AJ Forsythe was searching for a
summer job until he had a broken iPhone and decided to repair it on his own. He
was a junior in college at California Polytechnic State University when he
started his own company. "He went to his school library and got to work,
starting his company in 2010," says Kate Rogers from Fox News.
Forsythe’s iCracked is
successful, turning “under $1 million in funding into a projected $10 million
in revenue this year.” The company “has more than 400 iTechs across the country,”
which travel “straight to customers to fix their devices at their homes, work,
coffee shops and more, at their own convenience in under 30 minutes.” One of
the company’s customer-attracting factors is that they come to you instead of
you having to go out of your way to find someone to fix your broken device. “We
believe it’s 2013 and you shouldn't be traveling to a store making appointments
and essentially wasting time,” says Forsythe. “Our whole goal is to make this
an extremely seamless process for our customers.” This is extremely smart of
Forsythe to do, because in today’s time, a lot of people don’t have time for
things like this. Many would simply get a new phone. In some cases, it may cost
more time and money to repair the phone than to get a new one. iCracked makes
it very easy simple for the customers. “Users can visit iCracked.com, enter
their information and have an appointment that same day.” iCracked charges
under $100 for repairs, unless you have a newer model iPad or iPhone. Those are
a little more expensive, at $150. The company focuses on Apple products only,
and they aim to be “the best at repairing the products they know best.”
Forsythe says “We have a couple thousand people a month apply to be iTechs, and
you set your own schedule, services and our own customers… you make incredible
money and we funnel customers to our iTechs.”
AJ Forsythe started a great
business after just fixing a small problem that he had. Now he fixes other
people’s small problems and makes a lot of money from it. This was a great idea
and it is a great way to make money. He took something that is an issue for a
lot of people and found a way to make a ton of money off of it.
Source: "iCracked Aims to Become the ‘AAA of iOS Devices’" by Kate Rogers, from foxnews.com, published November 01, 2013
