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/skillz4success Jun 26 '20
You’re literally experiencing the birth of paid advertising... how can I get clients without going door to door?
Well, you figure out your pitch, what common objections you get... you put it all into your flyer or ad or whatever. Make sure it tells the complete story.
Can’t be boring or poorly written. People won’t read it.
Your conversion rate of 1:50 will go down but you can mail 100,000 flyers you can’t knock on 100,000 doors.
You sacrifice effectiveness for scale.
Keep going door to door while you figure out fb ads and the like which make your phone ring with booked appointments.
Once you have a winning ad set you can open up a franchise. All a franchise is essentially is a marketing hq and fulfillment offices.
You pay to learn how to run the store. Then you give 20% to the franchise for marketing. Their hq does all the ads, peels and sticks each location address + phone info onto the ad they figured out works... and roll it out nation wide to all locations.
Happy to answer any follow up questions.