hell, can i just build a trailer and join you guys and cover the chapel hill area? the trade seems rather saturated to be honest.
Well, I was bored and on vacation and everyone else are just tater heads.
lemme just fuck up a few houses under yalls name first, then ill go buy equipment and start my own business hahahah. (joking)
@618Pressure Don, I havenāt made a habit of giving short answers so I hope you read this. I canāt find the first post where I felt like you did about one of the other veterans in the group.
I spoke my mind too on the first post and again on this one. In between that post, this one above, and shortly after Innocent still answered a question that helped me put money in my pocket. Have you ever seen Anchorman? If so, I had the same moment in my head where Vince Vaughnās character said, āDeep in my soul I hate you Ron Burgundyā¦ but dammit I respect you.ā Lol
I had to take a deep breath, laugh it off, and realize that, even though William is a straight shooter and that sometimes gets interpreted as condescending, his answers still come from a place of running a successful business for 20-25 years doing what weāre trying to do.
Thatās incredibly important because no matter how good we think we are heās been in business 5 times longer than 90% of us will be in total. @rmcmurry this is important for you to read too. Thatās just a fact of business. You can find it online via reputable sources. 90% of the people you see in this forum who are new in business will be OUT of business in 5 years. Read that as FAILED in the pressure washing/exterior cleaning business.
Don, Iām glad youāre here and Iām glad youāre in business. Innocent and I are coming from a place of trying to help we just have different approaches, but the info is well intended. Weāre all here as business owners trying to help other business owners and should treat it as such. Weāre not here as cavemen in a pissing contest.
You said youāve found what Iāve posted helpful. There was a guy named Jim Luke on here who I had a very similar back and forth with as you and Innocent had in this thread and I havenāt seen him around here since, but if he had a question I could help with Iād do my best to help despite our little spat.
Why? Innocent did the same thing with me. Iāve made videos for people whoāve had questions, made my phone number available, answered questions via message and email. Why? Because Iāve seen innocent do it time and time again for others. Iām literally just emulating a guy who is in the same business weāre in, but heās 20+ years successful at it.
He answered a question yesterday for me about an injector spring I shot to the moon and couldnāt find it and recommended a springless one from pressuretek. I called pressuretek immediately because a guy whoās probably forgotten more than I know about this business recommended it.
This forum is here to help you succeed. Andrew out in Boston has fielded questions via facetime and text. I messaged Racer probably daily during my trailer build because my set up was going to be similar and I didnāt know how to execute it. The list here goes onā¦ and onā¦
Iāll stop beating a dead horse. Again, Iām glad youāre here and I wish you unending success. Take a breath, ask another question when you have one and when Innocent answers it know that itās coming from experience even if it reads a little grumpy. Ha!
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My entire point is that every time I click a new thread heās there giving advice on something they donāt ask. Sometimes he gives great answers. But he can almost never just answer the question. You donāt think they know they should have better equipment? They didnāt ask you to evaluate their business. Iām not āoffendedā by anything he says. Iād bet I have thicker skin than most people here. I just told the guy to stop being condescending every time he replies and to just answer peopleās questions. Stop being such a dick about everything all the time. I could literally show you 25+ replies in the last month where youāre not answering someoneās question and giving them a smartass comment that doesnāt have shit to do with what they asked. Itās easy to not be a dick and still joke around. But youād rather take the condescending route with everything. Holier than thou is the perfect example of your replies.
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Me have big pressure washer! You get bad replies. bangs on chest lololol
Totally didnāt see your comment until now @squidskc and I understood everything you just said before I ever even made a post here. He knows what heās talking about. Iām not downplaying his knowledge. I just get tired of seeing people treat others like shit for no reason. We all start out new at something and it doesnāt help us when people purposely donāt help us and just crack jokes.
My feelings are hurt. Brodie called me a Caveman.
