How to start your own appliance repair business and earn income
Back when I first considered starting my appliance repair business not much more than a year ago, I couldn’t have accurately forecast what my experience would be. I only knew that it seemed like a good idea, although maybe a little daunting to get the proper training and compete with well-established businesses for a piece …
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I was nervous when I first moved my business to the big city. How was I going to compete with all the other appliance repair service companies here? I got some of my customers to write reviews for me and worked my way up to the first page of Google, but my website still hadn’t …
If you want to start an appliance repair business on your own, there is really no way around the hands-on experience learning curve. I armed myself with good training to start with from Uncle Harry and relied heavily on his support system, but at the end of the day I still had to do the repairs …
Sometimes I do a repair precisely by the book, leaving absolutely no possibility for error. Then, at the moment of truth (i.e. testing the machine after reassembly), my heart sinks straight into my belly as I stare in disbelief when the appliance behaves just as if I never touched it. This recently happened to me …
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Just as things were building up a head of steam in the remote rural town of 18,000 people where I successfully started my appliance repair business, my wife landed a job in a city with a metro area of 1.3 million people. So, I moved my business. Here I am in a completely new business situation, cashing in …
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Business has been very good for me. In fact, it is growing much faster than I originally predicted it would be at this time in my first year. I have gotten so busy that I really haven’t had time to blog, and that’s the simple answer as to where I’ve been. I have been astonished …
Continue reading “Looking Back at My Appliance Business Startup”
With a few service calls under my belt, I am finally starting to get past my initial fear of going into other people’s homes and fixing some appliance that I have never seen before. Honestly, I have a long way to go before I feel totally comfortable, but I was surprised at just how nervous …
Continue reading “Getting Past the Fear of Running My First Service Calls”
OK, I admit it, I’m a bit of a control freak. I spend my life organizing and planning the events of my day. When studying appliance repair, I found myself choosing to study the appliances that I thought would be most in demand for repair FIRST and the least likely to get service calls LAST. …
Another service call came in, but this one threw me way off! Customer says she has a GE microwave that is dead and wants to know if I can come to take a look at it. I kept a cool tone, but my stomach was in a spin. I knew I hadn’t touched ANY of …
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It was a conspiracy of ironic bad luck that sent me on my second ever service call. I had no idea when I rang the doorbell just how challenging fate was going to make my next experience. It was not because the customer was some terrible jerk that demanded unreasonable results with no intention of paying …
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The part came to Fedex at around 1:00 PM the next day. I called the customer and arranged to come by at 2:00 PM. When I got there, the customer let me find my way to the laundry room – we were old pals by now. There was a load of unwashed laundry in the washer …
Today I got my first real service call. (Thanks to the “dress rehearsal” last Thursday, I wasn’t half as nervous taking this one. ) It was a straightforward call. The customer said his wife had broken the door latch on their Whirlpool Duet washer (GHW9200LW). I told the customer I’d come by at 1:00 PM, and actually got …