Why You Need a Local IT Consultant for Your Salem Business
One thing you don’t hear a lot of people say is, “I love dealing with unpredictable technology issues!” Even seasoned do-it-yourselfers often hit a wall with their computers once they get past, turning them off and on again. And there are good reasons for that—hiring a local IT consultant for your business in Salem or the surrounding areas may be the best business decision you’ll make. Here’s why.
IT Support is Crucial!
In our most recent blog, we compared your business’s computer network to a nervous system. It’s how you communicate valuable information to your employees and customers. And like a nervous system, the rest of the body (your business) stops working if it goes down.
Depending on your business and how it’s set up, your computer network may support your security, customer database, and even phones. When you lose any one of those things, you lose money. So, if your computer network goes down for even an hour, that’s a loss of revenue.
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
We started by mentioning seasoned DIY enthusiasts, but no matter how good you are as a YouTube researcher, you don’t know what you don’t know—and that’s doubly true for technology.
Many online tutorials will walk you through how to fix something, but they only work if you’ve figured out what’s wrong, and that’s the only thing wrong. With computers, there are often many contributing factors to why a program or piece of technology is behaving strangely.
Even local IT consultants and experts like AesirTech can’t predict everything that will go wrong or how a computer will behave in every given circumstance. What we have is the experience and background to handle the unexpected as it arises.
Save Time Save Money
The average office worker spends 22 minutes a day (that's almost 2 hours a week) trying to fix an IT problem. And the thing about an average is, that means some work places are much higher! Multiply that by 50 and then multiply that by your number of employees and you get the answer to how many man hours you waste a year (assuming 2 weeks of vacation per employee).
But as big as that total is, it doesn’t take into account the loss of morale we feel when we lose a document. Nor does it factor in the loss of momentum from interruptions when we’re working. That’s another reason hiring a local IT consultant to handle your IT issues is a wise business decision.
While we may be tempted to try to save money by fixing problems on our own, the math doesn’t add up. Every hour you spend working on an IT or other problem outside your wheelhouse is time you’re not spending doing what you’re best at – creating revenue for your business.
And no one outside of an IT company started their business to fix IT problems! Spend time doing what you love and let AesirTech handle the technical problems and complexities that you don’t.