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The term "Mid-size Business" tends to cover a wide range of businesses, and the line is often unclear.
- A small business can experience fast growth, and one day it wakes up and it is no longer "small".
- A hot start-up with investor funding may think like an enterprise because they're well-funded, but their numbers and size suggest they're smaller than they think.
Fortunately, when it comes to technology and infrastructure, it's a bit easier to see who's small, who's big, and who's in between.
The "in-between" issues often pose the greatest technology challenges for a mid-sized business:
- You have some technical staff, but usually just enough to support your day-to-day operations and "put out fires". At the end of day, there's usually no time left to pursue longer-term initiatives.
- Your technology infrastructure needs some degree of centralization, often more than you have, but not as much as the the billion-dollar company down the street.
- If you're in a period of fast growth, you want results that are fast and not staggeringly expensive - if you're growing too fast, you may have to throw out your solutions every few years in favor of something drastically different.
- Losing a technical employee can be very painful - If you had a technical staff of 10, and one quits, you just lost 10 percent of your IT department. If your staff is smaller, the numbers just get worse.
- Sometimes you need another employee, but only on a part-time basis. Good technical people are often hard to come by with this arrangement, unless you pay the extra premium for contractors or professional freelancers.
At Sequoia, we will work with you to help you overcome some of these challenges:
- We can supplement your staff with the manpower needed to develop new technology solutions that will allow you to drive tomorrow's initiatives.
- We can work with you to determine what's the right level of infrastructure for your needs, and help you implement these plans, either by delivering solutions ourselves or by helping you qualify a provider who can.
- We will deliver solutions that are both simple and expedient, often by taking a large problem and breaking it up into smaller, more manageable tasks. Nothing is worse than having to wait a whole year to see the results of your investment. Wouldn't you rather see incremental results every month over that same year? That's the approach we take when working with our clients.
- Since we hire and train our own employees, the services we provide go uninterrupted, giving you added peace of mind and freeing up recruiting time to pursue other activities more beneficial to your business.
- Since we serve multiple clients, we have the ability to offer the services of full-time employees on a part-time basis. EX: If you only need a developer for 10-20 hours a week, we can accomodate that.
If you have some unsatisfied internet or technology needs you'd like to address, give us a call, we'd love to help.
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