{"id":4593,"date":"2026-11-02T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/boston-ma-1020\/?p=4593"},"modified":"2026-11-02T00:50:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:50:34","slug":"what-drives-the-cost-of-it-for-small-businesses-in-greater-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/boston-ma-1020\/blog\/what-drives-the-cost-of-it-for-small-businesses-in-greater-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"What Drives the Cost of IT for Small Businesses in Greater Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every fall, a managing partner or an office manager asks me some version of the same question.<\/span><\/p>\n

What should IT cost a small business?<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a fair question, and it comes up more in November than in any other month, because this is when next year’s numbers get set. I am not going to put a dollar figure in a blog post, because without knowing your setup, any number I gave you would just be a guess.<\/span><\/p>\n

What I can do is walk through what actually moves the number for a small business. That way any quote you get, mine included, is something you can read and judge on your own.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why Small Businesses Are a Particular Case<\/b><\/h2>\n

A very small office might need little more than a handful of laptops and an email account. A large company usually has someone on staff whose whole job is technology. Most small businesses sit somewhere in between.<\/span><\/p>\n

A small business has real systems, real client data, and real expectations from the people it serves. But nobody was hired to manage it, so it usually falls to an office manager or one of the partners.<\/span><\/p>\n

So for a small business, the cost question is really two questions. What does it take to cover the work properly? And what is it worth to stop having a partner do it in the evenings.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What Actually Moves the Number<\/b><\/h2>\n