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IT Consulting: Search for Sweet Spot Clients

There are some clues that will tell you if a prospect will make a good sweet spot client for your IT consulting business. In this article, learn some of the tip-offs that a prospect is a good fit. Does the Company Have a Website? A prospect's websi... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

Small Business Consultants: Avoid Clients Using Peer-to-Peer Networks

Very small businesses, those with less than a handful of PCs, often use informal peer-to-peer networks to share files and printers. This is in sharp contrast to a more robust client/server network with a dedicated server computer, and often selected to k... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Support: Don't Work Too Cheaply

If you set your IT support rates too cheap, you're going to have to work like crazy. The last thing you want to discover at the end of the quarter, after you've entered everything in QuickBooks or Excel, is that you've provided IT support for free. Be... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Consulting: Time Tracking and Invoicing

As a new IT consulting business, it is important to learn about the most common mistakes made with time tracking and invoicing so you can avoid them. Doing so will put your company in a better overall financial position. You will also be able to sleep... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Consulting: Ensuring You Get Paid

You want to ensure you always get a deposit check on any major IT consulting project. Don't start a 40, 60 or 80 hour project on a handshake. This isn't "Leave it to Beaver," IT consulting here. Don't Get Taken Advantage Of There are a lot of ruth... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Consulting: Providing Clients with Credit

In running an IT consulting business, do not be too quick to give new clients credit. Even when you give them credit, keep their lines of credit relatively low until they've built up some history with you. Provide Low Lines of Credit If you have n... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

Small Business Computer Consulting: Can You Hire Help?

As a new small business computer consulting firm, you might ask what level of technical staff you can put on payroll. Don't get too excited yet; you have to be realistic about this. Of course, it varies by job market, but all things being equal, what ... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Support: Where Do Larger Small and Medium Sized Businesses Get It?

Big small businesses get their IT support, from an internal IT person, or a small IT department. Remember, a big/small business typically has 50 to 100 PCs doing anywhere from 5 million to 20 million dollars in U.S. annual revenue. IT Support Sources f... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

Notebook PC Warranties: Study Them Carefully

Over the past five years, the price points on notebook PCs have been driven down dramatically. However, lower purchase prices not withstanding, notebook PCs still have a rather unique warranty service dilemma. If a keyboard, mouse-equivalent (tracking-... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Consulting: Charge Appropriately for Your Services

In IT consulting it is important to know the relationship between hourly billing rates and salary affordability so you can properly plan for both your own salary draw, as well as salaries of future technical and sales-related staff. This is directly re... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

Small Business Computer Consulting: Smart Marketing

In small business computer consulting, it can be easy to get yourself into money trouble really fast. Conserve your precious capital by avoiding some of the common mistakes when marketing your small business computer consulting firm. Perform Tests W... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Consulting Rates: What's Appropriate?

Since micro small business often rely on internal gurus or free help, many IT consultants find the sweet spot small business ideal for computer consulting. In this article, you'll learn what IT consulting rates are appropriate for this group. All rates ar... Read >
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IT Consultant: How To Manage Your Time During Start Up

As an IT consultant looking to go solo, how you can cut through the information overload so you can tune out the distractions and focus on only the most relevant, critical tasks for starting up a business? You need to first realize you may need to stop sp... Read >
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Partnering Is Like Courting

Partnering does not happen overnight. You should approach it slowly and methodically like courtship or dating. In the same way you wouldn't sleep with someone or suggest going to bed with someone on the first date, you don't want to try to close a deal wi... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Service Agreements: Creating the Package

Think about how you're going to package your IT service agreements. For example, are you going to make them fixed- price, retainer-based or based on pre-paid blocks of time? IT service agreements that are fixed priced are tricky because you have to fo... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

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