Did you ever wonder why so many power washing companies go out of business? You have heard it before and guess what here it is again....................no one plans to fail. People just fail to plan.
There is no need to respond to this thread but I would like you to think about the following and answer yourself honestly. If you answer no to any of these questions you maybe robbing yourself.
Do you have a fully written business plan?
(if you do when was it last updated?)
Do you have a fully written marketing plan?
(if you do when was it last updated?)
Are both of these detailed with timelines?
Are you marketing in more then 5 mediums per year?
(We are talking about campaigns, NOT dropping 50 brochures at the reality office or leaving a business card with a potential)
Do you have a budget and is it written?
Do you know your forecasted sales for next year?
Although we all may think, “This stuff is not important, I am running a profitable company. I have been doing this for “X” amount of years and I am still in business!”
The point is: Would you keep an employee around that told a potential client with a dirty “_____” they really did not need your services? They are not directly stealing from you but they would be potentially changing the bottom line with their attitude, right?
I bring these things to your attention because I have been talking with business owners of other industries and they do not have these above items written down. Yet they wonder why their business is doing okay but not as much as they would like.
Plan – Focus – Execute - REPEAT
There is no need to respond to this thread but I would like you to think about the following and answer yourself honestly. If you answer no to any of these questions you maybe robbing yourself.
Do you have a fully written business plan?
(if you do when was it last updated?)
Do you have a fully written marketing plan?
(if you do when was it last updated?)
Are both of these detailed with timelines?
Are you marketing in more then 5 mediums per year?
(We are talking about campaigns, NOT dropping 50 brochures at the reality office or leaving a business card with a potential)
Do you have a budget and is it written?
Do you know your forecasted sales for next year?
Although we all may think, “This stuff is not important, I am running a profitable company. I have been doing this for “X” amount of years and I am still in business!”
The point is: Would you keep an employee around that told a potential client with a dirty “_____” they really did not need your services? They are not directly stealing from you but they would be potentially changing the bottom line with their attitude, right?
I bring these things to your attention because I have been talking with business owners of other industries and they do not have these above items written down. Yet they wonder why their business is doing okay but not as much as they would like.
Plan – Focus – Execute - REPEAT
