Computer Maintenance Service

If you know how to repair the computer, you may handle this matter at home and have the considerable income. As you expected, you can maintain and repair the computer at your customer’s or your own home. You may also provide some related services. Remote backup service refers to backing up information of customer’s computer through telephone line or ADSL modem; remote maintenance service refers to using telephone line or modem to diagnose and solute software problems.

Before maintaining and repairing the computer, you must understand how they work and how to deal with them whey they don’t work. First, master these skills through books, courses, video tapes and then prepare your tools and start to seek for the customers. If ordinary maintenance is competitive, you may consider maintaining printer, audio system or other parts. Anyhow, look for the service which has market demand. You also need some tools: hardware tools and software diagnostic tools. The hardware tools may help you take apart the computer and replace components; the software diagnostic tools are some software programs which can help you find problems and solve them.

Your customers may be individuals and companies who have computers but don’t have maintainers. The most profitable service is to cooperate with enterprises because they need and are also willing to accept computer maintenance and repairing service. One of effective way to find the customers is to provide free diagnosis. Much software might help you to discover computer's problem. You may provide this kind of service for potential customers. When they realize your service value, they will possibly become your customers. You can also consider providing on call service for computer store.

Most maintainers fix price based on specific target, for instance, back up or copy system files. Because this service needs much knowledge, skills and tools, its charge is higher. The computer repairing service charge is 50-100 US dollars/hour. As long as a professional computer service has established, you may work for 1200-1500 hours in a year. If service charge is 40 US dollars/hour, your total income is 48,000-60,000 US dollars; and your net income occupies 60%-75%. This is really one of profitable home business to make money.