Small Business Network ManagementSmall Business Network ManagementSmall business network management: just another job or an exciting career? Managing a small business network can be tough work, but it is a fun and exciting career, than provides endless opportunities for learning new technologies and ideas. Although this is a good career choice, there are many times where this job can be frustrating and tough. The frustrating times come when mission critical equipment fails, or a configuration file gets corrupted. First I will talk about the equipment needed to make a small business network function, with minimal errors. Next I will explain the pros and cons to managing a small business network. Lastly I will talk about what I recommend for a small business network.
The Benefits
Small Business Network Management provides a way to make a small business community more effective. From a performance perspective, networking is a significant challenge to manage. Networks for a small business work for hundreds of people for years, but sometimes you need to run around the world every day to work on something different, such as marketing or product development. When you start your small business network, small business networks tend to scale faster, and so you’re always in a better position to build a small business network at the time of creation.
The Benefits
There are many benefits of managing a small business network. A small business is your next great opportunity to get your own small business work done. It is also your next “great” career opportunity. However, your small business network will have a huge impact on your business, and will help you stay relevant, successful and confident in your business.
It will also allow you to have an opportunity to “upend” your business and to work harder on your business, rather than going out to meet new people and get better job results every single year.
Many small business networks provide opportunities for people to connect and grow business. They will also be an excellent way of organizing your work and getting people involved locally, in a community where everyone shares the same passion and goals. This will help your small business become bigger, and better, quickly. Many of our favorite networking services are built within a small business network that offer many benefits and a variety of benefits including:
No More Procrastination with our Small Business Network Management Services
Professional Connections with Customers
A great opportunity to work harder with our small business network and to show off your ideas to an online audience
Ability to Share Your Ideas to Everyone
A great way to build awareness of your business
Ability to grow your team
A great opportunity to learn a new business idea easily
A great ability to build a small business community
A great opportunity to grow your business community and to connect with existing small businesses by building a community of peers
Getting Connected with the Next Generation of People in Your Business
Most services to business create teams that are both more powerful, more scalable and more relevant than they are. This is especially true if you want your business to be your competitor’s business, or for you to take advantage of the new technology and technologies available for people in your community.
Many small business networks will provide support from the community such as:
Budget Sharing
Local Customer Service Centers
Sales and Promotional Information for Business
Local Search
Local Web Search
Local Product Acquisition
Liability
Legal
Accounts/Repair Options
Customer Care Centers and Lending Centers
Local Web sites like Amazon, eBay or Amazon.com that allow you to work as a guest for yourself and your local businesses
Anonymity
There are more ways of creating an anonymous relationship with others than being a freelancer, but if your small business group needs someone to help you decide which service to choose,
To start the body off, I will be explaining what equipment is needed to start a small business network. First we have our routers and switches. Routers perform many functions, one of which is serving as a firewall. Computers have tens of thousands of ports, or “doors” as this essay will refer to them as. Without a firewall, all the doors on the computer are unlocked and available for anyone to use. Anyone could be your brother sending an email, or hacker from Indonesia using your computer to send SPAM. Firewall’s will recognize all the doors your computer isn’t using and lock them, so no one can use the doors, unless you know the password for the firewall. Routers also have various other functions, which may or may not be used by businesses; it all depends on your application. Switches take one internet connection and split it into many connections. Fore example, if you have a cable modem and you want six computers online, you will need to get six IP addresses from your ISP and use a switch to split the one incoming connection. An IP address is like a street address, one per computer or connection to the internet. Switches can also be used as device for connecting computers in a network. If you had seven computers, and only one had a printer which you wanted to share, you would buy a switch to connect all the computers. There is also a combination of the two; a router with switching capabilities. This is the best of both devices. It may be more expensive, but it is definitely worth it. With this device, you only need one IP address because the router hides the computers from the outside world, remember all the doors it locked? The router will give all the computers its own IP address, called private IP address. You can have up to 254 devices plugged into a router with switching capabilities.
The next hardware category is servers. There are many styles and looks to servers, whether it be a desktop or rack mount, blue or orange lights; they all do the same essential thing. What kind of server does a small business need? For small business, fewer than 50 employees, I would recommend an “Office Server”. Have no fear; I will explain to you what an “office server” is. The office server we have in my office runs Microsoft Windows Server 2003. All the workstations in the office are connected to the server, and everyone’s documents, mail, desktops, start menu’s and everything else they work on are stored on this server, automatically. This server is also backed-up every night, so there is little chance of losing something. This isn’t the only type of server, some businesses have their own mail server, or web server which hosts their web page, or maybe even an eCommerce server, which people can buy their products from. The easiest and most overall solution is going to be the “office server”.
Workstations come next in our hardware lineup. Workstation are what all the employees work on. My office has multiple levels of workstations, because not every employee has the same job description. The customer service representatives have generic, entry level workstations because their computers don’t need to handle any heavy loads, and they cost around $1500. On the other end of the spectrum, our marketing computer needs to handle big programs, like Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Premier Pro. These programs need a vast amount of resources, so obviously the CSR computers wouldn’t work for that. The marketing computer cost around $4000. Depending on what your company does, or needs, will correlate to what type and robustness of workstations you need.
The CSR program offers up to three options to do the work. The first of these is the desktop-only version. Desktop has a wide variety of sizes, resolutions, and capabilities, but the desktop version is pretty wide. You’d need to run the machine and be able to tell the difference between those. With the desktop version, you can run it at 8K resolution (10 inches on my MacBook), 1280Ă—800, 16:9 on a 14.6″ screen, and you’ll look more of a desktop than a laptop. If it were to run at 1600Ă—900, that would cause your system to run a bit faster, but for a full-size desktop, it would just be that much faster! To get to this point, you’re going to need to use a desktop program, like CSR, or you could opt for a cheaper device like the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
To get you started with the desktop version, I just used an online tool called the Geeks Toolbox. The Google service does a very fine job of letting you create your own templates from a variety of designs that you can choose from (you can also create your own fonts, font lists, and so on). When you create a custom order, you specify a time, date, region and your exact shipping address. You also create a message of interest to send to the customer, telling them how to complete their purchase, and provide feedback. And once you complete your order, you have complete control over whether the product will be delivered or shipped. For your initial online order, you’ll see instructions on how to specify it by e-mail.
Then you can start by creating a business order and providing it to the customer. To create a business order, you must have an account on the Google store before you’re able to sign up for the service, and you can sign up with your first name, last name, street, address, and email address. For the following customer, who also has an account on Google, I got a confirmation number so they can see my order history. You’ll need to pick a date and time, because you’ll be able to send a message to them right from the app.
Creating a business order requires the right of first-party providers and their partners (we’ve found that providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google do provide support in the form of voice requests). For more information about how to create and join a business order, check out the Google docs on what you need to check beforehand. For more information on pricing, see My account.
Then you can make the order, along with a statement of your reasons for selecting it to be shipped, and send an email to a person you want on the service using an Email Address, with the subject line “For more details on the shipping policies and how to apply for a shipping order, see What you should know about shipping orders and how to apply for a
The last topic, Internet access devices can be tricky to decide on. There are a lot of ways to connect to the internet. Depending on what your business needs will relate to what type of connection you should get. The company I work for is an Internet Service Provider, so we have a fiber optic connection to the internet, which handles all our internet users. Most of our small business customers have a cable modem, which provides them with 6-8 Meg of bandwidth. As a comparison, Comcast has a business class service that gets around 6 Meg download, which is plenty for a small business. 6 Meg download speed is a lot compared