Many small-to-medium-sized businesses struggle with computer networks that are inadequately maintained. Often their networks were never set up properly; they grew over time in a haphazard fashion. At some point a business has to ask itself a very important question:

There are certainly advantages to having your own in-house employee to take care of your network. However, there are many disadvantages that many businesses overlook when making their first IT hire:

• Technical competence - Non technical people often have a hard time understanding what technical skills are of real value. A candidate may sound highly qualified to a layperson, but in fact, may not possess the appropriate skills to handle your systems appropriately. The new person may be able to plod along and keep things together with chewing gum and duct tape, but is that what you really want for the future of your business?
  
  
• Retention - The IT job market is always in flux. You may be able to hire a fantastic network person today, but tomorrow he may get an offer for twice the pay and leave you high and dry.
  
  
• Turnover - If and when you do lose your IT person, it becomes very difficult to pass on the responsibilities to a new hire. There is usually a lengthy period of "discovery" while the new person tries to figure out what the heck the previous guy was up to. Serious data loss and security problems are all too often the result of a poor turnover.
  
  
• Expense - To get a decent IT person, you are looking at $40k/yr. on the low side. For a highly qualified person, $60k/yr. is not unusual. Add in the various types of employee overhead like taxes, benefits, etc, and you're staring at a range of $55k-$75k per year.

Sierra Computers offers NetCare, an IT outsourcing program that gives you the advantages of having an in house computer person, without all of the disadvantages. One of our consultants will come out to your business on a regular schedule to handle your IT needs. NetCare customers pay about half the hourly rate as our time-and-materials customers.

NetCare is a discount program, not a service contract. If you ever become dissatisfied with our service, just give us 30 days notice. That's it.

Because our people are so highly qualified, and use their time so efficiently, we usually accomplish far more in half the time than your average in house person would. We can provide many references from Reno businesses that will attest to this very point. Some of our most successful engagements have been situations where a business fired its IT person and found that with Sierra Computers, they could accomplish a whole lot more for a whole lot less.

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