Geekatoo experience

[callthatgirl]

I know, what a joke. I gave up years ago with those jobs, wasn't even worth paying my techs to do them.

 

[cmonova]

Pick and choose..Last 2 I did are here and neither one took long to do. If you have the time (or techs) I see no reason not to sign up for these 3rd party companies and take advantage of what jobs you can work into your schedule. There are at least 4 3rd party companies that you can sign up for and pick and choose and basically counter offer anything they put out there. I have done simple (15 minute) blade installs that pay $110 per….So ya will let my techs do that all day long….


$75. 00 My computer is also displaying the following syptoms: No, just the one issue . I need service for a Laptop. The type of computer is: Windows. Specifically it's running Windows 8 or 8.1.


$110.00 Tune-up a Computer or Laptop: My computer needs the following: tune-up (the machine is slow).

 

[Markverhyden]

I don't have a problem with those sites. I'm signed up with many and make some really good money on some of them. But 99.9% of the good work is B2B. I posted it not so much because it is Geekatoo, which I've never seen a good paying job since they seem to set the prices, but because it was a borked W10 upgrade. Would not have touched it with my ex-wife's 10' pole. No way to ask if there were backups done, recovery media present, etc, etc.

 

[Krynn72]

They were also experiencing other symptoms, such as "something else".

 

[Markverhyden]

They were also experiencing other symptoms, such as "something else".

I had an email exchange with some office droid over at Thumbtack about this exact problem. No specifics. Thumbtack used to let you send questions back to the EU prior to submitting a quote. They changed it so you have to submit a quote and put your questions in there. Of course Thumbtack charges for sending a quote. I told them that I'm not going to pay to ask questions. But they don't seem to care.

 

[Ed Ellingham]

Does Geekatoo allow you to represent yourself? My experience with most of these sub-contract providers is you're forbidden to leave a card.

 

[cypress]

When I searched the previous threads on Geekatoo, the CEO at one time signed up and was asked that very question. His answer was yes you can represent yourself and they encourage you to do so.

 

[Ed Ellingham]

When I searched the previous threads on Geekatoo, the CEO at one time signed up and was asked that very question. His answer was yes you can represent yourself and they encourage you to do so.

Thanks, that helps! I was avoiding companies where I couldn't represent myself. I can't scale my business by representing someone elses

Ed

 

[Romaniac]

The experience with these sites will vary on your location, saturation and yourself.

I have some experiences. But take this into consideration: I mostly do residential, and I do it on the side.

I have done 4 jobs for them (I've been signed up for a while, over a year I think - but I did find them very early on).
I've also passed up a lot of jobs that were more 'home theater' types vs. PC repair, and also some I couldn't do because time conflicts. It's not a steady flow by any means; for me, it's simply another opportunity. It's free to get e-mails, so why not?

The things I don't know are: Saturation for this site in my area AND if there's other techs that have higher priority. GT has a point system and also tests, which give you more points, which means higher priority. It's actually not bad.
Good profile, doing jobs and passing tests gives you more points.

It's been good. All 4 jobs went well, and paid well.

ThumbTack has been a really good deal for me (probably an understatement) I also got on somewhat early, at least for my area.


Mileage may vary, as read, but it may be worth a shot.

 

[wickedmojoit]

My experience with these 3rd party sales leads is varied like most others. Ultimately, Thumbtack worked the best for me.
After paying for a lot of leads and getting some work I went back and looked at all my leads, all my response, what worked, what didn't. I created a few rules of thumb to go by. For me this is how it worked -
Where does this lead live, if its not an area that's more affluent, I didn't bid.
What kind of computer/device are they looking to get fixed ? If it was last years black Friday special at Walmart, I didn't bid. Its not that we wouldn't/don't work on cheap machines or that I'm above black Friday Walmart specials ( please don't hear me being snobby because I'm not) its just that my history with thumbtack showed that the people that put out requests with cheap disposable computers were tire kickers.
What time did the request come in, people that put out the request during daytime hours were more likely to hire me, the late night ones, I never herd from after the bid.
I also looked at the wording of their request. If they spoke like a tech, I didn't bid. Because they where probably a tech shopping the competition or they are the I know everything client... you know the one, they come in tell you whats wrong and how to fix it, question everything the tech does, tells you how handy they are with computers and you just want to say to them if you know so much, why are you hiring us?
In looking at my responses I also realized that on responses that I started out selling why we are the best choice, how educated and experienced our techs are and on and on, I didn't get jobs but when I started out talking about them, their problem, their solution, what day time works for them then mentioned our credibility stuff, I had much greater success.
Looking at my successes and failures helped me fine tune my process. I went from bidding on everything to bidding on 1 out of 10 but I had great success getting that 1 client and they were a good client.
From about a year with thumbtack I picked up about 4 businesses that have used us 2 or 3 times for break fix and a few residential that have been return calls and given referrals. One of the residentials was well out of my normal service are, I quoted him $20 an hour over my normal hourly. He has had us in 4 times for various jobs, one of them being a $1,600 job.Also, those are customers that wouldn't have found us organically.

I think the key with the 3rd parties is weeding through the 75% crap to find the 25% that's worth it. Once you figure out how to make Geekatoo, Thumbtack,Work Market or any of them to work for you and not, you work for them, it becomes worth it. I don't go after a lot of 3rd party stuff any more but our first 9 months to a year, I'm really glad we had it.

 

[HairesPCRepair]

I've been taking jobs from GeekaToo for over a year and have no real complaints. I do the job and am never there any longer then 2 hours at the very most and most of the time that is a virus removal where the PC crawls along super slow. I have had only one person not pay and I'm still asking about that trying to get something. My average payments have been 70, 91, 129. etc. can't beat that for less then 2 hours of pretty much simple work. There's no contract between them and the customer so they're fair game to hand a card too. I'll take the job as long as its not to far to drive and its worth my wild. I actually have one Saturday afternoon.

 

[Michael Fuller]

Pick and choose..Last 2 I did are here and neither one took long to do. If you have the time (or techs) I see no reason not to sign up for these 3rd party companies and take advantage of what jobs you can work into your schedule. There are at least 4 3rd party companies that you can sign up for and pick and choose and basically counter offer anything they put out there. I have done simple (15 minute) blade installs that pay $110 per….So ya will let my techs do that all day long….


$75. 00 My computer is also displaying the following syptoms: No, just the one issue . I need service for a Laptop. The type of computer is: Windows. Specifically it's running Windows 8 or 8.1.


$110.00 Tune-up a Computer or Laptop: My computer needs the following: tune-up (the machine is slow).

Hey I'm new here on the site. I'm look to start my computer repair business. I'm located in Baltimore md do you know of any other companies like geekatoo .

 

[cmonova]

There are quite a few:
Onforce
Field nation
Servright
Field solutions

 

[Michael Fuller]

There are quite a few:
Onforce
Field nation
Servright
Field solutions

thanks for the info..