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In my opinion nothing wrong with being diverse. I keep a pole saw in my trailer and make nice add ons with it. I offer many dif services as well. Everybody has there own way of doing business but without a doubt when I pressure wash a house and do a great job at a fair price they remember me. I let them know about my other services and if and when they need them they call. I dont have all the bells and whistles that these full time p.w guys do. Just a simple 4000 4 pressure washer and direct drive at that. It works for me and leads to int/ext painting, deck sealing and the absolute money maker tile roof painting. Just one of those is worth 50 house washes. Also realtors and prop managers love a one call guy on theyāre speed dial. Best of luck on your business plan and go get em
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Sorry, bud. I was never talking to you.
You gotta relax some. I spent 4 days in the hospital last August because my ticker was acting up. I didnāt believe in stress til then. Chill out and enjoy the forum. Try not to take me to seriously. My wife doesnāt. My advice is free. No one has to pay attention to it. A young lady at my church in the mid 80s named Jennettee Robinettee died of cancer in her early 20ās. She wrote a poem called āIf it donāt cost nothing then it must be freeā. Look it up. Good stuff. Her brother played for the KC Royals, but I digress. Tell me what 618 means, stay here 6 months and Iāll give you $100 credit at pressuretek.com. In the mean time, ignore my posts if they get you riled up. Lifeās too short to worry about crap on a forum.
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Wake Forest is an untapped market
Last time I checked bud, youāre on a public forum giving someone that a lot of us respect grief because you didnāt like the answers. If I recall you didnāt like the comments the other day when hose length came up. If you donāt like the answers just ignore them and pay attention to the ones you do like. No one is forced to come here. Most everyone on here tries to be helpful most the time. But itās a forum, weāre allowed to have fun once in awhile. There are lots to choose from.
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I live in chapel Hill/Chatham county. WF is too far to be my territory of choice. Iām looking at Pittsboro chapel Hill apex. Maybe Hillsborough
Mark with Superior and my old foreman Jacob with Peak Pressure have Apex wrapped up. Iām clueless on chapel hill area.
I think when you are first starting out you should only offer 1 family of service. At least as far as promotions/advertising goesā¦ Trying to promote and advertise various occupations is difficult and expensive. Also get one thing down good then add anotherā¦ For example as a kid I did pressure washing and roof cleaning, later in 83 I got in to plumbing and drain cleaning and let the pressure washing and roof cleaning go. Many years later when the plumbing field got very competitive, I brought back the pressure washing and roof cleaning full time. I never really stopped doing all 4 areas but they traded places on the front burner from time to time depending on the economy and the competition. Of course now after several decades I keep all of it going at the same time. It is much cheaper to advertise the PW because plumbers usually have a much larger budget . So people call me for PW and then they like the job then they ask us to do plumbing. Same with drain cleaning it is cheaper to acquire a customer because a lot of plumbers wonāt even do drains Roof cleaning cost more to acquire a customer than PW because the guys will spend big bucks on ads for roof cleaning so I just watch what the competitors doā¦ If they are pushing plumbing. I push drain cleaning, if they are pushing roof cleaning I am pushing PW/SWā¦ Why compete with the rotorooters of the world who spend 10 to 12 grand a month on pay per click alone and there is 5 or 6 of them fighting for the customers, when I can just go in a slightly different direction and spend 1000 a month an maybe only really compete with 1 or 2 other guys? Also the big guys have lots of advertising budgets, so some times I take out ads just to force them to have to take bigger ads out. I donāt have thier payroll or expenses or loans so it forces them to charge more for their services which in return means I can charge more and still beat them in price. Its great when the big guys have to do 30 grand a month just to meet expenses and you only have to do 4000ā¦
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Pay per click is on my marketing to do list, but I havenāt quite made it there. Donāt even know where to start. Howād you learn how to do it? It sounds like the return is worth the cost?
Dont know if other cities have this as im new to it but in my local area we have a community web site called next door. It keeps you in your area code. Itās basically a free web classified for your area neighborhoods. Been getting some descent jobs on it. Meeting a realitore tomorrow for some work she has. Check it out if its your area.
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If I had pay per click that @618Pressure would spend all day on the computer and bankrupt me lol
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Youāre about the 5th person to mention next door. Iām gonna check it out tomorrow
