IT Consulting for Micro Businesses: What You Need to Know

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IT Consulting in Micro Businesses requires you to be familiar with basic hardware, software, and networking. You only need to know how to perform about half of the skills to be successful at IT consulting.

IT Consultants: Save Your Clients from Themselves

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IT Consultants need to guide their clients' PC purchases. Rarely does purchasing "the latest and greatest" make sense for customers and it doesn't leave enough money for work done by IT consultants.

IT Consultants: Finding Ideal Moonlighting Clients

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IT consultants can start their businesses by moonlighting. Look for clients you can serve one or two Saturdays and a few hours a month to start being IT consultants.

IT Consultant: Transition to Full-Time

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IT Consultants who want to go from moonlighting to full-time need to prepare first. Take the necessary steps so you can realize your dream of becoming a full-fledged IT consultant.

IT Consultant: Personality Traits for Success

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IT Consultant personality traits often predict their future success. In this article, see if you have what it takes to be a great IT consultant.

IT Consultant: How To Manage Your Time During Start Up

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IT consultant time management is crucial when beginning your practice. Spend your time working on leads, prospects, and sales to become a full-time IT consultant.

IT Consultant: Do You Have These Personality Traits?

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IT consultant candidates need to have personality traits that alow them to deal well with people. In this article, ask yourself some tough questions about whether or not you have what it takes to be an IT consultant.

Computer Consultant 101: How to Build a Stable Business

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Computer Consultant businesses need to implement good business practices. Make sure you implement the strategies in this article and you will become a successful computer consultant.

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Know How To Bill and What to Charge

Without knowing how to bill and what to charge, you’re going to lose a lot of money that’s really yours. If you get your billing and pricing wrong as a computer consultant, you'll send a bad message to people that you’re trying to quote for business. 

You'll be screaming that you’re a rank amateur rather than a skilled computer consultant. It could take you years to recover from this. A lot of times you would need to scrap existing clients and completely start over because certain clients you brought in at the wrong level.

Perform IT Audits

If you know how to do them right it’s an incredibly powerful technique. You get paid to write proposals and do needs assessment work. If you don’t know how to do this you’re going to wind up doing a lot of exploratory work for free. You can actually get paid for your initial consultation time for doing the technology assessments and the IT audits. 

Build Local Partnerships

You’ll need partnerships as your computer consultant business evolves. These will get you some of your best clients along the way. If you don’t have good local partnerships, you can almost guarantee that you’ll lose clients along the way with this as well. You need to learn how to find these key players and how to negotiate with them. 

Exceed Client Expectations

If you want to get paid the big bucks as a small business computer consultant, your clients will expect a lot from you. Your clients' idea of perfection may be different from yours. You need to learn the magic words you need to know to avoid a lot of the stress and intense pressure. You want to come out smelling like a rose to exceed their expectations.

Maximize your Utilization Rate and Profitability

Making as much of your work-week billable as possible and eliminate a lot of the non billable, time-draining non revenue draining computer consultant activities.  It’s all about delivering small business virtual IT services and how to build a stable business; how to get clients for life. 

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