what's up YouTube agent Emeril here
today's video is a little bit different
than what I'm used to doing
I'm usually making how-to videos how to
repair all kinds of gadgets today's
video is different because now I'm gonna
teach you guys the business of cell
phone repair owning your own business is
well owning my own business is probably
the best thing I've ever done for myself
for my family I should work at Wells
Fargo I worked at guess I was a manager
I'd guess I was a manager at Pizza Hut I
worked at Domino's I worked at
footlocker I had so many jobs like 13 to
15 different jobs and I've never been as
happy as I was when I quit Wells Fargo
and started doing computers just that's
it just computer work and getting paid
for my own time for my own my own skills
meaning I've always liked to fix all
kinds of stuff my wife we both jumped
into this business together and she had
no repair experience I've been doing
computers for going on six years now but
my wife had no experience with me pairs
and she's freaking awesome at repairing
phones and gadgets man it's just it's
like a puzzle
so in this video I want to teach you
guys how to start your own cell phone
repair business this here is experience
that I've attained from owning my own
shops from computer repair to cell phone
repair to cell phone repair training the
first thing to start your own cell phone
repair business I want to first motivate
you by telling you how much free time
you will have trust me owning your own
business is the best thing that can ever
happen to you if you have all the time
in the world nobody can tell you
anything I'm gonna show you guys a
little sneak peek at what we're doing
in the back right now because nobody can
tell me what to do nobody can tell us
what to do I can close the store
whenever I feel like it and we can cook
on the job you're about to see my father
now let's go check on him real quick
alright we're gonna go check on my swag
it'll get a little tour of the shop see
what he's doing back here
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alright so you guys just got a glimpse
of what it is like to own your own
business all the free time you have I
never miss my son's football games
soccer games projects school shows
whatever you you name it I never missed
the doctor's appointment I don't have to
I mean you obviously have to attend your
customers so if you want to make money
yes you want to be there and open and be
disciplined in order to run your
business more that's profitable as
possible right with this business it's
so easy to make
a hundred bucks it's so easy to make 50
bucks you can make it in five minutes I
mean a quick example I'm gonna show you
guys this iPhone is iPhone X screen
right here it's a brand new screen okay
I bought this for a hundred and forty
dollars and my customer screen is which
I'm gonna make a video on it and you
guys can watch it how to make 200 bucks
profit right I charge the customer 250
bucks right the screen cost me one
hundred and forty dollars so you minus
that so here I should have put it this
way all right so zero I'm bad at math
now ever since phones came out I'm like
I suck at math so that's 110 dollar
profit okay the part cost me 140 and I'm
making a hundred ten with profit well
guess what his old screen because it's a
good LCD I'm gonna get 120 bucks for
that so how much profit does that make
me in ten minutes
that is two hundred and thirty thirty
dollars two hundred and thirty dollars
guys in ten minutes because that's how
long it takes me to change these screens
to be successful at adding your own
business your own cell phone repair shop
you have to be brave and open devices
that you've never opened I mean you can
watch a YouTube video and that's how you
can kind of get a glimpse at what you're
gonna be disassembling and stuff I mean
you can see a bunch of my videos I label
them like I've never done this before
and I still do it live like there's just
one called the essential phone you can
check out that video I had never even
heard of that phone I bought it for 20
bucks unlocked ready to use with any
carrier and I just replaced the screen
for it it was only like thirty six bucks
for the screen and I'm like let me
tackle this one I did it alive so that
you guys can see
how easy it could be to just replace a
screen so go check out that video it's
called the essential phone it was that's
a five-minute screen repair literally
you'll see how surprised I was in the
video so yeah be brave never fear a
device like just tackle them you know
make some money
alright so key number two point number
two is probably the most critical one
all right
this is the most important tips or the
most important key of all of five of
them because it deals with you need
tools you need inventory you need you
know how to identify problems and how to
fix him okay tools I can show you the
tools that we have here we go over to my
special screen here I don't know if I
should make it make this big yeah I'll
make it big for you guys alright these
bags are just about some iPhone cases
and they they gave me these bags but I
hand-picked all of these tools so that
you know when people join my course I
give them clothes for free now you're
interested in buying this kit from me
