The Absolute Best of My Free Stuff for IT Consultants!

The Best Free Stuff for MSPs and ITSPs – from Small Biz Thoughts

Over the years, we’ve done a number of promotions. Only a few were sales, but lots of them have been free giveaways.

From a marketing perspective, why do we give things away? After all, one of my pieces of advice for successful business owners is, “Never discount or give away you primary product.” So, for example, I don’t think you should give away free months or free hours of service.

For promotional purposes, the best use of promotional giveaways is to gather leads and gain new customers. The second-best use is to reward current clients. These giveaways are good for both of those purposes.

Between Small Biz Thoughts and IT Service Provider University, we have LOTS of giveaways. Feel free to try them all. No matter what’s going on in your business, I am sure you’ll find something useful in these.

Here are the places you can find our freebies right now.

Let’s start with my newsletters:

The Small Biz Thoughts newsletter is a weekly industry resource that is read by over 10,000 MSPs, consultants, ITSPs, VARs, etc. https://smallbizthoughts.com/newsletter/

The Relax Focus Succeed newsletter is a monthly communique focusing on business and personal success based on my RFS philosophy of success without stress. https://relaxfocussucceed.com/newsletter

 

MSPWebinar.com – https://mspwebinar.com is a site dedicated to webinars (live and recorded) that are 100% focused on IT Service Consulting.

• End of Year checklist webinar. Includes a three-page checklist of EOY tasks along with some notes on what to shred and what to keep.

• Client-Facing Training: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. This is a presentation that you can give to clients and prospects on AI. Includes the slide deck in PPTX format so you can edit for your company.

• Client-Facing Sample Security Training. Another presentation you can give to clients and prospects, this one on security and avoiding ransomware. Includes PPTX file to customize.

… While you’re there, be sure to sign up for my 17^th annual State of the Nation Address for SMB IT Consultants – https://mspwebinar.com.

 

IT Service Provider University

• The Free One-Hour Foundations course is perfect for introducing your entire staff to the Managed Services business model. It’s also a great introduction to the ITSPU site. Free to everyone. https://itspu.com

 

The Small Biz Thoughts Store – https://store.smallbizthoughts.com

– We even have a whole category call “Free” on the main menu. Here are the highlights.

• Karl's FAMOUS 68-Point Checklist - Version 3.0. (simpler version worth keeping)

• Karl’s FAMOUS 68-Point Checklist – Version 4.0. (newer, more robust version with a LOT more detail)

• Business Plan Worksheets

• Karl's Cloud Readiness Checklist - v3.0

• Audio Program: Process Control for the IT Industry. By Manuel Palachuk.

• Audio Program: Taking Your Business to Version 3.0 and Beyond. By Manuel Palachuk.

• Audio Program: Relax Focus Succeed. An Audio Introduction.

• Relax Focus Succeed Sample Chapter – Workaholism.

… and more!

 

And of course all the regular channels of information:

• I will schedule a 20 minute zoom call with any business owner who asks. Just ping me and we’ll set it up.

• The Small Biz Thoughts Blog is just a couple months short of its 20^th Anniversary. It’s chock full of information and opinions. The original blog posts that became Managed Services in a Month are here along with our current series, Lessons Learned.

• YouTube/smallbizthoughts includes over 1,000 videos for IT Service Providers and business owners of all kinds.

• YouTube/RelaxFocusSucceed is the channel for all things “Relax Focus Succeed,” my approach to personal and professional success. After all: a business can’t flourish if the leader is broken.

Of course there’s more free stuff throughout our various web sites. But these resources should keep you busy from now to 2026!

If you want to discuss any of these, or anything else, just contact me at karlpalachuk.com.

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