I want to start a PC building business that repairs, upgrades and builds computers can anyone give me advice?

I live in the UKI want to start a PC building business that repairs, upgrades and builds computers can anyone give me advice?
I wanted to do something similar. The only problem I came across was suppliers. Suppliers which you will need to buy parts from. There is a lot of competition in this field so unless you are the cheapest person to buy from and you have the best supplier it is not going to work.





I am still looking for suppliers never found any good ones. Depends what you can kind. But its definitely a good business to go into.





Good luck.I want to start a PC building business that repairs, upgrades and builds computers can anyone give me advice?
You need to rephrase your question





or add detail because you don't tell ours what your wanting to have advice on





heres a link to a quick bit of a book describing how to make a business and what you need for what you want to do, but there is a limited amount of pages so your better off purchasing it off ebay








good luck
Unless you are working in a very niche market, you will be working very hard for very little reward.


Hardware margins are paper thin and one support call will zap any profit you might have had in the first place.


Watch your cash flow very carefully.


Your customers will keep saying I can buy a Dell or HP for less money.





Find a niche market and stick to it, avoid the generic suits every one path.





The margins on software and software support are more generous and are would give you a more sustainable business.





If you do go down the OEM systems route, look at adding some MS certification and enroll in the Microsoft partner program. The Action Pack will give you software to demonstrate and run some of your business on. MS have some great sales training and most of this is free.
Advice : Listen 2 what ur customer want. I know certain shops who are good when u tell dem ur budget and leave. but if ask for specific model den dey look at u if dey gona kill u.





And best of luck for future.
1. Have money to invest in this idea.


2. Draw up a business plan.


3. Gain relevant qualifications and experience for task at hand. i.e. CompTIAs A+ Professional Certification status is advised, and Network+ if you are designing / installing networks too.


4. Follow all the technical publications pertinant to this industry, so that you are knowledgable of what is hot or not.
Take a business course on small business start up at your local collage.
Well I wish you luck.





You maybe more successful in repair and maintenance then building new ones. Reason that you can branded Laptops and Pc's are so cheap, you will find it difficult to buy the components cheap enough to be competitive.


Maybe try your hand on building server installations for other commercial companies. I doubt if you will make money from the retail side, try sell to other business rather then joe blog. The same goes for maintenance. Don't rely on joe blog trade but go and see if you can get people to sign up for a long term maintenance contracts, say three years. Companies will pay you an upfront service fee for one year or half yearly or quarterly, but they are contract bound for three years. You can also offfer them short-term contracts too,but the fee would be higher, right? You supply a service which will be detailed in the contract, anything over and above that would be extra. e.g. installing servers, networking installations etc

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