We FAKED Being Buyers at a Dealership!

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I decided I needed a pressure washing employee and a van.

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[soyboypersonalfinance]

This is THE BEST series on YouTube full stop .

[Belu]

your partner is incredibly supportive of your business venture, love to see it

[Tomazack]

When I saw the van with the roof rack I immediately thought gutter cleaning. You can put a ladder on top and expand your services.

[odhranhassan]

In terms of your marketing have you set up a facebook business page or instagram?

Local area groups, buy and sell groups on facebook etc… work wonders for service based businesses.

The benefit of posting on your business page before and after imagery/videos would be excellent for generating new businesses.

Would be very wise to do that if you’re not would require much less time and effort compared to posting letters.

[ldn]

4 years ago this channel was called 'from debt to millionaire.'
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[amandalewin]

Glad you got some money in! Have to say I'm not sure outsoucing the pressure washing rather than the advertising would be the best use of money when you are this far in the red, your taking your finger off the quality control of your product which seems a risk, may have been better to just pay Royal mail to deliver your flyers. Looking forward to seeing how you get on :)

[SamudroEntertainment]

I think you’ve got it a little backwards…?

Person you hire should be posting the letters, not doing the pressure washing, surely?
Posting is an easy, but time consuming task, perfect for a teenager’s part time job.

It’s a little early to be hiring other pressure washers, imho

[anwarvanommeren]

What if you have an employee for the pressure washing but the jobs aren't coming in? You'll lose money on the employee you can't use. Whereas you can always keep the advertisement going indefinitely.

It makes loads more sense to just hire someone to do the advertisment work. Flyers. Website. Social media. Etc etc.

[YorkshiresFarming]

Not to be rude but you are getting far too ahead of yourself, you are still thousands in debt and will continue to go into debt without even buying a van or employing someone. You have absolutely no safety net.

[austinwalters]

I didn’t see employee insurance on the calculations. Don’t forget workplace pension contribution (thats not PAYE or NI, that’s separate)

[newernever]

It isn't really feasible to take on so much debt and further costs for a business that doesn't have repeat customers.

[Niscenti]

Jon, if you haven’t already, make a google map listing in the area you operate within and use keywords in the business name. It works well, and it’s free marketing!

[Oryssounet]

Hiring at this point is crazy bro :')

[northwesttiger]

With hoses, it might be worth going to a hose and coupling business. It's an investment but the hoses are heavy duty.

[tyer]

outsourcing the job rather than the advertising is the wrong move, you need to gain more experience in pressure washing also outsourcing the advertising will be way cheaper as its unskilled.

[simoncaine]

I'd LOVE to hear you on James Sinclaire's podcast to talk about how to grow this 😁

[WieSuLaS]

Okey what i dont understand is why are you getting a worker for pressure washing job? wouldnt it make sense to pressure wash yourself and for worker to advertise? You will be very lucky to find a worker with same work ethic and standarts as you as its not his business. so in my opinion hire someone to do the advertising and pressure wash yourself

[cobravello]

i would definitely buy some cheap sh*tbox van for like 800 quid. would ofc be less reliable but soooo much cheaper...

[Cozynests]

Why did he stop taking off the daily living expenses?

[BiggerbyteNet]

I don't know the first thing about running a business like this, but at 4k in the hole I feel like I would start getting friends and family to market, between letters, shared posts, social media, tiktok, facebook, local area group pages online and try to smash out as many as you can every day to reclaim some money from the debt.

Then after getting back to zero with a good flow of customers and advertising I would then look into leasing a van for yourself, not hire anybody. Pay friends cash in hand to help you out?