19 Feb 2010

Instead posting the usual news postings, I thought I would take the opportunity to highlight a few of our services that I feel may benefit your organisation in these thrifty times! We all know budgets are tight and every business needs to get most out of every penny they spend.

With this in mind we have featured three services that will save your business money, provide you peace of mind and even increase your sales! With that introduction, how could you not read on.....

1) Increasing the life of your server.

In an ideal World, when a server reaches three years of age, best practice would suggest that you should plan a migration to a new server to ensure business continuity, each peace of hardware you purchase has a calculated MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) which means some boffin has predicted the elapsed time between inherent failures of a system during operation. In other words, how long will your piece of kit work before something breaks down!

When you purchased your server, you will have been given a 12 month warranty or possibly upgraded that warranty to a 3 year support plan. What happens when the warranty comes to an end and you do not have the budget to replace the hardware?

First 4 IT's protector plan offers your business the ability to extend the potential life of your hardware by offering a replacement parts warranty on selected key IT equipment (not only Servers, we can cover intelligent switching and routers too). As your IT hardware ages, replacement parts become harder to locate and the cost of those parts increase. The protector plan gives you re-assurance that all the relevant components of your hardware are held in stock and if you need them, they'll be with you in an agreed response time at no additional cost. The protector plan also covers an engineer's time to replace the broken parts.

For an individual quotation, email your server specification to sales@first4it.co.uk

Prices start from only £0.60 per day

2) Stretching your IT budget and improving cash flow.

Experience has demonstrated that leasing is the most appropriate finance solution for all business asset equipment purchases.

Leasing technology equipment assists an organisation in stretching an I.T. budget further by spreading the cost of new equipment with innovative, specialist I.T. leasing packages.

• software


• system solutions


• data storage


• servers


• hardware

Our leasing partner, one of the UK's leading independent I.T. finance providers, offer a user-friendly finance option with simple documentation and flexible solutions. In the present business climate leasing can also help companies financially manoeuvre outside of their current banking arrangements. Leasing opens up new channels for future growth. For further information, contact Mark Granger on 01423 859370.

3) Attracting new business.

There are tried and tested methods of attracting new business and sadly none of them are cheap! Where we have already invested, can we be sure we are getting the best return for our money? There is one area where most organisations slip when answering this question. How many businesses have spent a considerable sum developing their web sites but they are not been viewed because your potential customers can not find you?

Where does your website rank in Google when searching for keywords relating to your key products or services?
First 4 SEO offers a complete internet marketing solution for your business. We provide services from website development to search engine optimisation.

First 4 SEO is a result driven search engine optimisation business with a proven track record of assisting organisations to achieve top ten search engine positions in competitive markets. First 4 SEO's qualified team of specialist eMarketers know how to maximise your website presence within the top search engines.

We understand how search engines work and monitor how they evolve their algorithms to ensure you remain in the top ten. We have the ability analyse how your prospective customers search, how they locate the services your organisation has to offer. Most importantly we know that our job is to generate more business.

Why not take a look at our client's success stories and see how the service has helped their business, or take a look at our SEO Services website

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