Got Data? by Grace Judson
Each of the stories that follow is absolutely factual. When their clothes dryer blew up, the young couple escaped with her cell phone, their toddler son, and one shoe. The house was incinerated in fifteen minutes. She was supporting the family with her home-based business while her husband... Even for those who are technically proficient, creating a personal backup and disaster recovery plan ranks only slighly higher than cleaning the bathroom; for the many who find technology confusing and scary, cleaning the bathroom starts looking downright fun compared to figuring out a backup plan!

IT Service Contracts: Essential Recurring Revenue by Joshua Feinberg
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. ... Their investment will be essential to building and growing your business, and will help you plan what shape and form your growth will take. ... There is no way to determine how long your company will last unless you implement this type of revenue into your business plan from the very beginning.

IT Spending: Putting a Budget Surplus to Good Use by Joshua Feinberg
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 philosophy in IT spending. ... Make Sure Your Clients' Plan Includes IT Spending You have a written IT project plan for your clients, right? ... If not, a detailed project plan not only keeps your clients’ IT spending priorities straight, a project plan assures your company a steady stream of recurring consulting revenue throughout the year.

Disaster Recovery: Failure to Plan is a Plan to Fail by C Seagrave
Today’s organisation is increasingly dependent on its IT infrastructure and communications network. Remote offices, customers and business partners are all reliant on their ability to access your core systems, Intranet or Extranet – often 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. ... According to industry analysts, the top three business risks from failure to implement an effective disaster recovery plan are decreased employee productivity, customer dissatisfaction and the loss of current and future revenues.

Downloadable Budgeting Software by Seth Miller
Budgeting is the process of forecasting and planning revenues and expenditures for a certain period of time. A budget refers to the list of planned income and expenses. There are many methods of budgeting utilized by individuals, families, government institutions, medium-sized companies, and big... With the help of advanced computer technology, budgeting is now easier than ever, especially for individuals who are not inclined to doing this task. ... It can effectively manage your credit card spending and make a household financial plan.

Do You Need A Data Recovery Service? by Matt Ream
It's happened to the best of us. You're working late into the night all on an important document and all of a sudden, whether it's your fault or not, you lose all that work. The first thing that happens is we are reminded to save our work more frequently. ... Since you don't plan your data loss, they can't plan their schedule, and so need to be available when you need them. ... They're like emergency room doctors for your computer. ... Whether it's your business needs that are involved, or your letter to grandma, lost data is never fun.

Desktop Management Tools by Ken Marlborough
Desktop management tools are computer programs that work to simplify, unify, streamline, and otherwise facilitate access, usage, communication and so on between different members of a network or corporation. These computer programs can be bought as discs and loaded onto your computer, or they... Not only that, they can upgrade computer software and hardware configurations. ... But the infrastructure must support the ambitions of a business. ... Exchanging information between central databases and computers is fast and easy with desktop management tools.

IT Service Agreements: Living Up to Your Promises by Joshua Feinberg
If you are new to the service model, you may be concerned about your ability to live up to your IT service agreements. Let’s assume that you have eight clients who will book $165,000 in yearly revenue. The greatest fear for many new consultants is getting significant IT service agreements and... Copyright MMI-MMVI, Small Business Computer Consulting .com. ... Figure out which of your services would be useful to a small business with a real LAN, with a real network. ... Figure out what some of your competitors are offering in terms of services and solutions and make a plan of attack for...

Budgeting Software For Small Business by Alexander Gordon
Budgeting software for small businesses is one of those several changes that the advent of computers has brought in for us. Gone are the days when people had to make the accounts on the papers. No matter you are working in large or small business institute, if you are good at computers and have... Budgeting software is a combination of multidimensional analysis, real time alerting, management of the business and web-based collaboration at one place. ... However, multidimensional technology today outdated them and there is no such limitation as was the case with spreadsheets.

JUST IN CASE: What Biz Emergencies Are You Prepared For? by Donesia Muhammad
Everyone knows life is always full of unexpected surprises. Some Good, Some Bad.. But no matter how severe or how simple an emergency, it still messes up your daily routine. So you have to be prepared to handle certain emergencies that are just a part of life. ... It doesn't matter how brilliant or how stupid your online business plan is, if you don't have a computer, you have sort of thrown yourself out of the game before you even had a chance to pitch. ... Duh, Use a Friends Computer Technology is becoming cheaper these days, therefore every where you turn someone owns a computer these...