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Unique Small Business Climate
Before you start planning how you’ll build your consulting business, it’s important to understand some of the idiosyncrasies of small businesses. Unlike medium-sized and large corporations, a small business staff often takes on a variety of functions that would be the domain of multiple people or departments in larger firms even within the same industry. [...]
Computer Training Business Tips for Adding Consulting Revenue
If you are in the IT business, you are at least partially in the computer training business. You are training your small business clients to use their IT assets. And you are probably dealing with a lot of small business owners that don’t know the first thing about technology, so you have to be able [...]
IT Consultants: 7 Business-Building Secrets for 2009 (and Beyond)
IT consultants that own or manage their own consulting companies often face challenges when growing their profits and client base. If you are like many IT consultants, you may have trouble with the key ingredient of successful consulting firms — being able to focus on your company’s profit and bottom line. Many in the IT services [...]
What Does it Mean to Become a Laptop Reseller?
While the most profitable way to be a small business IT professional does not typically happen when you want to become a laptop reseller, there are ways you can add reselling to your business. However, the most successful IT professionals working with small businesses find that the money is in building relationships with steady, high-paying [...]
Systems Integrators: 3 Things You Should Know
There are many different types of computer consultants that perform a variety of functions for small businesses, and some of them are systems integrators. If you are just starting out in the IT consulting world, you might be wondering which area of computer consulting is right for you and which type of computer consultant you [...]
Improve Your Computer Consulting Services with 3 Key Questions
If you want to provide the best computer small business consulting services possible for your clients, there are three key questions you can ask that will help you grow your business and keep those steady, high-paying clients. These questions are best asked as part of regular surveys (sent with invoices, support contract renewal reminders, etc.) [...]
Is an IT Franchise a Good Idea?
When you are deciding how to set up your IT consulting business, one of your options is to build an IT franchise. Many consultants wonder, “Is an IT franchise a good idea?”The Benefits of an IT Franchise 1. You get the perks of being part of a larger company; 2. You get a built-in organizational [...]
Becoming an IT Consultant: Skills You Need
When you’re thinking about becoming an IT consultant, remember – it really doesn’t matter if you lack advanced technical computer skills. This can be remedied through self study … and many business and social skills are going to be a lot more important to building the relationships you need to sustain your business anyway! To [...]
Computer Repair Forms: Three Steps to Using Templates Can Save Your Business Time and Money!
If you own your own computer repair business, you know that your time is money, and a lot of your time can be spent on unbillable hours filling out computer repair forms, networking to drum up new business and countless other administrative activities that suck up time you could be spending working in the field. [...]
Computer Resellers: What Are Your Options?
There are varying opinions about whether small business computer consultants should become computer resellers. Here are some definitions to help you weigh your options. Pure Computer Consulting Firms Those that want to completely stay away from being computer resellers choose to be pure computer consulting firms. They believe they will never make a penny off [...]
Why Can an IT Franchise Be Good for You?
You need to think carefully about the pros and cons of IT franchise ownership before you decide to buy one. The Pros of an IT Franchise 1. You get the benefit of being part of a larger company; 2. You get a strong peer support network as part of the organization; 3. You get [...]
Your IT Company: How Much Time Will it Take?
When you are starting your IT company, you have to prepare to put in a lot of time and effort. You’re going to have to go out and really meet people and make a lot of follow-up phone calls and send personalized notes and e-mails. Your main goal with your IT company in the beginning [...]
What Does it Mean to Be an IT Contractor?
If you really want to be a good IT contractor, the first concept you need to grasp is the idea of the “specialist.” You might be saying, “That’s great … but an IT contractor needs to know a lot of general things about computers to make it!” It’s true that you will need to [...]
As an IT Consultant, You Need to Pay Attention to Who Your Clients Are
As an IT consultant, one of your most important and unique tasks is finding out who your clients are BEFORE you sit down with them in a sales meeting. Yes, you need to explain what your computer consulting business is all about … but you also have to go into any meeting thinking about the [...]
Tips for Talking about Your Computer Consultancy
You need to be careful of people that want you to explain what you do in your computer consultancy. You need to be prepared to talk clearly about what you do in simple terms so a client can determine whether or not you provide services that would suit his/her business. Some Tips for Talking about [...]
Computer Business HP Buys Australian Company
Recently computer business Hewlett-Packard (HP) made an agreement with Tower Software, a document and records management company to take over its company. HP is based in Palo Alto and will attempt to expand its compliance business by purchasing the Canberra, Australia-based business. Tower’s main package is TRIM Context, an enterprise content management system that helps [...]
Resources for Solution Providers: Abaca Starts New Partner Program
Abaca Technology Corporation recently stated it would be starting a new partner program for solution providers – the Abaca Secure Partner Network. Abaca, a leading innovator in email protection and security management create this program with multiple levels for solution providers, VARs and managed service providers and will finally expand its guarantee of 99 percent [...]
Computer Consultant Repair Business and Qualifying the Sweet Spot
What characteristics qualify the sweet spot for your computer consultant repair business? First of all, you want to look for small businesses with 10-50 PCs and a specific revenue figure. Typically companies that make one million to ten million U.S. dollars annually are in the sweet spot for your computer consultant repair business. As [...]
VARs Rank Cherry the #1 Keyboard Provider
VARs often work with a lot of different providers when choosing the right products for their clients. Recently, a group of VARs ranked Cherry as the #1 keyboard provider. Cherry took first place in the 2nd annual “VSR Hardware Leaderboard,” a voting that started in 2006 and just took place again for 2007. 157 [...]
Lombardi Providers Systems Integrators with Services
Business process management (BPM) leader provides systems integrators and other companies and government agencies with software. The company has won awards for its technology and services that help customers improve their businesses. Lombardi offers products for systems integrators that is built on open standards and, according to the company helps with prioritization, planning, visibility and [...]