Every small business owner dreams of scaling up their business. You want to reach more clients, sell more products, and make a healthy bottom line. However, one immediate effect of business growth is the demand for IT services.
As your business grows, you need a more robust IT infrastructure that will ultimately scale with you. At this point, you need a managed service provider to take over. An MSP offers tailored solutions for small businesses to manage services like cloud migration, cyber security, network monitoring, and more.
Here is everything you should know before you hire a managed service provider for your small business.
Let's begin with some key terms to understand managed services in IT.
You need to hire a managed service provider if:
If your business faces the challenges above, then hiring a managed service provider is your next step. An MSP can bring the following advantages to your small business:
Imagine the cost of recruiting and paying a full-time IT team for your small business. It simply isn't feasible because of time and budget constraints.
An MSP gives you the ability to have a full-time IT team at your disposal for a fraction of the cost of a single full-time employee. An MSP also resolves your IT issues through automated processes to reduce the downtime within all your IT systems and offers a full team of specialists to have at your disposal for any issues that can’t be solved by automation. The service makes your business more efficient and profitable in the long run.
If you don’t have proper security measures in place, your small business is vulnerable to data breaches. These include hackers, accidental deletion, power outages, and natural disasters like storms, floods, and earthquakes, which disrupt your IT infrastructure.
When you hire a managed service provider, you can plan for these events ahead of time to recover quickly without losing crucial business and client data. The right MSP also includes security tests, data backups, ransomware, and malware protection to maintain your network and devices.
Instead of hiring and training an internal IT team, an MSP brings experts with years of experience to your business. This is especially useful when your business needs to adapt to new or rapidly changing technologies.
An MSP implements new systems or upgrades, educates your team about best practices, and offers personalized advice on improving your business processes.
Compliance regulations constantly change, mainly if your business works with government agencies or provides healthcare services. Different territories also have compliance laws which you must abide by if you want to scale your business.
Hire a managed service provider to keep your business up-to-date with all the evolving compliance requirements in your industry.
When your IT systems are up to date and functioning correctly, you have more resources to focus on your business activities and growth. An MSP handles all your IT needs so you're confident that your data is safe from threats or incidents.
An MSP also offers 24/7 support, unlike an in-house IT staff that requires sick days off or vacation time. Let the MSP handle the IT firefighting tasks while you focus on building and growing your business.
A managed service provider sounds like the perfect solution for your small business, but how do you find the right MSP partner? Before you hire a managed service provider, ask them about:
At CNWR, we understand how costly downtime can be for your small business, and our goal is to keep your business running efficiently in a safe digital environment.
Our solutions cover all your IT needs, including 24/7/365 network monitoring, digital security, data backups, help desk support, and more. We work with you to design a customized solution for your unique business that will meet your budget and operational needs.
Small businesses can also enjoy managed services for VoIP systems, software management and upgrades, cloud migration, computer hardware maintenance, cyber insurance, and compliance services.
Ready to get started? Get in touch with CNWR today. Here's how to do it:
Hire CNWR as your managed service provider today!