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Laptop Sales, Accessories and Repair. Stick to a niche and dominate.
You can charge higher rates. (Laptops owners are affluent and often in need of "rush service"). you will sell pcmcia lan cards, modems, routers, bags, hard drive adapters, car chargers, ac adapters, batteries, and all those little made in China high margin accessories like crazy. Learn Hard drive repair and backup and encryption, there's some cash.
Big up front investment, you better know what a soldering iron is. You need to know all the "OEM manufactures) and how to get parts.
You won't make $2500 a month your first year. Very few businesses make money their first year, so you will be on track.
Location, Location, Location.
Beware of the holdup. Nothing sucks more than to wake up to the alarm to find out burglars sledge-hammered through the block wall at the rear of your store and made out with ten laptops.
PS: You need to charge a minimum fee for your time, if you can fix it or not.
You can apply the fee to future goods if you ike, but you need to charge a touch fee.
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