Discuss the Groupon Deal Here PLease

[Brian R]

I asked God to overwhelm me and he's never failed.
I should have my hands full tomorrow and for the month of March

But I'm going to Mikefest if it kills me. shiteatinggrin

I'll be running 5 routes but they won't be full at first because I need to see how it goes....and I need room for the regular customers. Thank you Full Circle.

I may not be running a route myself because I may be suited better for a backup etc. and pre-inspections maybe.

Plus, Groupon said "Steam" ...bastards! lol


I'm not sure I'll be able to sleep tonight.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Humm so could it be considered steam coming out of the Sprayborg? :roll:

:mrgreen:

 

[Brian R]

"It's hot water maam"

lmao

 

[Bruce Humphrey]

0 bought

 

[Brian R]

0 bought

LOL, starts tomorrow.

 

[FB7777]

Good luck Brian, I'll be more intersted in the final numbers than the inital bookings.

The way your sweatshop is set-up, personally you can't lose :mrgreen:

 

[Ken Snow]

That is not even such a great deal in detroit- companies are routinely offering 6 areas for $84.99 here. We are actually on the higher end at 4 rooms for 99.99

 

[Desk Jockey]

Ken
Off subject, but still in the marketing vein, how are your guys liking the little Ford vehicle that's in your Avatar.

 

[Ken Snow]

The guy who operates the Ford Transit connect really loves it Richard, a big step up sizewise from the PT Cruiser he was in. He is one of our on the road Chemists, and he is also doing some hard surface florr cleaning now so it gave him the room to carry all his equipment.

Ken

 

[Royal Man]

Wish they made a bigger heavy duty one I could use for carpet cleaning.

A sprinter won't fit in my garage.

 

[Bruce Humphrey]

1 bought

 

[Brian R]

2 Bought....and 2 emails and 3 voicemails. lol


I'm swamped!!!

:shock:

Just a couple people calling to schedule who didn't buy yet.
1 person called about cleaing a shower. "is the deal good for that?" She said. :roll:




They did the deal as a side deal on the Groupon email. I was afraid of that.


Oh well...maybe I'll get a few jobs.


Edit: Now 4 bought

 

[Brian R]

Here's a screenshot of the email....I kinda got lost in the shuffle. See if you can find the priority deal.

 

[Brian R]

Just sold 20 and that was the minimum amount so "the deal is on"

That's 1000 bucks before I even do the jobs so that's cool.

 

[Brian R]

up to 33 sold so far...I will be happy with 300

Some jobs are scheduled for next week ...and about about 1/4 of them have stairs (upsell) and I've got one tile job scheduled.

My website has over 500 hits on it so far today....but they are not all unique hits...I'll get into my program for that later.

If I just do the jobs as Groupon myself that's $1650.00 to start.

 

[Desk Jockey]

up to 33 sold so far...I will be happy with 300

Hey I guessed that!

I did think you were deal of the day not the side deal, but you have all weekend to get to 300. :mrgreen:

 

[Brian R]

Yeah, me too.

They said up front that it "could" be the side deal.

They said "if we didn't do the side deals, we wouldn't be able to fit everyone in anyway"

Makes sense.

 

[Padden McFadden]

Brian,
What dose it cost to run an add with them?

 

[Bjorn]

futuristic beeps of deep steam-cleaning machine

thought you only owned a pad machine ?
is it a gamble who gets steam and who gets swirled?

 

[rick imby]

Padden,
I will jump in here and answer for Swamped Brian.

Normally the cost of running this ad is 1/2 of the coupon sale price.

The customer has to pay for the coupon up front.

If groupon sells 10 of these $99 coupons then the cost will be $500 for the ad. If they sell 100 then the cost of the ad is $5000.

The Customer presents the coupon to you when you do the job and you get a list of buyers names. If you sell the required minimum then the job is on.

 

[rick imby]

What would $5000 buy in other advertizing media? It would surely send out a lot of mailers.

Rick

 

[Royal Man]

What would $5000 buy in other advertizing media? It would surely send out a lot of mailers.

Rick

5K would give me 30 years of internet advertising.

Or 2 years of monthly mailings to clients

Or 90 years of marketing to local referral centers.


Then again doing nothing doesn't produce crapo.

At least he is doing something.

 

[Bjorn]

you have to sell 50% of your soul

 

[Ken Snow]

5k gets me through a typical Monday-Tuesday of advertising (actuall not all of Tuesday) :shock:

 

[Brian R]

Thanks Rick.

The issue is ...spending $5000 of your own money is a gamble AND you may not have it....With Groupon it's as close to guaranteed as you can get AND it's no money directly out of your pocket as a whole...but I understand there are expenses with each job.

It used to be guaranteed until they changed the way they redeem the Groupons.

Anyway, for that $5000 I should be able to produce $20,000....but I'll wait till the end of March to call it a success or not.
Even though I will see these customers as far as 6 months out and it's a year before it expires.

We're up to about 60 sold...I did 98 over a year ago with Groupon (where I had done about $20,000.00...not including the repeats I've been doing lately).

Hope that helps.

 

[Royal Man]

20K, I thought 60 jobs was going to give you $600 guaranteed.

 

[Brian R]

20K, I thought 60 jobs was going to give you $600 guaranteed.

Just my prediction. If I do the jobs myself right now I will get $3000.00

But most of the jobs scheduled right now have more than what the Groupon covers.

So I'm up already. lol


Edit: If I were to just let the subs clean I would get $600

 

[Brian R]

how can you do the jobs yourself? Did you buy a steam cleaner?

Yeah, that could be an issue.

I DO have a hitch to pull a trailer that one of my Techs has.

 

[Brian R]

69 sold and 14 hours left. I would like to at least hit 100. lol

 

[Whomeam]

Still says 5 days left on my side of things. weird.