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Old 11-05-2006, 01:47 AM   #1 (permalink)
sebzzz
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Default Starting a Ubuntu Linux business

Hi,

As you can read in my introduction, I currently want to start my own business trying to promote Ubuntu Linux by going to homes installing Ubuntu Linux and give some training on it to people sick of Windows (like a was before I found Linux). I think there is room for that in my region because Linux is mostly unknown in here for a reason I can't explain.

I quit my job in a best buy 2 weeks ago to focus my mind on this new business and I'm really exited.

Now, I know that I will probably face some shortcomings with a business like that like arriving at a home and having to do backups for hours, telling a costumer I wont be able to do the installation after finding a specific software of hardware he uses that is not supported and maybe receiving a lot of calls after the job for all types of questions about how things work.

So I'm writing this to get some advices about how to do this business in a way to eliminate most of these shortcomings. I also have to find a way to advertise at a low cost for now and in a way that would remove the idea that people have that Linux is complicated and incompatible with their stuff.

Thanks a lot!
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