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mafiameower
United States61 Posts
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Masq
Canada1792 Posts
edit: Anyway, I'd work on making it a little more visually pleasing. It looks like you created this in 5minutes in Word and you are probably cutting off a significant portion of your potential clients. | ||
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mafiameower
United States61 Posts
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mafiameower
United States61 Posts
On December 05 2011 18:50 Masq wrote: are those prices real? :o edit: Anyway, I'd work on making it a little more visually pleasing. It looks like you created this in 5minutes in Word and you are probably cutting off a significant portion of your potential clients. What do you mean by cutting off? Like cause they wont look at it? | ||
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jacosajh
2919 Posts
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mafiameower
United States61 Posts
On December 05 2011 19:00 jacosajh wrote: basically if I wanted any computer help I'd hope that person would know enough to make it look like this didn't come out of a typewriter. I mean that in the nicest way possible. Right, I get it. This is a rough draft, But do I get my Message across correctly? or does it need to be fixed up? | ||
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TheKefka
Croatia11752 Posts
200$ for doing backup..... Holy fuck lol? That's what you call a rip off if I ever saw one,sweet Jesus. Geek squad knows how to make their paper if these prices are real. | ||
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KeksX
Germany3634 Posts
This really looks like it came right out of the typewriter... I bet you'd have to pay 50 bucks for a decent enough flyer that will look professional enough to support the cause. But anyway, the comparison idea is good, but I don't think people will pick it up just because of that. Like, why is your work so cheap compared to them? Are you a dumbfuck that doesn't do anything good? Or are you just a fair, local worker that wants to make a business by having fair prices and not scammnig people? (I hope you get the idea, that are no real questions!) | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
Layout is sort of a mess. Your pricing or savings don't clearly stand out from Geek Squad pricing. It's also probably just better to use percentage for savings instead of actual pricing... it's just too cluttered. There's also no graphics. | ||
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MisterD
Germany1338 Posts
b) include information how much you charge for driving (if you don't charge for driving, write that!) c) you should put a phone number on there, if ppl can't use their computer and want your help, they can't send you emails. maybe make it these small rip off things, so they can just take the number+email with them and don't have to write them down themselves. d) move your headers over the respective columns. "My pricing" is above the service names, that's just wrong. other services: configure internet access (set up router etc), secure wlan stuff, computer upgrade advice (like look at it and say "it's gonna be 100 times faster if you get more ram!" x) ), also maybe put stuff up there that people can identify that have absolutely no clue of computers (like "repair internet", because that's what doesn't work you know? ^^) | ||
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Molybdenum
United States358 Posts
I'd emphasize the "If I can't fix it, you pay nothing", it's a pretty big selling point. The part about everything I can think of is a little strange, makes you seem kinda amateurish IMO. Also, this is super nit-picky but there shouldn't be a comma after and in the part about contacting. And maybe change the "with what's wrong" because not all of those are problems. Hope that helps, good luck | ||
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Jindo
United States1305 Posts
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Fishgle
United States2174 Posts
On December 05 2011 18:55 mafiameower wrote: What do you mean by cutting off? Like cause they wont look at it? no one reads a white piece of paper with boring typeset(oh look. times new roman. how academic) and lazy layout. try making it interesting and eyecatching. Even a picture of a computer on there will help. As for the information, etc. Your service should be emphasized. Your title needs to be bigger so people can spot it right away. You don't list any credentials. Even if you're self taught, just write "very knowledgable and professional service" or something like that, just to add an air of legitimacy. email me at ___ with whats wrong and a number if you want me to call you. --- this is a syntactical mess. Email me @ ___ or call me @ ___ (some people are more comfortable hiring /asking for help by phone, it needs to be an option) You should provide your number, they never theirs. Instead of the last line, If I can't fix it, you don't pay! (cognitive trick, end sentence with the more appealing option) | ||
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ubreakubuy
United States100 Posts
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LunaSea
Luxembourg369 Posts
And I don't know what you do in "prepare computer for safe use" but most of the viruses come from scams and shady websites you go on so there isn't that much to do, plus if you have a router the default configuration will be to block everything (every port) besides the most crucial ones like port 80. If you want I had another idea for you that could be preety could but could take some skills. Peoples Wifi connections are mostly badly encrypted (when encrypted at all) like WEP, so you could install WPA2-PSK maybe even WPA2-Enterprise for some people that have a router that supports that technology. You could even generete them a random SSID / Passphrase so that it's very difficult to crack and a "Launch Internet" button that would link to an .exe that generated the SSID, the Passphrase and the import the profile in the windows "netsh" command for example. (It was an idea I had a fiew month ago ^^) Maybe you can even help people choose the appropriate computer for their use. | ||
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Daria
