Irishchappie
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It will be based in Dublin and I'm wondering if there is much of a market for it?
I'll have to start doing it part time during the evenings and weekends as I'm currently in full time employment.
Sounds like a callout fee under another name...as for no call out fee, well a miniumum of 1 or 2 hour rate is an option,
I think you'll find it impossible to sustain a decent level of service to business customers if you're only available in the evenings & weekends.
Sounds like a callout fee under another name...
Its only something to start with, if things do pick up then I'll take the plunge and go at it full time.
A prime example being a small insurance broker a friend of mine works for
called out an engineer from a local reseller to sort a PC issue they were
having, they were charged €150 call out fee and a minimum 1 hour on site
at €100 per hour. The total cost of €350 (Call out fee + 2 hours labour) plus
VAT was fairly substantial when you consider that you could have bought a
similar spec PC for €700 ex VAT.
To do this out of hours, which would have suited them better as it meant
that the person using the PC was away from their PC for the time the
engineer on site, would have cost them an additional out of hours cost.
Now take out the initial call out fee (€150) and the option of out of hours
support, it makes what I'm considering offering a much more attractive option for a small business even if I did charge the €100 a hour.
How much did you charge this person?One in particluar was setting up a small business and had 4 staff including himself.. they were quoted obscene amounts of money when looking to buy computers, a server, printers etc.. He asked me to help, purely because he didnt know anything about computers.
How much are you charging your existing clients? - would they be happy with €100/hour?
How much did you charge this person?
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