you can I'll leave the link in the
bottom on the description and you can
order them from me and I'll send it to
you I'll ship it to you I also have
these t-shirts I'll put the link down
there those are on eBay so let's start
off with these tools here I have the
iPhone 7 wide tip screwdriver these are
the must-have tools and just open this
thing up and this is the white tip right
here if you guys can see right here this
is the Mercedes I like to call it the
Mercedes tip oh come on come on camera
alright there you go this is for the
iPhone 7s and up okay you're gonna see
this white tip tool you must this is a
must have
okay these are must-have tools you see
this
right here this is a must-have tool this
is for your iPhone sevens and up then
you got your Philips or your cross or
whatever you know it's right here where
yeah purple one they might they vary in
color so just always look up from here
you can look at the tip okay this is the
Philips this is what you're gonna need
okay this is what you need to run a
successful cell phone repair shop and a
heat gun I didn't even put the heat gun
on this right here but it's okay the
next one is the hex or star screwdriver
for the bottom screws here it is come on
come on come on so there you go that's
what it looks like okay this is for the
bottom screws on iPhones and then you
have a this is for like to remove
motherboards on certain devices like
iPhone 6s is and other iPhones you can
remove the motherboard from for this
then you got a metal pry tool this is
very handy
alright this is to start prying stuff
out cool you got this right here then
you need a rectangular rectangular blade
these right here these are a must you
must have one of these okay next you're
gonna have a plastic spudger tool which
is these right here you know you can
watch the videos you know and see how
they're used and stuff I won't get too
into detail with those this one here too
I mean I tell you it's the same thing
your tweezers these are must as well
okay tweezers and some miscellaneous
stuff this is another prying tool it's a
metal one but you know these are always
good to have these are like essential I
don't really use this a lot of people
use it but I really never use it you
know you put it on your screen you pull
the screen up whatever
I don't use that but I'm throwing it in
the kit I don't know why I keep looking
up here since the screens up here so you
guys were right there
another very essential tool that I also
hand-picked is this pic I had picked
this pic it's a 40 millimeter plastic
pick for guitars I got them on eBay but
I'm throwing them in the kit for you
guys so I also play guitar but we'll get
into that later so this right here is a
40 millimeter pick and really does help
with fragile stuff like like the notes
or like the galaxy series back back
glasses some screens you know it really
helps to cuz this is just thin enough
and just thick enough for the repairs
after I tried so many different sizes
and thickness okay now there's a whole
bunch of other stuff that are
recommended for a more successful
business you know a computer you need a
computer you need the heat gun is a must
I'm sorry I should have put that in the
other one this is a must right here okay
you get it for 20 bucks at Harbor
Freight or I'm sure you can order it
online somewhere other tools that you
may need computer heat gun plastic
toolbox electrical tape compressor
plastic spudger to a box or screwdriver
set tweezers weirdo enter all that these
are the most essential things you're
gonna need right here on this screen
okay
now I'm not doing this so you can order
them from me you know I I give these to
my students that sign up for the course
it's 500 bucks and it's in person it's
five days four hours a day and I teach
them everything what I'm teaching you
guys but it's like in person and it's
more into detail because they have
questions and they get answered on the
spot and we just go through a lot of
stuff for hours is a long time it's like
if you're watching a video for four
hours you know I have a curriculum that
I go by when I
when I'm teaching the class so I'm just
gonna scan through this for you guys and
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show you guys what else you need
business cards microfiber towels right
here paper towels desks lights I mean
sorry lights and desk lights magnifying
light USB charging cables you need like
a whole bunch of different kind type of
cables you know I got a watch watch
charger and that USB see I have iPhone
right here on the other little screen
you can see it inventory inventory is a
must ok without inventory you have no
money okay now I have a POS system where
I already typed in all the inventory
that I need everybody needs it if you
want to make the most money out of this
business okay you can leave a comment
down here we'll communicate with each
other and how I can install that
software for you remotely I don't care
where you are in the world I can log in
and install it for you so message me if
you're interested in the POS system if
you don't have the POS system the
minimum requirement for inventory is you
guys have one screen for each one of
these iPhones okay up to here because
these are expensive right the XS Macs
and stuff but have one screen of each
