During this time frame we acquired a Van to improve productivity. The van was a Mitsubishi Express L300 and had done over 300,000km's. At first we believed we could still make use of its great cargo space and air conditioner however we had major overheating issues in the middle of Autumn. The van has now been sold to a new happy owner as a project.
Around the same time as purchasing the van we began developing and hosting our own website. This prove to be difficult to do because the goal was to spend as little time and money on the website as possible. As a result we had lots of site errors and it was a slow process. Google also couldn't crawl our website because it was hosted on a cloud instead of a server, therefore we weren't going to appear in search results... Ever!
Since the sale of the van we developed a new logo for Mobile IT Repairs; as well as a flyer that has been delivered to a few local areas. We now have a good listing on Yellow Pages and are starting to use our Facebook page.
We now have a small stock to take to clients that consists of cables and adapters, antivirus and networking gear. We plan to increase the variety of stock we carry as we develop more clients.
Over the next 6 months we hope to:
- renovate our website and blog to be more attractive and easier to find as well as easier to navigate.
- Get our new logo printed on some shirts.
- Provide remote assistance to save customers money and us time.
- Post a monthly update on the blog as minimum.
- Provide web development and management.
- And lastly, allow customers to reduce their invoice by accepting trade-in equipment.
Some of these things may be a challenge but it would be nice to see them accomplished.