I watched a few and it seemed the guy was scared like hell of all of the competition out there.
Just plain scared.
People who haven't watched the content or followed the story, make comments like this one above. That comment represents the exact opposite of my views, and the lowest common denominator of forum trolling; making things up.
Three years ago, I hired a technician. I fired him a month later. He did what any young entrepreneur who just lost his job does; opened a store that does exactly what mine does, three blocks away, with slightly lower prices on everything.
Good on him!
He runs a good shop, but isn't as good at the component level repairs as I am. I have a long head start on him.
He has a good mind for learning this stuff, but he lacks knowledge and experience when it comes to board repair. Here are just two sessions, on camera, where I sit with him in my spare time and tutor him on how to do better. I am showing him how to repair his own devices, for his own customers.
Here I am at a workshop last year, where I travel away from my business for a week to a room of 12 microscopes, 12 soldering stations, and 12 students of
"competitors" to teach them how to compete with me.
Here you can see him and a friend working on their own devices, for their own customers, in my shop room's secondary table. They are using my tools, my electricity, my space, my solder, my parts, to work on
their stuff. I encourage it. I enjoy being a member of that type of collaborative community.
Where this scared of competitors business comes from is beyond me. My competitors are not my enemies. In the repair business, your competitors are not your enemies. This has been my mantra for seven years. This is the only business within which people think it is
“them or me” . No pizzeria thinks that if another pizzeria opens in a ten mile radius that it will directly cause their doom. It doesn't.. and I've been trying to get that across to repair shop owners who act insecure and defensive on the topic.
I tackle the same issue when it concerns employer/employee relations & side jobs in this video. I encourage employees to do whatever they can do to build their own revenue streams so long as it is done honestly.
I've probably invested more time into helping my competitors than my competitors have invested in themselves. Comments like Bud's that I quoted are just the kinda thing that make obvious who follows the story & who pull statements out of their
Massey-Ferguson.
I get it, a lot of people don't like the content I create, and that's cool. I had to take classes that were over 75 hours long with “teachers” who had a lot of attitude, who rambled on with unnecessary, boring, annoying personal stories. They belittled their own students. I took these classes to learn things that had
nothing to do with my profession to obtain licenses that are as worthless as toilet paper just so my company would live up to regulations. It was mandatory for what we wanted to do at the time. It sucked.
The great part about component level laptop motherboard repair is that there are
no required licensing courses and
no required education.
If someone wishes to watch the videos and learn, that's great. If it's not the content for you, I totally respect that – hit X. Just don't put words in the content that aren't there, because that's bullshit. I put a lot of time and effort into presenting the concept of mutually beneficial & friendly competition so our industry stands a chance to be taken seriously. I want us to work together to solve the real issues facing us rather than throw spitballs at one another. Those comments just derail everything, and lack citation or purpose. Just hit X.