BIG $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[Ron Lippold]

Just a few questions.


How many of you cleaners out there ( I don't care which method) want to stay owner operator. To fly under the radar and not draw to much attention.

How many want to build a business and not a job.

How many want to build something to sell.

What makes these two groups different.


I know there are WOLFS and there are sheep.



I just wanted to know.

 

[Out of Character - 0]

Being a O/O only worked for 6 months for me. I did it to learn the biz before hiring techs. We really didn't have the money to start differently. Our cc co came from having a tm to service our janitorial accounts. When we upgraded from a porty we seen $$ signs and went for it.

We have no intent to sell. I'd just have to do something else with my time.

We hope to acquire other co's and have thousands of employee's. It's a long road but I'm up for it.

 

[Goldenboy]

Ron are you the guy who was at Mikeyfest that had that Wolf that had balls the size of grapefruits?

Golden Boy

 

[Jim Williams]

I plan on staying owner operator. I have other things in place for retirement.

Maybe I can find some poor old chump to buy my business when I retire.

I'm too nice to be a bossman. Guess I could let my wife run the show.

Come to think of it,, she already does.

 

[Ron Lippold]

balls

yea Waldo that me

 

[Mikey P]

Good question Ron


I wish I could answer you.

 

[Ron Lippold]

????

It's not that hard, The sun rises and sets every day it's what we do with the time in between that separates's us and I want to know what the difference is.

 

[Greenie]

three days in Aptos, all Waldo can remember is the grapefruit.

 

[Brian L]

Greenie, they were rapped around his leg.

 

[Ron Lippold]

BIG BALLS BIG TRUCK

 

[Ron Lippold]

enough about big balls



who is a sheep and who is a wolf and why

 

[Ron Lippold]

do you want a area I've got all you want

 

[danpauselius]

I want to be able to say my company is #1 (just like ChemDry, LOL)

 

[Rob Lyon]

Ron, You already know my answer to this (LOL)




All The Best, Rob

 

[-JB-]

All things in due time.

 

[Rob Lyon]

Good answer John!!!



All The best, Rob

 

[Loren Egland]

37 years as an owner operator, and that's the way it's going to stay.

Loren

 

[alazo1]

I long for the day where I have 2 vans and me not being in them. I would learn how to tie a tie and visit the client and my guys regularly. Talking to prospective clients the rest of the day. I can't imagine doing the labor part of this gig when I'm 50 but who knows where I'll be then.

Albert

 

[Ron Werner]

I've been owner/operator for 13 yrs. It bothered me then and it bothers me now when some "person" says that I have a "job" and that only when you have employees do you have a "busn". To be really honest, it p's me right off. I know a guy that has two trucks and when his employees left he had to get his and his wife's butt on the truck themselves for close to a year before he found some decent guys. Another guy hired guys and because they didn't do the work right he lost half his busn, fired them, got back on the truck and built it up again.
Its not that no one else couldn't do it, I just don't want the hassles of an employee. When I go on a vacation, yes, no work gets done, but neither is anything getting broken or there are no problems with clients or equipment when I get back.

Who says an owner/operator can't build something to sell?? I think an O/O can build something that will last for years even after he/she is gone.

I have select clientele that when I am over booked I know some good cleaners I can refer, and for people who don't want to pay my price, I send them to the multi-truck operations who typically can't charge as much as a O/O cause they need the volume to cover expenses.

Who says we stay under the radar? O/O can be just as verbal and have a better rep than most multi truck "busns".

As for BIG $$$$$, I think an O/O can actually be more profitable. There's nowhere near the overhead or headaches. Depends on what you want in life.

Its such an insult to suggest we don't have a busn.
Forget the wolves and the sheep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-l93gltkCc

 

[alazo1]

Dang Ron, just read over the whole thread. Who says o/o is not the way to go?.

Albert

 

[JohnnyV]

You own a job....I don't care how you sugar coat it. I do too. If it won't run without you being there. Its a Job!....Have a nice day tomorrow at your JOB!!!!!

 

[radkins]

I'm not an o/o. I have one full time and three part time employees. I spent 20 years on the crew but now am in the office full time.

I find this gives me time to do things I could not do when on the truck all the time and also fits what my body is willing to do at 46.

At some point most people are not going to be able to clean everyday. If you don't have employees and can't sell your business, what will you do?

 

[steve r]

i quit my job to be my own boss! maybe its just a job to some but for me its a way of life. i like the idea of being under the radar but dont know if thats a real possibilitie,but it doesnt matter. what does is i am happy being an o/o for now and dont see that changing but that doesnt mean it wont.i can only hope to live long enough to find out.

steve

 

[Ron Lippold]

Thanks

Thanks guys for your real input.

I don't mean to make anyone right or wrong or anyway better than another, just asking questions.


I see the light.

 

[The Preacher]

i've never had a job i cleared over $50-100 per hr like i do as an o/o!!!

ps i do have a plan for employees in the near future. it's gonna make or break me!