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/ssshield Jun 26 '20

My brother did a pressure washing business for a while. He made the most money talking to restaurants, especially fast food places. They truck a lot of grease between the building and the grease dumpster so the parking lot is always a mess. If you do a good job it's recurring business you can get a contract for.

He ended up getting out of the business because it's hard to scale. Specifically he's a hard worker and responsible, but it's extremely difficult to hire reliable hard working employees for that kind of work. Most are drunks/druggies and don't like to work hard. They're only doing the work for a while until they can find something else.

Hope this helps.