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,
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And Replacement
By Off-premised
Cloud Computing
Solutions,
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There Definitely
is a Sea of Change
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But Does That
Mean the End
is Near For
Computer Repair
Stores?
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That All Depends
on a Number
of Factors
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The Wall Street
Journal Weighs In
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The Article Opens
With a Look at
How Best Buy,
Gamestop,
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And Radioshack
are All Fighting
For Survival
Against “Online
Competitors”,
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Especially
Amazon.com
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And While the
Retail Giants Do
Understand
the Urgency
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For Reinventing
Themselves,
You Can Change
the Course of
a Canoe Faster
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Than You Can
Alter the Course
of a 5,000
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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
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• “Computer Shop
Franchise Needs
to Draw in Larger
Customers”
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• “4 Tips for
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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
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Well the Store
Reinvents Itself?
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