Dry vacuuming before wet cleaning

[QUOTE=CCandmore]    I use local college girls for part time helpers. I rake in the prespray and work on stubborn spots while they use the wand. Since I've been doing this, my business skyrockets in the summertime when they wear shorts and t-shirts. It's usually the guy who meets me at the door and I never get complaints.

I have a special short-handled rake that I like to call my "stainguard rake". I spray, they rake. It's really amazing how much some customers are willing to pay for stainguard.

By the way, I love my job.[/QUOTE]

 

I use local college girls for part time helpers. I rake in the prespray and work on stubborn spots while they use the wand. Since I've been doing this, my business skyrockets in the summertime when they wear shorts and t-shirts. It's usually the guy who meets me at the door and I never get complaints. I have a special short-handled rake that I like to call my "stainguard rake". I spray, they rake. It's really amazing how much some customers are willing to pay for stainguard. By the way, I love my job.

You might be a pimp of a different make and model, but you understand how to put SEX into carpet cleaning.

I just take off my shirt and watch all the ladies come out of hiding to take their pictures of the beached albino whale.  I make good money at $5 per pose.


Edited by Soil Lint Green - 31/December/2007 at 12:34am

I use a backpack vac...works pretty good if you have paid for our regular cleaning package!

There is a reason for taking a vac into a job.

Make sure it looks mean and says commercial on the vac or bag.

Now, sell it to them.  Nothing beats your commercial vac.  And make sure it is a make/model they can't buy without you.  In otherwords, not sold in stores, too powerful for the average person to use but nothing cleans like this vac.

I would get a good commission on one every time I sold a unit a Miller's Carpet Care in the L.A. area.  Learned tons about upselling from them.  We would book cheap, get ourselves in the door and sell sell sell. 

Just make sure you show them the proper way to vacuum.  Lord knows their mothers didn't do it for them.

Personally Sanitaire commercial. 

What is the profit on the sanitare..?

A rainbow is $800 I think.  And I heard they sell them at that.  Dyson is around $500 or more from what I have seen in the big box stores.  So, I guess we would be looking at $399.  That is what I would sell them for.  Should I say that is what I have sold them for.  And my label goes on each one I sell.  But that is me in my business, each person decides how to conduct their own business.  Most guys are too busy trying to get to the next job to go for the vacuum sale.