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Small IT Business Start-Up Game Plan for Avoiding Distractions
Own a small IT business? Learn how to fend off freeloaders that can stunt your business growth, so you can instead focus on high-quality small business prospects. Learn ways to get rid of those moochers for good and attract steady, high-paying clients to your small IT business.
IT Management: What Are Your Responsibilities
IT management involves a lot of responsibilities. Which should you make part of your comprehensive services? 1. Coordinating Telecommunications Solutions. When you’re dealing with small business clients and providing a comprehensive IT management plan, you will probably have to coordinate your own services with local telephone companies, ISPs and other providers. You will also probably [...]
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 [...]
The “Green” Movement Helps VARs Grow
Many VARs are starting to incorporate environmental awareness into their daily business lives at great benefit to their growth and services. Virtualization technology in particular is helping VARs grow their own businesses and also save customers money, reduce energy consumption and costs to themselves. According to Virtual Iron, climate change and depleting natural resources has [...]
IT Support: What Are Your Responsibilities with Clients?
Providing IT support to your important clients is full of responsibilities. But which are really required to be part of your services? 1. Coordinate Telecommunications Solutions. When you are dealing with sweet spot clients, you will have to coordinate IT support with a local phone company – CLEC (competitive local exchange carrier) or ILEC [...]
Become an IT Consultant: Training or Clients First?
When you are trying to become an IT consultant, do you get computer consulting training first and then look for clients or do you start out looking for clients and then work on getting training? The answer is simply, “Both.” Become an IT Consultant by Getting Training and Clients Client recruitment and skills development [...]
Become an IT Consultant by Getting Specific Expertise
When you decide to become an IT consultant, you will find that small business IT support requires many different types of expertise, depending upon your niche and specialty. Which expertise do you need to become an IT consultant?There Are Experts for Every Type of Business If you want to become an IT consultant for a [...]
A New Virtual IT Tool Introduced by Tek-Tools
Virtual IT innovators Tek-Tools Software, based in Dallas, Texas recently announced a new product – Profiler for VMware – as part of the Profiler Suite that helps increase utilization capacity and performance in virtual IT environments. The company, with offices in the U.S., UK and India is a top provider of virtual IT resource management [...]
IT Support and Wearing Multiple Hats
When you are just starting your IT support company, you will most likely be wearing all the hats. You will be responsible for sales, technical support and administrative duties, until the company is established enough to justify delegation of certain tasks to a salesperson or a few different technical staff members. Wearing Multiple Hats is [...]
Computer Consulting Firm Enlightened, Inc. Expands to Louisiana
Computer consulting firm Enlightened, Inc. stated today that it decided to offer business process outsourcing (BPO) services for a Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Customer Call Center. Enlightened provides computer consulting services and business solutions and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. Its main clients are local and federal government agencies as well as commercial businesses. Enlightened [...]
Computer Business News: The 10 Best Products of 2007
The computer business saw a lot of innovative new technology products introduced in 2007 that made business and personal computing more efficient. Many applications were developed and new hardware was designed. CRN recently narrowed the list of products it reviewed in the past year down to the best 10 of 2007. The following offers a [...]
IT Specialists Copy Client Successes
If you want to be unique as IT specialists, narrow your industry focus. Look for More Prospects Like Your Best Clients You want to determine the key characteristics of your current clients and find more clients just like them. Take your active client list and put it into a Microsoft Excel worksheet with columns. [...]
VARs Worry about Growth in 2008
Many VARs worry that, despite predictions by experts that the industry and its businesses will grow in 2008, U.S. economic unrest will make the business climate difficult and may hinder growth. The 2008 VARBusiness State of the Market research report interviewed 733 North American VARs in October and found that while 27 percent of [...]
Why Being an IT Specialist is Important
When you are trying to grow your computer business, you need to be an IT specialist in order to find a good group of prospects. If you know you work best with small accounting offices, do a quick Google search to find out how many small accounting offices are within an hour’s radius of your [...]
Small Business Computer Consulting News: Desktop-to-Server Suite Handles Small Business Needs
Novell recently announced the availability of a new small business computer consulting tool – the Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition – to customers across the world. This Linux-based desktop-to-server product is designed specifically for small businesses and will help many involved in small business computer consulting provide their clients with flexible and cost-effective open [...]
Security Consultant Tips: Don’t Skimp on Hardware!
When you are a security consultant, you can’t let your clients cut corners on PC purchases, particularly when they are running high-end software. A lot of the employees of your small businesses will depend on software with fairly low-end requirements such as basic word processing, spreadsheet, e-mail and Web browsing software, etc. But who uses [...]
Computer Business News: New Trojan Found in Open Source
In computer business news, despite the great reputation open source has developed, new findings from Fortify Software have proven that even open source is susceptible to security breaches. A new type of Trojan was recently discovered called “build-process injection” that lets hackers put in malicious code into programs while they are being designed. According to [...]
IT Consulting and Identity Management
According to experts, when businesses work with IT consulting professionals to create a comprehensive approach – with HR and IT working together — to identity management, they will be able to decrease their risk and also save money. A lot, if not most companies have a really complicated and haphazard way of handling ID management [...]
Symantec Encourages Solution Providers to Specialize
At its Partner Engage conference this past week in San Diego, Symantec announced a new program for solution providers. The “SMB Specialization for Partners” program offer s solution providers working with small businesses the opportunity to get new benefits. Solution providers registered for the silver level in Symantec’s partner program just need to take [...]
Extended Warranties and PCs
With notebook PCs in particular you should advise clients to buy the highest level of extended warranty coverage. Hard drive failure is less of a concern than the cost of replacing a broken LCD screen. What Do Replacements Cost? Notebook PC LCD screens are different depending on each particular computer. If your client needs to [...]