Jeff from TheTechMentor.com interviews data recovery industry legend Brian Gill, co-founder of Gillware Data Recovery. They are one of America’s leading professional hard drive data recovery companies. We also take a moment to interview Tyler Gill. We ask about his experience when he lost his hard drive data which lead to the business idea. Of course we cover hard drive recovery (a common interest) but there’s a whole lot more.

Introduction

Casey had a link to Gilware a long time ago, so we decided if Brian would like to have an interview with us. He was game so here you are!

We cover topics like how they started a brand new business from scratch (to become Gillware Data Recovery with nearly 50 employees).

We talk about how important integrity is in business and to people he works with.

We talk about the computer hard drive recovery business in its early days and see how Gillware made a big difference to professionalism in the industry.

They disrupted others who were not so professionally minded, knocking them out of the industry with quality competition.

We ‘discover’ a university that seems to be generating a lot of computer and tech company start up success.  This is in line with our interest at TheTechMentor.com to help computer industry experts and computer techs start their own IT business from the ground up.

Let’s get started!

Gems for anyone interested in starting their own business!

TheTechMentor.com found Brian Gill to be an intense yet humble man who when prompted at a kids sports game might only say he “does computer stuff”, preferring not to get into how he and the Gillware Data Recovery team have sculpted one of the leading companies in hard drive recovery, solid state drive recovery and now is helping catch criminals and lock them away in a foray into forensic data recovery (more on this later).

• If you’re interested in IT business start-ups and getting an edge on the competition, you’ll love this interview.
• I strongly recommend you plan some time in your day for this valuable read.
• If you want to know more about professional hard drive recovery services you will learn a lot about the myths and facts of hard drive recovery from this interview.

The Interview:

[Jeff from TheTechMentor.com]:

Thank you so much for your time!  I’m really excited at the opportunity for this interview.

Would you mind for our audience to please introduce yourself, your role at Gillware, what you really do now, and just for something a little unique: a hobby you have that not many people know about.

[Brian from Gillware]:

Founder/CEO at Gillware Inc for 14 years now. Managing partner at Gillware Digital Forensics as well.  My primary functions are product and web marketing, managing about a dozen direct reports, and like any business owner I have HR responsibilities.

I’ve been actively involved in some capacity (active, board seat or investor) with over a dozen start-up companies in the last decade.

[Jeff]:

That’s awesome!

[Brian]:

I don’t have a lot of time for any personal hobbies, but I like to spend time with my family, read, fish, smoke meat and play poker. [Jeff’s note: Family names removed out of respect for privacy, just in case!]

I coach a lot of youth sports as well.

[Jeff]:

Please give me your ‘elevator pitch’. What do you tell someone you meet when you have only a moment?

[Brian]:

I mostly tell people in public I do computer stuff because I find it a lot more interesting to ask questions, talk about our kids and families.

I don’t like droning on and on about the life of an entrepreneur running a tech organization, digital forensics, etc. It’s a lot better for my mental health to talk about the soccer game we’re watching.

[Jeff]:

Totally understand. At TheTechMentor.com we ARE interested in:

The seeds that started Gillware were sown when [your brother] Tyler had a hard drive failure didn’t it? Would you tell us about your experience?

[Brian]:

I’ve been programming since I was about 9 years old when my parents bought me one of the first personal computers and a book on BASIC.

So I naturally got my degree in computer science and went out to the Silicon Valley in the first internet boom. The first boom went bust and I sulked back to Wisconsin.

I was making an amazing living as a software architect for some really boring stuff like insurance payment systems and cheese databases.

I was bored out of my mind and wracking my brain for what was next.

The embryo of a new Start up Business

Tyler, my youngest brother, was going to University of Wisconsin and on the road to a computer science degree like me.  Tyler had the idea to start the data recovery business because he had lost a personal hard drive and had a hell of time trying to find anyone to fix it to recover the data.

He found one company that wanted $2700, which at the time was about the same as his semester tuition.

In our circle of friends were some amazing talents with all the right backgrounds to do it ourselves.

Greg Piefer, Tyler and I started the company in our basement (garage is too cold in Wisconsin).

Greg was finishing up his PhD at UW–Madison [the University of Wisconsin] and already had probably 200 credits in math/physics/electrical engineering and a bunch of degrees under his belt. He’s gone on to found SHINE Medical Technologies which is an amazing story.

