GET A TALENTED AND HONEST IT CONSULTANT!
This is someone who can often times make or break your company! Find someone good, honest, and fairly priced.
What can an IT consultant can offer you?
- Access to the newest software – do you want to be editing photos using a 5 year old program? Technology changes so quickly in the photography world and in technology. Find someone who knows the latest trends in technology to help your business succeed! You are the photographer and not the IT guy/gal. Don’t kid yourself in thinking you can install all of it and run everything yourself. Outsource and focus on what you do best!
- Manager your data back up - imagine if your home or business computer crashed and you lost every wedding and portrait photo you have ever taken? How do you recover that? Sometimes you can (spending hundreds or thousands of dollars to do so) and sometimes you can’t (maybe working at Starbucks doesn’t look too bad at this point?). A good IT manager will help you set up a backup system in house and can offer you secure off-site remote back up. Is it worth a few dollars a year to know that your priceless photos are safely backed up?
- Connections to good web designers – if he or she is well versed in technology then he or she probably also know the value of human connections. More than likely (unless you are working with a hack, in which case you need to call someone else immediately) a good IT consultant will know people who know people. The company I use knows people within the IT field, stays versed on the latest trends, and has really strong connections to web designers and local companies. Web designers are a dime a dozen, but a good web consultant is worth their value in the profit your new web site will generate. Who would you trust to build the front page that your customers see? Some person working across the ocean or someone who picks up when you call? Someone who can answer your questions? Someone you trust is looking out for your best interests?
- Connections to other companies in your area – I cannot stress enough how important connections and networking savvy are to running a successful photography business. Your IT person probably works with other companies who need photography works done – businesses, schools, doctors, lawyers, accountants, families. If you value the IT work delivered and your IT manager trusts your skills and value to the photography industry, you will be amazed by how much business you will receive from work of mouth referrals!
Who would I recommend?
Ever since I started my photography business back in 2005 I have trusted Sweet Consulting for all of my IT needs. The owner is a honest gentleman whom I trust with all of my IT needs from installing software to backing up my precious files. When he saves money via a discount or coupon, he passes that savings on to his customers. Imagine that! Someone who is not out to better himself through exploitation. Rather he focused on quality of work and customer satisfaction. He spends very little money on marketing and relies on word of mouth referrals for all of his business. This savings is passed on to his customers and this is one satisfied customer!
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