jlpressure
JL Pressure Washing
What are you doing to get work? What are you doing to grow your company?
A lot of you know me out here, I was the Future Pressure Washing King of Myrtle Beach, then the Condo King and now as Ron calls me the King..LOL
Well you ever get just tired of always looking for work, trying everything you can, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We all can't be Ron Musgraves, doing 10 things at once and still having your business growing
You know I was sort of pi*sing and moaning a lot the past 6-18 months and was fighting against a lot of things, just like everyone else to keep my biz going and growing. 2009 was the first year in 9+ years that my biz didnt grow, really bothered me quite a a bit. I was close to 30K down from the year before. I can attribute it to many things, the economy, my being involved in the UAMCC etc etc
Well the economy affected a lot of things and it sort of pi*sed me off, HOA's managers all of a sudden looking for lower pricing, just because they knew they could get lower pricing (heck prices are to low around here anytime). You got newbies coming in at half price, not even knowing how to do the condo work, hacks at half price or lower, screwing up properties one year and disappearing the next year and then a whole new group of newbies and hacks coming in. You got established companies lowering their prices because they are scared or don't have as much work. Instead of 3, 4 or 5 companies going after condos, now you got 10, 15, 20 companies going after the work, man its been endless the past 18-30 months
2009 I was busy with trying to help the UAMCC, going to round tables and it took a lot of time out of my schedule.Plus I just figured I had a good base and did a little advertising, but I just wasnt focused on my business like I should of been. but I was also tired, just plain tired of always having to do something, so I slacked some, did about a 5th of my marketing and some of my marketing was getting old
I'm not one to be happy with just getting by or being stagnant, but I was tired of the grind some. Well after seeing my numbers down last year, I said I can't have this. So I put everything else aside, the RT's, the UAMCC and mostly the economy. Well guess what my business is growing again, heck I'm still tired but I work through that
I changed game plans, some things are working, some things arent and some things just arent getting done, but I am focused on growth and if you don't try somethings new you will never know if they will work or not
So the Myrtle Beach area isnt what it used to be, hey its still 90% of my work for now, but I have expanded out and doing a decent amount of marketing and work outside the Myrtle Beach area
I hired my nephew as a sort of office manager, good but not great idea. He's in Charleston and my office is Myrtle Beach doesnt work perfect and he is going to probably get axed or cut down to about 10-15 hours a week by the end of the year as i will be looking for a local person to hire. You do what you got to do for your company
I am focused thou, see what I have to do and I am doing it. My contact list went from about 40-60 to over 900. But now as i see how things are working and not working I am trimming that 900 down and going after what works best for me, there's a lot of things i am doing, can't tell you everything or I would have to kill you LOL. But I am focused on everything
You all know this is a pretty good business, man spraying water for $100, $200 an hour aint chump change.
I absolutely love being my own boss.. do you? Well I woke up at 1:30 am and was doing proposals, emailing my nephew with things i want done and I needed a breakso I thought I would babble a little on here for a while to give me a break
I just wanted to say, stay FOCUSED everyone, your business is only what you put into it, got a busy day ahead of me and driving out to Virginia tonight to see wifes family going to kick back and enjoy whats most important, my family. Then Come Tuesday back to the grind and focus on growing my biz and how to make it grow. I will tell you, I lost some regular work, good contracts to some lowballers BUT, with being focused on not worrying about that, I got some of the work back by calling and knocking on doors and marketing like crazy ALL my numbers are up and up a lot, not just from 2009, but from my best year of 2008.
Sorry for the long dribble post, just needed a break, 4:47am might go take a quick 20 minute nap.
Stay focused everyone, don't worry about the economy, don't worry about the newbies and hacks, don't worry about nothing...STAY FOCUSED and moving forwad, try new things, don't wait for it to come to you, go get it>>>>>there's always ways to do it better.