[Jeff’s note]:

For interest, here’s a link to Shine Medical Technologies: http://shinemed.com/ (opens in a new tab)

[Brian continued]:

So in my circle of friends we had all the technical chops (electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science) to reverse engineer storage devices, troubleshoot their problems, and address them. I threw up the website, figured out web marketing, wrote our first CRM while Tyler figured out payroll/insurance/financials and general operations. We were off and running.

[Jeff]:

When was that? Where was Tyler studying at the time?

[Brian]: This was all back in 2003/2004, Tyler was studying at the University of Wisconsin and Greg received his PhD there, I got my CS degree there.

[Jeff]:

Yes the University of Wisconsin-Madison certainly seems to be doing some great things with start ups! I’ll be sure to look into them more. Did you complete that computer science study/graduate?

[Brian]:

I did in 1998.

[Jeff]:

In hindsight we can now all see it certainly was a worthwhile and serious start up business! But we can all understand the concern when starting up your own business. I believe you stand a better chance as a team, and if you are starting a business on your own you’d be well advised to find a mentor who can help.

With Tyler Gill:

[Tyler]:

I loved building computers and spent every penny I had on this build.  The computer was built from a lot of high-end used parts, sourced from the for-sale/trade area on Hardforum.

It had water cooling on the processor, video card, and Northbridge using a small aquarium pump and an integrated water tank/radiator.

It was overclocked to its limits and set up as a RAID-0 using a pair of Western Digital 120GB drives.

[Jeff’s note: See the Info block for an explanation about RAID-0 and click here for more on Raid recovery]

To use this info block, just credit thetechmentor.com and reference to this page

I was in my fourth semester of computer science at UW-Madison and once the drive died I knew I wouldn’t be able to turn in my final project on time.  I was sad about that and also the fact that I didn’t have a functioning computer any more.

Adding insult to injury my hard drive’s warranty expired within days of failure.

[Jeff]:

I’m interested to know how you actually felt when you realized you lost your data back then.

Can you please think for a moment and describe how you felt and what you went through the next few days?

[Tyler]:

I felt panicked.  I immediately jumped on my favorite computer-building forums (Hardforum and Anandtech) to see what my options were.

After doing a lot of searching and reading I gave a few companies a call and wasn’t impressed by their approach and couldn’t even come close to affording their fees.

No one would even look at it for less than a few hundred dollars.

I called another company that advertised a flat-rate, extremely cheap solution, but you paid whether the data was recoverable or not.

I spoke at length with the owner and he revealed that he received dozens of hard drives a day.  His website was horrible and he didn’t sound very technically savvy, but it showed me that there was real demand for a cheaper alternative in the marketplace of data recovery.

[Jeff]:

They say the 5 stages to dealing with loss are:

1. Denial (something like “This cannot be happening to me!”),
2. Anger,
3. Bargaining (or the other way around for the last two)
4. Sadness or depression
5. Acceptance and/or resolution to move on.

Can you relate to that and walk us through what you remember experiencing and doing?

[Tyler]:

I can’t remember much denial; I knew right away what was wrong.

The Steps to early Data Recovery:

[Jeff]:

I assume this lead to the need to help yourself. Is this in your nature? What steps did you take?

[Tyler]:

At that point I was talking to my brother who had just moved home about business ideas and asked him if he wanted to give the data recovery thing a try.

Along with our genius roommate Greg Piefer we got our hands on some broken hard drives and started fixing them in our basement.  From there, Gillware was born.

A month later we had 2 employees in the basement and by the end of the year we had signed a lease on a small office with our 5 employees.

We lasted less than a year at that office, outgrowing it rapidly.

We’re now at our 5th official location.

[Jeff]:

Brilliant! This sort of early success and growth does show there was a real need present to support the start-up business.

Again with Brian Gill: “I knew I’d be Starting a Business”

[Jeff]:

What was the turning point, for the recovery and deciding to start a business and why?

[Brian]:

I knew on the 2100 mile drive home from California to Wisconsin I’d be starting a business.

Tyler’s experience proved that there was a market need and not much competition in the data recovery space.  I had a low six figures saved up to throw at some crazy idea. Data recovery seemed to fit a lot of my objectives.

