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revenue-operations
10 posts
Your Vendors Reprice on a Calendar. You Don't.
Microsoft, Sophos, and Atera all raised prices this summer with dates and mechanics. Only 9 percent of MSPs have an increase written into their own contracts. The fix is escalators on paper and increases that arrive packaged, not bare.
Buying Was the Easy Part
There were 466 MSP acquisitions last year. What a platform owns the morning after is a book somebody else priced, sold by an owner who is leaving, on contracts that do not match its own. None of that becomes revenue by itself.
The Question Nobody Asks
MSPs name winning customers their biggest problem every year. An entire industry sells them the answer. Not one of those firms has ever published what it costs to win a client.
The Market Split in Two
One in ten MSPs now runs at a loss, double last year. In the same survey, the group defending real margin grew too. Same market, same year, two different businesses.
Four Dollars in Ten Start Over
The 2026 MSP 501, the industry's own honor roll, averages almost 60 percent recurring revenue. The buyers who set MSP prices want 80 or more. Closing that gap is a selling job, and the gap sets how much of this year's revenue is still there next year.
Where Did the Big Deal Go?
In one year, the share of MSPs whose typical client spends $25,000 or more fell from 75 to 41 percent, and the biggest contract bands emptied out entirely. The way back is growing accounts, not hunting whales.
Demand Has a Due Date
Regulated demand is the rare pipeline with dates attached. The US compliance calendar, updated in September 2026, and the operating system that turns it into forecastable pipeline.
More Heads Is Not a Growth Strategy
For twenty years, growing an MSP meant hiring the next technician. The next technician stopped showing up. One number tells you whether a company has found the exit, and nobody publishes it.
The Mid-Market Kept Its IT Team. Sell Beside It.
Co-managed IT is the MSP land-and-expand motion: two productized entry offers built on gaps buyers state on the record, a written division of labor that doubles as the expansion instrument, defined account stages, and four numbers to run the motion where no public benchmark exists.
They Ask, You Answer. Most MSPs Don't.
Marcus Sheridan's framework, explained for managed services: answer the five questions buyers ask, price first, and let published answers qualify the pipeline before the first appointment.