color for each one of these iPhones
iPhone 5 5 s one white one black one
white one black one white one black one
white one black all the way to the A+ if
you can afford it get yourself one of
the X's one of the XS Macs and one of
all these they're expensive the same
with the Samsung they're expensive but
if you can afford it have one in the
inventory because if a customer calls
you you'll have it ready yeah I could do
it right now in 30 minutes Wow okay you
got a customer otherwise I have to order
it and you know a lot of times they'll
wait because they're expensive anyways
so a lot of times though they won't wait
they were like okay sorry I need it done
today okay
these are the most common devices here
but you at least need one screen for the
iPhone skate won't white one black and
batteries for each from one of these
each and every one of these phones
alright you need to have one battery of
each because you can make money with the
batteries
now that s the Samsung's I really
recommend you get the back glass for
them too there's different colors of
them this inventory just having one part
one item of each it could get up there
I'm talking about like a thousand bucks
or more okay so they 1200 bucks for
everything
battery screens and that's not the only
inventory that you're gonna need because
you know sometimes you break a screen by
accident and that was your only iPhone 7
black screen and what do you tell the
customer now oh I got to order and
Tenant be here tomorrow you know it's so
inventory is very very very important if
you guys want to see that POS system
I'll make a video on it check it out and
see if you guys like it and leave me a
comment down okay another thing you need
to know if you want to run a cell phone
repair shop you need to know how to
identify problems ok the customer comes
up to you with a screen with a phone
that doesn't charge you gotta know how
to like figure out you know what I'm
saying how to diagnose it and see why
it's not charging for customer tells you
that their speaker is you can't hear it
no more
you got to know how to diagnose that ok
so these are the key things there's five
key things the first one is she's got to
know the business and be motivated
that's the first thing be motivated
because there's so much free time and
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it's easy money ok so that's number one
number two is how to identify problems
ok I'm gonna encourage you guys to buy
this little gadget here let me see if I
can show you it's called a Tristar
tester a lot of people in the Microsoft
world uses to determine if if if your
motherboard is bad from Tristar chip
problems
well I encourage everybody to have this
because it saves me a lot
time you just plug it into the phone you
run the test initially it'll tell you if
it it'll tell you if it has a bad
charging port it'll tell you if your
batteries missing or if it's doesn't say
if it's failing but if your battery's
family usually says battery missing or
it'll tell you if it's the Tristar which
is a motherboard issue and that'll save
you a lot of time so that you don't have
to waste time trying to figure out in
diagnosing a phone that's not charging
or stuff like that
so get this it's a try start tester I
can put the link at the bottom I'm not
getting credit for any of this yet
anyway but um that's one thing so the
second thing you got to do or the second
key or the second point on how to start
your own cell phone repair business is
learn how to identify problems okay
number three is learn how to unlock cell
phones all right
learn how to clean the ime eyes when a
when a phone is reported lost or stolen
you know there's ways we have websites
that we look at that we can look at we
can access them to clean them for a
small fee you know and you charge your
customers a graded feed you know how to
reset passwords how to bypass passwords
a lot of these already have like iCloud
and Google lock you know which you
should get familiar with iCloud as well
if you don't know how I card works you
got to learn how to how I cloud works
and how Google lock works okay there's a
lot of tricks and there's a lot of stuff
you can do to remove iCloud or get past
it you know it's expensive and it's
tricky and it's a gray area cuz I still
don't even know how legal that is but I
know a lot of people get a little scared
with the iCloud and stuff so there's
another thing called FRP which stands
for factory reset protection it's Google
lock it's the same thing if RP is Google
lock when the phone gets reset and the
Google Account was still logged in it
won't it's like iCloud it won't let you
access it there's ways to bypass that so
you learn how to unlock and clean IME
eyes and reset passwords get familiar
with iCloud an FRP Google lock that's
number three okay key number four or
point number four learn how to buy in
cell phones with cell phone repair
cell phone sales and cell phone
refurbishing and all that stuff so just
the fact that you're starting to fix
phones trust me you're gonna start
buying and selling phones and that's
where a lot of your profit comes comes
from also okay I got a whole bunch of
phones here that you know the these are
already like I bought these for like $10
$20 and guess what I'm selling them for
