How To Start Your Own Computer Repair Business In 2008!

© 2008 John H. Dow

If you want to make good money, with low startup and operating costs, a Computer Repair Business is the best business opportunity available today. Starting computer service business is not difficult and one of the lowest cost home businesses opportunities that you can find.

You don’t need a lot of money or inventory for a home computer repair business. With all the business and home computers there is a tremendous market for any computer repair business opportunity, and tons of potential clients.

The computer repair business is one of the fastest growing business opportunities for several reasons.

• You can start small and grow very big if you want to.
• You don’t need a lot of money or inventory.
• Computers are everywhere, tons of potential clients.
• The Internet has created a huge demand for computers
• Electronics break, all components have a failure point
• Software is easier to learn but harder to setup

It’s not uncommon for many households to have multiple computers, one for each member of the family. Most small businesses depend on computers to operate their business and often have one business computer per employee.

And once you have more than one computer, you want to share devices, files, and software. This adds to daily challenges of operation. Unfortunately you get to share bad things too like viruses and adware.

Someone with good computer skills has a huge advantage in today’s computer oriented world. I’m not sure why but some people have a knack for this type of work. And with a little experience and training their competence grows quickly. PC troubleshooting is often a repeatable process; certain methods are used each time.

So now you have a perfect scenario for starting a computer repair business. A huge target audience creates the need, and skilled individuals have the ability to fill this need. The trick to making this work is the computer skilled individual also needs a little business savvy and marketing skills.

When starting any new business, the devil is in the details. Making sure you don’t run afoul of State, Federal, and local community licensing and tax laws is important. Finding good ways to market your products and services is also necessary.

Taxes and licensing information can usually be found at your county court house or any good small business accountant can help too. The biggest challenge is the day-to-day activities of running your computer repair business.

Finding new customers, keeping current customers, establishing good policies and procedures, and customer relations is the biggest stumbling block for many new start up computer repair businesses.

There is also a lot of outdated advice floating around these days. Fifteen years ago the typical computer repair business made the majority of the their income by selling equipment, either in parts or assembled computers.

Now with all the large manufacturers and discount electronic stores, a computer is just another appliance. I’ve seen them sell for under $300 at places like Wal-Mart. That’s a far cry from the 2 or 3 thousand dollar units of the past.

And computer parts are in the same boat. There is little markup anymore on the computers or the parts. The competition from the large direct sellers is difficult to over come for a small business.

Many of the successful big computer businesses have gone to specialty areas such as security, specific software support, maintenance service contracts, and high end computer consulting. Even if they don’t sell much hardware anymore, the computer consulting business still makes money by charging for time.

And a small entrepreneur can also take this road. Service is now the best path to a successful computer repair company, small or large. But many of the big guys ignore the small accounts because their overhead won’t let them do small jobs.

Which leaves a gap in providing computer repair services to the home user and small businesses. Even a one-person company can make a good living filling the gap. The trick is in developing that kind of client. PC Repair and troubleshooting will be around forever.

The best way to learn how to run a success computer repair business is from someone who has been there and done it. There are no big secrets, just proven techniques that work to help you market and run your computer repair business.

Get answers to questions like:

• What do I charge per hour?
• How do I get paid and bill clients?
• How do I find new customers?
• What are the most common computer repairs?
• How to handle customers, both good and bad?
• How do I organize my computer repair business?

Find out what business, people, and marketing skills you need to address for a successful computer repair business the easy way. From someone who has already blazed the trails and knows what works, and what doesn’t.

The great thing about starting your own computer business is that you can start part time and expand as you go. The income possibilities are excellent, regardless where you live and work.

You don’t have a lot of startup costs either. Probably under $200 (and you may already have some of the items) would cover most small startup costs. After all you’re going to sell a service and not a physical product. 

No need to stock any inventory although you may find certain items are handy to have available. And you definitely don’t need any retail space since most of the work performed will be at the home or business locations.

All in all, there is no better business opportunity for someone with some computer skills and wants to start their own business. The target audience is huge, the work pleasant, and the hourly rates are great.

Add in some sound advice on running the business, finding customers, and how to make your business grow and it’s the perfect business opportunity in 2008.

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