Computer Repair Stores – Here to Stay? Or On Borrowed Time? (Slides)

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Computer Repair

Stores: Here to Stay? Or

On Borrowed Time?

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Add in a General

Movement Away

From On-premise

Refrigerator-sized

Servers

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And Racks

in Many Small-

and Medium-sized

Businesses,



And Replacement

By Off-premised

Cloud Computing

Solutions,



There Definitely

is a Sea of Change



But Does That

Mean the End

is Near For

Computer Repair

Stores?



That All Depends

on a Number

of Factors



The Wall Street

Journal Weighs In



The Article Opens

With a Look at

How Best Buy,

Gamestop,



And Radioshack

are All Fighting

For Survival

Against “Online

Competitors”,



Especially

Amazon.com



And While the

Retail Giants Do

Understand

the Urgency



For Reinventing

Themselves,

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Death of the

Downtown

Computer Repair

Store



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By Playing Up

a Computer Repair

Store’s Affinity

With the Local

Community,



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And By Making

the Owner

Accessible

to Customers on

a First-name Basis,



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The Main Street

IT Purveyor May

Still Have Some Life

Left in its Business

Model “As Is”



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But the “As Is”

Part of the

Business Model

is the Most Fragile



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And Needs

the Most Urgent

Attention



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5 Ideas to Help

Your Computer

Repair Store

Survive and Thrive



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So What Needs

to Be Added

to the List of

Services Provided



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To Ensure a

Computer Store’s

Survival?



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1. Offer Tablet

and Smartphone

Training, Support,

And Service…

and Even Sales



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2. Get in on

Cloud Computing

and Managed

Services



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3. Upscale Your

Skillset and

Marketing Into at

Least the Low-end

of B2B



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4. Consider Offering

Memberships to All

Customers



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5. Hybrid Your

Retail Business

Model Into Part

Internet Café,



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Part Computer

Repair Store



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Oh By the Way,

You Might Also

Enjoy Some of

These Other

Related Posts on:



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• “Opening a

Computer

Hardware Store –

Important

Considerations”



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• “Computer Shop

Business

Ownership and

3 Essential

Considerations”



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• “Computer Shop

Franchise Needs

to Draw in Larger

Customers”



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• “4 Tips for

Starting a

Computer Store

from Scratch”



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What Do You

Think?



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Are Computer

Repair Stores Here

to Stay?



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Or are They on

Borrowed Time?



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Or Does it All

Depend on How

Well the Store

Reinvents Itself?



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