Article: Do You Know Where You're Going in Business?
If you are looking to build a successful single truck carpet cleaning business you have found one of the best business opportunities available. You can build a business that will see you taking home $100,000 or more annually (before taxes). All this without the challenges and headaches of managing employees! Practically every home has carpet and/or upholstery that need maintenance cleaning. You’ll only need about 1,000 of these as clients. Why do so few carpet cleaners succeed in this business if it is this simple? Most people come into this industry with very little business background. It is common for people to look at other carpet cleaning businesses and make the assumption that those owners must know what their doing, and proceed to follow their example. Unfortunately, if the company you copy is heading for failure, you will meet the same fate. There are currently excellent business and marketing training programs available in our industry. Many owner/operators have taken advantage of these programs and have followed the strategies only to find themselves still struggling just to break even. The problem is that most of these programs are designed to develop large multi-truck businesses. These programs present plans that won’t work for single truck owner/operators. Let’s look at some of the strategic differences between successful multi-truck versus single truck businesses: Different view of profit: A large business bases its success on the concept of leveraging profit. The idea is to create a large profit overall from a lot of employees, each producing a small profit. This concept makes it feasible to charge budget prices or to do commercial, apartments or small jobs as long as a small profit can be made from each job. This is why the emphasis is on always on getting more new jobs and clients....