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Few Cell Phone Repair Businesses Offer Franchising Opportunities
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
It’s estimated that over half the people in the world own cell phones, and yet franchising opportunities are relatively rare.
Thirty years ago, a cell phone was something out of Jules Verne. Portable telephones were the newest thing. It was considered amazing when you could carry the entire phone with you to a different room, but if you dared bring it out of doors, weaker signals had a tendency to break up in the manner of transistor radios, another popular hand-held device that truly was portable.
By 1985, transistor radios were virtually obsolete. In the 1960s and early 1970s, these Marconi-spawned gadgets were ubiquitous as the children, often male baseball addicts, who carried them around everywhere except perhaps in the shower, which might have been shocking to some.
These days, cell phones along with their electronic contemporaries and offspring – IPods and IPhone, Blackberries and Xboxes, Playstation incarnations and the versatile Wii, along with their laptop computerized cousins — although many of these devices possess LCD screens which resemble miniature desktop flat screen computer monitors – have become as ubiquitous as transistor radios once were, perhaps much more so. The irony is that on many of these devices, including cell phones, a user can not only watch an entire baseball game of their choice live, but bring up a variety of multimedia visual treats as they do so – baseball stats of their favorite players or teams, historical footage and documentaries, you name it, and baseball is only the tip of the interactive Wii. As for the ubiquitous cell phone, in some cases people too impoverished to own a pair of shoes own a cheap cell phone, and yet the logical entrepreneurial step of franchising cell phone repair businesses is not ubiquitous. But one gets the impression it will be soon. One company with more than 20 locations around the U.S. has already established a presence, initiated when they were merely a cell phone repair business. Their name, like a catchy tagline, implies an urgency that appears synonymous with cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, which is precisely what they do with your ailing cell phone, or any of the other electronic wizardries previously mentioned. Their franchises can be had for a modest investment of under $100,000. A German cell phone repair company and one in Australia appear to be following suit along similar lines. A smaller American company also offers cell phone repair franchises at less than $50,000, but sans an established presence in the industry, perhaps you get what you pay for. Still, in an industry with massive demand largely due to manufacturers shirking any maintenance responsibilities to those minions of communications gadgetry that they’ve spawned, cell phone repair franchising opportunities aren’t yet ubiquitous, and that is surprising, akin to a transistor radio cradled to a boy’s ear in the shower a generation or more ago, perhaps even shocking.
Jeff Gasner is with CPR-Cell Phone repair. The leader in Cell Phone Repair and iPod repair offering cell phone repair services nationwide. To learn more about Cell phone repair, ipod repair, cell repair services, visit Chicagocellrepair.com.
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CPR Franchise Opportunities Beckon Entrepreneurs
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
For a minimum start-up of $75K, you can own a brand new concept supercharged with massive consumer demand.
In the days of the not-so-wild Midwest, when Chicago was first becoming a metro full of cell phones in need of a fix, once upon a time when the companies who made them still had maintenance plans but didn’t always honor them, a little business that could and would, was born, not in a manger, but in a building that became known as the place to take your cell phone when it breaks. “I dropped my Nextel, and its LCD, primitive as it was, cracked like a tiny windshield,” remembered Eighties Geezer, who still has memories these days but is no longer a fresh bright twenty-something. “I took it to CPR for its resuscitation,” he pronounced slowly in articulate English during his informative interview, “their first and only shop existing at the time.”
He recalls little else from those bygone days of Reaganomics and Seventh Heaven.
Pinky Pearl White recalls foggy days in winters now distant when getting your cell phone repaired was a little like snowshoeing through Halstead with no direction home, to put it in Dylanesque terms. “The first CPR shop was the little shop where they fixed horrors, and it was like an oasis shimmering in the faded light of a Cyclops car with a headlight missing. I fixed a cell phone there, I do believe, my purple one that was shaped like a grape, only it was crushed.” Pinky is a prose writer, talented as a computer’s mouse, given to long rhapsodies on his cell phone of choice in those bygone days, and he later took successive electronic devices to other CPR locations in the Chicagoland metro, as the business grew and grew, mushrooming throughout the nation called America, until more than 20 locations had sprouted in the garden that eventually became Obama’s, as the city once had seemed his but a little while ago.
Now CPR is the best and brightest name in the industry, and their shops repair G1 phones & Blackberries and Playstation versions that some would covet, along with water damaged devices, a species that competing independent repair outlets recoil from in horror. With billions of these gadgets owned by almost anyone, an opportunity to become part of a competent authorized repair center for a $75K minimum means that time is of the essence before the entry window slams shut, perhaps on your cell phone, perhaps on your fingers. It’s up to you.
