A trusted business adviser provides expertise you don’t have inside your business. Common advisers would be your lawyer, accountant, marketing consultant, and IT consultant. You count on these people. You trust them. Hopefully, they put your business first.
As an IT consultant, I selfishly care about my clients. I want them to increase sales, cut costs, improve efficiency, and increase profit margin. Sometimes that doesn’t put money in my pocket in the short term. In the long run, it usually pays off. I selfishly put their interests first, knowing that I’ll be consulted in the future.
Make sure you ask the right questions to the right adviser. Don’t ask your IT consultant about forming an LLC vs S Corp, or amortization rules regarding your new PC. Don’t ask your accountant what software to use, or your lawyer about your wireless network.
Surround yourself with a competent network of advisers, and hopefully each relationship will be a win-win situation.
Stephen Tuttle
DS Technologies, Inc
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