pfred said:
most of it is not rhetoric Dave, I've asked numerous questions of you and you fail to answer them.
in the absense of responses from you I merely draw my own conclusions based on my 20+ years in a market much smaller than yours
So you are ranked 1st in Google ( as am I and my site actually ranks much higher than your on Bing but I am a much smaller market )
Bing in my town seems to be ranked by how near the company is to the center of the city.
Here's a question for you
With all this work you claim from all your marketing and internet prowess, do you ever intend on adding another truck or upgrading from a 15 year old electric weenie mount?
I have the electric because it works very well (600 psi, steaming hot)and in the winter I can park in client's garages and shut the door (Which they enjoy)
If you feel ambitious then tackle this question as well...
How on earth do you handle all this work and why do you only charge under 20 cents a square foot with your room pricing from your website after nearly 30 years in business?
I keep busy although business in the midwest is seasonal.
My job average is over $300 per job which is very good for this area.
As far as the special you saw I have had only 2 people take advantage of it. (One a $
575 job and the other $375.)
This is a very competitive market with around 75 cleaning companies in a population of 250k.
If you do the math you'll see that there are far too many cleaners here.
(This is my math, (Your math may vary): 250K pop. / 3 for number of house + apartments /100 number of technichions. / 5 number of homes + apartments that are actually cleaned every year (high side) that comes to 166 posible resi jobs per tech. /12 for monthly total per tech.
That comes to 13 resi jobs per month. Not good!!(and my numbers are on the high side)
(Do the math for your own area and see what you come up with)
From the number you can see why go out of business every year and about the same amount of new ones start up.
This is not to make any excuses. More just to tell how that dispite the competition. I have found ways to churn new clients and stay in business for 27 years. Being on top of the web along with my marketing system makes it happen for me and gives me many great client that are not price clients.
Please don't follow with post about my math. That is not the point of my post.
