How Small Business IT Support Firms Can Stay Ahead of the Competition (Slides)

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How Small Business

IT Support Firms

Can Stay Ahead of

the Competition

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It Really Doesn’t

Matter Where They

are Coming From;



What Matters

is How You

Defend Your

Small Business

IT Support Company



and Stay

Steps Ahead

of the Competition



Here are Some

Strategies that

Should Help You

to Formulate

Your Plan:



Think 6 Steps

Ahead



Jeff Hoffman

Wrote an Article

for Inc.Com Titled,


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“Eight Ball,

Corner Pocket:

Think 6 Steps

Ahead of the

Competition”

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Hoffman

Talks About a

Professional

Pool Player He Met



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Who Simply

Destroyed Her

Competition



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Her Secret—

She Didn’t Just

Think About the

Next Shot She

Would Take



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She Would Think

About the Next

Six Shots



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Start Thinking

About the Next Two,

Three, Even Six

Steps—What Will

You Do Next?



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What Do Your

Customers Want?



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One Way to Start

Figuring Out

What Your Next

Steps Should be



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is by Simply

Asking Your

Customers

What They Want



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What Matters to

Your Customers?



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What Do They

Want and Expect

Out of Your

Small Business IT

Support Company?



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How Do or How Will

Fluctuations in the

Market Change

What They Want?



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Competitors May

Focus Solely on

Generalist Work

By Differentiating,



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You Can Offer

More to Your

Customers

than a Potential

Competitor



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Create a Roadmap

to Your Future



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Take the Information

You’ve Gathered

and Create Your

Roadmap Look

into Your Future



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Where Do You Want

Your Business to be

Next Year?



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What About in

Three Years?



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How About Five

or Ten Years?



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Sit Down and

Think About

What You Want

to Get Out of

Your Business



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Next, Start

Figuring Out

the Steps Needed

to Get You There



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Small Business

IT Support

Companies That

Plan Their Growth



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Tend to be More

Successful Than

Those That Don’t



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The Bottom Line



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Planning is

Crucial to Staying

Ahead of the

Competition



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How Does Your

Small Business

IT Support

Stay Ahead of

its Competitors?



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Your Thoughts

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