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For door hangers, check alibaba (though they usually have a minimum purchase amount). Sometimes they can be super cheap. I had an idea for selling posters recently (for people who are studying Japanese Kanji), and of course most print shops were hyper-expensive. Alibaba had some really cheap offers, but they were selling in massive bulk (500 or more prints).
I think D11's idea is genius. I'd go with them on the first few trips, posing as an employee. It's just a perfect idea.
I'd like to pick your brain because I think the ideas you use in your business could help me with my future business endeavors. Mind giving some insight?
Here are my questions (as someone who's inexperienced):
Company Setup:
1. What does the average company in your niche, locally, earn in profit per month?
a. How long does it take the average company to turn a profit?
b. How long does it take them to reach that average monthly profit?
2. How many customers do you already have? (If 0, what makes you confident enough to start now?)
3. Sharing a percentage of the earnings from a job with the employees seems strange. Why do that?
a. How do tips factor into this equation?
b. What are some alternatives to giving them commission that you've thought up? Seems interesting.
4. What would it take to make you say this is a failure? What about success?
Testing/Data:
1. How will you know which advertisements are most effective?
2. How will you know which offers make a difference? Like, does offering a 200% guarantee even motivate anyone to pay? How will you know for sure?
3. How will you measure performance? Surely there must be a "best" employee, and you'll have a "best" cleaning job ever done. But by what metric is something good?
4. How do you know which price is right?
5. How do you know what amount of workers to assign to a job?
I think D11's idea is genius. I'd go with them on the first few trips, posing as an employee. It's just a perfect idea.
I'd like to pick your brain because I think the ideas you use in your business could help me with my future business endeavors. Mind giving some insight?
Here are my questions (as someone who's inexperienced):
Company Setup:
1. What does the average company in your niche, locally, earn in profit per month?
a. How long does it take the average company to turn a profit?
b. How long does it take them to reach that average monthly profit?
2. How many customers do you already have? (If 0, what makes you confident enough to start now?)
3. Sharing a percentage of the earnings from a job with the employees seems strange. Why do that?
a. How do tips factor into this equation?
b. What are some alternatives to giving them commission that you've thought up? Seems interesting.
4. What would it take to make you say this is a failure? What about success?
Testing/Data:
1. How will you know which advertisements are most effective?
2. How will you know which offers make a difference? Like, does offering a 200% guarantee even motivate anyone to pay? How will you know for sure?
3. How will you measure performance? Surely there must be a "best" employee, and you'll have a "best" cleaning job ever done. But by what metric is something good?
4. How do you know which price is right?
5. How do you know what amount of workers to assign to a job?
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