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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Superglide Ken Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01/November/2006 at 10:49pm
Hey Hammy; when did one ever need an international business degree to sell glides.I do not even have a national one, and I still manage to sell the majority of them .
Inventor of the Teflon Wand Glide and the Turboteck Rotary Air Duct Cleaners for TMs.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Hammy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01/November/2006 at 10:52pm
Danmarck82 is the resident international export glide salesman!LOLLOL
Could somebody just clean my carpets!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MR. STEAMER Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01/November/2006 at 11:39pm
I can understand why one would want to stay small...insurance ...gas...payroll...and employees that don't respect your equipment or customers...
 
Maybe Danmarck82 should think about hiring a few Subs????
 
Growth makes money....say if you get hurt at least business will go on..and you'll still have a healthy income comming in
 
 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MR. STEAMER Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01/November/2006 at 11:44pm
Originally posted by talzee talzee wrote:

   Does anybody look at and track their profit margins, itemized by services (ie upholstery cleaning , wr, carpet cleaning, duct cleaning, protector, etc.) Anybody care to share some of their results?
There are so many variables... ie how you got the jobs...?? What are you standard monthly bills...price of chemical... price of gas...average time of cleaning...
 
Talzee it sounds to me like your doing a business plan to grab some government money.....
 
how is it going???
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote danmarck82 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01/November/2006 at 11:47pm
I spent a semester in Salzburg Austria during College, have visited Relatives and friends in Germany and Norway 6 times and would fit the position . Not a whole lot of carpet in Europe. Lots of Hard surface.... marble, slate, stone etc.

Hammy send me my application! Hope it pays well don't want to give up Carpet cleaning that easy, you know.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote danmarck82 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01/November/2006 at 11:56pm
Steamer. Do you really think subs would maintain the quality of an owner.
Do they have magnetic signs with your logo? We don't have such a thing as Sub contractors in our market so I'm pretty ignorant on that subject.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MR. STEAMER Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02/November/2006 at 12:04am
I think a sub would maintain owner quality...why??? because it's his equipment, chemical, sweat, and gas....  He wants to get paid at the end of the month...
 
If you have the capital... the best thing to do is hire them as an employee first and then sell them the equipment through you. 
 
This way you hold all the cards
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote danmarck82 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02/November/2006 at 12:12am
Are you taking your own advice. Does it work for you???
    
    

Edited by danmarck82 - 02/November/2006 at 12:13am
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MR. STEAMER Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02/November/2006 at 12:38am
not at the point to have subs yet...need more owrk first.... but I've been a sub...and I've worked with subs...ownership makes a tech feel proud
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote nightrider Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02/November/2006 at 2:06am
WHEN STEAMER SAYS  " SUB " ......HE MEANS  " SUBMISSIVE " So the above post should read like this :
 
not at the point to have subsmissives yet...need more owrk first.... but I've been a submissive...and I've worked with subsmissives...ownership makes a tech feel proud
 
 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MR. STEAMER Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02/November/2006 at 7:23am
kewl NR if you think that...then think it...
 
I don't know how you missed the point!....sound firmiliar???
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote talzee Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02/November/2006 at 9:23am
Originally posted by MR. STEAMER MR. STEAMER wrote:

Originally posted by talzee talzee wrote:

   Does anybody look at and track their profit margins, itemized by services (ie upholstery cleaning , wr, carpet cleaning, duct cleaning, protector, etc.) Anybody care to share some of their results?
There are so many variables... ie how you got the jobs...?? What are you standard monthly bills...price of chemical... price of gas...average time of cleaning...
 

Talzee it sounds to me like your doing a business plan to grab some government money.....

 

how is it going???

    

Actually our business plan evolves every year as we constantly try to improve the bottom line. We get a lot of good ideas (and a lot of bad ideas) from our fellow professionals. There are a lot of "dumb" carpet cleaners out there that are sitting on a cold mine and don't know it! We wouldn't touch government money with a ten foot pole...We had a few opportunities but you were handcuffed by their terms.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote nightrider Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02/November/2006 at 11:18am
I never miss the point.............I just like to make points of my own
 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote doug Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02/November/2006 at 3:48pm
Point taken??
Just My opinion
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