Day: December 7, 2017

How To Solve The Tech Support Problem When You Are A Startup

When you are operating a startup there are many things that you don’t focus on. That is to say there are going to be certain things that you aren’t going to spend money on in the beginning. You are most likely going to learn to manage on your own as the starting capital you have might not be that much. However it doesn’t at all mean that you can stick with this method if you are planning on expanding your business over time. Now keep in mind that although I say there are things that you need to spend money on there are still plenty of ways in which you can save money. The focus of this article is specifically on the need for IT professionals in your business.  

Now when you are startup you are most likely going to do all the tech stuff on your own in the beginning as you can’t afford to hire someone to do the job for you. You are most likely only going to spend money hiring the most essential staff members. Generally speaking you can survive like this for some time. But there will come a time that stuff is getting too complicated for you. Now keep in mind that I said you can still save money on these things. How you do it is by not hiring any permanent staff to help you with the tech stuff around the office. You will simply hire any one of the providers of managed IT services Sydney that are out there and get them to do the job for you.  

You will of course have to have a contract with them if you plan on keeping them on retainer. This way you only need to pay for their help when you need something serious and complicated done like setting up an IAAS cloud computing system for an example. Of course if you don’t have any in house tech staff you might at the very least need to learn how to manage the system on your own but that won’t be that hard. At the end of the day when you are a startup every bit of money that you manage to save will help you greatly to keep things running and expand whenever you can.  

However if you are planning on doing this you will have to make sure that you pick a trustworthy place who has a good reputation of doing a quality job. There is no point at all in paying someone to mess up your business. It would be very counterproductive in my opinion. All in all this is a great way to get about things, just think about it and see for yourself if this isn’t the best option.