Originally Posted by
MarioTech
You are correct theengel, it's time consuming and not as profitable as it should be. A desktop PC is about $300 out the door but the content and programs the client uses is where the value is. I went in for a $95 tower cleaning and OS updates as the OS wasn't starting up and ended up charging double as the backup needed to be done for their Quickbooks and other programs. If they lose the information and files they have on this particular PC they'd be in deep trouble as they are a tax firm and they don't have an IT. I walked in to fix their Toshiba mono copier and walked out with more business than I thought I would. Another client that has 2 Ricoh's and 18 PC's is negotiating with me the maintenance on their server and fleet of PC's, previous IT was charging them average $4000 monthly on "service and updates of the servers" if I can get 60% of that money I'll be extremely happy. It'll require every 7 months to go in and clean all the towers, update the OS every month on each tower remotely and the server as well remotely, there's money to be made still in the IT world the thing is I had to get certified on A+, N+ about 12 years ago and recently CCNA and MCSE. But in my case it's paying off, even though I haven't stepped into any business to set their Cisco routers and switches yet it was a great learning experience.
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