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MR. STEAMER 
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 Topic: Most carpet Cleaning companies fail why??Posted: 15/February/2006 at 7:00pm |
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I've seen cleaners come and go and come and go why??? In this business yes the money can come in fast but it also can go out fast. Most people jump in with both feet and blind folded. first they run out and buy a brand new ninja, and about 500 bucks worth of chemical. they clean a few places... they get a few referrals because they are cheap, they throw up a few flyers around town... they come to the conclusin portable is too slow...here comes brand new truckmount! 60 grand! a few thousand in chemicals... payments of 1800 a month.... oppss not enough business oppss truck needs repairs oppss didn't follow all the service instructions oppss no warranty opppss parts coming from the states...going to be down for a week or two gas chemical repair and advertising get too much to handle opps out of business... seen it a million times then we have people around here that think it's not a good idea to get cost effective ideas... dont buy used....dont look for cost effective chemicals... buy gas when high...don't try and do any of your own repairs... chemical is only 3% of total cost??? where the hell do you get that number???? then you want to talk about wits. You have to stock what you use and that means an out lay of cash weather or not you use the damn stuff. bahahahaha |
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Steaminpile
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Posted: 15/February/2006 at 7:07pm |
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so in other words to succeed you must use a ninja and clean with Tide??
chems really aren't very expensive sorry,$100 gets me 5 gallons of prespray and that usually keeps me going for 3-4 weeks. a five gallon pale of powdered emulsifier keeps me cleaning even longer and it's about $150
that brings in anywhere from 5-10 grand in that one month so yeah,,the percentage is low on chem costs I know you're like me and don't use a huge assortment of spotters so why would you need to cut corners?? |
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Posted: 15/February/2006 at 8:24pm |
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Mr. Steamer I think you hit the nail on the head. Many people over extend themselves not only in their business life, but their personal life as well. So not only are they in debt up to their ears with a new truckmount and van, they also have the wife's new car, the new house, three kids, the riding lawn mower, the swimming pool, and the boat. So they're doomed before they even get going.
All of those things are great, but it's even better when you're doing well enough to pay cash for them and still have plenty of money coming in. |
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Posted: 15/February/2006 at 9:04pm |
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You just don't buy soap to start.... If the sales person is doing their job... you buy a case of soap... a good POG...Coffee Tea remover...Brown Out... Haitian Cotton...A case of Deodorizer....maybe some rinse....maybe some gum remover....pads... blocks....scotchgard...one for carpet one for furniture...a good sanitizer.. easy 600 bucks..... thats just chemical.... now you need a hand tool... a stair tool....a bag to hold the hoses... a bucket... or maybe you add on a pump out??? I don't know about you Steamin... but I stock alot of chemical... for 2005 I had over $1000 in Just chemical sitting on the ground... and it wasnt very much stuff... 4 cases of gard... 4 cases of Deo...2 bottles of Brown out... case of POG.... case of Coffee stain remover... case of pads 5 boxes of blocks..... when I got my first portable I spent around 600 dollars in chemicals |
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Steaminpile
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Posted: 15/February/2006 at 9:19pm |
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yeah but how much did you bring in with that $1000 bucks worth of chem??
I usually just buy a case or 5gal pale of each chem
it's still a VERY low percentage of costs Edited by Steaminpile |
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cleanex
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Posted: 15/February/2006 at 9:33pm |
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Steamer say's { It's still a VERY low percentage of costs.} Than he jumps all over me when I said chemical costs should be 3% of gross sales, which is a lot different than 3% of total costs. Make up your mind, 3% of gross sales is the average amount spent by carpet cleaners in North America. |
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Posted: 15/February/2006 at 10:25pm |
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Wrong!!!! Better check that post again.
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Posted: 16/February/2006 at 12:04am |
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cleanex
you have steamer and steamin mixed up
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doug
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Posted: 16/February/2006 at 7:39am |
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Lately Steamer has been Steamin? If he didn't waste all his money on garbage to try and upsell it to unsespecting customers he wouldn't have so much inventory?
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Posted: 16/February/2006 at 9:48am |
look cleanex's post Chemical costs represent about 3% of gross sales in the average carpet cleaning companies. That is one of the smallest costs in our business, don't know about Steamer's costs, if I was going to waste my time on anything it would looking for ways to reduce labour, taxes, gasoline, heat & hydro costs long before trying to save pennies on some SOAP mixture, that may or may not save so little my bottom line would not change. To each his own, maybe a one man operation could get away with using laundry soap end post
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Posted: 16/February/2006 at 9:55am |
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I try to buy stuff on sale or at a good price and stock pile it... actually right now, what I have is nothing. JoeNoob cleaner runs out and buys one jug of gard for $60, and then he mixes it to strong, which makes the carpet stiff, so he has to go back to re-clean and re-apply the gard(to make the customer happy), but it goes stiff again.. the customer calls him back to fix it again...and then they never call him ever. his portable ends up at teds and his out of money and out of business I've seen this too |
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Posted: 16/February/2006 at 3:04pm |
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Are you still on your own or back subbing? Or are old habits hard to break? |
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Posted: 16/February/2006 at 4:26pm |
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Success comes to the man who does today what you were thinking of doing tomorrow..
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Posted: 17/February/2006 at 12:10am |
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Most cleaners never bother to learn about the machines they buy... the service man makes all the profit. there are so many things you need to know and learn...before you just jump into this business don't buy a machine if you can't do most the service yourself. Edited by MR. STEAMER |
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