$25 per hour?

Ron Musgraves said:
Maybe your right Tom, I don't even know Jim. Met him in vegas I suppose the same time you did.

I lost one job out of thousands this year. Yeah just one !! I don't think it was too Jim.

I actually can't even believe one. That's a record year.

All these graiglist ads, sorry Ty they look desperate.

Please don't be offended, I know the SEO trick. Personally I want people who know me, not shoppers wanting the rock bottom prices.

Too me that's these ads


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Craigslist ads are great for Residential clients Ron. You don't offer residential work so there would not be a point for you to post them. I would never post an ad promoting cheap prices! Ever. We post ads to get calls and charge flat rates for residential services no matter who they are or what they want. And yes it does help increase traffic to your websites. So I try to stay on top of Craigslist. That is how I noticed that ad in the first place. I don't think it makes me look desperate just hungry for more work. BTW, I am not offended at all, everyone has a right to an opinion. But my ads look professional and I don't advertise cheap rates. I will continue posting them.
 
Hey Ty, I've put commercial ads on Craigslist before.

I've even put "as low as" prices on them.

The prices I posted were real prices that I am currently charging. They are a little lower than most of my competition because I have a more efficient method. Kindof like if you were the only guy who had a surface cleaner you'd have a pricing advantage over all the other guys because that surface cleaner doesn't cost you anymore in operational expenses, BUT it makes you more efficient.

As you grow your overhead reduces to a point. In other words, if you made 100,000 last year gross and you had to spend 20k on fixed expenses and 30k on operational expenses your total expenses are 50%.

But if you double your income and your fixed are still 20k and your operational is now 60k you have now lowered your total expenses to 40%.

There was a time a couple of years ago where we had to make a minimum of $91/hr to break even. Now that number is lower and as time goes by it will dip even lower till we have to hire more, then it will stabilize somewhat.

I don't think it will ever go below $50/hr under any circumstances. Even when we had the dry clean delivery business it never got below $25/hr and the only equipment to speak of was light weight delivery vans.
 
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