{"id":283,"date":"2011-05-10T10:09:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T15:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.properwichita.com\/consulting\/?p=283"},"modified":"2011-05-10T10:09:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T15:09:52","slug":"it-companies-in-wichita-how-are-we-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.properwichita.com\/consulting\/2011\/05\/10\/it-companies-in-wichita-how-are-we-different\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Companies in Wichita &#8211; How are We Different?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At an event last week I was discussing the IT industry and Proper Technology Solutions.\u00a0 The person I was with asked a valid question:\u00a0 What makes you different from other IT Consulting Services?<\/p>\n<p>I started listing things and decided I would transcribe the bullet points into a blog post, as others might have the same questions.<\/p>\n<h2>Wichita IT Consulting &#8211; Proper Technology Solutions<\/h2>\n<p>Here are the key ingredients that make us stand out from the rest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>College Educated Staff with Industry Certifications<\/strong> &#8211; The IT support professional that comes to your place of business or helps you over the phone will have a college degree in a related field.\u00a0 To keep that knowledge fresh and up to date with current technology, our technicians are required to be certified by major industry organizations like Dell, Microsoft and Cisco.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professional and Personal Support<\/strong> &#8211; We take ownership of your IT service.\u00a0 By striving to reduce your costs and provide you with the most efficient and cost effective computer network, we hope to help you grow your business.\u00a0 Our friendly, knowledgeable techs will be someone you will be happy to have at your business, even if the system\u00a0they are working on\u00a0is customer-facing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significantly Lower\u00a0Service Costs<\/strong> &#8211; By keeping our overhead low, we are able to pass lower costs to our customers.\u00a0 Our standard service rate is $70\/hour which is half the rate of some of our competitors.\u00a0 We provide the same quality network services as the bigger companies as most of us worked at the bigger companies at one time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NO Minimum Service Charges <\/strong>&#8211; This is the bullet most of our customers appreciate the most.\u00a0 By eliminating the industry-standard two hour minimum charge for onsite visits, we are allowing our customers to get their systems back up and running in a timely manner.\u00a0 Customers have told me that they have had a system outage, then waited until another computer went down before calling their old IT support company in order to justify the minimum charge.\u00a0 Some quick math:\u00a0 A tech comes onsite to repair a system.\u00a0 It takes 30 minutes to get things back up and running.\u00a0 The bill?\u00a0 One of our competitors, $120\/hour x 2 hour minimum = $240.\u00a0 Proper Technology Solutions, $70\/hour x 1\/2 hour = $35.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cost-Cutting Solutions <\/strong>&#8211; What would you say if we could help you eliminate some of the annual software costs your company pays?\u00a0 We can replace expensive software with Open Source products that have the same features and useability without reducing functionality.\u00a0 For small businesses, this can mean substantial savings over the years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let us find out how we can save you money by becoming your IT services provider.\u00a0 Call us today at (316) 337-5628 and schedule a free onsite visit to evaluate your network.\u00a0 For larger companies, we can discuss options to make your transition to a new support team e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At an event last week I was discussing the IT industry and Proper Technology Solutions.\u00a0 The person I was with asked a valid question:\u00a0 What makes you different from other IT Consulting Services? 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