Hello, my name is Scott from Pennsylvania
I have been self employed for 12 years, i am not new to business, i offer landscape service in the summer and snow plow service in the winter, i have approximately 50 clients that i take care of, about 35 are residential and 15 are commercial, apartment complex, gas station, doctor and lawyer offices...
I am looking to get away from landscaping. It takes a lot of equipment, skid steers, dump truck, large equipment trailers, excavators, and i'm getting burned out of all the maintenance. I really enjoy snowplowing, the profit is there to make a comfortable living without all the equipment that it takes to run a landscape business, just a truck, plow and shop.
So this spring, i'm looking to taper off landscaping and start moving into pressure washing.
I have a very good relationship with many of my clients, i have spoke to a handful of my clients about their interest in pressure washing, and nearly ever client i spoke with immediately wanted signed up if I should move forward with pressure washing, they want their house done, their business front cleaned, etc... So I believe the market is there for the service and i'm very interested in moving forward with this as quickly as reasonably possible seeing how spring is right around the corner.
I would really like to be up and running with pressure washing for this year, not next year.
This leads to asking about training, i'm not interested in faking it till i make it. I've been researching formal training, two names that seem to come up often are Doug Rucker’s Pressure Cleaning School, and Dan Swede's Pressure washing training boot camp.
I noticed Doug has a training program starting in only 6 days, is it something where i should just jump on a plane and dive into training right away. I usually do not make quick decisions, however i'm looking to get this going this year not next year. i'm very open to recommendations. I understand business, i understand the costs associated with buying equipment. i mostly need good formal training, during training, i will learn about the equipment and can choose then shop around for who i want to buy the equipment from. I do not need instruction on marketing, insurance, taxes, etc.. i understand all that stuff already, I need good training on how to perform proper professional cleaning service to my existing customers. Please offer recommendations to how I should best attack this. Thanks. Scott
I have been self employed for 12 years, i am not new to business, i offer landscape service in the summer and snow plow service in the winter, i have approximately 50 clients that i take care of, about 35 are residential and 15 are commercial, apartment complex, gas station, doctor and lawyer offices...
I am looking to get away from landscaping. It takes a lot of equipment, skid steers, dump truck, large equipment trailers, excavators, and i'm getting burned out of all the maintenance. I really enjoy snowplowing, the profit is there to make a comfortable living without all the equipment that it takes to run a landscape business, just a truck, plow and shop.
So this spring, i'm looking to taper off landscaping and start moving into pressure washing.
I have a very good relationship with many of my clients, i have spoke to a handful of my clients about their interest in pressure washing, and nearly ever client i spoke with immediately wanted signed up if I should move forward with pressure washing, they want their house done, their business front cleaned, etc... So I believe the market is there for the service and i'm very interested in moving forward with this as quickly as reasonably possible seeing how spring is right around the corner.
I would really like to be up and running with pressure washing for this year, not next year.
This leads to asking about training, i'm not interested in faking it till i make it. I've been researching formal training, two names that seem to come up often are Doug Rucker’s Pressure Cleaning School, and Dan Swede's Pressure washing training boot camp.
I noticed Doug has a training program starting in only 6 days, is it something where i should just jump on a plane and dive into training right away. I usually do not make quick decisions, however i'm looking to get this going this year not next year. i'm very open to recommendations. I understand business, i understand the costs associated with buying equipment. i mostly need good formal training, during training, i will learn about the equipment and can choose then shop around for who i want to buy the equipment from. I do not need instruction on marketing, insurance, taxes, etc.. i understand all that stuff already, I need good training on how to perform proper professional cleaning service to my existing customers. Please offer recommendations to how I should best attack this. Thanks. Scott
