Tag: How to Start a Computer Repair Business
Step by Step Guide to Remote Assistance
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The Remote Support Guide Offers
- A step by step guide to setting up your business to have a successful remote support business
- Tips and information on how to service your clients remotely
- How to increase your daily sales with new services, prepay tickets and daily monitoring plans
- Includes templates for email booking appointments, client & project agreement forms, terms and conditions, small business proposal, pricing guidelines and scheduling appointment forms.
*NEW* The SEO for WordPress Guide Offers
- 12 page PDF, workbook style
- Learn 10 steps to do yourself with easy to follow guided steps with screenshots
- Proven tactics you can use over and over again
- The perfect workbook to do in your free time
- Learn how to track your results
- Examples of day to day blog posts to continue with after you have done the first 10 blog posts
The Manual of Operations Offers
- 40 page document
- Delivered as a Microsoft Word Template, easy for “cut and pasting” your business name into the document
- Standard operating procedures
- Employee conditions for employment
- Job descriptions
- Human Resources policies
- Much more…
The Social Media Guide Offers
- 29 page workbook style
- Great tips and tricks that I learned the hard way
- Easy to understand steps on how to push out social media messages
- Newsletters, blogging and WordPress information
- Toolkit information you will need and other things you will need to use social media
- A social media to do list
- How to do a social media blast
The Guide to Microsoft Exchange Migrations Offers
- 22 page PDF
- Step by step instructions on how to do a migration without tools with screenshots
- Learning how to back up current mailboxes, calendars and contacts
- Learn how to update the DNS for migration
- Importing mail/calendars and contacts into new server
- Aftercare lists
- How to sell administrative support tickets
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Call That Girl’s Guide to Remote Support $29
Call That Girl’s Guide to Microsoft Exchange Migrations $19
Call That Girl’s Guide to SEO for WordPress $15
Call That Girl’s Manual of Operations $10
Call That Girl’s Guide to Social Media $5
Testimonials
Davena Stowers “Stowers Computer Services” I knew with my new shop opening I need something to help me market the new location and Google was of course my first choice. I saw Lisa’s post on Technnibble about her SEO magic tricks and that she had a new tutorial coming out, so I offered to test her theories. Lisa spent some time with me to get it setup, but once it was setup, I saw rankings in just 7 hours and a few days later, I got my first call. I’m now ranked on page 1 or page 2 of my keywords and locations, time well spent learning her tricks!
Chris Michalec, “Parkway Technology Solutions”–When I purchased Lisa’s Guide to Remote Support ebook, I wasn’t expecting to learn much I didn’t know. We have been offering remote support in one form or another since we opened over four years ago. We have provided it to residential and small & medium business clients. Boy was I wrong about not learning anything!
Her book is well written, but, most importantly, packs quite a bit of useful knowledge. I planned to read a section or two before bed the night I purchased it, but I ended up reading it completely that night. I’ve since read it a couple more times and have referred to it even more than that.
It is a wonderful resource that gives the essential info any technician needs to effectively offer remote support. I picked up quite a few pointers, particularly in client interaction, that we have already incorporated in our business. In short, this book gives the best practices from a “in the trenches” perspective.
I will close by saying that if you aren’t offering remote support, you are missing out. And I know of no better way to get started the right way than by investing in Lisa’s Guide to Remote Support.
Richard Ashby “On Call PC Solution”–Thank you!!! I am inspired by your success. I do a lot of remote support at work (I am like an assistant with more responsibility). I have wanted to add remote services to my business model (On Call PC Solutions) but I have never got around to doing it, because I wasn’t sure exactly how to go about it. Anyway, I heard you on Podnutz and read about you on Technibble. Bryce is going remote!!! And I asked a couple of my customers what they thought about it, and they seemed to think it would be a good idea too (these are also my end users at work who I remote with anyway). I am looking forward to eating this book up and using your methods as a template. Anyway, thank you for making this material available.
Jon May, “The Laptop Medics” –“The Call That Girl Remote Support eBook really made me think twice about Remote Support. I decided to open a dedicated remote support company and using the business practices of an already successful company, The Laptop Medics has now grown to five staff in two locations. I would highly recommend the Remote Support Guide if you’re looking to seriously get into over-the-internet support. I know my business wouldn’t be the same and I wouldn’t have grown as much if it weren’t for Lisa’s book.
