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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>mikew</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu, May 4 2006, 5:13 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: [Cranbury PC Repair] On the cutting edge of after-school jobs</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"><span style="font-weight: bold">Two Princeton High School sophomores sucessfully turn their computer hobby into a business.</span> <br /> <br /> Unlike the Geek Squad, the 24-hour computer support task force that sends agents out to make house calls, Cranbury PC Repair won't be seen driving to clients houses in two-tone Volkswagen Beetles. <br /> But they may be seen riding their bikes down Main Street or getting a ride from their parents. <br /> Fifteen-year-old Michael Weiss and 16-year-old Chris Kim, two Princeton High School computer-savvy sophomores, decided last summer to start up their own computer troubleshooting business, Cranbury PC Repair, after realizing that instead of just fixing friends' and families' computers, they could turn their hobby into a professional business. <br /> Installing new hardware, removing viruses, setting up networks, or removing those annoying pop-up advertisements are skills that Mike and Chris said they have come to be familiar with after years of experimenting on their own computers. <br /> "It's something I've picked up gradually," Mike said. "The Internet makes it so easy to learn everything, so I've just read a lot about computers and other problems people have had with theirs and how they fixed it." <br /> When they started up last summer, they created fliers and posted them around town to advertise, Chris said. They even set up a Web site, <a href="http://www.cranburypcrepair.com" target="_blank">www.cranburypcrepair.com</a> that lists contact information, services, and prices, which are much lower than their competitors', they said. <br /> Need hardware installed? <br /> "Why charge $130 for something that takes five minutes?" Mike said. <br /> Cranbury PC Repair's price is $30. <br /> Even with their low prices, the two young businessmen said they have only had a chance to sell their professional services less than a dozen times. Being students, and not having driver's licenses has hindered the business a bit, they said. <br /><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal"><a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16552810&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=425419&rfi=6" target="_blank" class="postlink">(more)</a> </span> <br /> <br />Their phone number is (609)-395-9625</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table>
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