ODIN said:
I would say get another job for awhile til gets more money in the bank
ODIN is telling it true, and here is why he needs more $$$ in the bank:
$1000 won't get him into many jobs, if we are talking advertising cash.
I'd take the $1000 bucks, bury it deep in the backyard or open up a second retirement account, and put some advertising on a credit card.
Remind him that the advertising money he spends today to "buy jobs", may make him fell like he is spinning his wheels, but eventually will translate into a great deal of repeat business for him later on. (if he is a good cleaner)
It would be easy for us to assume he has it on easy street because he owns his equipment outright, but really he is on the hook financially more than your story tells:
If he wants that truck running full time, he is going to have to borrow and spend significant advertising $$$ to make the phone ring immediately.
He has quit his job, so he needs food.
If hes debt free on his equipment, then he still has to pay insurance, phone, gas, chemical, and other smaller ongoing costs... PLUS his own personal bills.
For now, maybe he spends 3 days a week hitting the bricks: passing out cards in town to prospective commercial properties, offering demos, mailing letters, etc.
The other 2 or 3 days a week he can actually do the work he has booked.
SO he really does not have the luxury of just taking whatever comes along and working half days.
With no payments on his equipment, & as a guy who has no job, he may actually need to do more running than someone like myself who has been in biz a couple of years, and HAVE payments on my equip.
He must market his services, deliver the goods, do good follow-up, and then market some more.
Depending on the size of his market area, he will quickly get busy enough to hire help (more cost), or turn away jobs because he is a one-man-show with a phone that now rings day and night.
I'm going to throw out 2 words alot of people will disagree with, but in my opinion is a must for owners in this industry:
YELLOW PAGES
Even just a small ad will allow him to make profit and people can actually find him, which will get him into jobs he wouldn't have thought of.
Thats probably what this Rampage feller would say too.
Till then, he needs a part-time job.
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