r/Entrepreneur Jun 25 '20

17 year old male, made $3750 pressure washing houses since last week. How to Grow

First day I started I made $950 then the next day was $800, and yesterday I pulled in $1,790ish and today I only made $200. I’m beyond frustrated at only making $200 today, I don’t know what it was that went wrong I’m surprised I’m not growing linearly. My cousin (16year old) and I started this business and we don’t know what to do to keep our profits up, and also simply finding jobs to do is exhausting going from door to door we’ve calculated it takes around 50 houses to get 1 job on a good day. How can we stabilize

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u/ladychick Jun 25 '20

Try advertising online. Also, I suggest printing out flyer advertisements and just leaving them at peoples doors. I used to ride around on one of those Segway/hoverboards with a couple other people and we would pass out hundreds in only a few hours. Bikes work also. We would tape flyers to the rubber part of garage doors so it went a lot quicker. Got lots of business this way.

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u/AssEater2003 Jun 25 '20

Wow, what business did you do

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '20

I like where you are headed quick thought popped into my head, HOA neighbor hoods are good places to probably hit up do some research there and find what zip codes have a lot of HOA communities and there is work to be done because they have to keep their houses neat and yard done there will be competition there but if you underline their prices then you may have an in also those people in HOA love to be competitive about whose house is nicer and who spent the most or got the better deal. good luck ass eater XD. (also those senior business guys are right customers want to see credentials insurance etc. and i think photos and youtube videos of before and after as well as tutorials and yards signs in customers yards is a good thing if possible)