Update on CM IT Solutions of South Charlotte (My Business)

A couple weeks back, I promised to give a bit of an update as to how the business is going.  The short answer is better.

I have to admit, this has been tougher than I thought it would be.  It’s taken longer to get things up and running than I ever imagined, and things tend to run in streaks.  August and September of last year went well, but then the rest of the year pretty much sucked.  January things started to pick up, and February’s been pretty good so far.  Hiring a full-time salesperson certainly has helped matters in terms of having meetings and more opportunities.

That said, I’m very glad I made the jump.  When you start your own business, people who’ve done it before will tell you that you’ll have days when you feel great about doing it, and other days when you wonder why God would ever let you even CONSIDER the possibility of doing such an insane thing as leaving a regular paycheck.  They couldn’t be more right.  I also had people warn me that you want to figure out how much you think you’ll need to get everything going, and then double or triple it.  That was great advice that would have been more useful had I listened to it.  It’s amazing the expenses that seem to creep in that you hadn’t necessarily planned on.

The advantages I’ve found so far:  

1. I’m definitely more relaxed.


2. I don’t have to feel guilty if I want to take an hour during the day to do something, particularly when I know I’ll be working later that evening.


3. More flexible schedule.


4. It’s forced me to interact with a wider range of people.

The disadvantages:

1. It can get VERY time consuming


2. Feeling like you can’t take a day off.


3. Right now, the lack of income.

In case you haven’t stopped to look at what I do, I invite you to the website:  www.cmitsolutions.com/southclt.  It’s got links to our backup solution, Remote Data Backups, which is great for home or business use, as well as Intuit products such as Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax.  We’ve also got a pretty cool program for doing pay-per-click advertising on a local basis, so if you know of someone who’d like to promote their business online, this is a great tool that also allows you to keep to a budget.  Sorry, had to get my plugs in.  Yes, I do get commissions on these, and more than the $.10 the Google ads get me.  Feel free to email me if you have any specific questions.

So that’s the update.  If you have any specific questions, put ‘em up (and click on the ads), and I’ll try to answer them (or at least the ones that don’t reveal too much info).