What Computer Skills Do Your Competitors Have?

Knowing the skills your competitors have lets you decide what skills you need. You want to stay up-to-date on the skills that will bring you the most business and give you an edge over your competitors.

Required Networking Platforms

For your small business, sweet spot clients, you must know these platforms:

Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS)
Novell Small Business Suite
Novell NetWare Linux (generally RedHat)
Mac OS

Advanced Expertise

Larger companies may have advanced expertise in the following areas. To compete with them, you or some of your technicians should begin gaining advanced skills in these areas.

1. Network Attached Storage (NAS)
2. Storage Attached Networks (SANs)
3. Complex security solutions CheckPoint firewalls
4. Citrix Terminal Solutions
5. Higher end Wi-Fi solutions
6. Managed hardware

Solve Their Problems

The most important part of your job is to solve your clients’ problems, but staying current with important skills that your competitors will offer is important to finding new clients and growing relationships with repeat clients. To learn more on your competitor’s skills and how to compete with them, read Computer skills: Which Ones Do Your Competitors Have? (link above).

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