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Business and Marketing Tips for Computer Techs Show #10
Published date: 09/20/2012 BAMcast.biz #10: In A Super 8 with Derrick Wlodarz
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Show Notes
- Form great relationships with technicians that specialize in a variety of things to gain referral sources.
- Managed IT
- Implement monthly plans and monthly rates.
- Be careful of giving discounts so that people do not discount the value of your time.
- Do not get taken advantage of.
- Virtual servers in the cloud.
- Amazon’s elastic cloud
- Limited storage
- Limited permissions
- Antivirus and security software
- Eset smart security nod32
- Java update and security
- Amazon’s elastic cloud
- Be careful of giving discounts so that people do not discount the value of your time.
- Implement monthly plans and monthly rates.
Business and Marketing Tips for Computer Techs Show #9
Published date: 09/16/2012 BAMcast.biz #9: Lisa Hendrickson and Dean Ingraham
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Show Notes
- Guest speaker Dean Ingraham from PC Exchange of North Carolina.
- Should I have an office/shop or should I utilize a home office?
- Hire staff that meets your personality requirements. Hire good personalities, and then train the skills. If you do not hire, you will not grow!
- Life advice for residential AND business clients in regards to life OR work:
- Your first week’s paycheck should be able to pay your rent.
- Location matters!
- Location could determine your rent prices.
- Could determine the number of clients that will visit your business.
Business and Marketing Tips for Computer Techs Show #8
Published date: 08/30/2012 BAMcast.biz #8: Lisa Hendrickson and Derrick Wlodarz
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Show Notes
- Derrick Wlodarz is a writer on technibble.com. He writes business information articles that are helpful for everyone.
- Can provide usable knowledge that even experienced business owners can implement in their day-to-day work.
- Define what products and services you want to offer.
- Your products and services will determine the type of customers you will have and the type of jobs you will be working on.
- Some jobs will not be worth your time.
- Small jobs like cellphone repairs may not generate enough income to make a profit, and should be dealt with by cellphone repair professionals.
- Hire extra help to manage projects.
- Delegate phones, emails, and secretarial type duties to a hired assistant to get more work accomplished.
- The IT “divide”
- Where is the cloud?
- Break/Fix IT consultants
- Computer repair shops
- Managed IT
- What is managed IT?
- Monthly contract with clients for regular jobs
- Managed services
- Project management type jobs like email administration with continued support under approval of the client. Allows for email and phone call reminders to give the client updates on their services, follow-up calls to ensure satisfaction and to verify that things are working correctly.
- Cloud computing and cloud storage has security concerns that allow other people to gain access to documents shared “in the cloud”.
- A lot of people do not understand the cloud and the IT infrastructure.
- Not the most secure.
- People have different expectations for raising their business in place of keeping their day job.
- It takes time, practice, and patience to learn skills that you will use in the workplace.
- Hire people that are good at different things so that the company can specialize in different things and grow in different ways.
- A lot of people do not understand the cloud and the IT infrastructure.
- What is managed IT?
- Your products and services will determine the type of customers you will have and the type of jobs you will be working on.
Business and Marketing Tips for Computer Techs Show #7
Published date: 06/06/2012 BAMcast.biz #7: Return of the Bride of the Son of the Dream Phoenix
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Show Notes
- It is important to take risks and step out of the comfort zone to enable the business to grow.
- Struggles of business ownership
- What do I do?
- Will this work? Should I go back to corporate America?
- Stress, money struggles, team/employee management struggle, etc.
- Do I open a store location or do I do remote support? Call center?
- Sometimes you have to go through the unexpected to make your dreams happen.
Business and Marketing Tips for Computer Techs Show #6
Published date: 09/12/2014 BAMcast.Biz #6 – A Guide to LinkedIn, Part 2
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Show Notes
- Use a professional picture of yourself on your personal profile.
- There is an option to post your company’s profile.
- Push messages to get potential clients interested in you and your business.
- Advertising and analytics
- “How did you hear about us?”
- What kind of customer do you want?
- SEO/Web optimization
- Alt tags help!
- Newsletters
- Must format them
- Can get 60-day free trials with some websites
- People love clicking on links to see where it goes.
- Write a short teaser paragraph to get readers interested in clicking a link.
- “To continue reading, click the link.”
- Jason Alba, author of “I’m On LinkedIn—Now What?” and website owner of “Jibberjobber.com”
- Email Questions:
- Where do I start with branding and web logos?
- A good logo doesn’t have to incorporate the company name.
- Nike, Target, etc.
- Make your branding MEMORABLE, unique.
- First impressions matter, and are so important.
- A good logo doesn’t have to incorporate the company name.
- Where do I start with branding and web logos?
- Write a short teaser paragraph to get readers interested in clicking a link.
Business and Marketing Tips for Computer Techs Show #5
Published date: 08/27/2011 BAMcast.Biz #5 – A Guide to LinkedIn, Part 1
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Show Notes
- Marketing professional business
- Need to have business title
- Summary about your business
- LinkedIn is NOT your resume and you do not have to put all of your past jobs on there.
- It is okay to leave the default search boxes checked.
- Join groups in your area and connect with other businesses to get referrals.
- Join and start conversations
- Send invitations for your business, but do NOT be pushy.