If you had a choice in the matter, would you take your company’s IT into your own hands? Do you have the time, energy, resources, and expertise to handle it all? Probably not—and in situations like this, it’s better to just let someone else, like a managed service provider, handle this task for you.
As much as you’d like to focus on your IT, you simply don’t have the time to do it.
While it’s impossible to identify just how much time is spent on tasks like upkeep, maintenance, and monitoring, it’s clear that you have a lot of other responsibilities to manage in addition to all of this. If you don’t have time, and you don’t have an internal IT staff to handle these responsibilities, then the tasks fall to your other employees (who also don’t have time for this, by the way). If no one has time, the work doesn’t get done, which is dangerous in its own way.
This is why so many business owners outsource IT; they have other priorities, like their actual jobs.
SMBs often feel like they can’t afford IT help, but these days, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Affording IT is easier than ever, especially if you’re not dead-set on hiring a full in-house IT department. If you were to conduct such a search, it would require attracting qualified candidates, interviewing these candidates, negotiating salaries, onboarding, and catching them up on what’s expected of them. That’s a lot, and by the time they even begin work in earnest, they’re already behind.
Outsourcing offers you the same quality and expertise but without the considerable time investment, which could make a big difference if you already feel like you’re behind.
Even a small business has a lot of technology to manage to keep it operational.
The responsibilities of an IT department include managing your in-house network, any connected devices, all of the cloud resources you use, all of the data you collect, and more. All of this has to be managed and stored, but that’s easier said than done. There’s a lot to do, and if you don’t have the knowledge and expertise to make it all happen, you risk performing these tasks poorly or not at all.
You want to make sure your IT help is qualified and trustworthy, as your business’ operations depend on it.
We know you have bigger and better things to worry about than your company's technology. If you want to focus your efforts where they matter most, give BSGtech a call at (866) 546-1004 and let us do the heavy lifting for you.
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