Mikey P
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Do they use the same quotes and tag lines on their sites and YP ads?
Have you met any of them?
Do they fit a mold?
Have you met any of them?
Do they fit a mold?
How many JP guys do you have in your town?
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Bob Foster
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Programmed zealots. You know that look in their eyes... like they just got home from a national MLM convention.
Mikey P
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I see what you mean..
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R W
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We got at least one big guy that uses the "call this 800 number before you get your carpets cleaned" on his truck. I ASS-ume that is a JP product.
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One here, very nice guy....uses all the ads ethical services etc. He got the free car thingy bout 3-4 years for total gross sales. Funnny thing is his sales include Janitorial,window washing,apt clean ups,wax floors.......then carpet cleaning. One of his guys told me he did 1-3 jobs a day, runs 1-2 vans for cc..... : 0
Ken Snow
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No idea
The Preacher
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i wish we had hundreds of them (by JP you mean Jim Pemberton, right???) :?
Jerry
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Two in my small area, one independant, One Chem -who. The independant has all the written stuff on his van,800 # the whole deal. Don't know if he's busy though, don't see him running around town much....
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Mikey P
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I'm pretty sure that is the same POS rayon rug I just sent Snow to fix..
rhyde
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LOL.....you’ll be on Ken’s Christmas card list this year!
Marketing rule #1
If you use a pic of a rug on your site make it a nice looking rug.
Marketing rule #1
If you use a pic of a rug on your site make it a nice looking rug.
You see less and less, I remember a few years back, seeing the local Temecula JP guy, his van was always in his driveway, was probably cleanig in his hood once a week, every single time...van in drive, otherwise i wouldn't have even known what a JP done up van looked like.
I do also remember a funny negative moment of truth, I think it was Las Vegas, opened the Yellow Pages (like I did in every city I visited), and right there, going head to head, two Chem-who companies with almost the same JP style Ad...full page! I knew when the franchises started in with JP, we were all headed down hill fast...lol
I do also remember a funny negative moment of truth, I think it was Las Vegas, opened the Yellow Pages (like I did in every city I visited), and right there, going head to head, two Chem-who companies with almost the same JP style Ad...full page! I knew when the franchises started in with JP, we were all headed down hill fast...lol
Ken Snow
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The rug on that site looks a good couple steps up from the one you sent Mike.
Desk Jockey
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Piranha has been made moves to target the restoration industry with their marketing.
They positioned themselves pretty well by hiring David Brinkley from Drieaz, and are now putting on seminars around the country, I'm sure with a new compliment of packages to a whole new market for them.
They've also made alliances with many manufacturers so their members get benefits....and I would guess a little off the top or a rebate for themselves.
I didn't like them as a carpet cleaner, but now....I really don't think I'm going to like them as they take on restoration marketing.
God help us! :shock:
Man they are going to get the cockroaches coming out of the closet with that statement!
They positioned themselves pretty well by hiring David Brinkley from Drieaz, and are now putting on seminars around the country, I'm sure with a new compliment of packages to a whole new market for them.
They've also made alliances with many manufacturers so their members get benefits....and I would guess a little off the top or a rebate for themselves.
I didn't like them as a carpet cleaner, but now....I really don't think I'm going to like them as they take on restoration marketing.
God help us! :shock:
hogjowl
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I just realized that I have no idea. I wonder just how long it's been since I looked in the yellow pages or noticed the other guys vans. It's been a long time. Not because I am all successful like Ken, but because I just don't care anymore. I was talking to a competitor of mine the other day and realized that I no longer knew what the "going rate" was for my market either.
Before long I'll be pooping in my pants and forget to change my depends.
Before long I'll be pooping in my pants and forget to change my depends.
BradFenstermaker
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Have one with the Most stuff and the 800 in all ads.
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admiralclean said:
This has been another marketing positive moment of truth brought to you by an iginerint pig.
Mikey P
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Joe Polish zombie.
janitors who cant think for themselves.
janitors who cant think for themselves.
It's all so cheesy... I just don't see what people see in that stuff? I live in a very conservative market and that kind of advertising just wouldn't fly around here.
Now that I thought about it some more, there is a local Chem-Dry guy who uses similar to JP type advertising in the YP and almost every time I drive by his place, both his Astro vans are in the driveway.
Now that I thought about it some more, there is a local Chem-Dry guy who uses similar to JP type advertising in the YP and almost every time I drive by his place, both his Astro vans are in the driveway.
hogjowl
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That's describing MY local ChemDry dude, and he's not a JP guy.
