I am a hood cleaner and fire equipment guy.. But hey I still do concrete. All is still going good with the homemade surface cleaner, it just needs to be used more. In Mississippi we have a serious ( CHEAP GUY ) problem .. Most of the convienece stores use a garden hose to clean there concrete. Or they use the guy ( that I have seen all over Jackson) He has a real nice chevy truck and about a 10 ft trailer.. About a 250 gallon water tank, a 13 Hp Honda cold water pressure washer.. about 100 ft of hose and (A) WAND. Thats it...
He Charged one of my hood cleaning customer's $ 45.00 to wash the drive thru , sidewalks and dumpster area.. . The manager of this restaurant that I clean the hood . said he did a great job.
So here is my sales plan.. I think I am going to hunt this guy down and hire him.. He must be smarter than me .. He is able to spend more money on fuel and water and time than he actually makes and he is still in business..
Maybe I will build him a surface cleaner .. It would beat the crap out of that mickey mouse 3 ft backbreaker wand..
OR I got threaten him ( Tell him I will take all his jobs for nothing if he doesn't leave mine alone ..)
Or do like my buddy did .. He pulled up to clean a sidewalk for at an Indian owned gas station.. and there was a guy already there cleaning so he pulled out his equipment and started cleaning too.. When he got thru with a pretty good large spot he walked in the convienece store and told the lady there that there was NO CHARGE ... ( This is true I heard this straight from the owners mouth when I cleaned it last month)
Any other ideas would be helpful .. My 57 little concrete accounts have widddled down to about 21 now...
I still think Hiring him is still the best option..
We actually have a fire equipment company here in jackson that hires people that :
1} have there own truck
2} there own equipment
3} buys there own products to resale
This is stupid ..
But this concrete cleaning guy might be better off working for me .. And if he says no.. I guess I will go clean his account for the price of a lunch..
Welcome to Mississippi..
Customer's here seem to be happy with the concrete cleaning as long as your CHEAP , do a half ass job and attempt to get a few pieces of Double Mint off of the front door concrete.
The last resort is to offer everyone of my hood cleaning accounts and fire equipment accounts a discount price to clean there concrete..
i.e ( How much does the other guy charge ? ) $ 45.00 ( Oh I charge $35.00) when I clean your vent Hood or Inspect your fire equipment....
He Charged one of my hood cleaning customer's $ 45.00 to wash the drive thru , sidewalks and dumpster area.. . The manager of this restaurant that I clean the hood . said he did a great job.
So here is my sales plan.. I think I am going to hunt this guy down and hire him.. He must be smarter than me .. He is able to spend more money on fuel and water and time than he actually makes and he is still in business..
Maybe I will build him a surface cleaner .. It would beat the crap out of that mickey mouse 3 ft backbreaker wand..
OR I got threaten him ( Tell him I will take all his jobs for nothing if he doesn't leave mine alone ..)
Or do like my buddy did .. He pulled up to clean a sidewalk for at an Indian owned gas station.. and there was a guy already there cleaning so he pulled out his equipment and started cleaning too.. When he got thru with a pretty good large spot he walked in the convienece store and told the lady there that there was NO CHARGE ... ( This is true I heard this straight from the owners mouth when I cleaned it last month)
Any other ideas would be helpful .. My 57 little concrete accounts have widddled down to about 21 now...
I still think Hiring him is still the best option..
We actually have a fire equipment company here in jackson that hires people that :
1} have there own truck
2} there own equipment
3} buys there own products to resale
This is stupid ..
But this concrete cleaning guy might be better off working for me .. And if he says no.. I guess I will go clean his account for the price of a lunch..
Welcome to Mississippi..
Customer's here seem to be happy with the concrete cleaning as long as your CHEAP , do a half ass job and attempt to get a few pieces of Double Mint off of the front door concrete.
The last resort is to offer everyone of my hood cleaning accounts and fire equipment accounts a discount price to clean there concrete..
i.e ( How much does the other guy charge ? ) $ 45.00 ( Oh I charge $35.00) when I clean your vent Hood or Inspect your fire equipment....