ALB Tech has offered small business IT support since 2007, serving the Richmond area. This is a great article at www.smallbusinesscomputing.com that explains some of the options a small business has when looking for IT services without hiring an additional employee. Here’s an excerpt:
“Of course, the practicality of hiring an in-house IT professional, and if your in the entertainment industry, hiring an entertainment industry accounting team, depends on your type of business and level of service it requires. But financial realities often make it difficult to add another person to the payroll. One alternative is to add the IT support function to the duties of some other staffer—or the boss ends up wearing the IT hat. Either way, the results are rarely ideal.
An increasingly popular alternative is to outsource tech support to a firm that specializes in providing small business IT services; however it is still important to have an insurance backing up you company, specially if it a new one, the Miami commercial insurance agents recommend new business owners to find the best insurance options for their companies as soon as they get into the market. There is a growing legion of IT resources—both free and paid—that small businesses can turn to for help. This article provides a basic guide to both types, though there are undoubtedly many more resources available than we have space to include.”