To learn more about Cell phone repair, ipod repair, cell repair services, visit Chicagocellrepair.com.
Tags: Cell Phone Repair
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CPR Franchise Opportunities Still There for the Taking
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
CPR, the largest cell phone repair business in the nation, with 20+ locations, offers a stellar investment bargain for canny entrepreneurs.
CPR began when the cell phone repair industry was in its infancy, back when it was almost impossible to find an Indy place to repair an ailing cell phone. Dissatisfaction with cell phone manufacturers had yet to crest, or even surge, and if you couldn’t cajole your manufacturer to fix your broken cell phone, you had no choice; it was time to buy a new one. If you’d grown attached to the one you had and even given it a name like “Perky,” it was too bad. You’d kiss it twice with tears in your eyes and then toss it into the nearest bin.
Those days are gone, like Little Mouse on the Prairie or Stanford and Son. The good old days weren’t really that good when it came to cell phones and similar electronic gadgetry that began springing up. Was that a Y-Pod I once owned that a dog peed on and I had to throw out because it was suddenly gross and sticky and incidentally, no longer worked? Memories can be hazy, like halcyon summer days. It was also expensive to keep throwing these things out and buying new ones.
But along came CPR, like a fresh breeze. Pretty soon they developed a rep, as they say on the streets of Chicago, for fixing cell phones that manufacturers loathed touching after they’d closed the sale when you bought the thing. CPR became the most widely known and respected brand name in the Cell Phone Repair industry. Even their logo was trademarked by USPTO, where patents come from, don’t you know?
Eventually CPR started fixing every electronic whiz-i-mi-gig that could break, from IPods to Xboxes, and their business took off, like Wii.
Now for a start-up minimum of $75K you can get in on the ground floor. Like the tail of the tiger, you can grab the phenomenon of cell phone and electronic whiz-i-mi-gig repair. Think about it. It’s an industry with massive demand. One in two human beings on the planet are estimated to own a cell phone, and it’s rumored that other whiz-i-mi-gigs also sell in tremendous volume. Such electronic marvels have become ubiquitous, but they break. Manufacturers seldom fix them these days; in fact, in today’s recession, fixing something old and borrowed or blue, is a whole lot better than buying something new.
To learn more about Cell phone repair, ipod repair, cell repair services, visit Chicagocellrepair.com.
Tags: Cell Phone Repair
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CPR-Cell Phone Repair Offers Excellent Franchising Opportunities
Monday, January 26th, 2009
CPR has made a name for itself by offering great quality repairs on cell phones and iPods for customers all over the United States. Now CPR franchises are becoming a fast-growing trend throughout North America.
Over the past several years, growth of the CPR-Cell Phone Repair services has been phenomenal. Nearly everyone has a cell phone that requires repairing at one time or another. Cell phones and iPods are dropped, cracked, submerged in liquids, exposed to excess heat or cold, or stepped on by careless feet in a million places every day. Components wear out as warranties expire. Sometimes a device will “act up” in strange ways and sending the thing back to its maker means a lengthy delay before a customer gets it back. In response to this pressing need, a unique business structure has been developed. It’s now possible for you to become a CPR-Cell Phone Repair franchise partner.
Such opportunities are already available in many U.S. states and Canadian Provinces for qualified investors. Our company began in Illinois, but it shows no sign of ending there. The Windy City was the cradle of Cell Phone Repair, but CPR is growing up.
For a modest outlay of capital (minimum investment = $75,000), you can own a burgeoning repair business with an established reputation in more than twenty locations in the United States and Canada. Cell phones and iPods will only increase in consumer usage as the next several years pass. As manufacturers of these devices become increasingly unwilling to foster maintenance and scale back customer support due to changing economic conditions, independently-franchised repair outlets will prove more and more convenient – and more and more necessary as an option for beleaguered customers who own cell phone, iPods, and similar electronic communication devices.
Friendly staff at CPR outlets are already becoming a sought after fixture in the minds of North American consumers. While franchise opportunities aren’t yet available in Rhode Island, North Dakota, South Dakota, Virginia, and Alberta, a CPR franchise is waiting for qualified partners just about everywhere else.
To learn more about Cell phone repair, ipod repair, cell repair services, visit Chicagocellrepair.com.
Tags: Cell Phone Repair, Cell Repair Services
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