I always enjoy your podcast but you still need to work on the audio. The goal should be that the level of speaking matches the Goldmine song.

Goldmine seems to be correct because I don’t have to touch the volume when it switches from whatever podcast played previously, to when Goldmine plays. Then as soon as you all start speaking, the audio is so low that I have to crank it up (in the car). What’s even worse is that now it’s too high when you all laugh and when the song plays at the end.

That one time you said you had figured out the audio, I believe you turned up the microphone gain which completely distorted the audio. This is not the place to turn it up. Again, play it back and compare to Goldmine.

Feel free to remove this comment when you get the message. Keep up the good work, giggles and all.

Cheers,

Malcolm

I called my Adwords rep and she suggested I call the Places line. I called but the rep didn’t understand anything about broad match or negatives, etc. So I just cancelled it.

It’s a shame because if they just allowed negatives, it could work better.

We do improv a little different ad to make sure all the troupe is on the same page you need to go through at least the first two classes. I suggest you visit the site get a hold of Donna and get started. It would be great to see you join us.

chris

I am a writer and video producer. I used to direct a local comedy theatre in Houston and I recently moved back and wanted to see what was available in Houston. It’s been a while, but I used to perform improv. I was interested in finding out more about your improv theatre. Do you ever hold auditions?

Cheers,
Mark

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LOL its http://www.darrenbooy.eu !

What you guys think of the Microsoft SEO service?

GA reports half as many uniques… thanks for the info.

So the iexpress.exe method seems to work good for XP users. iExpress runs, it creates the .exe file, and the .exe will work like a charm every time inside of XP. Whether it is executed locally or downloaded and executed from the web.

Where iExpress fails however is in Vista and Windows 7. Inside of Vista I couldn’t get iexpress.exe to compile the .bat correctly – it had an error at the very end. So I went forth with making my .exe file in XP. Never tried Windows 7.

So now I got my .exe up and working on the web. I got it to work on MY Vista machine, where I am an administrator and have removed all the security prompts… However, when trying on other Vista machines, and Windows 7 machines, the .exe fails. It does execute, but then it doesn’t have the proper rights to access and launch the .bat file from the temporary directory. FML.

// How to make your .exe work in Windows 7 and Vista.

So… The solution I came up with is the exact same as above, I just used a different compiler. If you go to download.com you can download a freeware program called Bat to Exe. You add your .bat file, tell it to use an invisible window, and tell it to use “Current Directory”. Leave all other options blank / default, unless you wish to make changes. Hit compile, and like magic, your .bat will come out as a .exe.

The difference is that this .exe will execute properly inside of Windows Vista and Windows 7, despite the native security. I tested on Windows XP 32bit, Vista 32bit, and Windows 7 64bit.

Simple and easy. Good luck, and cheers!

As a side note, in my Vista X32 I couldn’t get iexpress to compile the package. It failed whilst making the cab. Perhaps it is my machine, though. Worked like a champ in XP.

Linkwheels are the new advanced technique for getting your website to the top of the search engine results…

CH mood 777 to directory “components”

CH mood 777 to directory “administrator/components” only components not administrator
upload and istall “com_virtuemart_1.1.x.zip” from your joomla administrator panel

Over the past few months we have been actively working on reducing any kind of spamming that might have originated from our servers. Rob has given us a number of suggestions and pointers and in doing so this has certainly helped.

We have various users on our servers running a number of web sites consisting of many scripts. Whenever you have a situation like this all the help that can be had is very valuable.

I will be the first to recommend the services of Invaluement and Rob McEwen and many thanks to your team.

Thank you for the great compliment and great question. I must first let you know that we are not experts when it comes to videos and video placement. We do, however, have good insights and opinions. The short answer is “it depends”. We did a podcast this morning and answered your question. I hope I was close on the pronunciation of your name. The podcast will not be up for a couple of weeks but you can have access to that podcast immediately by using this link SEO Podcast on Video Placement and Hosting. Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns.
Chris
Owner E-Webstyle.com

Anyway I have a question regarding posting videos.

We are very capable of posting video on our server for our website,
and we post videos on the major video sharing sites for marketing.

Does it make more SEO sense to embed the vides from Youtube on our
site than use our own server?

Thanks in advance for your advice and time….
John Pavlakos

[THE PLATFORM]

Kaseya installs on your own server, so you need to buy a good one that is reliable and ca accommodate for growth. Then you need to buy all the licenses (windows server, sql server, backup software, etc.). Then you need to host it (most likely a colo, because you don’t want to have to buy redundant internet connection, redudant power and redundant a/c yourself). And you need to maintain it (software upgrades/fixes, database server, backups, etc..).

With Zenith, everything is ready for you. No need to buy any hardware, no software, no monthly colo, no maintenance, no backups, etc. They already have the colos with redundant-everything.

[THE COST]

Kaseya is asking you to buy a whole big lumpsum of licenses at a time. Used to be 100, now it’s 50. And they are more expensive than purchasing a pack of 250 or 500. Their sales will push you to get a 500 or 1000 pack, so that you get the best price point and you don’t need to re-purchase more when you grow. And you pay monthly. Their pitch is “with your first down payment, you can already deploy and charge for your 500 licenses!”. I guess this is a valid point for those IT

Firms who can find customers who will sign a managed services contract right away, for a total of hundreds of devices.. but that’s not our case. Even when you have a large customer base, you still need to convince your customers to migrated to an MS model… If you really think about it, you always pay for more licenses than you really use, because the day you reach the exact number of managed devices than licenses, you got to go buy another one for the next customer buying a new workstation or the next customer with 10 workstations… and you’ll most likely buy a pack of 250 or 500.. and there you go you have 200 you don’t use yet…

With Zenith, you only pay for what you instal. If you install 5 clients, you pay only for 5. If they want to cancel after 10 days, you uninstall it, and you stop being charged. It’s as easy as that. And prices are actually cheaper than zenith if you compare the costs over a 24-months period (which is the typical lease-to-buy from Kaseya).

