5 self-paced sessions with a workbook for each, plus 3 months of live monthly implementation calls with Ian while you put them to work. If you're serious about growth and want to explore what this could look like for your MSP, you can book a Right Fit Clarity Call with us HERE. OR To join our amazing Facebook Group of over 400 MSPs where we are helping you Scale Up with Confidence, then click HERE Until next time, look after yourself and I'll catch up with you soon!
In this episode of The IT Experts Podcast, I am going back to a subject that comes up again and again inside The MSP Growth Hub, because it is one of the most powerful levers in the managed services model. This is the 101 guide to MSP account management. Picture the owner staring at a quiet pipeline, wondering why sales has stalled and why marketing is not landing. Very often the answer is sitting right behind them. Their existing clients are the golden goose, and the job is to build a moat around the business by looking after them properly. The first shift I want you to make is to see MSP account management as a growth strategy rather than an admin task. Winning a new client can take months, sometimes years, depending on the contract they hold with their current supplier. Once they are with you, nurturing that relationship and becoming a genuine strategic partner is what drives their success with your technology and your success in retaining them profitably. In my experience most MSPs do not have a support problem. They have a client expectation problem. You sign a new client, they ask for something, you sell them something else, and friction starts to creep in. A strong onboarding process and a system that runs end to end across the whole team, rather than resting on one person, changes that completely. That one person is very often the owner. I see it all the time. The owner holds every relationship because they worry clients will leave if they let go. Good MSP account management spreads the load across the team, reduces overwhelm, increases referrals and improves retention. When a client stays for three, five or even ten years, their lifetime value is significant. At a recent event, Mit Patel from Assurix challenged our MSPs on how much they would invest to win a new client. When he suggested £10,000 to £20,000, a few people thought he was bonkers. Once you factor in contract length, professional services, licences and project work, it made perfect sense. I also share the story of my first Apple product, an iPod I was given for my birthday. It was beautiful, chrome on the outside, and it did not work. Apple replaced it quickly and with no fuss, and the new one did exactly what it said on the tin. The first question I asked once I had my head around it was what other Apple products I could buy. That is the experience we want your clients to have. Solve a real problem for them, whether that is security, efficiency or simply getting their systems working, and they start to see what technology can do for their business. They want more, and it is your job to give them more. From there we get practical. Step one in MSP account management is understanding every client you have. Some people call this white space selling. Build a simple spreadsheet with your clients in the rows and the detail across the columns. Who holds the relationship, how long have they been with you, are they profitable, and are they an A, B or C client? Check concentration too. If any single client represents more than 10 percent of your turnover, that is a risk to address by growing the rest of your base. We have heard of MSPs where one client made up 40 or even 50 percent of revenue, and when that client leaves, everything changes overnight. If a client is not profitable, get them profitable or let them go. Then map the services each client takes across security, efficiency, licences and more, so you can see instantly where the gaps sit. Preparation matters as much as process. Mit shared how, before pitching to a hotel, he read their online reviews and spotted guests complaining about the WiFi. He opened the meeting by talking about connectivity and built instant rapport, because he had found a real problem he could solve. We also look at creating a client communication charter, so the right people in your team speak to the right people in your client's business. The IT manager may love the technology, and the finance manager is often the one signing off the spend, so both need to feel the value. We then cover training clients to use your support channels, onboarding across seven phases from brand new client to strategic partner, account management marketing pitched at the right level for each audience, and spotting the triggers that signal a client is unhappy before it becomes urgent. Run your QBRs or TBRs with a consistent agenda, send a note beforehand, follow up, and give every project a clear owner with a ticket in your system. When the QBR goes well, ask for a referral. Do not ask "do you know anyone?" Ask "who do you know who needs what we do?" It is a very different question. Get MSP account management right and you will see fewer interruptions, stronger partnerships, more referrals, more time to work on the business and more profit. Our last client who followed this process put £94,000 of profit back into the business in twelve months, and I sent him off to find the remaining £6,000. Be the MD, not the technician. Account management is not a cost, it is a growth engine. Make sure to check out our Ultimate MSP Growth Guide, a free guide that walks you through a proven process to take your MSP from stuck to scalable, without working even more hours. It's 44 pages rammed with advice, insights and inspiration to help you decide what support is available to you now if you want to grow and scale your business. Click HERE to get your copy. Connect on LinkedIn HERE with Ian and also with Stuart by clicking this LINK And when you're ready to take the next step in growing your MSP, come and take the Scale with Confidence MSP Mastery Quiz. In just three minutes, you'll get a 360-degree scan of your MSP and identify the one or two tactics that could help you find more time, engage & align your people and generate more leads. Once you know where to focus, the next step is fixing it. Chances are, what needs fixing looks familiar: proposals still waiting for you to price, discount requests sitting on your desk until you're back, and a pipeline that goes quiet the moment you stop chasing it. That's growth tied to your calendar. Sign up for The MSP Growth Bootcamp, where you'll get the 5 frameworks Ian and Stuart built with more than 200 UK MSP owners, so growth no longer depends on you being in every deal. It's 5 self-paced sessions with a workbook for each, plus 3 months of live monthly implementation calls with Ian while you put them to work. If you're serious about growth and want to explore what this could look like for your MSP, you can book a Right Fit Clarity Call with us HERE. OR To join our amazing Facebook Group of over 400 MSPs where we are helping you Scale Up with Confidence, then click HERE Until next time, look after yourself and I'll catch up with you soon!
