What Small Business Owners Need to Know About Technology - Part 1

I really feel that I've to write down this. I really like small enterprise and I am obsessed with helping entrepreneurs succeed and grow their business. As a business proprietor, I understand how much blood, sweat and tears folks put into making their business a success. It pains me to see just how close some of these businesses are to a complete expertise catastrophe and the enterprise homeowners haven't any idea. I have seen it work a few ways. The enterprise proprietor has a good friend that can spell "PC", no price range for expertise, unhealthy recommendation, inside staff gets burdened with IT Assist, or the enterprise owners assume that all the pieces is OK with the technology systems. Whatever the situation is, I see it all the time. The company is getting ready to a catastrophe and the enterprise homeowners haven't any idea. Well, that's the reason I am going to write down this blog series. I need to provide enterprise house owners with simple to ask questions, things to search for, objects to evaluation and some easy technology advise introduced in a non-technical way.

In part 1 of this series, let's start at the edge of your organization's pc network. Usually your organization is going to have some kind of connection to the internet. Most corporations can have a DSL line, T1, cable, or some other kind of excessive speed web access. As a enterprise owner, it's essential perceive what kind of connectivity you may have, and ensure it's the right match on your business. It will rely enormously on the number of employees that you've and the way much your workers are online. For those who feel your web access is gradual, then I recommend that you have a look at adding a cable to your existing web connection.

Cable is a very inexpensive approach, usually round $a hundred-$one hundred twenty, to add high pace internet to your office. For a lot of our purchasers, we depart the present T1 connection in place for the reliability, and add a cable modem for speed. A great way to understand internet pace is to consider it as a lead pipe. The larger the pipe the quicker your internet speeds will be. A T1 goes to be round 1.5 inch pipe and cable goes to be between a 20 and 50 inch pipe. So you is perhaps asking your self, if you're paying $four hundred -$500 for a T1 and cable value $100-$a hundred and twenty, why do I need the T1? The reply will vary, however typically your telephone service most likely runs over the T1 as well as your Internet connectivity. Plus, the reliability of cable is not as good as a business grade T1 circuit.

So, discover out what type of connectivity your workplace has. Review your contracts along with your providers. Costs for these providers proceed to lower, so when you've got a contract that's 2, three or four years old, chances are you'll be able to renew it at a less expensive rate.

When you have questions on your internet connectivity, please ask. In our subsequent post on this series, we will take about Firewalls. We'll explain what they are and why you want an excellent one.