Archive for October, 2009

The Danger of Relying on Google for Your Computer Repair Business

Google controls well over half of the United States’ search market share. Your computer repair businesses may rely pretty heavily on it to bring in new customers. What happens if overnight your business is removed from Google’s search results? Unfortunately, there are ways that your competition could get you banned or significantly punished in the [...]

BSOD Virus Recovery

After a virus removal, your computer may BSOD on the next boot due to registry changes that the virus made. Windows is looking at a corrupt registry, and it may point to a virus-infected file that was removed. At this point, restoring to the earliest registry backup on the system can be a quick fix. [...]

MS Security Essentials vs AVG vs Avast

Is it time to begin recommending Microsoft Security Essentials over AVG and Avast? AVG is easy to use, but the free version is somewhat crippled (no rootkit detection). Avast includes rootkit detection, but does not seem to scan the registry and has a user-unfriendly UI. MS Security Essentials won’t nag users to upgrade, has minimal [...]

Get More Business with a Computer Repair Coupon

Some people won’t use your services unless they feel they are getting a deal or a “special.” If your area has local coupon mailers or online printable coupons, you might issue computer repair coupons locally to get business from those deal-seekers. For example, BienTek releases computer repair coupons on a local online printable coupons site. [...]