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Atlantis 
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 Topic: No work! How is it for you? What should I do?Posted: 14/January/2009 at 12:29pm |
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Greetings my friends. It's been DEAD! Noticed a big decline starting last September and it's gotten worse and worse. I think we did about 5 jobs all month so far. Last 2 Januarys have been slow too but I got in at least 20 jobs.
I've been in business about 4 years on my own and this is the first time I've run into this. Luckily I saved for a rainy day  Just wondering though. Should I wait it out? Or throw some money down on advertising? If it's dead because of the economy (which I'm sure is a big factor) will I just be wasting my money? I was pulling 30-40 jobs a month from internet. Full page ad in one of the regions here. Half page ad in another region. Books haven't pulled anything to brag about. Small carpet jobs. Nowhere close to justify the cost and not pulling anything now. No floods. Internet isn't pulling anything right now either. Craziness. My rep is great! No complaints. No bad reviews so I know that's not a factor. Your thoughts? Edited by Atlantis - 14/January/2009 at 12:31pm |
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John L
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Posted: 14/January/2009 at 12:36pm |
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Add Snow Removal to your existing Business..
                
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Atlantis
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Posted: 14/January/2009 at 1:48pm |
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I live in Texas
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John L
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Posted: 14/January/2009 at 2:13pm |
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Lawn Care..
Painting.. HandyMan Services..
Heck be a Jigalo..
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cleanex
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Posted: 14/January/2009 at 2:36pm |
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This January is slower than usual, economy, rotten weather in our area. People are holding back at the moment but that will change. If you only clean residential, time to go knocking on commercial accounts they clean all year round.
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doug
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Posted: 14/January/2009 at 3:07pm |
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It seems this January is longer than usual??? colder than usual more snow than usual and less work than usual??? The only real busy place is the salt mine it can't keepup with demand.
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cleanex
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Posted: 14/January/2009 at 4:05pm |
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You are right Doug we are going crazy in some of our commercial accounts that damn salt is tracked everywhere.
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Posted: 14/January/2009 at 7:56pm |
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A salty winter will hopefully bring a busy spring for all of us
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cleanex
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Posted: 14/January/2009 at 8:39pm |
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Salt is a pain in the butt. Yes it will create work once the warm humid weather arrives.
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Posted: 14/January/2009 at 9:33pm |
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Salt? Nuttin to it...   Edited by John L - 14/January/2009 at 9:35pm |
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Posted: 14/January/2009 at 11:18pm |
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How do you approach the salt issue???
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Posted: 15/January/2009 at 8:11am |
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Salt is alkiline, pre vacuum pretreat with a acid side detergent allow dwell time extract with the hottest water you can generate
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Posted: 15/January/2009 at 10:51am |
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hmm... well, thanks for the replies (I think) haha. I was hoping some of you long term guys have been through this before and shared what worked for you. I did pick up a little advice in this thread (find other work). I guess I have to start thinking about what else I can do ;)
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Posted: 15/January/2009 at 11:12am |
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Atlantis..............many carpet cleaners on the Kleenkuip site and many other sites pretend that they make tons of money and just relax in the winter playing with their toys.
Fact is...........many go out and get a job @ 10.00 /hour to pull them through the winter months, but are too proud to say so.
I am still in this business but only on a small scale now.........I have some comercial accounts ( restaurants) where I clean once /twice per week . I do the kitchen floor, behind the fryers and woks, toilets etc etc.
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