Are you someone who runs their life on credit card debt? If you are someone who constantly runs in the negative and cannot put money aside to purchase the things you want, then going into business probably isn’t for you. The most important things with running a business is managing money. It isn’t just part of running a business, it IS running a business. In this article we’ll show you how to manage your funds by keeping your costs down.
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Five months ago I was doing some web development work for a business which I have created a site for in the past. Although their website is doing well, their offline business is a different story.

Here is a story about being a “business dreamer” that is based on a true story with the names changed to protect the businesses mentioned.
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Steady Income - Working as a freelance computer technician has its peak times where you have many computers to fix in one day, and its low times where you don’t get anything to fix all day. The computer business is generally considered an unsteady stream of income because clients will usually only call you when something goes wrong. The Computer Business Kit has a Maintenance Contract that allows you to make your income more steady by doing maintenance tasks for your clients (typically monthly), such as updating virus software, windows updates, cleaning temp folders and removing dust. Its steady and usually easy work, the Computer Business Kit even helps you get them with its sales letter you can send out to local businesses.
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Its the end of the week and for some self employed techies it may have been a hard one. I am usually the first person to tell someone to follow their dreams however some people need a reality check. Working for yourself is much harder than most nine-to-five workers think.
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It often happens to computer techies looking to start their own business. They are eager to do everything perfect with their new businesses. They spend a lot of time brainstorming, writing things down, reading, researching, analyzing and… anything but getting started. Does this sound like you?
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Yesterday I got a technical support call as I often do. However, this one wasn’t like my normal ones. This one had more different situations occur in it than usual. The client called up angry and left happy, in this article I’ll tell you everything that happened in between.
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A question that many computer businesses are faced with. Should their pricing be variable on a per hour basis, or fixed on a per job basis? In this article we’ll talk about the advantages and disadvantages of both.
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Welcome Computer America Listeners. As it says at the top of this site, Technibble is a website designed for people wanting to start their own computer business or expand their existing ones, we also have some self help/informational articles for the average joe and computer buffs. We have put together a list of some of our popular articles so you can get an idea of what we’re all about.
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The big question for many young tech-heads looking to make something of themselves is do I need to be qualified. High schools pump it into their heads that they must get good grades and go onto a good University to work in the computer industry. Are they right? Read on.
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Accounting is a word that will make most computer technicians shudder. We start our own computer businesses because of our technical prowess, we can build a complete computer in under 15 minutes and know how to fix most computer issues that come our way. We don’t get into this business to be sitting at a desk counting numbers.

However, as I have mentioned in the past, when you start your own business you become not only the computer technician but the manager, marketer, secretary and accountant as well. In this article we’ll explain why you need to do it and show you how to get started.
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