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In my second year of cleaning and always looking for new ideas of ways to find business.  I will list the things that I am doing.  If you have others please post them here.

  • Post Cards/Flyers in newspaper tubes
  • Post Cards in baggies with rock thrown in drives
  • Super website www.AllWashed.com
  • Angies List A rated, once rated I bought an upgraded listing
  • Yellow page small ad under roof washing & pressure washing
  • Yard signs put up at key intersections and in yards we do
  • Couple of days before cleaning a roof we put a sign in the yard saying that the roof will be cleaned in 3 days, then 2 days, then 1 day so the neighbors will be looking for the change
  • We have one of those wave in the breeze flags like you see at car dealers so that we draw attenntion to us as we work from neighbors.
  • Member of the Retail Merchant Association ($75 a year and they do work for you)
  • Since most of our work is from those over 50 i have ads in area senior magazines.
  • On our local Discovery Map and linked online at www.DiscoveryMap.com for Lynchburg VA
  • Have a sign in the gym of our local private school.  They have loads of events that the gym is used for.
  • After every job I hand write a thank you note to the homeowner and ask for referrals and give a couple business cards.
  • Member of a local networking group that meet monthly and pay all members of the group $50 for each referral.
  • We use TXTyourCity.com to capture cell phone number and then deliver text coupons at different times of the year.

I am sure there is more I do but this is most of it.  I want to keep my crew slam busy.  We wash roofs, siding, and hot water pressure wash concrete.

NOW TELL ME MORE THAT YOU DO THATS NOT ON THE LIST.



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505 Carriage Hill Drive
Forest, VA 24551
434-841-9889
David@AllWashed.com 

www.AllWashed.com



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Member of BOMA. (building owners and managers association)
Sponsor Realtor breakfasts and luncheons.
Lots of cold calls to busInesses
Full time salesperson who loves to be face to face with customers (my wife) and doesn't take "no" for an answer!

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Ray Burke
Spray Wash Exterior Cleaning
850.528.3226
visit our website
Soft Washing and Pressure Washing
Licensed & Insured
Serving Tallahassee, FL, The Big Bend
and SW Georgia
http://www.spray-wash.com
 


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Thanks for the reply.  I also am a member of the Realestate Association.  Lots of referrals from realtors wanting instant curb appeal.  My wife is quitting her teaching job in two weeks to come over and help in the growing business.  Does your wife just call on realtors or does she also look for those dirty homes and make cold calls on homeowners?



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All Washed Up
505 Carriage Hill Drive
Forest, VA 24551
434-841-9889
David@AllWashed.com 

www.AllWashed.com



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Thanks to Doug Rucker, PASoftwash LLC uses this sign to accomplish a couple things that can benefit the homeowners, our crews and our bottom line--

We have seen two benefits from using this type of sign at our jobsites:

1. To alert drivers that work is being done ahead, so proceed with caution:

2. Hey since you have slowed down, why not look and see what we are doing!

 Our purpose is to get people's attention, but also to make the worksite safer for all the neighbors in Indiana, PA 

This particular job was in the Lowes parking lot so we just set it up for more attention.



-- Edited by paroofguy on Friday 25th of May 2012 06:30:29 PM

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PASoftwash LLC 

Indiana, PA

Steve Salley

724-201-WASH (9274)

Roof Cleaning Indiana County PA

www.PASoftwash.com

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Hey Dave, about that Angies List, are you paying for the upgraded listing where they lock you in for a year?

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Yes I did a year.  BUT, I did not go with the price they quoted and walked away,  they then dropped the price 60%.



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Forest, VA 24551
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David@AllWashed.com 

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Did you get business from it?


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PA roof guy, great idea on that sign.



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All Washed Up
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Forest, VA 24551
434-841-9889
David@AllWashed.com 

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Just started last month with Angies List.  Got two jobs so far.  I print off my rating and use it when pricing a job and show the potential customer my A listing with them.  Looks great on that type of call as well when pricing.

If you join tell them that David Hamel sent you and you get a discount and I get $25.  I get customers to rate me as well which helps my ranking and if they join its another $25.  Join by calling 888-888-LIST(5478) and tell them David Hamel with All Washed Up sent you.



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505 Carriage Hill Drive
Forest, VA 24551
434-841-9889
David@AllWashed.com 

www.AllWashed.com



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David, she doesnt call on residential homeowners. She works on property managers, municipal accounts, and commercial accounts.

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Ray Burke
Spray Wash Exterior Cleaning
850.528.3226
visit our website
Soft Washing and Pressure Washing
Licensed & Insured
Serving Tallahassee, FL, The Big Bend
and SW Georgia
http://www.spray-wash.com
 


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Dave,

They call me all the time. They claim that a paid listing will put me at the top, as opposed to being rotated amongst other unpaid listings. Is this how it works?

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yes unless two of you pay, then the one with the best rating is tops as I understand it.



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David@AllWashed.com 

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paroofguy wrote:

Thanks to Doug Rucker, PASoftwash LLC uses this sign to accomplish a couple things that can benefit the homeowners, our crews and our bottom line--

We have seen two benefits from using this type of sign at our jobsites:

1. To alert drivers that work is being done ahead, so proceed with caution:

2. Hey since you have slowed down, why not look and see what we are doing!

 Our purpose is to get people's attention, but also to make the worksite safer for all the neighbors in Indiana, PA 

This particular job was in the Lowes parking lot so we just set it up for more attention.



-- Edited by paroofguy on Friday 25th of May 2012 06:30:29 PM


 Steve, it is a good thing to make links every now and then, on the forum. Just make them in the OPEN sections of the forum instead.

The CLOSED sections of the forum are closed to search engines, and links made here in the closed premium members section do you no good at all.

Now, Google has changed the rules on links, so pay attention, anyone reading this.

They will now PENALIZE you for using keywords in your links! 

So, instead of using PASoftwash LLC as your anchor text, use My Company instead.

Or, click here to see my softwash company. 



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Where did you read this Chris? Anyone who's involved with there own site prolly has 1000's of links like that.

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