Do you have a balanced portfolio in your computer consulting business? Target 70% of your businesses in the small business state.

Keep a small amount of your business dealing with home networks and the consumer side and then have 5-15% of your business with much larger businesses. This setup works for many computer consulting professionals but it all depends upon where you want to take your business.

Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket

Make sure that no single one of these clients accounts for more than 10 percent of your computer consulting revenue. If you get most of your money from one source and then lose that client because they were acquired, sold, or had a change in management, you stand to lose a lot of revenue. It is very difficult to bounce back from something like that.

Fire Your Bad Clients

As crazy as it seems, you may also choose to fire one of your clients. Every once in awhile you