eads
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This is my first year in the yp. Its been out for two months now and all the calls that I have received where price shoppers. Things may change come spring time though.
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Have leads for a few petsmarts. Locations includes vero beach, boca raton, coral spring. For more info email or pm me. michaels@michaelsexteriorcleaning.com
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Hey Terry, Where did you purchase your plotter?
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319.9 best score
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If your main purpose is to blow out gutters and blow off decks. Then I would go with something hand held. Your chances of falling are reduced vs having 30lbs of counter weight on you back. Stihl or Echo are my personal choices.
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Nice music! Good video! Commercial like!
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I bartered with the owner of a neighborhood newsletter. She wanted her daughters front store cleaned. I ended up making over 2500 for the exchange in services. Great experience for me.
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What rinse tip would be optimal for my machine specs?
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Will I go through a 5gal bucket as quick as the xjet downstreaming?
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I have a really really big house(3 story) to clean next week and would like some input on what size tip to use to downstream to that height. I really love using my xjet but sometime its just to much of a hassle. Tangled hose, carrying 5 gal buckets around, keeping an eye out to not tip the bucket over in the customers carpet green lawn etc. Any suggestions? My unit specs are 4gpm at 4000psi with 200ft of hose. Thanks!
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Anyone in or near orlando can you post a location where I can get a bag of oxalic or citric acid please.
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yeah i have done some research and roof cleaning seems easy to sell with all the mold and algae in florida and the damage it can doseems most people around here use chlorine right?? or a chlorine/bleach mix
seems the most cost effective and from what i heard it does a great job
low pressure with teh shurflo and then rinse off with the gun on low pressure or even a garden hose
dont think xjet would apply a strong enough mix
any advice on how to bid roofs?????
thanks again for any feedback
oh also anyone have any tips on insurance companies in florida area that offer cheap liability
i would think 500,000 should be sufficient for residential
andy
You can always ask the customer most will know, or you can get it off of your local property appraiser website.
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Barry nice work! Great before after pic for a postcard. Good to see you keeping busy. What are you machine specs.
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Eads, What is your marketing plan, i have been reading on here for about9-10 months now and finally opened my doors and only have one job to do and its the only one so far this year. If i had a good marketing sense i would be on my own by now. Once you firgure things out and how to do them the only person that slows you down looks back at you in the mirror everyday, as soon as you can defeat that guy you are good to go. It sounds as though you have but your wife is still a little worried. Work on her and go to work.As of right now I'm only doing three things. Mailers, Newsletters, Trade Magazine, and Distributing flyers when I can. I will be getting my yard signs and truck magnets next week. This should boost my leads a little more.
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Michael, are all your ducks lined up? Do you have a sound business plan (meaning, is it written?..if it is not written down it is a fantasy list of hopes and dreams, not a real business plan)-Do you have liquifiable assets that can compensate for lost income?
-Do you have money to sustain advertising and pay the bills while you are slow or when the inevitable 42 day in a row rainy streak hits?
-Do you have all proper insurance and licensing in place as well as disability insurance that will cover you in the event you get injured?
Can all your bills still get paid if you make half salary?
All the above questions yes. Although, I dont think I'll ever go through a 42 day rainy streak without getting some work done.
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Originally Posted by Ernie Greese
This is probably why Michael's wife has her concerns, too.
The point is, if you wait until things are guaranteed, you'll wait forever. Hell, he could lose his current job tomorrow. Anything CAN happen, and if you sit around worrying about them, you'll just be a bundle of raw nerves. Instead of waiting for something to happen, get out and MAKE it happen.
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Mike Williamson writes
He could be in business 5 years and go bust. The economy could take a serious dump, he could be injured, there are lots of things that could happen.
This is probably why Michael's wife has her concerns, too.
ERNIE and MIKE, you guys both have good points.
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What's the full time job pay, if you don't mind my asking?Hey Mike, I don't mind sharing. Its $720 a week after taxes. Like I said in the previous post I can make 3x as much as this (SOME WEEKS). I swear the more I post on this topic the more obvious it becomes. Some tell me I should just put my foot down and do what I need to do. But I love my wife and I respect her feelings. I hate being stressed out and at the same time I hate my current job. Celeste, great ideas I will try to implement them.
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The way I see it if you have a full time job you are employed by someone who is self employed why should you let your drive and ideas make them money. No matter how much you are compensated you could make more on your own.That is exactly what I was thinking.
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After getting a taste of PWing part time last year and seeing the money I could make, I started getting an attitude at work and began to see how much I really hated working for "the man". It really fueled my fire if you know what I mean. Anyway I still wasn't sure if I could feed the family off of PWing being only my second year in biz and the wife wasn't to thrilled about giving up a weekly paycheck she had become so dependant on. .Barry, sounds like where some what in the same boat buddy. It can be very stressful on me at times but I keep on pushin. I figure anything worth having wouldn't be easy to get anyway. Sometimes I just wish I dont have that extra hurdle to jump over if you know what I mean.
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Hey Mike, your private message box is full. Where did you find that roof clean pic for your avatar?Created it myself.
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This year will be my first full season of pressure washing, and I'm not fulltime as of yet. I have done countless hours of research, and asked many questions before the start of the season trying to develope a strong marketing plan. Well, my strategies are paying of really well and I have been strongly contiplating(?) leaving my full time job and diving in full time pressure washing. I love the freedom of being my own boss and doing something I love to do and making good money doing it. I have already tooken 3 days off permintly and use these days exclusively for pressure washing. Some days I can make as much as 2 or 3 times what I make working my full time job. Writing this it sounds like a no brainer as to what I should do, but I have a wife and she is very very scared and insecure about what I am doing and what I plan to do, which ultimately is to be a full time pressure washer. If any of you full time guys had this problem how did you handle it? Any advice
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Im new to the bidding process. Ive been doing some research and found that some people have detailed estimates. more than just sqft. Cover letter, detailed measurement (spindles, rails, steps, etc.), restoration process, color selections, etc. I figured customers would like to see these type of things to have a better understanding of the price and service that they are getting.
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I'm estimating my first deck tommorow. It will be cleaned and stained. Does anyone have a form that they could email me or fax me. Email: michaels@michaelsexteriorcleaning.com
Fax: 407-292-9158
Any help, please!
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I use a font type called max's handwriting. It's as good as hand addressing the envelopes yourself imho. I also address the homeowner as "our neighbors" as well. I get a good response with my mailers, but it's VERRRRY time consuming to prepare them. I never used postcards before, but I will this year. Hopefully I'll get a similar response with postcards. If I don't oh well back to mailers!