 Tom here from Warren systems. Let's talk business and I want to bring up that is March of 2021 I like to date when I say these things because this is what I'm doing now and that will change in Future times that could be different than what I was doing in the past. So at least we'll start out there the business content is Well kind of sporadic on this channel a lot of my content is more centered around tutorials around storage servers and firewalls and deep into weeds technology that I talk about But of course there is the other side I do run and own a business not just produce YouTube content and One of the things about producing business content is it becomes tricky to figure out exactly what people are looking for They're running this business for pushing 18 years now. I started in 2003 and Yeah, it's a lot to try and figure out because I've been doing it for so long of what are those gaps that people who are Interested in business want to know now I'm going to be leaving a link to a better curation I've done that I've done in the past to all the previous business videos I've did talking about getting clients how we do bidding, you know to me those are very actionable intelligent type of Discussions I like to have where I'm sharing exactly how we get something done It's so the tutorial it just happens to be centered around how we did something in the business because you know It's cool to talk about how we set up a Wi-Fi network in the technical side of it But of course there is at least a few people that want to know well How did you even get to have that because well you're a business and somehow you must have bid on it There must be a process Yes, I have videos on that topic and like I said, I'll be linking to all those so don't get too off topic here But I'm always looking for feedback such as what more would you like to see on this channel related to business content? I actually just had a great conversation with a person who is a former IT business owner and Talking more about getting into creating content, which is awesome Hey Pete if you're watching and I like some of the things he's got going on and you know It's that figuring out what can we do what's actionable because he thinks the same like I do that teaching people is a great thing Sharing the knowledge to raise the bar and make it a better ecosystem in the tech world Doesn't just mean talking about technology doesn't just mean talking about cybersecurity But also means having better ideas of how to serve as clients and business processes And I want to you know produce more of that content But it can be a little bit trickier because it's a it's in my head so to speak can be a little bit more fuzzy to try to land it as a single video and Talking about these overall processes. I even joked with him when I talked the other day about maybe I should just write a book on this To say everything this is how I got here now But that feels more like a history lesson and if you did exactly what I did you may not get the same outcome So I like to talk a little bit more abstract about it occasionally to give you guidelines Now back to what i'm actually doing here I will fill in a little bit of that because you know, maybe people are interested So I currently here in march of 2021 split my time between creating youtube content and actually running an it services business As of right now my it service businesses is also split again between doing infrastructure We you know put together wiring jobs not we do a decent amount of them And we contract with other contractors to get more of them done That's also why I don't go onsite because it can be a little tricky to film for those of you wondering because I've got older videos Where I've done them and I have lesser on the newer and the events of 2020. Yeah Make filming that much more of a risk or challenge and limited teams can go places. Anyways, the other side is the msp There's another facet of it is the managed service provider or in the managed it Which we are a solar winds Stack user if you're not familiar with the different rmm tools I've talked about solar winds before on this channel And solar winds is the tool that we use to manage all of the systems that our clients have and that's under a recurring contract So maybe I'll do some more videos around that once again the comments and feedback help drive What else I'll do on that topic the other side is well the bookings we get from youtube and the Break fix is what some people may call it. I would more refer to it as project work And what I mean by that is companies contact us for projects. They say all right. What are the projects that we can You know delegate over to you We actually work with internal it team frequently to get some of those projects landed over here Whether that be helping them physically build network infrastructure because they're local clients We only really do that in a greater detray area in here in michigan Or it's the help us design new firewalls and new systems and update this or move something From this server to that server or plan out new server path and upgrades or you know set up new vpns Etc. There's a lot of projects and storage server consulting specifically has been a really popular topic over the last month or so It just seems to have ramped up as soon as 2021 started because we have a series of designers and movie theaters Not movie theaters movie creators. I should say theaters would be probably the wrong term People who are in the movie industry in general in some aspect of it, whether it be commercial And like as in producing commercials or archiving older stuff We have been consulting a lot on the storage server. So that's another facet of it And my time split goes a little bit more finite back to what i'm doing here Is coaching my team to make sure they understand and have the tools they need to get these things done To be able to take on these consulting jobs and in myself one of my big driving forces for this whole Thing I do is one I like teaching people and two I love diving into these interesting projects that clients have And going all right, let's uh lay this out. All right. We're going to use this type of storage server We're going to set it up this way and connect these things and you know to make this happen Those can be kind of fun the challenge of putting together a video on them directly is Client privacy. I can't just say hey, we did this for such and such company That's not always something the companies want dumped out there publicly, but on the other side I do make videos that are maybe about the From abstracting that into the ideas that came from there and hey, this is how We set up the storage or this is one of the reasons I have so many videos on different types of storage Other solutions and I do plan to do some scenario type videos Coming up talk about that. I've done them before like when I talked about the wi-fi that we did for a bowling alley That would be a good example of like a scenario video We talk about the challenge they faced and how they You know or how we use wi-fi to solve it type thing I'll leave a link to the bowling alley video just uh for reference on there or I couldn't talk about the client directly by name But there was one where we installed about 300 wi-fi units at a larger facility and that's actually been something that's been going on for a couple of years and it works Fine a lot of people tell me it won't scale it wouldn't do this And I'm like this company has had these in for a couple of years several firmware updates later It still works which of course that's what people really want to know Because sure you can review a widget and Talk about it, but to be really a review. What does it look like deployed in the field? That's a harder piece of information to get unless you're in a position I am where we've actually deployed these in the field. We've actually sold large You know massive storage service to clients. This is what it looked like a year later of actually using it It's it's really hard to say Your lab review versus what does the real world impact of that device look like and you know Those are things I want to keep answering more of and the feedback I get from you and the requests are really what helps to that So in summary to keep this video from wandering all over the place Those are some of the things i'm doing now, but i'm also looking for More feedback from you to figure out what we want to do now I have started some other little side projects like me and jay started the jay from learnlinx tv So i'm always clarious. I know i'm as jay, so But me and jay from learn linux tv have started doing our home lab show because we believe that's another way Because jay is also passionate about training people and that's another way we can get more people into technology get more people You know using it and I know starting the businesses and for everyone and that's why there's a little bit less business content on here As I know I have a much larger audience and there's a bigger audience for getting into technology There's a smaller audience of people interested in running a technology business But I know there is at least some of you out there because these videos seem to get at least a few thousand views So looking to hear from you looking at ways to make this more coherent make this more A better platform so to speak so you can learn some of the business knowledge and learn from my mistakes Please do don't make them yourself unless you're really insistent on doing it that way So if there's things I can help teach concepts leave them in the comments below as that will drive some of these next business videos And maybe me and some other msp's I want to reach out to and not just do an interview where we talk Like hey look let's so and so grew to this level of success because I mean hey congratulations on people who grow their businesses That's but we really want to understand how they got there and bring some of those takeaways Because I wanted to be more tutorial style. I wanted to be a way you can do it Not just putting someone on a pedestal to congratulate them for doing it Because that doesn't really to me enrich the community in quite the same way congratulations on people who've had success That's great. I'm not at all trying to Be upset by that so to speak. I'm not I just want to make sure that other people have an opportunity for success and education and things like that it's going to be a way to do it So leave the comments below and thanks. Do you want to come join me and talk into the camera? That's the camera I'm hungry. You're hungry. 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