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Great advice overall. One tip on the projectors, though, is on the price of bulbs. The ETORL bulbs on most Epson projectors cost $199 and have for years, so they're quite a bit less expensive than what you quote. Of course with the prices dropping the way they are, that's almost half the sale-price of some of the projectors.

The rest of your article is pretty important and matters I've discussed with co-workers. In particular the licenses and graphics stand out to me. As an IT guy, most of my clients have no clue where their licenses are and it makes my job a mess when we have to reformat or redistribute licenses between computers. The company I worked for previously was relatively good at keeping track of this info for the client, and some future ventures I'm involved in will make this a priority.

As for the graphics, I can't express enough during my web design years how many clients did NOT have the source files for any of their logos or other information. This is arguably more important than simply organizing what you do have. They'd have to search for days or weeks to find anything, and half the time I was forced to copy images from their old site and vectorize or even manually edit them to make them usable for their new work. It was an awful mess, and one that can and should be avoided. Rule one when having a logo or art designed for your company: request the source files. PSDs, PNGs, Illustrator files, whatever. Get the original vector sources and not just the exported JPEGs they'll usually give you. It doesn't matter if you don't have software capable of viewing it. Years down the line when you need something new done with it and your graphic artist is unreachable, your new artist will be more than capable of converting or working with those files, far more than he/she will be able to work with JPEGs or scans.