Jon Campbell “Online Geek”–When I heard that Lisa had written a book on remote support, I knew that I had to have it. From the moment that I bought the book, I began to read it and was amazed at how much info was in there. I thought that I had everything in place for remote support but Lisa has shown me so much to remote support that I never even considered! From insurances, to conversation topics to software suggestions, I loved the book and I love Lisa’s passion for what she does! She is an inspiration! Thank you Lisa!!
How to troubleshoot your internet connection before calling CenturyLink or Comcast
Is it not the most painful thing in the world to call CenturyLink or Comcast/Charter to troubleshoot your modem?
This blog is very old btw..not sure if it’s still accurate or not.
I hate it and always say “agent” right away…but that doesn’t matter because you have to continue to go through all the prompts from the fake lady on the other end. What I hate about that fake lady the most is the phony tone they give her, with inflections of emotion? Like she’s real LOL. My favorite, “umm, I’m not sure I heard you right, did you mean you wanted to continue with our telephone button troubleshooting or did you want an agent?”
Me: Agent
Fake lady: “aah, I’m not sure I heard you right the first time, are you really sure that you want an agent or should we continue to try to troubleshoot the long and tedious way.”
Me: (yells) AGENT!!!!
Fake Lady: “OK, it sounds like you want an agent, but before I transfer you over, have you reset your modem? Let’s get started with some simple tips….”
Me: UGH.
So before you call in a trouble ticket, here is what we tell our clients at Call That Girl to do when we get the exact same call. And we do this for free, no waiting in a queue, no yelling at computers.
1.) Start with unplugging your modem power cord for one full minute. After one minute, plug back in and let the modem reset itself and see if all the blinking lights come back on. If you see any that are orange or amber and not green and blinking, you may have a modem issue. The internet company will need to “reset your modem” at this point. But let’s say everything is blinking ok, we will move on to the next step.
2.) After the modem is back to blinking lights, then go to your router power cord and unplug it for 10 seconds. After 10 seconds, plug back in and look for blinking lights. You should see the internet or Ethernet blinking for sure. If that’s good to go…we move on. If those lights are not blinking, then your router may need repairing or replacing. At that point, you can call us to help.
3.) Now you have reset your modem and router the right way, all lights are blinking ok…it’s time to restart your computer. Be sure to do a full restart/reboot so the computer gets a fresh connection to the internet. If you didn’t change anything with the computer settings, the internet should come back for you.’
Comcast users should avoid installing Norton/Symantec
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As most of the Minneapolis/St. Paul readers of this blog know, our choices of getting high speed internet are limited to pretty much 2 corporations in town. Comcast and Qwest. As a residential computer repair tech, here is how I see the choices being made.
- Home users with a phone/landline, have Qwest.
- Home users without a phone/landline have Comcast.
According to my website statistics, in the past month out of almost 4000 visitors, 1800 are cable users 951 are DSL. This also includes visitors from around the world too, so it’s not just local stats, but interesting nonetheless.
Now, on to my latest Comcast rant. According to their press relase dated Jan 20th, 2010
http://www.comcast.com/About/PressRelease/PressReleaseDetail.ashx?PRID=957
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Comcast Partners With Symantec to Offer Award-Winning Norton Security Suite to Its High-Speed Internet Customers
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Norton Offers Superior Protection, Robust Family Safety Tools and Fast Scanning Speeds
Call That Girl has a problem with this press release. Norton/Symantec is far from “Award winning” in our computer repair shop. Norton/Symantec is one of the antivirus programs that I see in the shop BY FAR more than any other. Not only are they not catching the latest Malware viruses, but the program is so slow for some users, that they call us to figure out why it’s slow…only to have me SHOW them, their Norton/Symantec is killing their computer. Of a slow painful death. I also have to add, I call it far from ROBUST. Sure it has all the bells and whistles, but it doesn’t work.
- Pay us to remove it? Sure
- Remove it yourself? Great!
- Never install it? BEST CHOICE
- Install and purchase a Malwarebytes Anti Malware license? Most awesome choice! Click on the image below to get Malwarebytes with CTG’s anti-virus protection plan.
Mind you, I also wasn’t a fan of the McAfee product they used to give away either, but if I had to make a choice of one over the other…I would probably chose McAfee.
To close, I will add that Qwest used to (not sure if they do now) offer Windows Live One Care, but they probably won’t be in the future, as it’s being discontinued.
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-in/default.htm?mkt=en-in
Microsoft’s replacement product though is is quite nice. Read my blog a couple down for a review on that.
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