Uncle Marv’s IT Business Podcast: Practical Business Advice for MSPs and IT Professionals
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Running a managed service provider (MSP) or IT services business takes more than technical expertise. You need to win customers, grow revenue, protect profitability, manage vendors, deliver great service, and keep up with a changing IT industry. That’s where Uncle Marv comes in.

Hosted by longtime IT business owner Marvin Bee, aka Uncle Marv, the IT Business Podcast delivers practical business advice, real-world lessons, candid conversations, and industry insights to help MSP owners, IT service providers, IT consultants, system administrators, and technology professionals run their businesses better, smarter, and faster.

Topics include MSP business growth, pricing and profitability, sales and marketing, managed services operations, cybersecurity, compliance, Microsoft 365, cloud services, automation, service desk efficiency, vendor management, technology stack decisions, and customer relationships.

Hear from experienced MSP owners, IT business leaders, industry experts, and technology vendors about what works, what doesn’t, and what it takes to build a stronger IT business. Get an honest look at industry trends, vendor claims, emerging technologies, and the decisions that affect your customers, your team, and your bottom line.

Whether you’re starting an MSP, growing an established IT services company, managing client networks, or looking for better tools and smarter ways to work, Uncle Marv brings the conversation back to what matters: practical knowledge you can put to work.

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June 15, 2026

Robin Robins On MSP Growth (EP 1019)

Robin Robins On MSP Growth (EP 1019)
Uncle Marv’s IT Business Podcast: Practical Business Advice for MSPs and IT Professionals
Robin Robins On MSP Growth (EP 1019)

I sit down with Robin Robins to tear apart the myths MSPs believe about marketing, pricing, and growth, and dig into what actually moves you from referral-dependent to building a profitable, sellable business. We get real about self-doubt, bad packaging, weak follow-up, and why you must own your strategy instead of bouncing from one “easy button” vendor to the next.

Money, Marketing & Growth 2026

Hanging out with Robin Robins in this episode felt less like a marketing chat and more like a reality check for MSP owners who are tired, stressed, and still not getting the growth they want. Robin has been in MSP marketing since 2002, and she’s seen everything from break-fix shops turning into 8 million dollar firms with strong EBITDA, to owners still stuck in the same place decades later because they undercharge, give away work for free, and abdicate marketing to agencies who only implement tactics. She explains why templated campaigns are not the enemy if they sit inside the right strategy, and why so many digital agencies “do SEO” but never ask about your competition, referral systems, or how your team even handles inbound calls.

We get into the uncomfortable stuff: owners chasing 10X growth because “that’s what everyone else is doing,” MSPs under a million who are more stressed than the eight-figure shops, and folks who get to their sixties with no exit and no savings. Robin talks about helping clients pick their financial freedom number, treating the MSP as the vehicle to get there, and refusing to add new customers to an unprofitable model that will just implode under growth. She also shares her bullish view on AI, comparing it to past disruptions like cloud and the internet, and walks through practical ways MSPs should use AI internally, secure client usage, and either partner or carefully structure AI consulting instead of sinking CEO time into one-off, unscalable dev projects.

=== Chapters

  • 00:35 MSP Growth Beliefs
  • 04:50 Templates Versus Strategy
  • 10:35 Fixing the Marketing Gap
  • 14:46 Why Grow At All?
  • 22:03 From Marketing to Coaching
  • 25:57 Strategy Over Tactics
  • 29:10 Loving the MSP Niche
  • 32:03 Sales Research Matters
  • 34:37 AI and the MSP Future
  • 41:14 What’s Next for Robin

=== Guests: Robin Robins

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Robin Robins

Robin Robins is one of the most influential voices in MSP marketing and growth. For more than two decades she’s worked directly with IT service providers and MSP owners, helping them move beyond random referrals and “hope marketing” to build real lead generation engines, stronger sales processes, and more profitable service offerings. Robin’s playbooks and coaching have helped thousands of firms tighten their packaging and pricing, grow MRR, and create businesses that are actually sellable instead of just keeping the lights on.

What makes Robin stand out is that she doesn’t talk marketing in theory. She’s seen the full journey: owners stuck under a million in revenue, stressed and undercharging, all the way to MSPs scaling to eight figures with best‑in‑class EBITDA and successful exits. She’s blunt, practical, and focused on getting you out of the “tech with helpers” mindset and into leading a real business with a clear financial goal and a strategy to hit it. When Robin sits down with MSPs, they walk away with a clearer message, a sharper target market, and a much better understanding of how to attract, convert, and expand the right clients.

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