Man I wish I would have had a 100k.
This is how it would break down for me.
20,000 for one of Ken Snows
Butlers
2,500 for a wrap
900 turbo tool
900 carpet wand
800 175 rpm rotary
500 upholstery tool
1,000 misc tools, spotting kit, etc
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26, 600 for equipment but let's round that up to 27k for incidentals
Now on to the important stuff
1500
Service monster first year
7500 Full circle first year service
1500 website design
1500 website seo for one year
2500 for designing advertising materials (logo, business cards, services menu, referral cards, invoices, 12? postcards for monthly mailing, etc, etc)
21,000 for mailing 5000 postcards monthly for new propects If you mailed the same card every month this could be done even cheaper due to volume I believe but I'm not sure if thats better or changing it up monthly
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35,500 for advertising that is 62,500 so far
The remaining 37,500 is a little trickier but I believe I would keep that in savings to live off of in the beginning and hopefully within 6 months or sooner hire a helper.
Hopefully after the first year I would be in a position to make a choice, stay 1 truck with a helper or keep growing into a second truck. If I decide to just stay myself and a helper I should have enough repeats and referrals to stay somewhat busy with the help of good service and
service monster staying in contact. If I decide to work towards a second truck I should be pulling in enough business to pay to continue sending the postcards maybe even increase the amount I'm sending. I would add a second truck asap to use as a back up and for overflow work until I had enough to keep it busy full time.
If only it were this easy.........well actually if only I would have had 100k in the bank when I started. For that matter if I could just "come into" 35k right now maybe I could give my business a kick in the rear end.
Ok let the ripping apart begin.
