A free look at how your business runs on technology.
Fifteen to twenty minutes, six areas, and a short written summary afterwards. No access to your systems, nothing installed, and nothing to sign.
- Fifteen to twenty minutes
- No access to your systems
- No obligation
Small businesses in Fife and Edinburgh.
Owner-operators and small teams. Barbers, salons, cafes, garages, trades, shops, accountants, holiday lets. Anyone running a business without someone in-house who looks after the technology.
Who it is not for
Larger organisations with their own IT function, and anyone who needs a formal security audit or a compliance assessment. This is not that, and I would rather say so now than waste your twenty minutes.
Six areas.
The same six every time, so nothing important gets skipped because it did not come up in conversation.
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Website
Whether you have one, how it reads on a phone, and whether it says what you do.
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Google Business Profile
Whether it exists, who controls it, and whether the details are right.
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Reviews
How many you have, how recent they are, and whether anyone replies to them.
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Enquiries & Bookings
How a customer actually gets hold of you, and what happens out of hours.
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Email & Accounts
What address the business runs on, and how the important accounts are secured.
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Data & Devices
Where your files live, whether there is a second copy, and what you would do without them.
Three parts, and none of them are hard work for you.
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Before we meet
I spend a few minutes looking at what is already public. Your website if you have one, your Google listing, your reviews. Nothing private, nothing logged into.
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Fifteen to twenty minutes
In person where that suits, or on the phone. Mostly questions, in normal words. You can stop me at any point.
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A short written summary
Sent to you afterwards. What is working, what I would look at, and anything you can sort yourself for nothing.
What lands afterwards.
A short written summary, sent using whichever way of getting hold of you we agree on.
- What is already working, and worth leaving alone
- The thing I would look at first, and what it would cost
- Anything you can sort yourself, for nothing
The summary I write has no score, no grade and no rating. It is a short list of what I would do next, in the order I would do it. If you would rather start with a number of your own, there is a self-check below that does its arithmetic on your screen.
Sixteen questions, two scores, nothing sent anywhere.
If you want a rough idea of where you stand before speaking to anyone, work through these. It takes about three minutes and the answers never leave your screen.
Your answers stay in this page. Nothing is sent anywhere, nothing is saved, and closing the tab loses the lot. If you choose to carry the result into an enquiry at the end, what travels is the two scores and the headings, never the answers themselves.
This is a self-assessment, not a test of anything. It does not look at your systems. It is a way of working out which conversation is worth having first.
Keeping the business safe
Eight questions about how the business is set up day to day. Answer them as things actually are, not as they are meant to be. Nobody sees these answers.
Being found online
Eight questions about what somebody finds when they go looking for you. Same as above: answer them as things are.
Answer the questions above and the two scores appear here. The scoring needs JavaScript, so if it stays blank the questions are still worth reading on their own.
Keeping the business safe
0 out of 16
Being found online
0 out of 16
Want somebody to look at the ones you scored low on?
That fills in the form below with the two numbers above and takes you to it. You can read it, change it, or delete it before anything is sent, and nothing goes anywhere until you press the send button on the form itself.
13 or more: In good shape. 9 or more: Mostly there. 5 or more: Some real gaps. 0 or more: Worth a proper look
Questions about the Tech Check
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Is it really free?
Yes. No fee, no obligation afterwards, and nothing to sign. If the honest answer is that you do not need anything from me, that is what you will get.
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Will you try to sell me something?
I will tell you what I would look at first and what it would cost, because that is the useful bit. If the thing you need is not something I do, I will say so and point you elsewhere. You are not signing up to anything by asking.
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How long does it take?
Fifteen to twenty minutes. I keep to it, because you are running a business.
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Do you need access to anything?
No. I look at what is publicly visible and ask you questions. Nothing is logged into, installed or changed.
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Do you cover my area?
Fife and Edinburgh in person, and it can be done on the phone from anywhere. The form asks for your town so I know which applies.
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What if I do nothing afterwards?
Then you are still ahead, because the summary usually includes a couple of things you can do yourself for nothing. That is fine by me.
Book your free Tech Check.
Five things, and then I will be in touch to arrange a time that suits you.
Enquiries can be submitted at any time. Support hours are Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00, Saturday and Sunday 10:00 to 18:00.
Would rather talk? 07857 272679 or WhatsApp.
Would rather just talk? Call 07857 272679 or send a WhatsApp message. Enquiries can be submitted at any time.