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51. | Computer Service Repair and Expenses In the computer service repair business, there are many expenses. If you can control the expenses of your computer service repair business, your profits will be increased. Increasing prices or decreasing expenses can show instant results for your clients and for your entire business. If you learn ...
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52. | Partnering and the Prospecting List Creating a partner prospecting list will help you with your partnering goal. A prospecting list can be created quite easily. Simply write down the next 12 months on a piece of paper, starting with the current month. For each month, write down the following:
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53. | IT Consultation and Essential Skills: Do You Have the Right Tools? In order to be involved in IT consultation, you need to have essential process skills. These tools of the trade are far more important to IT consultation than simply having technical abilities. A consultant needs to have interviewing skills, group ...
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54. | Do You Have the Personality for IT Consultation? The industry of IT consultation is very competitive and requires very specific personality traits of its professionals. Before you begin a new IT consultation career, you need to make sure your personality fits the trade. A good consultant is a risk-taker ...
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55. | Partnering: Extending Your Network In partnering, you can look beyond other technicians for opportunities. Many times non-IT business providers like management consultants have the dilemma of needing to refer their clients to other professionals. This can either be done as a favor to a client, or set ...
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56. | Defining Terms of IT Service Agreements In order to gain the trust of your customers, you need to plan in advance for IT service agreements. Important items such as clear benefits and prices will help you sell IT service agreements to future clients.
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57. | IT Service and Prepaid Time Block Management A prepaid time block is not the same thing as an IT service agreement. The agreement will give specific details about things you will accomplish for a client such as maintenance, upgrades and others, whereas the ...
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58. | Obtainable Projects for Information Technology Consultants There are many jobs for information technology consultants available today, and the field can be extremely lucrative. Many projects, some that do not involve computer work are out there for information technology consultants that consider their specific strengths and find projects that fit their ...
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59. | Computer Service Repair Business and Providing Customer Service During All Aspects of a Sale Customer service is a crucial part of the computer service repair business, because computer service repair is about working with customers to solve problems. All aspects of computer repair should be focused on the customer and his problem. ...
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60. | Measuring Success as an IT Consultant IT consultants are highly coveted these days, and it is easy for an IT consultant to believe that simply having a great number of profitable jobs will guarantee success. Succeeding as an IT consultant is about more than money, and involves several other categories, ...
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61. | Partnering: Establishing Weaknesses and Strengths The first step in partnering is determining your strengths. You need to know what you do best, what your store enjoys, what is financially viable and what you will do in the future. When you consider ...
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62. | Tips for Succeeding as an IT Consultant Technological advances have made IT consultant work a viable option for many with computer skills. Though starting a life as an IT consultant, like making any other business move involves risks, it has many benefits. As an IT consultant just starting ...
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63. | Computer Service Company Motivational Tips Praise is very important to master for computer service company managers. When it is not used in the right way, it can be detrimental to a computer service company. There are five tips to help managers effectively deliver ...
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64. | Computer Service Company Perks: Employee Extras Computer service company perks are much different from company benefits. Perks are extras for employees that help remind them the computer service company cares about their job satisfaction and is giving them something for free. Perks can include items like ...
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65. | IT Consulting Firms: Places to Find Clients IT consulting firms need to have a special expertise or service, and consultants need to find this niche by figuring out the kinds of jobs people will pay IT consulting firms to accomplish. Finding your specific market will help bring more clients to your business. The four major ...
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66. | Starting Information Technology Consultant Projects The first step in information technology consultant projects is initial client contact. The client's first impression of you will help him decide if he is going to sign a contract, so the beginning consultations are critical.
The Beginning
Each projects starts well before the contract is ...
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67. | Computer Service Company Management Requires a Leadership Style As a computer service company manager, you need to know about different styles of leadership and learn to use one that will motivate your employees best. The four different types of styles that can be used by computer ...
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68. | Computer Reseller Business: Effective Recourse Policies As a professional in the computer reseller business, you need to create strong recourse policies to handle any customer complaints. If these policies are clear and in place, you can have satisfied customers and a good reputation even ...
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69. | An Information Technology Consultant Can Make Business Simple for Customers As an information technology consultant, you can assure that you get more repeat customers by making it easy for them to do business with you. An information technology consultant that makes work seem easy for clients will also gain a good reputation within his community.
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70. | Figuring Out Your Role as an IT Consultant A customer typically hires you as an IT consultant in order to reach a goal he has set, and your main function is to advise him on how to meet this goal. Although there is more of a ...
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71. | Motivating Computer Service Company Operations Employees As a computer service company manager, it's your job to motivate your employees. You need to be familiar with the many motivational strategies in order to assure your computer service company runs smoothly. Your business ...
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72. | IT Consulting Firms: Helping Business Grow IT consulting firms typically start with just a few people. And while it can be exciting at first for those people getting into the business, a few years of running the show can become monotonous and exhausting, and the need to expand becomes imminent.
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73. | Computer Service Business Management: Delegating Responsibility Effective management of a computer service business is incredibly important, and the ability to delegate responsibility is a critical skill for any manager. Good delegation allows a computer service business to run more smoothly. Delegation is more than the simple process of giving an employee ...
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74. | IT Service Contracts Require Practice Sometimes after you secure IT service contracts, you might be afraid that your customers might give you more than you can handle, or that you won't be able to deliver service on time. But not to worry - if you fully prepare yourself and follow specific guidelines you ...
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75. | Computer Reseller Business Marketing: Gauging Your Store's Physical Appearance Maintaining a good physical appearance is very important for computer reseller business owners. Customers will base many of their important decisions on how your store looks, and you have to step into their shoes when gauging your ...
