Best Small Business to Start: Computer Services

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My local computer reapir company is awesome, don't know how they do it but they have a no fix no fee deal, which gives me peace of mind. I guess only the really good computer repair companies can afford to offer such a service?

Laptop repair Guildford of AL 4:43AM October 18, 2011

Well, it's tougher now than it was a year ago for an IT service. Nevertheless, there is one service that I always return to - www.philapcrepair.com . They're local and affordable.

Vova of PA 9:53PM May 21, 2009

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There's also a forum at www.virusremovalbusiness.com/forum

Kramer of MI 7:19PM May 10, 2009

http://computerservices-us.com/
Affordable Computer Services is a start up business, I just want everyone to know that it takes literally 100% devotion to this job, and it will (and should, if you want to succeed) take at least 16 hours of work every day, you will spend time advertising your computer services, how affordable they are, how good you are, your experience, you must put yourself out there to 1000% to succeed, and once you get at least 10 constant clients, referrals will start pumping a bit, once you reach 50 clients or so, you should be overwhelmed with job.
It will not payoff until you hire your first tech, that's for sure. And providing the best tech support to businesses is also a great idea, especially remote support and over the phone support for small business for a very low rate ( I do it at $100 a month ), it will put you over your competition, and it's easy to sell... all you have to say is something like:
Hey, you pay or would pay more than that to ANYBODY else out there! And it's atleast 20x cheaper than an in-house tech!
Goodluck to all of your, Computer Service Entrepreneurs!

Maxim Doumkine of NY 10:03PM May 02, 2009

I do believe you are over stating the case for data recovery as a viable small business. As a network administrator for a non profit in San Francisco most (like 100 percnet) of the data recovery work I outsource is for drives that are either totally dead (not spinning) or crashed (heads impacted plates). In in the first case date recovery is a snap, but delicate work. In the second I just pray. The head have to be removed in a "clean room" and re-spun for bulk data recovery, dicey at best.
Laurie doesn't make much sense with her rambling and jargoned essay. If I were going to start a small business of this type I would more likely look for clients BEFORE the recovery stage.

Walt Kennedy of CA 11:16AM March 07, 2009

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abc of NV 1:20AM March 06, 2009

What Procedure is Data Recovery assignment involved?
The following three issues are critical for your data recovery business. They includes the first (Technical Know-How) and the last two (Marketing Plan and Financial Resources) followed only if you can handle the first.
Technical Know-How: As this industry is professional, specialized know-how is required to handle the varied types of data recovery assignments. Generally speaking, there is 3+1 work flow applicable to all data recovery case:
Of all the stages, Stage 3–data retrieval, is the most widely spread and long-running; all data recovery companies, even end users, by downloading software, can handle mission of this stage easily. But according to SalvationDATA experts only 30 to 40 percent of all data recovery cases are simply stage 3 cases. The left percentage requires an ability to handle with the stage 2 and stage plus 1 issue.
Stage 2, disk data extraction, is also widely known and adopted as “disk imaging” by data recovery services nowadays. But to SalvationDATA, according our experience with lots of potential clients, they perform this important stage using ghosting tools designed for and work on good HDDs only, not the patient HDDs that are unstable or inaccessible because of media defects and instable head, which are common challenges of Stage 2 in practice. Even more, with those traditional imaging tools, the time involved and the ordinary user-level repeated-read access to the media bring a risk of damaging the disk and head, making data lost irretrievable.
Stage 1, drive diagnosis & restoration, is the primary stage in a broad sense data recovery flow but in fact deals with the deepest level in 3+1 broad sense data recovery flow. Unfortunately this Stage 1 is missing from most of the data recovery services or even noticed but was being done in a zigzag procedure or simply incorrectly due to lack of proper tools, meaning that they are putting away customers and profits. Our data has shown that up to 40% of data recovery cases have Stage 1 issues; and that IS NOT what going to happen that we can skip Stage 1 and perform Stage 2 and 3 and still to get certain percentage of data. You CAN NOT get anything in case you are not capable for the primary stage
Plus 1, it refers to Head or Platter Exchanger when encountered with motor seizure or head crash. This kind of problem often happens where the Drive is clicking or dropping from height. Concerning this issue, you need to replace the components and fix the mechanical malfunction first.
From above 3+1 work flow, you may get know the basic guidance of data recovery.
Then let’s move the following 2 factors which are relevant to your data recovery service.
Marketing Plan: It is the same as other service you are engaged in. It needs marketing plans and strategy. You should think more about customers’ convenience, satisfaction, price setting, and target market. If possible, you need advertising on different mediums too.

Laura of HI 3:53AM January 13, 2009