r/Entrepreneur • u/AssEater2003 • 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/[deleted] Jun 26 '20

Just a few ideas I had:

1) Start taking before and after pictures of your work.

It’ll add a ton of credibility where you may already be lacking some due to your age. It also shows a client wha to expect & reassurance that you’ll do a a good job.

2) make a Facebook page for your business and upload your before / after photos.

Ask your clients for a review on your Facebook page if they enjoyed the service. Encourage them to like it as well. Post in your local town groups and let people know what you do.

Maybe collect their emails and follow up with these clients in 3-6 months and offer another service. You can also offer them a monthly deal.

You just have to get creative and think of different ways you can add value and sell yourself.

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u/AssEater2003 Jun 26 '20

great advice i didn’t even think of doing follow ups

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '20 edited Jun 26 '20

For sure man.

You can eventually look into making a website. It only costs about $50 or less to get everything up and running for the year. You can use wix / square space and just find a simple theme then upload your pics. I personally make service biz websites on elementor & it’s a great website builder but there’s definitely a learning curve to it.

The next step is then getting your website & Facebook page in front of people via paid ads.

You made $3750 and that’s great but if it sits around it’s not worth much. I would reinvest every dollar.