Virtual IT: Grow your business by providing ongoing service
Virtual IT: How It Can Benefit Your Business
Most successful small business computer consultants position
their companies as virtual IT departments? Why? Because
providing virtual IT to your customers gives you steady
business. In this article, you'll learn why providing virtual IT
to your clients can benefit both you and your customers.
What is Virtual IT?
Virtual IT is really all about becoming your clients' outsourced
IT department. So instead of just selling your customers and
clients PCs, servers, routers, Wi-Fi, cabling, and other
physical products, you instead spend your time selecting and
designing their networks, looking at business problems, figuring
out how to apply the technology to business problems, and
bringing all the resources together. With virtual IT, your firm
acts as your clients' part-time IT managers or virtual CIO's.
Virtual IT is a convenient, flexible, and comprehensive
technical services program that gives small businesses access to
what they need, when they need it-without the overhead burden of
full-time, salaried IT staff.
How can you provide virtual IT to your clients?
For you to deliver virtual IT successfully and profitably, you
need to know what the opportunities and the typical solutions
look like. For example: