How to Sell Kabuto as a Managed Service

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Kabuto’s Monitoring and Managed Antivirus Upgrades give you the flexibility to build out a subscription package for your clients and start bringing in monthly revenue.

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We’ve designed Kabuto to be lightweight, quick to configure, and simple to distribute to your customers.

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Kabuto gives you the ability to provide your clients with helpful notifications without seeming spammy or annoying.

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Here’s an Example of How You Could Sell Kabuto

Growing your computer repair business is easy with Kabuto. After you’ve completed work for a customer, offer them one of the following:

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Includes Windows App for communicating with a technician at any time, and desktop notifications to customer when an issue is detected. You can provide this for free to customers, and try to upsell them on the Monitoring Package.

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Includes Basic Package features, plus Tech Monitoring so the technician can proactively see the issues as they occur, rather than waiting for the customer to contact them. Shops typically offer the Monitoring Package for $5/month.

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Includes Basic and Monitoring features, plus Emsisoft Anti-Malware managed by you from the Kabuto dashboard. Your customers will have peace of mind that you’re providing the best AV solution on the market, and that they’re always secure. We recommend you sell this for at least $10/month.

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Upgrades That You Can Upsell

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Managed Antivirus – Powered by Emsisoft

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The Kabuto Managed Antivirus Upgrade costs $2.00/month per device and we’re seeing techs charge around $10/month per device for a Managed Antivirus subscription. Provide great value to your clients and get even better value for your business.

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We’ve recently partnered with the award winning Anti-malware solution Emsisoft to provide a Managed Antivirus solution for Kabuto.

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Monitoring

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With Kabuto’s plug and play monitoring functionality, you can quickly and easily keep an eye out for problems with client machines, and proactively help them before things get too nasty.

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The Kabuto Monitoring Upgrade costs $0.50/month per device and techs typically charge around $5/month per device for a Monitoring subscription. Clients really love it because they know they have a direct line to a tech they can trust.

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Windows Patch Management

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Patch Management allows for technicians to automatically keep their clients’ Windows operating system and 3rd party applications up to date and install new programs. Patch Management is not a separate upgrade and is part of Monitoring ?

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Application Patch Management

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Patch Management also has the ability to install new applications to the device. This installation process requires only pressing the “Install” button found on the Monitoring > Managed Applications tab.

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Sales Inspiration: Check Out Connect 2 Geek’s Kabuto Video

One of our Kabuto users over at Connect 2 Geek has made this great overview video for teaching customers about the benefits of using Kabuto. Take a look and get some ideas for how you can incorporate something similar for your business.

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Watch the “How to Make Money with Kabuto” Webinar

Chris Carruthers and Michael Fitch walk a group of techs through how to sell Kabuto to their clients.

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