Had been in board repair field for quite a long time, started 2011 with those NVIDIA chipset laptops, now mainly on MAC logic boards.
Pretty confident about the skills I have and having more and more customers as well.
but now here comes the problems where got me stuck . There are only so much I can do a day. so just can't finish so many orders in a timely manner, some customers can't wait that much,
some cases won't allow me enough time to try to work on since there are so many others waiting for me.
I can only process maybe 5-10 boards a day (don't wanna give up my life on Sunday. )it's being like a loop now, repair works are good, customers come, send more orders, more customers, more works....then slow processing/repair, then some customers walk away since they can't wait... then less orders.. then fast and good repairs, and back to the beginning again.
had trying to think of a solution of hiring another pair of hands. but IT'S SO HARD!
first of all is the salary thing, I used to offer pretty good on a guy, he's only like beginner level (can replace BGA chipset, maybe some toothbrush liquid spilled repair and so on） I offered 20-25/hour, he left still once he got to know only some of the skills I taught. and now become one of the competitor in the area too ( posting lower prices to drag all the customers over first. he's not even sure if he will be able to fix the boards)
anyway, dilemma here, should I hire some one else to help, teach him everything, give him good salary and hope he would stay, if he leaves then just hire another one?
or just concentrate on my own works, maybe jack up the price a bit to make more on the orders?
it's just like I got stuck at curtain point. can't make more not because of the lack of skills on repairing but management thing.
any advice would be appreciated.
Pretty confident about the skills I have and having more and more customers as well.
but now here comes the problems where got me stuck . There are only so much I can do a day. so just can't finish so many orders in a timely manner, some customers can't wait that much,
some cases won't allow me enough time to try to work on since there are so many others waiting for me.
I can only process maybe 5-10 boards a day (don't wanna give up my life on Sunday. )it's being like a loop now, repair works are good, customers come, send more orders, more customers, more works....then slow processing/repair, then some customers walk away since they can't wait... then less orders.. then fast and good repairs, and back to the beginning again.
had trying to think of a solution of hiring another pair of hands. but IT'S SO HARD!
first of all is the salary thing, I used to offer pretty good on a guy, he's only like beginner level (can replace BGA chipset, maybe some toothbrush liquid spilled repair and so on） I offered 20-25/hour, he left still once he got to know only some of the skills I taught. and now become one of the competitor in the area too ( posting lower prices to drag all the customers over first. he's not even sure if he will be able to fix the boards)
anyway, dilemma here, should I hire some one else to help, teach him everything, give him good salary and hope he would stay, if he leaves then just hire another one?
or just concentrate on my own works, maybe jack up the price a bit to make more on the orders?
it's just like I got stuck at curtain point. can't make more not because of the lack of skills on repairing but management thing.
any advice would be appreciated.
