Computer Consulting: Use Your Time Wisely by Joshua Feinberg
Time is money. If you're not careful in your computer consulting business, you'll waste both. With a little discipline and structure, you can maximize the return on your time. Journal Your Time One way to determine your computer consulting time is by journaling. ... Structure Time to Allow More Training Training is expensive, but what most computer consulting firms tend to do is more time intensive than cash intensive. ... Give Your Computer Consulting Staff A Plan If you’re billing out your computer consulting techs at 65 or 70 percent capacity and they have six to eight hours a week...

Computer Consulting and Virtual IT by Joshua Feinberg
Do you own or manage a computer consulting company? Would you like to achieve greater small business success? If so, then get ready to learn why most computer consulting companies get IT (Information Technology) wrong and what you can do about IT. The Problem: Why Most Computer Consulting... And just like any well-rounded internal IT department, your virtual IT computer consulting business will need to provide, or arrange for, a complete soup-to-nuts solution that includes services like help desk, desktop support, network administration, engineering, security, training, procurement, and...

Computer Consulting: Find Paying Clients During Start-Up by Joshua Feinberg
Even if you are just starting out your computer consulting practice with rather basic desktop support level technical skills, make sure that your computer consulting firm gets some paying clients who are at your current technical skills comfort level. ... When you're first getting started with your computer consulting business, there's certainly no reason why you can't take on some of these smaller, one-shot deal accounts. ... Copyright Notice: Copyright MMI-MMVI, Small Business Computer Consulting .com.

How a Computer Consulting Business Can Help Your Company by Joshua Feinberg
While many small companies only call in a local computer consulting business when something computer-related breaks, there's a lot to be gained by forging a proactive, long-term relationship with a local computer consulting business in your area. Consider Getting Advice from a Computer... However, if computer-systems and information technology (IT) are really important to your industry and your company, outsourcing your computer-related service needs to a local computer consulting business is often a much better solution than just piecemeal, ad-hoc usage of a computer consulting business.

Computer Consulting Business: Hardware Warranty Services by Joshua Feinberg
As a computer consulting business, you shouldn’t be spending precious time and your clients’ limited budgets troubleshooting a malfunctioning monitor or CD-RW drive. If your computer consulting business is large enough that you have both senior-level and technician-level staff, you’re probably... Scheduling Hardware Warranty Service Calls If possible, try to have your clients’ internal gurus schedule hardware warranty service calls to coincide with times when you are at your clients’ offices on other related computer consulting business.

ERP Software Companies by Jennifer Bailey
Because of its extensive function within the organization, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) relies on very large and complex software. In the early days, numerous analysts, programmers and users did the implementation of ERP systems in a single firm. ... The third-party consulting companies can help you with ERP system configuration and business consulting. ... To reduce the cost of ERP training, you may seek the assistance of training companies that are specialized in coaching workers on using the ERP software.

Computer Service Agreements: Looking Beyond the First Find by Joshua Feinberg
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 service all at prices your company... A good computer consulting service offered through computer service agreements will be standing by, even in the middle of the night. ... A Firm That Believes Fully In Its Claims Anyone in business is familiar with how frustrating it can be when a computer system fails; you don't want to choose...

ERP Consulting – New Horizons by Andrew Karasev
Every new economy recovery and boom brings new type of business paradigm. It is true about economy in general as well as every market niche. General economic development should be left over to the economists and philosophers to review. Here we will try to draw the trends as we see them through... If you read classical business consulting literature, you can learn that 1960th were the time of business consulting, when you were going to the client to train them in classical marketing, management, accounting, etc.

IT Audits: What Are Your Clients Looking For? by Joshua Feinberg
When you conduct IT audits, you will want to see what you can solve for your clients. You will want to see what problems they have and what you can do about them. In this article, you'll learn the kinds of questions that they will want answered during IT audits Questions Lead to the Needs... This includes both end user training and administrator training. ... Other Services Your Clients May Want Training, both formal and informal, is something your customers may want. ... They want to trust the technology advisor the same way they have a trusted accounting advisor or a legal advisor, or...

Microsoft Great Plains Remote Support - Overview by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Great Plains is now standard mid-market ERP application, serving the whole spectrum of businesses. In the case of mid-size business we usually see strong IT team with SQL querying skills plus accounting department is already trained to use Great Plains and needs minimal help in... Also, please take into consideration the fact that consulting companies have to train new hires to do the job, and formal training should be supplemented with serving to real customer. ... This will drive following hourly consulting rates to the sky.