Started Buisness Need Info
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Topic: Started Buisness Need Info
Posted By: WhiteRock
Subject: Started Buisness Need Info
Date Posted: 18/September/2008 at 1:29am
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Hello,
Im not new to carpet restoration but I am new to finding jobs and contracts. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
WhiteRock
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Posted By: Ken_Is_OK
Date Posted: 18/September/2008 at 9:07am
| Buy a TV commercial or radio ad....seems to work for a few million others. |
Posted By: medicman
Date Posted: 19/September/2008 at 8:58am
Fliers, doorhangers, newspaper ad. For commercial work, i found that pound'n the pavement and going from business to business with a small demo, or a good sale's pitch works pretty good. Good luck with it!!
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Posted By: duckcountry
Date Posted: 19/September/2008 at 2:41pm
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Meet the people, let the people meet you. Everywhere you go talk up the business. Dirty carpets in the restaurant you are eating in? Submit a bid and follow up. You can get fat and happy by getting fat and happy. Marketing is not about any one thing that you do, it is about EVERYTHING that you do. ------------- Are you in a high paying business or are you just a self employed low paid grunt who thinks this business provides dignity? |
Posted By: Ken_Is_OK
Date Posted: 19/September/2008 at 6:00pm
| go big or stay home |
Posted By: Refined
Date Posted: 20/September/2008 at 5:39pm
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what duckcountry said has worked for me. I like doing the commercial side, so anywhere that has carpets I go in and ask them who cleans their carpets. Most of the time they are already looking to replace the guy they use. (the key is to be better than all of those around you) Have fun! ------------- -Refined Carpet Cleaning |
Posted By: duckcountry
Date Posted: 21/September/2008 at 5:01pm
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If you want to give away demos here is my view on how best to do that. Take a dirty carpet removed from a hallway. Clean one side using your method, leave the other side alone. The uncleaned side represents their carpet before, the cleaned side is their carpet after you perform your magic. Now cut that carpet and trim into sample swatch sizes. Put your business card or label on the opposite side. You might want to include Before/After labels on the back side just so they don't confuse what your meaning is. This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Remember that effective campaign? Give away the swatches, not free demos. Labor saving, gives the same effect in your presentation and takes less time. I do not believe they are as interested in watching how you do it as seeing the end result, the Readers Digest version is good enough in today's age of people with short attention spans making business decisions. Nothing against them, just adjusting mediums to carry out the same message. They would jump to the end of a novel and then decide if it is worth their time to read the book at all. Food for thought. But whatever is working for you, keep on doing it. Lee Trevino would address the ball with a baseball swing, not the accepted swing. But with years of practice he mastered his way. Mastering your method is what allows you to play with the pros, not going through life doing whatever everyone else does. Digest that. ------------- Are you in a high paying business or are you just a self employed low paid grunt who thinks this business provides dignity? |
Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 21/September/2008 at 8:06pm
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Food for thought?? ------------- Could somebody just clean my carpets! |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 21/September/2008 at 9:41pm
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I'am not real hungry ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 22/September/2008 at 12:16am
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Sometimes it's good to think outside the box ------------- 
The STD Meter |
Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 23/September/2008 at 7:09am
 Real great info there duck.. The 3ft rule.. Everyone and anyone that looks like they have $$$$ expose yourself
 (Not that way) to them and give them a Bcard.. |
Posted By: prouddadx3
Date Posted: 06/November/2008 at 4:01pm
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You can go to Google local.com and Yahoo Local .com and register your business on the map section for free. I get calls every day from this. If you need help let me know.
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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 08/November/2008 at 9:31am
Box of what???  ------------- Just My opinion |
cmaster wrote:Posted By: Soil Lint Green
Date Posted: 08/November/2008 at 11:25am
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I did a little research on that subject and found a list of possible boxes to think outside of. Here is the list: bandbox boombox breadbox cashbox coalbox econobox econoboxes feedbox firebox gearbox hatbox hellbox homeobox hotbox icebox jukebox letterbox litterbox lockbox mailbox matchbox pegbox pepperbox pillbox postbox saltbox sandbox saucebox shadowbox skybox snuffbox soundbox strongbox sweatbox teabox tinderbox toolbox toybox woodbox workbox Now I will get off my soapbox. |
Posted By: Refined
Date Posted: 08/November/2008 at 12:23pm
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is SPAMbox a word?
------------- -Refined Carpet Cleaning |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 08/November/2008 at 1:01pm
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It is now -------------
The STD Meter |
Posted By: duckcountry
Date Posted: 08/November/2008 at 1:46pm
You now own the copyright on it ------------- Are you in a high paying business or are you just a self employed low paid grunt who thinks this business provides dignity? |
Posted By: amera
Date Posted: 13/January/2009 at 4:03pm
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start attending some networking groups and visit the chamber of commerce in your local area ------------- http://www.ameracleandenver.com - Denver Carpet Cleaners http://www.ameracleandenver.com - Denver Carpet Cleaning |