Why you should outsource your IT as a small business

By Niko Permilovsky

We all have a person that handles our taxes, a bookkeeper, and certainly a lawyer. These people become a part of our lives and an extension of our business. They know how we think, our goals, and our strategy. They have their own lives independent of us. We do not keep them in-house and pay them a salary because it would not make financial sense considering that they work infrequently.

Similarly, outsourcing your IT is a better financial decision for many small businesses. The median salary for IT support employees with similar experience to ours (15+ years) is 83k/yr according to Glassdoor. This means that you will be spending $7,000 a month on a service that you will be using irregularly.

Instead, that money could be put towards a specialized team of local Seattle IT professionals who have dealt with all sorts of problems, are constantly up to date on the latest IT/Cybersecurity news and will know your system inside and out. We take a proactive approach to IT ensuring that your devices will not suddenly go out of commission. You can factor in regular maintenance and retainer into a budget for predictability.

Let us go into these in more depth.

Personable

Our team is local to Seattle and has been doing business in the Greater Seattle Area for over two decades. We have long-standing relationships with IT vendors, which means we fully understand how our products function. We can also visit your business promptly to install and fix hardware issues. Alton Computer Solutions will be an extension of your business with the same faces around. As our partnership goes on, our team will develop a strong understanding of your systems. We will be able to solve IT problems efficiently and effectively.

Reliable

From our three decades of experience, we have developed a set of solutions that is reliable and cost efficient. At Altonworks, we believe in taking a proactive approach to problem solving. We do not wait for systems to crash and burn. We perform regular maintenance on products that we have vetted and deployed to all our customers. Having a standard for user onboarding, devices, naming conventions and best practices will increase your business’ efficiency overall. Great foundations make for tall buildings.

Adaptive

Because of our wide client base and years of experience, we are constantly exposed to a variety of problems and figuring out innovative solutions. We take our knowledge and experience from one field and apply it to another. The more data a dataset has, the better it is.

Alongside experience from multiple sources, we keep up with the latest technology news and trends. The tech world is rapidly expanding and growing in all directions. It can be overwhelming to keep up with recent technology, but also to predict which ones are worth your investment. We take the guesswork away from you by providing our professional opinions and reports.