Starting my own freelancing computer repair "business"

I've been thinking of starting doing computer repairs in my town (its a small town with about 700-800 pop. ) and I was wondering how much to charge people for any kind of job from installing OSs to configuring stuff and maybe purchasing parts when necessary, from what former freelancers techs told me that there is potential here to have success in having costumers (lots of old people with computers :P ) I'll be putting my ad soon in the mailboxes, I pray that I'll succeed since as of now I don't have any source of income :sleep: .

In another unrelated note I heard a bunch of 10 year-old talking passionately about D&D and how awesome their mage's spells are, the geek inside me was happy ^_^

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It really depends on you, because people may want things faster and you can charge a premium for that. Prices can vary when considering other things such as are there shops in the area that specialize in this sort of thing?
 
[quote name='Gore' post='3056833' date='Aug 19 2010, 11:31 PM']'installing OSs'
Pirated?[/quote]

Most of the time yes, even the local computer stores in the nearest town do it shamelessly but they ask first if they want to pay an extra 120$ for a genuine one.

I'll be asking them as well but 95% of people want to save the money from personal experience.

[quote name='DarkSpace' post='3056840' date='Aug 19 2010, 11:33 PM']It really depends on you, because people may want things faster and you can charge a premium for that. Prices can vary when considering other things such as are there shops in the area that specialize in this sort of thing?[/quote]

There is one about 10 min. driving, but since its a small town a can be in any house in 5min and less with my bicycle.
 
It should be at a premium, considering that most of the stores have very slow turnover times, and plus, you go to their houses/places of business.

Make sure your flyer/booklet looks professional and don't put an obvious cell phone number on it. (Some cell numbers have an obvious "tell" - like an area code.)
 
[quote name='astrangeone' post='3057450' date='Aug 20 2010, 04:19 AM']It should be at a premium, considering that most of the stores have very slow turnover times, and plus, you go to their houses/places of business.

Make sure your flyer/booklet looks professional and don't put an obvious cell phone number on it. (Some cell numbers have an obvious "tell" - like an area code.)[/quote]

I have a family friend who works at a sort of a job agency so I'm good on the flyer part but I don't get whats wrong about the cellphone number, half of my "potential clients" already know me in person. What are those "tells" ?
 
Then that's fine, I just think it's unprofessional to have your cell number instead of a dedicated line that you can call. (Just my own quirks about business apparently.)

It depends on your area - in Canada the obvious tell is a 647 area code - it's reserved for Canadian cell phones.
 

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