Australia500 Posts
Otherwise, more visual appeal is needed. | ||
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RevTiberius
Canada353 Posts
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OmniEulogy
Canada6593 Posts
Also you should offer cleaning. I know I had at least 2 towers come in a week for those. Working out of home changes a few things I mentioned but the guy I worked for started out of his house too and still couldn't make it profitable from there. | ||
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zZygote
Canada898 Posts
1. A phone/cellphone/business number. This has probably been beaten to death. 2. Visuals. Using one font, and a table showing savings is as simple as it gets. People would wonder if you would issue the same amount of work ethic when it comes to your services. 3. Information overload. I understand you're trying to show the available service that a customer would want to know, but listing the most important problems people deal with is a lot better way to go at it. | ||
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Keyboard Warrior
United States1178 Posts
(*#&*^&$*^()#&()*(@_(_+$()*()@&( That's blind robbery! And yes, you need to get your own domain for professionalism | ||
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Fontong
United States6454 Posts
On December 05 2011 20:38 OmniEulogy wrote: With those prices you will struggle to stay open. I worked in a place with similar values. If they didn't have a small fortune to run on they would have closed after the first year. Good luck but I'd suggest to try and squeeze as much as you can out of people while still making them a better offer than the other companies or you will never be able to support yourself. Also you should offer cleaning. I know I had at least 2 towers come in a week for those. Working out of home changes a few things I mentioned but the guy I worked for started out of his house too and still couldn't make it profitable from there. You'll also be the cheapest thing available, meaning you'll be perceived as the cheapest and shittiest. | ||
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KeksX
Germany3634 Posts
On December 05 2011 20:48 Keyboard Warrior wrote: $300 for virus removal??? (*#&*^&$*^()#&()*(@_(_+$()*()@&( That's blind robbery! And yes, you need to get your own domain for professionalism Some call it "stupidity tax", and that's a quote from someone that started such a business. | ||
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CNSnow
Greece67 Posts
Hardware Installetion $75.00, What hardware is that? Like a server or a supercomputer hardware? I woudn't pay more than $20.00. Setting up Email $25.00??? Anyone can do that for free and alone!!! OK, maybe I don't understand what are those prices fro exactly, so explain a little more! Otherwise I don't see why do you want so much money for such easy things. I am an engineer and I am doing these "jobs" for free to everyone who asks me (and if I have a little free time of curse). | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20322 Posts
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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elmizzt
United States3309 Posts
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CNSnow
Greece67 Posts
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nihlon
Sweden5581 Posts
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LunaSea
Luxembourg369 Posts
On December 06 2011 06:02 nihlon wrote: But you wouldn't exactly be his target clients so I don't see how it matters what you find easy or not. You charge what people are willing to pay. I agree with that. And the deffinition of a fair price : it's the price that people are willing to pay for it. | ||
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
On December 06 2011 06:02 nihlon wrote: But you wouldn't exactly be his target clients so I don't see how it matters what you find easy or not. You charge what people are willing to pay. The problem is that most people knows how to transfer file from one PC to another. They do. Say I am a potential customer who wants something more complicated, say setting up a wifi network ay home, and I saw his ad which he charges 30 dollars for transferring files..... there is no way I would ask him, because his ad seems to suggest his services are way too expensive. | ||
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CNSnow
Greece67 Posts
On December 06 2011 06:02 nihlon wrote: But you wouldn't exactly be his target clients so I don't see how it matters what you find easy or not. You charge what people are willing to pay. There are no clients for this tasks. Everyone can ask a friend or two and there is DEFINATELY one that will know how to do all those things. It's not science! And most of this services have user friendly enviroments so that anyone can do it by himself and not paying ridiculus amounts of money to people like this one, who thinks that making e-mails is something unique! I am an engineer myself, and I help people (with even harder tasks than those) for free, and I am not exploiting people for easy tasks. | ||
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KeksX
Germany3634 Posts
On December 06 2011 20:00 CNSnow wrote: There are no clients for this tasks. Everyone can ask a friend or two and there is DEFINATELY one that will know how to do all those things. It's not science! And most of this services have user friendly enviroments so that anyone can do it by himself and not paying ridiculus amounts of money to people like this one, who thinks that making e-mails is something unique! I am an engineer myself, and I help people (with even harder tasks than those) for free, and I am not exploiting people for easy tasks. So all these businesses based around this are fake and just there to troll you, right >-<? There are clients for this and just because you devote your time to people for free doesn't mean others do as well. There are also people who repair cars for free, but that doesn't mean that there are no clients for car workshops... Also, personal anecdote is not really a proof. You can call it a scam, you can call it overprized but as long as there are people willing to pay 50 bucks to copy your phots from a USB stick to their HDD people will base businesses around it. | ||
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