looking for ideas for in home computer repair advertising?

**Furious_Female** · 03-17-2005, 07:35 PM

Do you have a Penny Saver or something equivalent in your area? They are usually cheap and have a broad circulation.

Also, look into renting a billboard. Depending on the location, they aren't as much money as people think.

**warlock5** · 03-17-2005, 07:42 PM

I'm working on developing an in home pc repair company myself.. Best Buy has their own "Geek Squad" where they charge *minimum* $120 and they pay their employees $7 an hour. We already have word of mouth going for ours. I'm planning on running an ad campaign in the local paper for a month or two. Then its off to writing ebooks on how to make $100,000 a year with your own pc repair business

**JFPdude** · 03-17-2005, 07:43 PM

Penny Saver ??? You from New Hampshire ?

**flashfire** · 03-17-2005, 07:46 PM

does your city have a website?

**Furious_Female** · 03-17-2005, 07:49 PM

Originally posted by JFPdude

Penny Saver ??? You from New Hampshire ?

NY

**After Shock Media** · 03-17-2005, 07:50 PM

Drive around town sniffing out open routers, proceed to crash their system and then ring the door bell.

**Babaganoosh** · 03-17-2005, 07:51 PM

Don't do it. I tried it right after I finished getting my MCSE and A+ certs and quit working for Motorola. It's non-stop bullshit from idiot customers. I'd rather flip burgers or clean bathrooms than fix computers for people.

**pornguy** · 03-17-2005, 07:58 PM

Where are you located???

If you are in socal, hit me on icq

if you want to get a banner made, hit me on icq

**hydro** · 03-17-2005, 07:59 PM

word of mouf... i know a guy that did it and only charged if he had to replace hardware and everything else was free. He ran that promo for a few months now he gets flooded with calls.

**Bosco4y2k3** · 03-17-2005, 08:01 PM

Already in my area's "penny saver" and business is supporting itself ok. Problem is we were spending too much time advertising and not enough in home repair to turn a decent profit.
I just checked the city's website..no advertising so far as i can tell but great idea to check out tomorrow. thanks.
Incidentally we got the motivation to start up from "geek squad" so funny you should mention them. (what a rip off...lol) we do 29.00 spyware removal and usually end up with decent sales off the calls upgrading systems ect...
We also thought about going into the banner advertising for slow spots since the co-owner is a pretty good toon artist (all hand drawn) but if you check back on all my posts you'll see that's not working out real well....lol
We have alot of digital learning to do before we can start putting put decent banners so were focusing on the advertising end for now. Keep the ideas coming in....

**Spunky** · 03-17-2005, 08:02 PM

Pay some immigrants 5 bucks an hour to deliver your flyers

**Furious_Male** · 03-17-2005, 08:03 PM

I do a lot of business on the side just from word of mouth.

One word of caution. Make sure you have legal documents that the customer can sign in the event they suffer data loss or have a complete melt down you can't fix. The customer will always try to blame you regardless. Thats part of the reason I stick to working with individuals and businesses in a very tight circle.

Insurance can be expensive as well.

good luck

**woj** · 03-17-2005, 08:08 PM

Do something else, at first it may seem alright, but after a while you will get tired of dealing with people's problems. There are 10x better opportunities for bright, young, motivated guys like you.

**IDBW-NOC** · 03-17-2005, 08:20 PM

What profits are being made with those doing pc repair?

looking for ideas for in home computer repair advertising?

looking for ideas for in home computer repair advertising?

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