200 bucks is iPhone 7 I got it for 20
bucks because the person they just they
they found it honestly they found it and
and I freaking them I unlocked it I mean
it didn't have iCloud on it so I just
reset it I'm selling for 200 bucks learn
how to buy and sell cell phones like I
said earlier fixing phones is gonna get
you it's gonna get you a lot of phones
to buy and to sell a lot of customers
don't want to fix their phone cuz it's
expensive you know some labor is pretty
pricey on phone repair so you end up
offering them so much money to buy it
from them instead cuz they're just gonna
take it home and throw it and just leave
it there turn the trash I mean you buy
it for cheap buy for 20 30 bucks
sometimes 50 sometimes 100 whatever
depending on how much the phone is
actually worth but you'll buy a phone
refurbish it yourself and sell it for
quadruple the profit you know so yeah
you're gonna need to learn how to buy in
cell phones okay that's point number
four key number four the final one
number five is marketing it's the
easiest to me I think because like I
said just wearing this t-shirt already
gets me customers you walk down the
street and you tell somebody hey I fix
phones I guarantee you I'm almost 95%
eighty-nine percent sure that they're
gonna say oh yeah I have this phone um
how much do you charge to do this how
much you charge to do that so marketing
is one of the easiest ones but that is a
key point in this in this how to start a
cell phone repair business so marketing
getting customers doing yelp building a
website putting yourself on Google Maps
which by the way you go on
what is it Google my business com or
just search out Google my business
that's how you can get on the maps
social media which is Facebook Instagram
Twitter snapchat all that stuff works
I find that Facebook and Instagram is
probably the best one for marketing cell
repair shop and you need business cards
and you need Flyers let me show you guys
some fliers that I made see these are
cheap you can get like 5000 of them for
like 160 bucks and you can hire somebody
to pass them out and just don't put them
on people's windshields that's kind of
annoying and you know I've had calls
people when I started I used to do that
and people will call me pissed off I
don't want your fire in my windshield
that's so disrespectful I'm gonna call
the city and blah blah and I'm sorry man
so ya hire somebody and they can put
them like where the door handles that
maybe I don't know
or better yet give it to the person into
in their hand and shake their hand or
something you know
alright so I've showed you five key
points as to how to start your own cell
phone repair business number one was be
motivated you're gonna have free time
you're gonna be your own boss easy money
all that good stuff I promise you I'm
not lying to you okay number two is
tools and inventory the very most
important thing is tools an inventory
without inventory you can't fix anything
so what the heck at least if you have
the inventory you can Google how to fix
stuff right so tools in inventory how to
identify problems and how to fix them
alright that's key number two
key tip point whatever number three is
how to unlock clean ime eyes password
reset iCloud FRP google lock learn how
to do all that and you'll be on your way
to making money with the cell phone
repair business and before how to buy in
cell phones it's going to be a lot of
your profit right there man
number five is marketing getting
customers Yelp website Google Maps
social media Flyers business cards
t-shirts now I already made the I
already did the work for you guys you
guys could just buy this t-shirt from
the links down below and show you guys a
little bit see that I'm telling you I
was at Costco I'm not lying this is a
true story I was at Costco waiting in
line to buy pizza comment if yeah
comment if you like Costco pizza and ate
people cuz I it was a pretty long line
like 20-minute wait eight people asked
me hey you fixed phones your shirt says
it sorry I thought I asked whatever I
said yes I do how can I help you know
how much you charge for this but I love
eight different people three of them
already came to visit me
I already made 350 bucks just for
wearing this shirt and having this nice
pocket in there to hide your to put your
business cards in three hundred fifty
bucks for just wearing the darn shirt
now Super Bowl Sunday we were at and
soup in no we were at a smart and final
yeah it's more than final and we were
about to pay my wife my kids and I and
we're about to pay and some guy she's
like hey men sorry to bother you fix
phones I'm like yeah dude oh he is yet
to come but he did text me today and he
said if I open he asked me if I open
Sundays I told him no but he you try to
make it on Saturday because he works all
week
anyways point is I give him a business
card BAM um I think I'm gonna make her
on two hundred bucks from this guy he
has several devices and he wants to
looked at and
we are gonna make some money check out
the shirt down on the link below click
on it there's ways to get a discount ask
me how to get a discount t-shirt and uh
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guys on the next video
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