IT Support Makes Sense for Small Businesses

Business owners are notorious for being time poor. Spending anywhere from 60-100 hours per week working on their businesses does not leave enough room for anything else. Its hard enough for individual business owners to make the time for their family, friends, social lives and even keeping up with the health and fitness routines, let alone spending valuable time away from their core business functions.

And this is one of the main reasons to outsource your IT support
With so many reputable organisations offering affordable business IT solutions including network server support and cloud backup solutions, it seems illogical that a business owner would want to take this kind of thing on. Especially with so little time on their hands.
So here is a list of the key benefits for a business to outsource IT support to a third party:

Reduces Opportunity Cost
Invariably what happens when a business owner insists on doing the IT support themselves is that they spend so much more time away from their business. The opportunity cost of doing this is the loss of potential income they would have earned had they just stuck to working on their business.

Expert Advice
Unless your business expertise is within IT, server support and other related networking services, chances are you will need to outsource to an expert that can get the job done in half the time it would have taken if you had attempted to work it out yourself. In addition, IT outsourced managed service will be able to provide you with regular updates on the current trends and complete routine maintenance and service checks of your IT processes to ensure that you can continue to run your business smoothly and more effectively.

Decreases Downtime
Consider what happens when a business goes offline and there are issues with internet connection, software installation, hardware problems, network issues, security threats, computer viruses and issues with printers, faxes and phones. All of these problems lead to downtime which essentially means lost productivity. In other words, a business owner loses money. If a business owner cannot receive online enquiries for products due to internet issues, or the server is down which means they do not get online purchase orders or there are phone issues that impedes on customers getting through, this all leads to a loss in profits. This is where it is essential to have a team of consultants that are available when you need them. That is where outsourcing to a third party IT solutions provider helps. They will make sure to have your business operating at its full capacity in a shorter period of time than it would have taken had a business owner been left to their own devices.

Cost Effective
It surprises many business owners to know that outsourcing IT support to a third party IT managed services organisation is actually more cost effective than they initially think. Compared with hiring a permanent IT employee, businesses actually save more time and payroll administration headaches by contracting out this service to a professional business IT solutions organisation.

So if youre looking for a reputable business IT solutions provider that will help your business with complex IT issues including network server support, save the day when there are IT problems and provide you with objective IT advice, contact Business Works now on 1300 732 810.