Kaseya has really a lot of hidden costs.

[THE SUPPORT]

With Kaseya, the support/upgrades is included for the first year… but then you need to pay yearly maintenance if you want to continue being up to date (latest agents compatible with the latest OS, etc.). Also support is only available during US hours.

With Zenith, the support is included for the price, and you get it all the time, 24h/day, via phone, chat, or ticket.

[USABILITY]

Okay, on this one it’s a tie. Both products doesn’t have a good documentation that really helps you fully understand the product.

[LEARNING]

Kaseya sells training. If you really want to get everything configured properly and understand the product well from the get go.. you got to pay thousands of extra dollars (another hidden cost). With Zenith, all training materials and webminars are free.

[COMMUNITY]

Zenith just recently started their forums, and they are not very active yet. On the Kaseya side, we have not been able to test, as this is only available to pay customers, not to trial users.

[FEATURES]

Featurewise, both companies bring the same amount of features. The sales rep from Kaseya told us that Zenith had no scripting: it’s a lie, Zenith has integrated the “Automise” software into their agent, and the IDE is really nice compared to Kaseya’s way to write scripts. The sales rep of Kaseya also said that with Zenith you can’t setup your own agent threshold’s for alerts, and that you were at the mercy of Zenith pre-defined thresholds, and that’s also a lie. You can do it. We also like that Zenith can monitor Linux machines “out of the box”, which Kaseya can’t.

[ANTIVIRUS]

Kaseya only integrates with one antivirus. Zenith integrates with 3 different antivirus. And you can even buy the license through them, on a monthly basis. Which means you can also start and stop the antivirus on any day at your existing customers, and you stop having to pay for it. really convenient.

[MARKET SHARE]

This part is difficult to evaluate. We can’t look at the number of licenses sold yearly, because folks like Kaseya force you to purchase 10 times more than what you’ll really use, while others charge you only for what you use, so it’d be a wrong comparison to look at that. The right number would be the exact number of agents deployed, as well as the retention rate, but we have not been able to obtain these data from the vendors.

[PERCS]

Kaseya doesn’t come with any additional percs, while Zenith has a lot:

* If you have any deployment problem, or you think an agent caused an issue on a computer: they will connect to every machine you need help with, and fix it for you, while you take care of other things.

* If you wish so, you get a phone call for all alerts. Zenith agents will try to call you on various numbers, to get you informed that a problem occured. If for some reason your Kaseya’s server has an issue, the mail server didn’t work, or whatever else, unless you have a tech assigned to monitor your Kaseya’s server at all times, you don’t get the notifications.

* Zenith offer the server ‘care’ option: for a slightly higher fee, they will remotely login to your servers when a problem occurs, to try and fix it for you. if they can’t get to fix it, they’ll contact you a post a ticket. i really don’t mind them remoting onto the server to fix a common problem of restarting the exchange routing service, or

* The Zenith agent comes with LogmeIn Reach at no extra cost. NO NEED to do anything on customer’s firewall, logmein transverse every network as long as there is network access. And the LogMeIn agent is undoubtly the very best remote control software ever. Kaseya comes with the cumbersome and unstable VNC.

* Zenith offers Helpdesk. With the same agents you have already installed, for a very low fee you’ll be able to offer 24/7 us-based techsupport to your customers. The helpdesk agents are using the tools you already deployed, and all you have to do is fill out the secure password vault for them to access the workstations or servers to help your customers. We tried it, and our customers have been very happy with the hold time (barely any), the skills of the agents, and the great follow-up. We also get a call from the agents to let us know what happened, and whether or not we need to do something on our end. Very nice. Kaseya will recommend you some very expensive third party, but we haven’t tried them (way too expensive).

* The BDR product uses the same agent as the MS agents… So if you want to offer both, then only one installation is required. Everything fits nicely together.

So far, we really think Zenith is a better choice, especially for starting businesses.

Oh, btw, we ruled out Level Platforms, for 2 reasons: first of all, like Kaseya you have to buy for a large number or licenses and you pay over a 12 or 24 months period, but if you decide you don’t want to use the software anymore, you still have to pay until the end, whereas Kaseya gives you an option to stop paying and stop using the software (or some licenses you might own, on a pro-rated basis), and being that it really takes longer than the trial period to really find out about all the ins and out of the software, we didn’t feel confortable with it. And second reason is that on all the successful MSP companies that we researched on, they were either using Zenith or Kaseya. Might just be a conincidence, but we didn’t get the feeling that Level Platform is a real player.

Hope this will help you guys.

We’re still evaluating….

S

I don’t like it very much.
It’s rather good and does’t cost anything.
BUT:
1) the stats it gives is incorrect very often
2) some logs of WA are ref spamed, what may cause even DDOS of the site

But its not difficult to tune WA that way so it will work correctly!

Thei product is provided on premise (like Kaseya) or hosted (like Zenith) by a number of service providers that provide remote NOC services from the US or from India – your choice.

Level Platforms does not resell other products like back up and anti virus as this is not their core competency. They assume that each VAR will want to chosse the products that have the right combination of price and functions for their own markets and customers. They have web services integrations with a large number of back up and anti virus products and services so you can choose what is right for you and often at a lower price.