Everyone have a great weekend
JL, the Future King of Kings :crazy_pilot: Got to love this biz and my Xjet too
A lot of you know me out here, I was the Future Pressure Washing King of Myrtle Beach, then the Condo King and now as Ron calls me the King..LOL
Well you ever get just tired of always looking for work, trying everything you can, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We all can't be Ron Musgraves, doing 10 things at once and still having your business growing
You know I was sort of pi*sing and moaning a lot the past 6-18 months and was fighting against a lot of things, just like everyone else to keep my biz going and growing. 2009 was the first year in 9+ years that my biz didnt grow, really bothered me quite a a bit. I was close to 30K down from the year before. I can attribute it to many things, the economy, my being involved in the UAMCC etc etc
Well the economy affected a lot of things and it sort of pi*sed me off, HOA's managers all of a sudden looking for lower pricing, just because they knew they could get lower pricing (heck prices are to low around here anytime). You got newbies coming in at half price, not even knowing how to do the condo work, hacks at half price or lower, screwing up properties one year and disappearing the next year and then a whole new group of newbies and hacks coming in. You got established companies lowering their prices because they are scared or don't have as much work. Instead of 3, 4 or 5 companies going after condos, now you got 10, 15, 20 companies going after the work, man its been endless the past 18-30 months
2009 I was busy with trying to help the UAMCC, going to round tables and it took a lot of time out of my schedule.Plus I just figured I had a good base and did a little advertising, but I just wasnt focused on my business like I should of been. but I was also tired, just plain tired of always having to do something, so I slacked some, did about a 5th of my marketing and some of my marketing was getting old
I'm not one to be happy with just getting by or being stagnant, but I was tired of the grind some. Well after seeing my numbers down last year, I said I can't have this. So I put everything else aside, the RT's, the UAMCC and mostly the economy. Well guess what my business is growing again, heck I'm still tired but I work through that
I changed game plans, some things are working, some things arent and some things just arent getting done, but I am focused on growth and if you don't try somethings new you will never know if they will work or not
So the Myrtle Beach area isnt what it used to be, hey its still 90% of my work for now, but I have expanded out and doing a decent amount of marketing and work outside the Myrtle Beach area
I hired my nephew as a sort of office manager, good but not great idea. He's in Charleston and my office is Myrtle Beach doesnt work perfect and he is going to probably get axed or cut down to about 10-15 hours a week by the end of the year as i will be looking for a local person to hire. You do what you got to do for your company
I am focused thou, see what I have to do and I am doing it. My contact list went from about 40-60 to over 900. But now as i see how things are working and not working I am trimming that 900 down and going after what works best for me, there's a lot of things i am doing, can't tell you everything or I would have to kill you LOL. But I am focused on everything
You all know this is a pretty good business, man spraying water for $100, $200 an hour aint chump change.
I absolutely love being my own boss.. do you? Well I woke up at 1:30 am and was doing proposals, emailing my nephew with things i want done and I needed a breakso I thought I would babble a little on here for a while to give me a break
I just wanted to say, stay FOCUSED everyone, your business is only what you put into it, got a busy day ahead of me and driving out to Virginia tonight to see wifes family going to kick back and enjoy whats most important, my family. Then Come Tuesday back to the grind and focus on growing my biz and how to make it grow. I will tell you, I lost some regular work, good contracts to some lowballers BUT, with being focused on not worrying about that, I got some of the work back by calling and knocking on doors and marketing like crazy ALL my numbers are up and up a lot, not just from 2009, but from my best year of 2008.
Sorry for the long dribble post, just needed a break, 4:47am might go take a quick 20 minute nap.
Stay focused everyone, don't worry about the economy, don't worry about the newbies and hacks, don't worry about nothing...STAY FOCUSED and moving forwad, try new things, don't wait for it to come to you, go get it>>>>>there's always ways to do it better.
Everyone have a great weekend
JL, the Future King of Kings :crazy_pilot: Got to love this biz and my Xjet too
so it looks like the "explosion" that should have been hitting about right now is going to be put off till spring of next year. 