I knew right away that it was going to be very difficult to reverse engineer highly complicated electromechanical devices that had no public design documentation or service manuals.

The barrier of entry seemed high; you need legitimate scientists with backgrounds in 3 difficult sciences.  The need would be very real to the end user so if they could find us there wouldn’t be much of a sales cycle.

And as the handful of existing labs seemed only to cater to large corporations I knew there was a hole to fill. So we filled it.

Low Cost Start up – and Low Margins!

[Jeff]:

Once you were able to learn a little about recovering your data, I imagine there must have been a few others whom you first helped. Would you tell us some of the first stories of people you tried to help out in the first few weeks or months?

[Brian]:

So first we obtained a few pallets of broken hard drives. You can find broken electronic stuff pretty cheap.

We figured out that with what we already knew we could get data back on about 50% of these, and our rate was increasing rapidly with exposure to casework.

We started advertising data recovery services in the $99-$199 range with no charge if we couldn’t help. When people called in we were transparent about just getting started.

Most of our customers had no other choice, because it seemed like we were the only people doing this stuff for less than thousands of dollars.  We were of course losing money at these rates but needed to learn our craft.

I had set aside about 100K that I was willing to burn through to get the company off the ground, so we started burning.

[Jeff’s note]:

There are some really valuable ideas here including being open and transparent with your new (potential) clients. Finances are an important consideration for all business start ups, and in TheTechMentor.com’s course on how to start up and run an IT consultant business (for IT analysts and computer technicians) we go into some detail about how you want to consider and set up your financial reserves or otherwise manage your financial survival during your start up period until you have sufficient incoming cash flow.

See also ‘These 10 Success Levers Show You How to Become an IT Consultant Successfully‘.

If you are in an earlier stage of your career, perhaps just about to start out, you can gain some ideas on how to become a computer technician here.

Only part of the interview:

There is definitely some inspiring and really interesting ground covered in the whole the interview, but it was too long to TheTechMentor.com put it all here. We hope to bring another installment of this interview when we have time! If you enjoy this interview please share it, and let others know about it.

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What Are Time Wasters?

According to the Collins English Dictionary, a time-waster is something that causes “you to spend a lot of time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit.”  With that being said, how does this apply to you?  What are the things that you find yourself being distracted by instead of focusing on starting your IT business?

What Are Your Time Wasters?

Maybe you are spending hours on Facebook, Twitter, news sites, blogs, Pinterest, Tumblr or other sites.  Maybe it’s a smartphone app that continually draws you in or you just can’t stop constantly checking your email all throughout the day.  Or maybe you are simply wasting several hours a day playing games.

This is exactly what I was doing years ago.  I would spend hours on end playing computer games when, instead, I could have been focusing my efforts on something constructive like starting my own business.

Don’t get me wrong, some of these things can be fun or feel like a stress relief.  But you need to ask yourself what is more important to you: spending countless hours on these things that, in the end, may have no real tangible benefit or time spent building a profitable business that you may even be able to hand down to your children one day?

Many smartphones, such as the iPhone, track your usage week to week.

You can’t ‘make time’. Just assign it differently. This may give you reason to focus on the time usage report right now.

Shifting Your Priorities

Let me ask you this.  What would happen if you took all the time and energy that you spend on time wasters and shifted it towards starting a business?  Think about all that you could achieve.

I’m not saying that your life has to be all work and no play.  I’m simply saying that, instead of spending countless hours on things that are distracting you from getting things done, you should spend that time and energy on starting your business.

Getting Rid of Time Wasters and Focusing on Your Business

So, you may be asking yourself, where do I even begin?  How do I rid myself of these distractions so I can focus on starting my business.  To help you with this, just follow the steps below.

Step 1:  Identifying Time Wasters

The first thing you need to do is go through and list out on a piece of paper all of the things you would consider time wasters that are distracting you from building an IT business.

Remember, this could be something as small as jumping on Facebook for 5 minutes, constantly checking email, or something as big as spending 4 hours playing flappy bird every evening.

Time wasting is not only about non-work distractions.

Remember that a time-waster is something that causes “you to spend a lot of time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit.” Or low benefit for your time resource.

When you start your business, remember you can start small without employees. An advantage of outsourcing customer service early on (once you have learned typical needs) is more time to focus on your business.

