Launceston IT turns a Gumtree ad into a national business
Peter Forrest was not thinking big when he typed out his first advertisement. It went up on Gumtree in 2013, and the pitch could not have been simpler: "I'm Peter. I'll fix your computer. $50 an hour. No fix, no charge." He expected very little. What he got was the beginning of something that continues to surprise him. Thirteen years later, Forrest and his wife Jane run Launceston IT, a full-service technology company in Prospect Vale that has grown from that single Gumtree listing into a nine-person business with clients across Tasmania and on the mainland. It is the kind...






