Originally Posted by
javanx3d
Yeah, this is the area that if I didn't have a day job I would push harder since there is a huge need at the Mom + Pop business who makes a decent living, but cringes at paying huge rates to do things like:
"My Restaurant Software won't work because our "server" got nasty malware (usually from employees playing games on Myspace around here)"
"My printer won't work"
to basic web pages and adwords campaigns targeted at the local area.
I got going through various friends who have businesses around here with the above and more needs. Did a few for free, then started getting asked to do it for money. What I usually do is quote a rate equivalent to what I would make writing (time trade in my mind) that normally comes in well below the corporate solutions they get offered.
Did you know Dell tried to charge my bud $120 to get red of the 2009 MSN Virus/Malware? Told him no one else could do it but Dell...took us a whopping 45 minutes because he didn't have an anti-virus software installed. Can you say, virus update, reboot in safe mode, clean, do it again to make sure you didn't miss anything?
Anyway, as more folks go on-line at work, this is just going to get to be a bigger need, I'm sure the UK is the same way or even more since you guys always seem to precede us in IT/Mobile advances by 1-2 years.
To get started if you don't have contacts already, I would recommend using the Craig's List equivalent for you area in the UK to include the printed newspaper! The majority of your folks will not be guys like found on this forum, but those that have gotten online likely within the last 5 years and think of all this Internet stuff as wizardry and still actually read a printed paper.
Best of luck!
Cheers,
James