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Karl W. Palachuk

Karl W. Palachuk has built and sold two managed service businesses in Sacramento, CA. He is the founder and president of the Sacramento SMB IT Professionals Group, and author of several books, including The Network Documentation Workbook and Managed Services in a Month.

Karl has been a featured speaker at conferences and seminars all over the world for more than fifteen years.He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with a Bachelor’s Degree from Gonzaga University and a Master’s Degree from The University of Michigan. He is also a Microsoft Small Business Specialist, and is an original member of Microsoft’s Small Business Specialist Advisory Panel.

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I am an avid buyer AND consumer of Karl's expert products and services for professional IT service firms catering to small businesses. Karl has done what I do, providing technical support and technology services to small businesses. He developed SOP's and best practices I follow. Karl doesn't rest on his laurels. He's constantly developing new ways for us to make money while servicing clients, such as his Cloud 5 package. I recently sold the package to a law firm and they are very happy. I look forward to following Karl's development of smallbusinessthoughts.org. If you're an IT service firm and you're not following Karl, you're missing out on a lot of quality content that will help your business!
David Streit
Small business technology advisory and end user support focused on small businesses in New Jersey
I have had the great fortune and pleasure of working with Karl over the last dozen years or so and a better speaker, strategist, consultant or business partner you will be hard-pressed to find. Karl's business and technical knowledge is tempered only by his quick, dry wit, making every opportunity to work with him a memorable experience. His numerous published works invite a broad audience to benefit from his knowledge and experience, and his generosity and humility are a rarity in our (or any) industry. I highly recommend engaging with Karl - you will be glad you did.
Erick Simpson
IT Business Transformation and Channel Growth Expert, Author and Consultant and Creator of the MSP Mastered™ Methodology

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