With the high cost of retail space and all the loopholes you have to jump through to start a business, more and more folks are running their business right from their homes. This trend is growing steadily as the age of technology keeps improving and evolving. The trend has grown even faster since the Great Recession where so many people have lost their jobs and are trying to make a living.

paid by the hour. Your final cost would depend on how many hours the tech had to spend in your system in order to repair the problem. Soon after that, the flat rate pricing format began to take shape. With this platform, which is still in use today, you paid one flat fee for a repair regardless of how long the repair might take. This has been a very popular choice for many years and is still used by many. 