Step 2:  Killing Time Wasters

Now that you’ve identified the time wasters, let’s come up with a plan on how to get rid of them.

If the time waster is a game or an app and you are having a hard time avoiding it then it may be necessary to completely remove it from your computer or phone.  This may seem extreme but if this the only way you can stop yourself then this may be what you need to do.

If you are being distracted by a specific website, web browsing or email then there are several tools you can install to block these sites from your computer for a predetermined amount of time.

ColdTurkey
ColdTurkey is a Windows application that will not only help you block distracting websites but also block applications (like games) that may be distracting you from getting things done.

SelfControl
SelfControl is a free Mac application that can help you block certain websites or email for a predetermined amount of time while you focus on your goals.

Freedom
Freedom is a cross-platform (including Android) application that completely locks you out of the internet for a predetermined amount of time.  If you need to get back on the internet before that time period is up, you have to reboot your computer.

Anti-Social
Anti-Social is another cross-platform application that only focuses on blocking social media sites instead of everything.  This is good if you are only having trouble staying off of these types of sites.

Web Browser Plugins
If you want to focus solely on blocking websites in a specific browser, there are also these free browser plugins available that will do just that.
LeechBlock for Firefox
StayFocused for Chrome

Remember, the key here is to remove access to these distractions if having access to them is too much of a temptation for you to waste time on them.

Step 3:  Starting Your IT Business

Now that you have gotten rid of your time wasters, you should use this new freed up time to focus on building your IT business.  If you are not sure where to begin, then I highly recommend downloading my free guide on How to Make Your First $1000 as an IT Consultant. (Pats self on back!)

Step 4:  Getting Help

And finally, if you ever get to a point where you feel stuck when trying to start your IT business, post a comment below or contact me through my contact form and I’ll be more than happy to help.

Click the following link if you want to attract more customers to buy your product, be it a service business or hardware products.

I realize that there may be better tools or techniques out there for getting things done.  If you have any advice on what helps you stay focused, please share it below.

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Why Should I Offer Mac Support?

There are two main reasons why you should offer Mac support with your IT business.  The first reason is because more and more businesses (and home users) are using Macs.  Because of this, the demand for Mac support continues to climb which means that there is a greater need for people to support them.  Simply put, offering Mac support is another way to generate additional revenue for your IT business.

The second reason why you should offer Mac support is because it’s a great way to get your foot in the door with a prospective client.  Think of it this way.  Let’s say a prospective client has 20 PCs and 2 Macs.  Your competitor tells the prospective client that they will support all of their PCs but won’t touch their Macs.  You, on the other hand, offer to support all their PCs plus their Macs.

Which IT business do you think they will choose?  The answer is the one who will take care of everything.  Not only do they want all of their systems to play nicely together, they also don’t want to have to deal with multiple vendors.  This alone helped me land multiple clients who had mixed environments.

This also means that if you would like to become a computer technician, you will gain an advantage if you develop the ability to support Macs.

If you are interested to become a computer technician as a job, refer to my popular article on 9 Tips to Help You Become a Computer Technician.

But I Hate Macs

It’s funny how many people have an absolute hatred toward Macs (or any Apple product for that matter).  If this is you, you should put aside this personal hatred and think about what’s best for your business.  Can you imagine a car mechanic who would not work on cars that a third of his potential customers drive?!  If supporting Macs is going to bring in more revenue, I highly recommend you consider adding Mac support to your service offerings.

Macs Intimidate Me

Maybe you don’t hate them but are just intimidated by them.  This seems to be the case with a lot of techs who have never had their hands on one before.  If this is you then you may actually find that using and supporting one is just as easy (or easier) than a PC. And much of what you already know from PC support is applicable or gives you a head start for Mac support.  I highly encourage you to give it a shot and see for yourself.

So Where Do I Begin?

The first thing you need to do is get your hands on a Mac or OS X by doing one of the following.

Buy a Mac

(Use this Mac Price Guide)

Build a Hackintosh

Install OS X Inside a VM on Your Windows PC

Next, you need to learn how to use a Mac.  Here is a very good tutorial that covers almost everything in under an hour.

Learn The Mac In Under An Hour

And finally, you need to learn how to troubleshoot, repair, and support Macs.

