He failed, he learned, he grew, he prevailed. The $15k is irrelevant.
I thought you were looking to learn and to grow a power washing business. How exactly do you plan to do that by peddling your frustration here and taking it out on the well established business owners that reside in the place you came to get help??
All Clean Power Washing Solutions, LLC
813.528.2219
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OK Bud this will be the last response I make to any of your posts because there seems to be something seriously wrong with your mental statusā¦
What I wrote was a an example of how to āplanā for (modest) successā¦not total failure. Iām not the one pizzing and moaning about customers and not getting workā¦whyā¦because I planned for success not failureā¦even before I borrowed money to start our business. Not a badge of honor just a simple guideline.
As far as wanting anyone to failā¦thatās just plain wrong againā¦Iāve helped countless guys that call me every week seeking advise, and whether Iām on the job or at the office I take the time to answer their questions as best I canā¦kinda like Iām doing now.
You have a closed mind & negative personalityā¦if anything you should work on that first.
I wish you the best of luck.
You dont have any successful business experience yet you criticize Guy and the rest of us who have been successfully running our power washing businesses? You mentioned you started other businesses, what were they and why did you get out of them?
I started with nothing but a failing business, I didnt even have a ārealā job at the time. But I spent hours/weeks/months reading the boards, taking notes, contacting more experienced people to help me and most importantly, I LISTENED to what they had to say! I put my first machine and some tools on a credit card and started working with the lessons I earned. Less than a month later the machines were paid off. That all started 11 years ago.
I dont think you have the ability to be successful at running this type of business, maybe any business, and I certainly dont want you claiming to be a professional as you āwashā with your 2.5gpm machine and zero experience. You are a black eye on the industry and should stay away or pay for professional training.
Someone once said - if you take all the money from the rich people and give it to the poor people, the rich will get it all back within a few years
Can you understand what that statement means, if not, Iāll explain. Some of us are business owners, hard workers, quality oriented, do not accept failure as an excuse to quit and weāre driven to success. Others are more suited to being employees, which is GREAT, and the good ones are rewarded nicely for their efforts. While others have very little, if any, ambition and will always be on the bottom, have excuses for everything bad in their lives, looking for free stuff to be handed to them.
Iām curious how everybody learned to wash houses. Granted, that is the easy part. But how did it happen. Did you work for somebody else and then go out on your own? Did you pay for a boot camp course? Did you read the forums and experiment until you got it? Did you have a mentor?
I read the boards, asked tons of questions then went out and did what I was advised to do making adjustments to taylor make the process to suit me and my capabilities at the time
Wow. Pressurecat seems to have it all figured out.
Capitol Pro Wash
Salem, Oregon
503.856.6463
Listen to the advice everyone is giving you about websites on here buddy, itās pretty darn necessary to have one if you want good exposure for your company.
Contrary to what the negative Nancies say, itās not expensive to have a good website. If you are not familiar with web development, there are so many good drag and drop website builders out there that cost less than 30$ a month like wix.com or weebly.com. Hell, godaddy.com even has a deal right now where you can use their website builder, get a domain name, and have hosting for $1 a month for a year. I personally use wordpress, but Iāve been building websites for a while.
So what should you put on the website? Find the successful folks on the forums and look at their website. Donāt plagiarize, but they should give you a good starting point as far as looks and content goes.
As far as getting your company website noticed, thatās called Search Engine Optimization. Take an hour or two and google SEO Tutorials etcā¦, get a basic understanding of how SEO works and go from there.
Let me know if you need any help.
Well, this was fun reading LOL
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I have a pretty decent instinct for when someone is giving me the real skinny on something as it seems you have done for me here; Hard numbers real info. Thanks.
Are you on HomeAdvisor ?? you know your website could be blasted on there and better homes and gardens too this old house too is a good one
6469309543 homeadvisor #
Whatever you do stay away from Home Advisor. They are bottom-feeding lowlifes and if you ever get involved with them theyāre harder to get rid of than Ebola.
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How do you get yours, and what are you paying per card?
We find te following works in order of what gives us best results.
Google adwords
Door to door sales
Door hangers
flyers
Vehicle signs
All the best
Troy Hillard
Wash Rite
www.washrite.co.nz
Word of mouth!! Gotta do good work
I tried adding words for about 3 months and blew threw so much money with little return. Not sure if it was my marketing or the market.
Xtreme Cleanz
Birmingham Alabama
205-966-0000
my experience with adwords is they work but you have to spend a lot of time adjusting and controlling everything. I have a marketing person manage it for me.
Richard
apex pressure washing
This is amazing information Guy B is where I wish to be one day he got a well plan business
EDDM in my area.
word of mouth is always number 1
this is a blog about pressure washing marketing Wash Rite Exterior Building Washing: Advertising you pressure wash or softwash business - www.washrite.co.nz
hope it helps
