Make sure you polish your resume as much as possible to highlight your skills. My husband was a mechanic before he went back to school to get an IT degree, and his resume trumpeted the troubleshooting and customer service/requirements gathering skills he had gained in that job. He also had a section for "projects" which listed things he had done at home - networking, setting up his own server, etc.
If you have extensive experience repairing laptops, you should be able to qualify for an entry-level helpdesk job. Try your local school districts, too, although they probably won't be hiring until late spring for the next school year.
Research the tech user groups in your area. There might be some for specific technologies or for specific hardware or software. Go to these groups and network like crazy. Have your own personal business cards, with your LinkedIn information on them (and create a LinkedIn account, if you don't already have one, and connect to everyone you know). You might also want to go to some of the Project Management user groups.
Tell everyone you know that you're looking for a job doing X,Y, or Z. (Be somewhat specific.) Tell the cashier at the grocery store, your best friend's neighbor that you pass on the street, anyone where you can work it into a conversation. People like to help people.
Go to your college's career center and see if they offer help. See where the local hiring fairs are, and go to those.
In my area, a lot of companies only seem to advertise open jobs on their own websites, so I have a list of all the companies in the area that I'd want to work for and checked their websites every day for job postings. Being one of the first to apply does help.
You do need to set your expectations at a reasonable level. In Michigan, I would think it is highly unlikely you are going to start out at $50k with no experience and an an MIS degree. You can work your way there and beyond.