Look, it's not like we search for reasons to dump someone. Like you, I always got into relationships with the best of hopes but sometimes it just doesn't work out.
“You can't stay in a relationship that isn't working for you.”
Just like in business, when I was a "tween" it was hard to do tough things that would hurt nice people.
I just met up with one of our customers the other day who is just loving Office 365. His exact words were “if I only knew a couple years ago what I know today I would’ve hopped on office 365 that much sooner”. Office 365 is an incredible scenario for most small businesses and law firms.
How many people will use Office 365? How many licenses do you need?
One of the very first questions you have to ask yourself before migrating to Office 365 is “how many licenses do I need?” You would think this is a very straightforward question to answer.
We have done a lot of Office 365 Migrations over the past few years. There are two things I tell every customer at the very beginning of a project:
At some point during this project, I will NOT be your favorite person
We WILL come across something unique that is going to require some additional work
And, you know what? I’ve never been wrong! Each Office 365 migration has resulted in finding some quirk – some unexpected technical problem – that we have to get around.
I have a confession. I’m a tech geek. I don’t wear it on my sleeve. But I can’t always hide it. Nowhere does that come through more clearly than my wrist.
See…I wear a Pebble.
I’m not ashamed of it. I love my Pebble.
I don’t require my customers move to the cloud. But their business does. Let’s face it. Downtime kills. It costs money, demoralizes employees, and too much of it can cause you to lose customers.
So, why am I sure you will move to the cloud? Get rid of the dang downtime! I know people feel safer with the server in the closet.
Jim Gast, President of SpliceNet, Inc. and LegalTech180 co-founder/contributor was recently interviewed by StorageCraft, an industry leading Disaster Recovery software provider. StorageCraft was interested in Gast’s Legal Technology expertise and how other Managed Service Providers, MSPs (aka.
This is a question that we are asked by our law firm customers every time a Cloud solution or Office 365 is being considered for their firm. The short answer is, as always, it depends. Typically your interpretation of the Rules for Professional Conduct apply.
We won’t take on a new customer for ongoing support unless they agree to have a backup server.
Not tapes. Not an external hard drive. And any time we have been assured “we have that covered”… They haven’t.
No, you need a backup server.
Just posted this article on LinkedIn:
