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🚀Preparing for Launch...🚀

Today, is a 2 cups of coffee kind of day. There's a lot of excitement brewing here. There's no tellin' where it will lead but I hope that I'll have some positive experiences along the way. I hope that I'll be able to genuinely help my neighbors and leave some sort of mark that benefits everyone in somehow. Right now, I'm leaning harder on marketing than I have before. Gone are the days of pure organic marketing where I'd make posts on LinkedIn and Nextdoor regularly to get some feedback. Yesterday, I paid for advertising on Reddit and Facebook so, we'll see how far that can take me! I just have so many questions at this point... Like, Will word of mouth carry the business after I start? Will my website be received well? Are people going to agree with my pricing? I can't make everyone happy, but will I make most of them happy? Is Facebook worth keeping for business purposes? Is Reddit going to turnout a reliable demographic? What will my first custome...

Hello World!

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Hey there! So this is the first post huh?  Let's write an introduction then! I'm David and I'm just a small town nerd from Durham, NC. I grew up there in the late 80's and have always had a fascination with gadgets, tech and consumer electronics in general. I'd often get in trouble with my parents because I was the kid that liked taking things apart to see how they worked. The 80s were great. Look at that TV! Today, I live with my beautiful wife, happy dogs and cats and family in Raleigh, NC. I'm an instrument engineer in the biomedical technology field, but my real passion has always been computers and tech. For the past 15+ years, I've been building, troubleshooting and repairing computers and it's been fun for me, every single time. That happy couple. But enough about me, this blog is meant to be about That Neighborhood Nerd, the passion project that's been in the back of my mind for a couple of years now. It's a computer tech service made for...