In this episode of The IT Experts Podcast, I take you behind the scenes of the MSPGH September 2026 Intensive, the two day client event at The MSP Growth Hub where MSP owners step away from the day to day and rebuild their plans for the next 16 weeks. We share one of these round up episodes three times a year, and this time I am joined by three of our coaches, Stuart, Julie and Peter, to talk through what happened in the room, what landed with our clients, and what any MSP owner can take from it. Stuart opens by explaining why the intensive exists in the first place. He is the first to admit that taking time out to work on the business sounds like a cliché, and he is right that what you focus on expands. Our clients are building an owner not needed business, one that works for them and gives them a choice about the role they play and the time they put in. The MSPGH September 2026 Intensive gave them space to look at what is happening right now, then step back to a 36,000 feet view and ask whether they are heading in the right direction. We also ask everyone to book a decompression day afterwards, and once clients have been to one or two intensives, they tell us they would never skip it. We talk about why we run three intensives a year on a 16-week cycle. Stuart explains the thinking behind it: a couple of weeks to ramp up, a solid block of focused work in the middle, and a couple of weeks to wind down and refuel. Each intensive is themed around a pillar of the MSP Scale system, and the MSPGH September 2026 Intensive was all about maximising your opportunities through sales, marketing and account management. Stuart's opening session reminded everyone what a great time it is to be an MSP. Small businesses are the backbone of the UK economy, and almost every one of them relies on an MSP in some form. AI is creating huge interest, and most businesses are still driving around with their L plates on, so they need guidance on governance, guardrails and cybersecurity more than ever. Recurring revenue makes the MSP model a golden goose, and to scale it, owners need to step out of the technical work and lead the business. Mit Patel from Assurix then shared how he grew Netstar to an 8 million business, and how understanding lifetime client value gave him the confidence to invest heavily in marketing. If a client is worth £80,000 over five years, how much would you invest to win one? It was a timely jab in the ribs for the room: spend on marketing and spend it on a system you know will deliver. That led nicely into my session on reimagining account management. Our previous workbook was 19 pages. The new relationship revenue engine runs to 49 pages, broken into manageable chunks with diagnostics covering triggers, white space selling, raising prices and much more. Every client now has an account management maturity score alongside their scaling maturity score, and a group challenge built around a real account scenario sparked some of the best conversations of the two days. Peter explains why this matters for smaller MSPs where the owner still handles every account, and for larger firms that need clear KPIs to measure the return on their account managers. Julie talks about growing future leaders from within. The people already in your business know how it works and often want progression, so look for potential, desire and skill that can be developed. She also explains a small tweak we made to the order of our planning sessions, linking goals, plans and masterminding so clients completed their 16-week plan on day one. Her advice is refreshingly simple: do not leave your plan for the train home. Across all three conversations, one theme from the MSPGH September 2026 Intensive keeps coming back. The room is maturing. Stuart calls it solidity, I call it deliberateness, and Julie describes a safe culture where people can say what they need to say. Peter saw new members settle in quickly, and Mit told us he had never seen a group of MSPs follow one framework with such focus and commitment. If you are on your own growth journey, the lessons from the MSPGH September 2026 Intensive are clear. Take time out to plan, keep your focus tight for 16 weeks, nurture the clients you already have, grow your own leaders, and surround yourself with people who will be honest with you. Do that consistently and the rest will follow. Make sure to check out our Ultimate MSP Growth Guide, a free guide that walks you through a proven process to take your MSP from stuck to scalable, without working even more hours. It's 44 pages rammed with advice, insights and inspiration to help you decide what support is available to you now if you want to grow and scale your business. Click HERE to get your copy. Connect on LinkedIn HERE with Ian and also with Stuart by clicking this LINK. And when you're ready to take the next step in growing your MSP, come and take the Scale with Confidence MSP Mastery Quiz. In just three minutes, you'll get a 360-degree scan of your MSP and identify the one or two tactics that could help you find more time, engage & align your people and generate more leads. Once you know where to focus, the next step is fixing it. Chances are, what needs fixing looks familiar: proposals still waiting for you to price, discount requests sitting on your desk until you're back, and a pipeline that goes quiet the moment you stop chasing it. That's growth tied to your calendar. Sign up for The MSP Growth Bootcamp, where you'll get the 5 frameworks Ian and Stuart built with more than 200 UK MSP owners, so growth no longer depends on you being in every deal. It's 5 self-paced sessions with a workbook for each, plus 3 months of live monthly implementation calls with Ian while you put them to work. If you're serious about growth and want to explore what this could look like for your MSP, you can book a Right Fit Clarity Call with us HERE. OR To join our amazing Facebook Group of over 400 MSPs where we are helping you Scale Up with Confidence, then click HERE Until next time, look after yourself and I'll catch up with you soon!
