When you work in IT consulting, you have the option of offering a lot of different services to many different sizes of companies.  How can you fulfill the needs of large small businesses?

The key is to pick two or three of the networking skill sets you use with the sweet spot.  You could pick advanced virus protection, firewall intrusion detection, VPN and routers. If you decide you will focus on security and border access, that would be your specialty and the only thing you would do. 

Large Small Businesses Require Extreme Specializing

With IT consulting for large small businesses, you would have to get a really deep specialty by product platform.  These types of companies typically have a real IT manager on payroll 40 hours per week that will do general tasks in house.

Would IT Staff Need You?

Companies typically put someone on payroll to do IT when they are paying a lot of outsourcing expenses.  Once they have this person on staff, he/she will be expected to keep outsourcing expenses down until a specialized task arises.  As a deep niche IT consulting specialist, these specialized tasks would be your opportunities.

Blogged By:  Computer Consulting Kit