Take Back Your Time

Saving time as a Cloud Channel Services Reseller

In a previous post, we talked about increasing your profit margins and how to avoid negative situations resellers often find themselves in.

Now that you know that you can increase your income through InfoStreet’s SkyDesktop reseller program, let’s take a look at some of the other benefits of joining. The following scenarios will introduce you to a few ways that you simplify your business to save time by becoming a SkyDesktop Cloud Channel Services Reseller.

Take a look and start taking back your time today!

Simplify your Deployment

Scenario #1: You finally close a deal with a customer and because he wants a custom setup for his company, you and any co-workers that you may have end up working 8 hours a day for 3 weeks to finish the job. During these three weeks, you won’t have the time to do anything other than work on this job. Your other customers will be upset with the fact you can’t help them immediately when they need you, but if you were to split up your team, the big installation job would take even longer! So what do you do? Do you keep working on the job and postpone your other clients and risk losing their business? Or do you extend the installation time just to be able to take care of other customers?

Solution: On-premise deployment is a common problem that eats away at the time of many VAR’s. Of course, if you are already doing Cloud installations then you know how much time you can save; but with SkyDesktop, you can save more time on top of that. Jobs that would normally take 2-3 weeks will only take 2-3 days because all you have to do is turn on apps and set up users. On top of that, for the problems that really stump you, SkyDesktop offers support for each app that it offers. You never have to sacrifice one customer for another.

Simplify your Databases

Scenario #2:You do a setup for a customer with a midsize company, 20 or so employees, and you have to open up accounts for each and every employee. Since there’s a corresponding database for each account and each app, you have to monitor a large amount of databases on top of everything else you do. Much of your day is now spent monitoring database after database. This, combined with your support contracts and other customers, causes your free time to shrink to the point that you can no longer go out and earn more money on new customers.

Solution:Time is precious, and in the scenario above we see a chunk of it being thrown to the side in order to monitor a large amount of databases. But with SkyDesktop’s patent-pending single sign-on, these databases are condensed down to just one per user, no matter how many apps the user has. All that the user needs is one login to access every app they have, and all you have to do is monitor one database per user. The time you spent monitoring several databases has now been freed up and can be put to use elsewhere; like obtaining new clients and more money.

Simplify your Accounts

Scenario #3:You set up a system for a small business, and then create accounts for each employee in each type of software they’ll be using ( email accounts, instant messaging accounts, and so on). You then have to monitor each of these accounts, taking up time that you don’t have. After a while, all you can do is continue to monitor the increasing amounts of access points for your customers.

Solution:Like the situation above, one of the biggest problems is finding out how to simplify the amount of work you do. Where you once had to spend hours monitoring accounts and access points, with SkyDesktop’s patent-pending single sign-on technology, you only need to monitor one account per user. Your customers will be able to access every app and every piece of information stored in the Cloud in one place. No more having to memorize or reset lists of passwords for both you and your customer. Not only are you saving your customer’s time, you also save your own time, since having one account per customer means you only have to monitor that one access point.

Conclusion

As these situations have shown, it’s clear how much time you can save by joining SkyDesktop’s reseller program. And the buck doesn’t stop there! You can save time and avoid the headaches that come along with deployment and monitoring databases, offer a higher quality of service, and simplify both your business and your customer’s lives with SkyDesktop.

Still not convinced? Our next blog post will continue the discussion by exploring issues concerning customer retention, and looking at how you can prevent these issues from affecting your own MSP business.

Curious about checking SkyDesktop out for yourself? Check out the SkyDesktop Cloud Channel Partners Program for more tips and information about how to find your own solution to these problems and more.