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re: This 17-yr old earns $4.2K per month running a local neighborhood Geek Squad business
Posted on 9/28/22 at 5:34 am to Street Hawk
Posted on 9/28/22 at 5:34 am to Street Hawk
You know this “tech savy” kid has skimmed every password these old geezers have and has set up a few auto pays to his shell biz.
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Posted on 9/28/22 at 6:44 am to Gorilla Ball
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I appreciate his entrepreneurship and thinking outside of the box, but there’s no way people can have that much crap go wrong for $99/month.
It’s generally not anything going wrong, it’s I’ve got three remotes and I click this button and the sound bar went off but the TV went on.
Posted on 9/28/22 at 6:51 am to Street Hawk
I don’t believe this for a second.
Posted on 9/28/22 at 6:53 am to Street Hawk
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3/ The revenue model It's $99/mth
Posted on 9/28/22 at 6:56 am to cable
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Or you can have what some people call - a son - I do this crap for my parents for nothing and have for 20 years.
good for you, I do the same. but this kid found out a way to make money off it. if he's really smart, he's automated or mostly automated a lot of it so all he and his buddy have to do is occasionally check to make sure everything is working or step in to do things that require it manually. I'm sure he's just resetting networks and shite, these old people paying $99 don't usually have complicated set ups.
Posted on 9/28/22 at 6:59 am to Street Hawk
If he’s using geek squad I’m sure a cease and desist letter is coming.
Posted on 9/28/22 at 7:02 am to Philzilla2k
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I don’t believe this for a second.
If you click the link, it's twitter thread by a dude hocking some "business essesntials" kit. Poster on this board as a big of idiots about viral ads as grandmas and grandpas are about how to find Junior's photos on their iphones.
Posted on 9/28/22 at 7:13 am to Street Hawk
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On-call tech support for everything around your home, like setting up a new modem or figuring out why your Sonos stopped working. 2/ Who it's for Targeting an older demo of 65+.
You could not pay me enough to do this.
Posted on 9/28/22 at 7:16 am to Street Hawk
1: he is gonna get criticized for gaming the old folks
2: will get more business because stated exactly what he is doing
3: will have guys talk crap about him but in their heads will think, dang this kid is smart
2: will get more business because stated exactly what he is doing
3: will have guys talk crap about him but in their heads will think, dang this kid is smart
Posted on 9/28/22 at 7:20 am to Street Hawk
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On-call tech support for everything around your home, like setting up a new modem or figuring out why your Sonos stopped working.
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Targeting an older demo of 65+.
How long before men in suits riding in a black SUV come to his front door asking for financial records?
This post was edited on 9/28/22 at 7:22 am
Posted on 9/28/22 at 8:48 am to Street Hawk
How did you even run across this random scammer of a twitter user
Unless its you
There arent even interactions with almost anything ever tweeted on this account
Unless its you
There arent even interactions with almost anything ever tweeted on this account
This post was edited on 9/28/22 at 8:49 am
Posted on 9/28/22 at 8:53 am to Street Hawk
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Targeting an older demo of 65+. They have money to spend and gadgets to fix.
3/ The revenue model It's $99/mth
Sounds like the “company” that rents telephones to senior citizens for $10/month .
Posted on 9/28/22 at 9:04 am to TigersSEC2010
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This would be my issue. You know he gets calls daily asking what happened to the Google and where to find the text message icon on their phone. I’d go insane dealing with the idiocy.
My 82 year old aunt is constantly asking me about her iPhone and iPad.
Posted on 9/28/22 at 9:06 am to Street Hawk
Well he's def taking advantage with $99 a month. He must live in a big money area.
Posted on 9/28/22 at 9:48 am to Street Hawk
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Targeting an older demo of 65+.
They have money to spend and gadgets to fix.
The ones that shite their pants, literally and figuratively, any time prices go up because they are on a fixed income?
Posted on 9/28/22 at 10:18 am to Street Hawk
Hope he’s saving that cash. Not a scalable model IMO
Plus your customer base will die out and there will not be any new customers
Plus your customer base will die out and there will not be any new customers
Posted on 9/28/22 at 10:35 am to Street Hawk
so he's price gouging old people. cool.
This post was edited on 9/28/22 at 10:37 am
Posted on 9/28/22 at 10:38 am to Street Hawk
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Sounds like a smart kid. He should go pitch his company on Shark Tank:
- Mark Cuban would probably value the company at 10x revenue and offer $300K for 50% of the company, but the kid has to take the offer in the next 7 seconds.
- Mr. Wonderful most likely offer would be $100K of debt for 15% of the company and he would take $99 per month from each of this kid's 10 oldest customers and then the royalty would go away after he has been paid back his $100K.
- Lori is out as she can't sell Geek Squad services on QVC.
- Barbara is well....just out
Dunno bout that. Not really a scalable business model
Posted on 9/28/22 at 10:45 am to Street Hawk
quote:damn those are some dumb old people
It's $99/mth all-in
Posted on 9/28/22 at 11:06 am to Street Hawk
Are all these older clients women? This sounds like a modern day version of the pool boy.
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