"Larry,
I get my business through referral sources. 76% of my business is repeat customers. After 6 years in business that is not bad. My customers know how expensive I am and if I was not worth it my sales would show."
Don't know why you mentioned my name, Dave.
Was that comment in referance to something "I" said?
If so, don't have a clue what it was.
but since you got my attention;
"Guys like Larry have to do remodeling to make it. "
I don't know about all that, Dave.
I did pretty well when I was an owner/op out on the van everyday.
I also live in "podunckville" , don't CHOOSE to be on the van all the time and don't have a million peep population to tap into.
Diversification keeps the little genies busy all winter, increases our bottom line, adds value to our Co as a biz, and the BEST part is,
I make more, and work less.
Your considering getting back into WD work.
What's a matter? can't you "make it" just cleaning carpets?
No offense Dave, but that statement of what I "have to do" to "make it" sounds stOOpit and feels a bit condesending to me comming from a guy who went bankrupt and had to have someone bank roll them to get back into CCing and now that investor call the shots in "your" biz.
Your also the only cleaning tech in your Co, yet have an investor (the one who bankrolled your biz and
AT) and one other who draws a sallary, correct?
That makes a one tech, one van outfit like yours HAVE to charge more than the "average" O/Op to "net" the same dough.
I got nothing against a guy getting what the market will bear, but there's some guys who can "net" as much dough and not have to work as long or hard to make it.
Further, your going to run into the same problems some of the other "highroller" O/Ops will, if/when they ever decide to get out of the van.
It's YOU, your work ethic and your personality that's commands those referals at top prices.
Put a tech in the van and get off the truck and see what happens
..L.T.A.