Blog entries

"Quick Referral" for JoomConnect 1.1 coming for ConnectWise

Chris Chase — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:32:08 +0100

I'm really starting to get excited (yes even more excited) about JoomConnect 1.1. Over the next few weeks while in beta we are going to leak some of the new features. Hopefully you will be as excited as we are. Keep reading to learn how we are sharing how to do this for free.

You can use ConnectWise to run your entire referral campaign, “Quick Referral” for JoomConnect 1.1 is coming soon - MSP Website Marketing Infrastructure at its finest!

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10 New Year Resolutions

Chris Chase — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:16:41 +0100

We grew a lot in 2009. This is a great thing but it has also exposed a lot about our company that we want to improve on. It's pretty obvious what we need to work on to support the growth we expect in 2010 and beyond.

While this isn't a complete list, here are 10 of the things we are going to focus and improve on this year. They are in no particular ordRead More...

14 tips to work your Social Media Rig

Chris Chase — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Directive has had the pleasure of working with David Mann for over 10 years. David owns Alta Log Homes in Upstate NY. Alta is a leading manufacturer of Log Homes. David is an expert in building Green, Energy Star dream homes and a great guy.

His website is http://www.altaloghomes.com
We set him up with the Ultimate Social Media Rig a few months ago along with some coaching services to get him started. He's been pretty religious about posting and using it.

He sent me an email askinRead More...

ConnectWise Tracks & Marketing Groups, Oh yeah!

Chris Chase — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:13:51 +0100

Just wanted to give you guys a sneak peak at something coming in 1.02 shortly (less than two weeks).

You can now assign marketing groups and tracks to prospects when they register on your website!!

The Ultimate Social Media Rig for MSP's

Chris Chase — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:22:48 +0100

Recently, I was asked to speak at a breakout session called Jumpstart Social Media for your IT Business with Erick Simpson (Managed Service Provider University) and Mary McElwee (ConnectWise) at the 2009 ConnectWise Partner Summit. What a great event, we learned so much for our MSP practice, we are still implementing!

Some of the power point slides from the breakout show our ConnectWise Project Plan for rolling out our "Ultimate Social Media Rig". We promised to get the project plaRead More...

JoomConnect 1.01 is out!

Chris Chase — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:21:20 +0100

JoomConnect 1.01 has been released. We also whipped up a quick video on how to Upgrade to 1.01 in 7 mins flat. There is a few tricks and apps we use and explain in the video below. Check it out!

P.S. In future releases we plan to automate as much of the installation as possible so you won't have to perform these tasks because lets face it this is a pain in the butt, hopefully the video helps!

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Don't Rush It - A young bull in a China shop

Chris Chase — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:04:47 +0100

It's been two weeks since we launched JoomConnect. We agreed internally to always blog about the good AND the bad. So...

I've been very pleased with the sales and responses we have gotten, even though our website launch sucked! Getting to talk with so many partners and learning about their businesses has been amazing and overwhelming. Loving it!

Why did I say it sucked? Things we've learned:

#1. Don't rush it. - Websites

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JoomConnect Pricing Model Change

Chris Chase — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:12:09 +0100

After careful consideration and feedback from some of our fellow ConnectWise Partners, we have decided to switch to a flat yearly subscription model. Hurray for simple!

http://www.joomconnect.com/order/overview.html

Let us know what you think.

JoomConnect is a Platform

Chris Chase — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:00:00 +0100

This is officially my first blog post, I mean ever. Directive currently manages about 25 Social Media Accounts for clients on a weekly proactive basis. So we've helped a bunch of clients write blogs and we've integrated them to their Social Media circles and refrigerators, but I never wrote one for my own company. If you consider Facebook and Twitter and social media in general mini blogging, as I do, then I guess I've mini blogged.

Being the first post I feel a little pressure. I Read More...

Welcome to the JoomConnect Blog

Chris Lynk — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:44:33 +0100

We cannot believe today is the day; the launch of JoomConnect. The Directive JoomConnect Team has been burning the midnight oil to ensure a smooth launch of our website. It's going to launch with some content we really wanted to get done like some videos and a few other things, but we'll get them up a within a couple days after the launch.

We'd like to extend our thanks to all of the partners who've encouraged us to launch JoomConnect, the beta testers who were willing to pRead More...