Podnutz Episode 41: Roll Those PC Dice!

Daniel Hand, creator of the PC Dice and other great websites and resources for computer repair techs joins me for a rapid fire discussion of all he is doing in the computer repair field.

Running time: 46:55
Added: 29 Oct 2009

Daniel is a retired military man who started his business out of his house and now runs his own shop as well other related businesses
His book: "Computer Repair Business Lessons Learned" can be found at computerrepairbusiness.net or amazon.com
It covers marketing, and contains documents for service calls, warranties and other situations.
It also includes website access for additional materials.

He runs the following websites:

• Association of computer repair business owners which is free to join.
• Nationwide Computer Techs: a directory of computer business that has free basic listings.
• Computer Repair Blog

He also sells a product called PC Dice which are novelty computer repair dice (also available as an iPhone app)

Also discussed:

• High rankings in google search
• Maintenance contracts
• Offering an online backup service
• Building business websites
• Hiring from Craig's List
• Most of his computer services are still on XP machines
• Classes on training for computers
• Being a Comptia (A+) training and testing center
• Basic advertising: websites, Craig's List (local and nation-wide), local portals
• Shop location
• Tech resource forums including technibble and podnutz
• Apple vs. Windows in business
• Podnutz at Night
• Steve's Laptop Repair Videos

Notes By Mike Evans at datamike.net