WILMINGTON, DELAWARE – March 17, 2022 – MySherpa, a leading Philadelphia, Delaware, South Jersey, and Northern Maryland guide to managed IT services for small and medium-sized businesses, today announced the celebration of 20 years serving as trusted client advisors.
This is not a boilerplate email that you probably have received from businesses across the globe. This is a letter about you. We see you. We share your pain for the losses and disruptions over the past months due to COVID-19. We understand the despair and anger you must be feeling, the distressing business decisions you must make that were not in your strategy for 2020.
Together, we will pull through these tough times and come out stronger in the end.
@ Ballantree Consulting 2016 All Rights Reserved
10TH ANNUAL GROWTH STRATEGIES SURVEY RESULTS
April 1, 2016
Survey Population
300 Businesses in the Greater Philadelphia Area
Over 90 Survey Respondents
Annual Sales of up to $400 Million
Sole-proprietorships to 1,250 employee base
Privately-held, Employee-held, and Publicly-held companies
For-profit and not-for-profit companies
Revenue Breakdown of Respondents
10% - Less than $1 Million
27% - Between $1 Million and $5 Million
22% - Between $5 Million and $10 Million
32% - Between $10 Million and $50 Million
9% - $50 Million or greater
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
Predictions are more conservative …
Year-over-year predictions for overall economic conditions:
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Contraction
50%
10%
2%
4%
12%
4%
0%
12%
Expansion
29%
45%
81%
66%
59%
62%
69%
56%
No Change
21%
45%
17%
31%
29%
34%
31%
32%
The 2015 economic conditions (for the second year in a row) allowed business owners to find increased opportunities for growth, increase business development efforts, make improvements to business models and strategies, explore new revenue streams, and hire some great people.
Windows 2003 server in the rear view mirror
By Greg Gurev
Gurev is Head Sherpa at MySherpa, Wilmington
Let’s face it. In small business, Microsoft had us at “hello.” Let’s get nostalgic for a moment. In tech time, we don’t have to backtrack too far, just to 2003 when Microsoft’s Windows Small Business Server was the popular go-to operating system for businesses with 75 employees or fewer.
IT managed services firm MySherpa promoted Ethan Tancredi from VP of Operations to President Sherpa to oversee all daily operations and employees at MySherpa.
He joined MySherpa in 2005 and has held various positions through the company’s growth.
Tancredi is highly valued for his keen ability to relate to clients and decipher their IT needs, leading to their satisfaction with the company’s work.
In our Future Now series, we’ve been exploring how advances in technology can enable us to stay ahead of the curve for business trends. But I want to share an alternate view of the Future Now philosophy – knowing when there isn’t a high tech solution, and relying instead upon good old-fashioned ingenuity.
It seems that even the most innocuous machines in the workplace can serve as a security threat to companies. According to this report from CBS News, many office copiers save the images they copy on a dedicated hard disk installed inside them. This means that everything from mundane memos to your most sensitive information such as financial statements and contracts are stored – and could potentially extracted. So the next time you dispose of a copy machine, if you’re not sure what’s stored on it and how to get it off – give us a call to help out. To see the news report, watch this video.