For OS X and software related support, I have put together these two guides.

The Ultimate Mac Repair Quick Reference Guide

Top 10 Mac Repair Tools

Warranty Support

If the Mac has a hardware issue you will want to check the warranty coverage.  Apple products typically come with a one year warranty.  If the buyer chooses, they can purchase AppleCare which will extend their warranty coverage for a total of three years.

If it’s under warranty, you will want to take it to the nearest warranty repair center and have them repair it since the parts and labor will be covered.

If the machine is out of warranty, you can attempt the repair yourself.

For hardware related repairs, refer to my PC and Mac Tool Kit list. Also, iFixit has every guide you will need with step-by-step instructions on how to repair, replace and upgrade almost every version of the Mac.  They also sell every tool necessary to perform repairs including parts.

iFixit Mac Hardware Repair Guides

iFixit Repair Tools

iFixit Mac Parts

Summary of Why You Should Support Macs With Your IT Business or Computer Technician Job

The demand for IT businesses to Support Macs continues to climb with their growing popularity, this can form an increasing work base to your IT business, and also is increasing the number of computer technician jobs with this requirement. You can get more work as it will help you land clients who have mixed environments and so need both Windows PC and Apple Mac support. If you want to become a computer technician, it will make you more employable. You can post any questions you have related to offering Mac support below and I (or someone else in TheTechMentor.com community) will be more than happy to help you out.

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Wondering how to Start your own IT Consulting Business? Starting an IT consulting business can be a very rewarding experience.  You get to be your own boss, set your own schedule, build a profitable company and make money doing what you love.

But even though this all sounds nice, you may be wondering how do you get to this point?  How do you actually become an IT consultant?  In the following article I hope to answer this along with some other common questions about IT consulting.

Becoming an IT consultant may seem like a pipe dream to you.  However, if you have a good understanding of how to troubleshoot, repair and support computers then you can probably make money at least on a small scale as an IT consultant.  Countless people start their very own IT consulting businesses this way.  They start out small and then make the jump into full-time IT consulting once they have enough revenue coming in.

Others may already have the finances to float them while they launch their business or their life may be set up in a way where they can start a full-time IT consulting business right away.

And yet others start by using a combination of these two scenarios.  This is how I started my IT consulting business.  I picked up a part-time job while I built my IT consulting business during my free time.  Once I had a good client base and some contracts in place, I quit my part-time job to work full-time in my IT consulting business.

If you are considering starting an IT consulting business then deciding on which of these scenarios to use will be one of the most important decisions you will have to make when launching your business.

Let’s take a look at some common fears when starting an IT consulting business.

I’m Worried I Don’t Have Enough Experience

If you are worried about not having enough experience then you are not alone.  This is one of the most common fears people have when wanting to start an IT consulting business.

Since your primary service offering when starting out will be computer repair, you will obviously need to know how to troubleshoot and repair computers.

You should also know how to set up and support basic computer networks as well.  You will see that most small businesses are using the same network products that residential clients do.  You most likely won’t see enterprise level equipment unless you are supporting large businesses.

With more and more small business applications being hosted, most small businesses will not have servers.  The ones that do have servers will typically be using them to host one specific line of business application or store files.  If you are starting out and don’t feel comfortable taking on clients with servers yet, then simply don’t take them on.  In the meantime, you should dedicate some time to learning how to support servers.

You can take comfort in the fact that you don’t need to have any IT certifications and that you don’t even have to have a college degree.  Your clients won’t care about these things.  They will be more concerned about your ability to do the work that you have agreed to do.

I’m Worried I Don’t Have Enough Money to Launch my Business

One of the great things about starting an IT consulting business is that the cost to get started is very minimal compared to other businesses.  You can literally start your business out of your home with very few tools.  And with the ability to ship parts to yourself overnight or run up to your closest electronics store, you don’t have to keep that many parts in stock.  Since hard drive failures will be the main issue that will need remedied right away, I do recommend keeping, at minimum, a standard 3.5 and 2.5 inch SATA hard drive in stock.

Other expenses will include the cost to incorporate your business (get an accountant to help you with this), getting a domain name, creating a website, getting business cards and a phone (if you don’t want to use your personal).

Your biggest expense will be your general and professional liability (E&O) insurance.  You can start an IT business without this but I wouldn’t recommend it.

