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PC Purchases: Why Bundled Hardware Components Make Sense for Your Clients

Getting various hardware components factory-installed with PC purchases, like CD-RW drives and network cards, can save your clients on initial purchase and installation costs. At first, it may seem counterintuitive to recommend this strategy of PC purc... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Support: Where Do Sweet Spot Businesses Get Theirs?

Sweet spot small businesses, have from 10-50 PCs and do anywhere from a million to 10 million in annual revenue (U.S. Dollars). They get their IT support in several different places, which you'll learn about in this article. Sweet spot businesses have... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Consulting: Determining Your Rates as a Start-up

In IT consulting, people charge various rates. Some charge at the zero level, others at the $25, $35, $45 an hour level. Starting an IT Consulting Business: What to Charge? Probably a lot of you want to start charging, and should be, in the $75, $... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Consultant: Personality Traits for Success

IT consultant skills vary widely. The successful ones will have the traits that help them deal with their customers. IT Consultant Traits: Can You Manage Employees? Even in your first year of business there is a pretty good chance that you will hav... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Consulting Rates: What Should You Charge?

Your hourly IT consulting rate potentials will vary according to where you live. The rates in this article will be based in U.S. dollars, so if you're reading this in Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, or another country, you'll need to do some conve... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

PC Purchases: The Benefits of Adding Network Cards

Network cards are mandatory additions to PC purchases now that even the smallest offices now have broadband Internet access and peer-to-peer networking. Even if the cost of later purchasing Ethernet adapters a la carte were the same as the bundled pri... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Consulting: Why The Sweet Spot Makes Sense

In the sweet spot of small business IT consulting, you will be taking over anything and everything related to IT. You are expected to know a little about a lot of different things, but most of all, you are expected to be very resourceful and to know where... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Consultant: Transition to Full-Time

If you are working a full-time day job and moonlighting as an IT consultant, you need to know a few things before transitioning to becoming a full-time IT consultant. Take the following into consideration and avoid the common mistakes many IT consultan... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Spending: Educate Your Clients on Smart Purchases

Often, clients will ask you for advice on their IT spending plans. In this article, you'll learn some ideas to help your clients plan their IT spending. Suggest Your Clients Upgrade Their Machines Your clients also could earmark the budget surpluse... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Spending: Reallocate Your Clients' PC Hardware Budgets

If your clients' recent financial results have been so spectacular that they feel now is the time to make significant technology investments in their companies, consider the following alternatives to solely devoting their IT spending to PC hardware purcha... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Consultant: Do You Have These Personality Traits?

Sure, you need technical skills. But to be a successful IT consultant, you also need to be able to work well with people. In this article, you'll learn about some of the personality traits that make for a successful IT consultant. IT Consultant Traits... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Consulting: Providing Services to Large/Small Businesses

In IT consulting, you can provide your services to many different sized businesses. In this article, you'll learn about how you can fit in with the IT consulting needs of large/small businesses. Pick 2 or 3 of the networking skill sets that you need fo... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Certifications: Do Your Clients Even Understand Them?

When targeting small businesses that are in the sweet spot size, what IT certifications do you typically need? One thing to keep in mind is that you are not selling to a real IT manager in most cases. Remember Who You Are Selling Your Services To O... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

Computer Consulting: Should You Work With Micro Businesses?

When it comes to computer consulting with micro businesses, look at the margins issue. You will always have a certain amount of hours that you're forced to eat because you can't bill for it. When you have a larger base of computer consulting clients to s... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

IT Spending: Putting a Budget Surplus to Good Use

If you sell to government, non-profit or educational accounts, your firm may be accustomed to managing this next challenge. But, if sales to small businesses are your bread and butter, you may not as tuned into the "use it or lose it" purchasing philosoph... Read >
Author: Computer Consulting Kit Home Study Course

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