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76. | Computer Repair Franchises: Buying an Existing Business Existing computer repair franchises are typically available immediately and are a good option for professionals looking to start a new business in the computer industry. Before deciding to buy a completely new franchise or an existing computer repair franchise, as a prospective business owner you must learn about all ...
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77. | Computer Repair Prices: How to Set Fees You can set computer repair prices in many different ways. The following four methods give you an idea of how to set your fees, but ultimately you have to choose the one that works best with your personality and style.
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78. | IT Consultation: Qualifying a Customer IT consultation projects start with a phone call and are followed by a meeting with prospects. The initial meeting is a great time for the client and the IT consultation business. It is an opportunity for you as a consultant to properly ...
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79. | Computer Reseller Business: The Components of Online Pricing Many professionals today are enlisting the support of those in the computer reseller business, and the Internet has become an excellent tool for any computer reseller business looking to market products and services. Websites and online auctions help make products visible to people outside the computer reseller business' immediate ...
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80. | Computer Franchises: Preparing for a Franchise Expo You can find computer franchises by going to franchise expositions, but you have to prepare for them in order to minimize being overwhelmed by the options and narrow down your search. Since exhibitors go to these expos in order to ...
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81. | Computer Repair Services: Four Steps to Customer Decisions When deciding to go with your computer repair services, a customer cycles through four steps: awareness; interest; evaluation; adoption. The strategies you use at each phase will encourage the prospect to take the steps to the end.
Step One: Awareness
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82. | IT Service Contracts: Essential Recurring Revenue Professional companies need consultants that offer IT service contracts, not simply those that handle emergencies on an as-needed basis. If you don't offer on-going IT service contracts, you end up with either too many people calling you, or not enough. IT service contracts allow your clients ...
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83. | IT Consultant Image: Are You Professional? As an IT consultant, your jobs will be as variable as your client's attitudes and expectations. Your customers' observations about your level of professionalism will have a profound impact on your career. A successful IT consultant has ...
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84. | How to Plan for IT Emergencies IT emergencies are inevitabilities in today's technological world. Handling them will be critical to your IT business and maintaining a strong and loyal customer base. You have to achieve a delicate staff balance that allows ...
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85. | An IT Audits Checklist IT audits need to be absolutely thorough. The following checklist will help you get through every area you need to check during your IT audits:
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86. | Computer Repair Services: Benefits of a Home Business Society is completely reliant on technology, and computer repair services are in high demand. If you are looking to start your own computer repair services business, you should think about running it out of your home, as it can provide you with many benefits.
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87. | Computer Repair Franchises: Evaluating a Site Computer repair franchises need a good location to enjoy success. Finding the best site involves several factors, and many franchisors are happy to help prospective owners weigh different criteria and use all available resources before choosing a site.
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88. | IT Service Agreements: The Offer is About Timing The best time to offer IT service agreements to clients is immediately following emergency service calls. Since you've just rescued a client, you are in their best graces, and they are at their highest point of liking you, ...
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89. | Reliable IT Service Contracts Good IT service contracts can give small businesses peace of mind and the knowledge they have dependable support in case of a computer emergency. Often simple issues such as one small bit of badly written code or a computer ...
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90. | Computer Repair Franchises and Employee Training Computer repair franchises cannot run properly without wel-trained employees. Computer repair franchises can choose to train employees in three different ways: through the franchisor; through the franchisee; or through the Internet. Franchises should be made aware of all the options and remember that their employees are ...
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91. | IT Consultants Go to Customers Because as an IT consultant you are very dependent upon repeat business, you cannot afford to wait for business to come to you. You have to approach your customers by offering them reminders of upcoming scheduled services or help them by going to the point of use ...
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92. | Computer Service Agreements: Looking Beyond the First Find It seems that everyone is offering computer service agreements. Most IT consulting firms are capable of telling you what you need for your company, but not so many can actually combine expertise and hands-on training with invaluable diagnostic tools and speedy ...
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93. | Preparing for IT Emergencies You can ready yourself for IT emergencies by having checklists, online resources, telephone support lines and tool kits on-hand at all times.
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94. | Computer Reseller Business: Let Customers Find You A computer reseller business is very dependent upon marketing and advertising, and there are quite a few tools that customers can use in order to find yours. You can't just offer the best products in ...
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95. | Benefits of Computer Franchise Ownership Entrepreneurs buying computer franchises can enjoy many benefits and minimize typical start-up risks, which can make ownership of these franchises an ideal situation for those looking to start their own business. Since new owners typically need help with marketing, financing and training services, will find these ...
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96. | Computer Repair Prices: A Complete Price Computer repair prices are fixed before you ever start a consulting job. Be sure to think about every aspect of the work you will complete before setting computer repair prices, and that these prices include every expectation of your customer.
The Main Factor Of A Complete Price
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97. | Computer Networking Business Start-up and Hiring Key Employees Hiring employees in the computer networking business is an exact science. Many computer networking business owners don't have the knowledge required to hire the best and most experienced employees, even though hiring these people is one of the most beneficial factors of business growth. There is a formula ...
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98. | Computer Repair Services and Market Segments Computer repair services are critical to the industry. As a computer repair services provider, knowing your market segments can help you find customers that need your make this job even easier.
Determining Market Segments
When you are determining market segments, you should think about three factors. Answering three ...
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99. | Computer Networking Business: Creating Clients The computer networking business is very competitive and is very dependent upon promotion. You need to implement promotional strategies that will distinguish you from the competition, including word of mouth, advertising, publicity and networking.
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100. | Computer Franchises: Choosing the Right One for You Computer franchises can be found everywhere in the country. Because risks are a part of investment in computer franchises, you want to make sure you consider all factors to make sure you are completely prepared for all the challenges.
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