How easy/difficult is it to start a business as a freelance computer technician?
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Well – first things that come to my mind… :
Car and "lab" equipment. You need to get to your client quick and you need to have enough spares to check what is broken simply by replacing the unit. You also need most commonly needed spares – power supply block, replacement coolers, replacement hard disk etc etc etc
Make deal with some local components distributor – so you can buy components directly and at lower cost. For many of your clients TIME will be essential.
Try to find something that differentiate you from other technicians.
learn as much network stuff as you can do. When you have little cash – get some Microsoft certificates under your belt – the courses are costly but it will break your "amateur" appearance and open a way to richer clients.
Most home have one or two computers.
Put a small ad in your local newspaper and wait for the calls to come in.
1) As previous person suggested place a small add in your local newspaper.
2) Prepare your tools on the go.
CD with malware/trojan cleaners such as: ccleaner, malwarebytes, Spybot search and Destroy, some free antiviruses ; avast home edition, avg antivirus.
There are moments when cdrom does not work so make sure that you have same thing on a usb flash drive.