I’m Worried About Going At This Alone

When starting an IT consulting business by yourself, you don’t have to go at it alone.  There are other people and services out there that can help you out.

When you are dealing with a technical problem that you are having trouble with, there are services that you can call upon to help you out via remote support when you are in a bind.  Some of these services offer level 2 and level 3 IT support remotely and charge by the project or by the hour.  There are also other services that will manage your client’s servers for you for a flat monthly fee.

For your bookkeeping questions, you can and should hire an accountant.  You will want to make sure you are managing your books properly to avoid unexpected surprises when tax time roles around.  When you have legal questions, you will also want to hire a lawyer.

And if you have a question about running your IT business, you can also reach out to me as I am always happy to help.

I’m Worried I Won’t Make any Money

Another common fear is that you won’t make any money to live off of.  This is obviously a huge concern when you are making the jump from a reliable paycheck to a new IT consulting business.

The best advice that I can give you is that you need to have a very good plan in place and work incredibly hard and securing new clients from day one.  Check out my free guide at the end of this article that will help you come up with a plan to start making money as an IT consultant right away.

What Does a Day in the Life of an IT Consultant Look Like?

So what does the day to day life of an IT consultant look like anyway?  Well, every day can be different but when you are first starting out, your day will mainly consist of marketing your business and trying to find new clients.  This could include things like going to business networking events, cold calling, going door to door, asking people and business that you’ve already helped for referrals, and reaching out to people on Linkedin.

As you start landing some clients, your days could be more split between marketing, sales and responding to support requests both on-site and remotely.  You will also have to manage invoicing and other internal tasks that are a part of running any small business.

Later, as your business grows, you may be managing an employee or two, spending time on marketing and sales, and tackling the occasional support request.  If you don’t have someone to tackle your internal tasks then you will be taking care of those as well.

Next, please post any questions you have below so I can help you out.  I look forward to hearing from you and helping you start your very own IT consulting business.

Great!  So How Do I Start my IT Consultant Business?

If you found this advice helpful, then the first thing I recommend you do is to download my free guide on How to Make Your First $1000 as an IT Consultant.  I put this guide together to help you develop a plan to start making money right away as an IT consultant. You are ready to make money by starting an IT consultant business?

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Start an IT Services Business

Instead, if you want a business that’s both profitable and fully scalable then you should start an IT services business.  An IT services business typically offers a wide variety of IT services and solutions (including computer repair and support) to take care of all their client’s IT needs.

A good IT services business will position themselves as an all-in-one IT provider.

And as an IT consultant, your goal is to become your client’s trusted IT advisor.  Your clients will rely on you to point them in the right direction with all of their IT needs.  And as an all-in-one IT provider, you can then provide your clients with the services and solutions that work best for their business.

Managed Services

One way to do this is to provide your clients with support plans where you take care of all of your client’s IT needs for a flat monthly fee.  This is called managed services.  With these plans you also try and prevent problems from occurring by using remote monitoring and management tools.  With these tools you can detect problems before they arise and take care of them before your client experiences downtime.

So, instead of making money off of your client’s failures, i.e. computer problems, you now make money off of their success, i.e. keeping them up and running.  In return, these plans provides you with predictable recurring revenue for your business so you can hire new employees and scale as necessary.

Cloud Services

You can also offer your clients with a wide variety of cloud solutions such as hosted email, hosted and hybrid file sharing, hosted desktops, hosted phone services and offsite backup for a monthly fee.

The benefit for your clients is that they no longer have to purchase expensive servers, they are only billed for what they need, they can work from anywhere and their services can be scaled on the fly.  The benefit for you, again, is predictable recurring revenue for your business.

Other Services

There is also room for a wide variety of other services you can offer your clients such as Mac support, mobile device management, point of sale and line of business solutions, license management, print management, on-site phone solutions, etc..  The list goes on and on.

Again, a good IT consulting business will position themselves as an all in one IT provider so they can offer their clients all the services and solutions they need.

So, don’t start a computer repair business.  Start an IT services business instead and take care of all your client’s needs.  And if you would like to learn how to get started, check out my free guide on How to Make Your First $1000 as an IT Consultant.

And if you have any questions about starting an IT services business, please post them below.

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