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He mentions in his videos that it is largely because he has built up a team of people with a very specific expertise built over years working with him, that you
by Aromasin 5y ago
He mentions in his videos that it is largely because he has built up a team of people with a very specific expertise built over years working with him, that you can't just find - meaning training people up from scratch. He'd effectively be started the business from scratch in that case. He's offered them all very good relocation benefits but obviously if people are content they're not going to want to move and he doesn't want to forcefully coerce them to.
- sangnoir 5y agoWhy would you move from a city in which your skills are in high demand, and you already have a rolodex of clients with whom you have established a relationship? The relocation benefits have to be obscene to counter that glorious opportunity. As long as New Yorkers still exist in their dense millions, service providers will always appear to fill a market need, even when they have to jump hoops (to a point). NYC knows this. China knows this.
- genmud 5y agoI believe a large portion of his business is now mail in repairs vs walk in repairs. Laptop repair also isn’t something that people have a regular customer base to rely on, it is very inconsistent. Rent and taxes in NYC are a massive amount of money, I’m sure he has ran the numbers to determine what’s best financially.
- sangnoir 5y agoMail-in repairs require a lot more trust than brick-and-mortar locations, especially for new operations. I can accept that moving out of NY may save him money - my argument is that the same is unlikely to apply to his workers who have a specialized skill that is in demand in their current location. Would they choose the job over the city (and their friends, neighbors, leases, etc)? I have my doubts.