In this episode of The IT Experts Podcast, I take a short, sharp look at the overwhelm trap that is holding so many MSP owners back. This one came straight out of our recent two-day client intensive. We asked everyone in the room to work out their top priority, and then Stuart asked a simple follow up question: what is the one thing that will stop this from happening? Every single owner gave the same answer. Themselves. It was a powerful moment, and it told us that the biggest blocker in the business was sitting inside the owner's head. When we dug into that together, the cause was clear. Owners were busy, teams were underperforming, client demands were constant and vendors were on the phone every day trying to sell something new. You work long hours, you pick up work in the evenings and at weekends, and it feels like climbing a mountain where the summit keeps moving further away. You worry you are letting clients down because they are not getting enough of your attention, and you worry you are letting the team down because the one to ones and town hall meetings keep slipping. That is the overwhelm trap in a nutshell, and it builds quietly as the business grows until you start to lose control. The ripple effect of the overwhelm trap is where the real damage happens. Every decision you make in your MSP is a decision to spend money, whether that is on people, a new tool or another subscription. Make those decisions under pressure and you will make some poor ones, and poor decisions cost money. Your team starts to wonder why you keep buying bits and pieces nobody needs, confidence begins to drop and good people start to leave. People leave a person far more often than they leave a business. Accountability slips, growth stalls and stress climbs. Then your health takes a knock, and as I like to say, you have 99 problems until you have a health problem, and then you have one problem. So let's do something about it. I share five practical steps to help you climb out of the overwhelm trap. The first is to recognise the early signs. Working late, skipping breaks, arriving home grumpy and carrying work into the evening are all signals worth noticing before they turn into illness. Trust me, wishing for a week in bed to slow things down is a poor plan, because when you are run down your brain stops working the way you need it to. The second step is to stop before reacting. I want you to respond to situations with a clear head, because quick, knee jerk decisions are where costly mistakes and wrong hires happen. This is where self awareness comes in, and I promise I am not going to go woo on you. Dig out your DISC behavioural reports, or complete them across the whole business if you have not done so yet. Every client of The MSP Growth Hub gets one, because understanding strengths, weaknesses and how each person likes to communicate changes how you lead, how you coach and how your team works together. The third step is to inspect what is really causing the pressure. Stuart told me years ago to go with the data, and it has stuck with me ever since. A hunch formed after a poor night's sleep is a shaky foundation. Look at your KPIs and your plans, compare where you want to be with where the numbers say you are, and dig into the root cause. Has the team been trained on the systems you are asking them to use? Did the client receive a proper onboarding with a clear expectation exchange? Are ticket numbers jumping around, or are the finances telling you something? Go deep until you find the cause behind the symptom. The fourth step is to clarify your highest value priority for this week and for today. Review your annual priorities and your quarterly or 16 week priorities, and choose the actions that will win back your time fastest and pull you clear of the overwhelm trap. When a client joins The MSP Growth Hub, the first thing they nearly always say is that they need time, which is why our onboarding focuses on what will free up their time first. Once your weekly rhythm is in place, you protect your diary and delegate to your team, and that changes your life, your business and everyone around you. The fifth step is to eat the elephant one chunk at a time. Execute one focused action before moving on to the next, break your plan down and find a buddy who will hold you accountable, whether that is your partner at home or a colleague in the office. Nine times out of ten, a busy owner is looking at a leadership challenge, so take a look at how you are showing up. Julie's episodes on the podcast are a brilliant place to start, and they walk you through the leadership models we use every day. Escaping the overwhelm trap brings greater clarity, better decisions, more energy and better sleep. Your shoulders drop, you lead with confidence, and your team works calmly to their plans while you work to yours. Overwhelm is rarely self-inflicted. Most MSP owners never set out to have a large team, a long client list and people calling on them all day without the tools to cope. Work through the steps, break them down and let me know how you get on. That is how you build an MSP that grows without relying on you for everything. Make sure to check out our Ultimate MSP Growth Guide, a free guide that walks you through a proven process to take your MSP from stuck to scalable, without working even more hours. It's 44 pages rammed with advice, insights and inspiration to help you decide what support is available to you now if you want to grow and scale your business. Click HERE to get your copy. Connect on LinkedIn HERE with Ian and also with Stuart by clicking this LINK And when you're ready to take the next step in growing your MSP, come and take the Scale with Confidence MSP Mastery Quiz. In just three minutes, you'll get a 360-degree scan of your MSP and identify the one or two tactics that could help you find more time, engage & align your people and generate more leads. If you're serious about growth and want to explore what this could look like for your MSP, you can book a Right Fit Clarity Call with us HERE. OR To join our amazing Facebook Group of over 400 MSPs where we are helping you Scale Up with Confidence, then click HERE Until next time, look after yourself and I'll catch up with you soon!








