IT security checklist
Checklist for IT consultants
For IT consultants and managed service providers who want small business owners without in house IT on their list.
Worksheet
What an hour of downtime costs your business
How to use this worksheet
Send it to owners weighing the price of IT support. Turning lost hours into a yearly figure makes the case on its own.
What is inside
Work out your figureStaff who stop work
The costs owners forgetCatching up: Overtime and late nights after the outage.
Changes that cut lost hoursTested backups
If the figure is smallCheck the worst day. One long outage can cost more than a year of small ones.
Using your figurePut in your figures, using a rough count of hours if you must.
Three title ideas for your own version
What an hour of downtime costs your business
The downtime cost worksheet
Work out what lost hours cost you
Where to promote it
LinkedIn postslocal business groupsyour newslettera follow up email after a first call
What goes in a downtime cost worksheet?
A calculator for the cost of an hour down and each year, then the costs owners forget, the changes that cut lost hours and a plan for the next quarter.
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