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STEP
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What's Happening Here
Step 1: Set the Goal "To Build a Great Small Business"
Step 2: Define a "Great Small Business"

Great small businesses are built with:

  • Good people places in roles they are well suited for
  • Good teams with role players understanding how their roles affect others
  • Good projects where they can do clean business
  • Good feedback systems that allow empowered people to change their roles
  • A steady stream of stable events thats build confidence and reliability in workers, vendors, investors, and clients
Step 3: Choose a strategy
  1. Employ your suppliers for the true value they can add.
  2. Find another plan:
Why Small Business Employee Liberteks.com's Services

Some small businesses think of us as their "computer guy". They rely on us to act as their IT department. To provide a trustworthy, reliable, one-stop solution that makes their tech stuff work. But what you should also know is that we are your Trusted Technology Advisor. A role we take very seriously. We know we must be able to:


  • Demonstrate
  • Design
  • Recommend
  • Build
  • Install
  • Configure
  • Calibrate
  • Customize
  • Personalize
  • Support

the technology products and services for your small business. 
We achieve this by relying on:


  • Our In-house skills
  • The skills of our clients that we assess
  • Outside experts as needed
  • Our ability to model you business to the set of Best Practices that are associated with your industry as well as the Best Practices that are valuable and special to your business.

This sets up an IT environment that will allow you to achieve your technology goals. But afterwards you can employ our methods as a methodology for the other functional areas of your business!
Have you thought of a better plan yet? If not keep reading...
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What's Happening Here
Step 4 Allow your stategy for developing a plan

Liberteks.com can provide:

  • Business assessments
  • Technology assessments
  • Network assessments
  • Technology plans

And make referrals to qualified sources for:

  • Business plans
  • Marketing plans
Step 5 Utilize the plan to define roles for the team members

All the plans Liberteks.com create include:

  • Specific tasks for all employees
  • Roles for all employees
  • Training for all employees
Step 6 Expand the duties of the team members to include job requirements beyond the scope of the original plan or even technology itself By using the structure of the technology plan you are building on a successful deployment. This allows you to consolidate unproductive work process into new and more productive processes.
Step 7 Allow the new business to dictate the next business goal

Team agility must now be tested. You now have:

  • Good people placed in roles they are well suited for
  • A good team with role players understanding how their roles affect others
  • Good projects where you are doing clean business

 

Now you are building business history where:

  • Good feedback systems are allowing empowered people to change their roles
  • Confidence and reliability is growing in workers, vendors, investors, and clients

 

With the new resources you now have at your disposal it's time to get closer to the customer and hear where the new business opportunity lies. We can use the same 7 Steps to employ technology to reach the new business goal.

 

How do you get that all together at once?

 

According to Gartner Research, North American SMBs spend approximately $180 billion per annum on IT products and services. They rarely have a formal IT department. Instead they rely on their 'computer guy' to act as their IT department, providing a trustworthy, reliable, one-stop solution that will make their tech stuff work. In return, SMBs are more loyal, more forgiving and allow their 'computer guy' to make higher margins.

The problem with this method is that the 'computer guy' is often either a tech-savvy employee who has to stop what they're working on to put out fires or is a moonlighter with a regular 9-5 job who's not available when you need them most. That's where outsourcing the IT department comes into play. By outsourcing their IT, a company can have all the benefits of an in-house, dedicated IT team (up-to-date technology knowledge, availability whenever needed, greater network stability and security) without the expense. Check out these free reports: Choosing an Honest Repair Guy and Are Rising Technology Costs Getting You Down? for more information or contact Liberteks.com at 518-452-0550x1 to learn more about outsourced IT.