Tis the Season for the Home Appliance Repair Rush: How to Prepare

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The winter holiday season, starting with Thanksgiving and running through New Year’s Day, is one of the busiest times for home appliance repair professionals. Homeowners, wrapped up in planning meals and shopping for holiday gifts, may forget about doing basic home appliance maintenance. The result is panicked calls at the last minute, begging an appliance …

How to Start an Appliance Repair Business

A few years ago I decided to start a major appliance repair business, and I succeeded.  Here’s a recap of how I did it: 1.  I looked for appliance repair training, including books, appliance repair training schools, free appliance repair training, and online appliance repair training courses: The best appliance repair book I found was Troubleshooting and Repairing …

Trust Your Stuff

Let’s face it before you can know everything about repairing appliances, you will have to run service calls. Especially early in your career as an appliance repair technician, you will have gaps in your knowledge and encounter repair situations you’ve never seen before. All I wanted during this phase of startup was to do a …

What’s So Great About Appliance Repair?

OK, I have been in the appliance repair business for over a year now, successfully running service calls and making money, but it’s time to stop and think, do I really like it? I invested some time (3 months) and money (home study training, promotional materials, and inventory) into learning to be an appliance repair technician and starting my own …