I’m a 30-year-old accountant living in Los Angeles, and after much consideration, I’ve decided to venture into starting my own business. I’m thinking of launching a window cleaning business for its low overhead and attractive profit margins. I have some prior experience as a cleaner from about 10 years ago.
To kickstart this, I’ve run the numbers and estimate needing around $5,000, excluding the essential expense of a truck, which I plan to buy with the profits from the first year. Initially, I would need someone with a truck, available to clean windows full-time in the first year.
I’m seeking someone who needs a job, has a truck, and is eager to join me in building this business. While I won’t be able to do the cleaning due to my existing job, I’ll invest my spare time in sales and also help out with cleaning jobs on weekends.
I’ll handle administrative tasks, accounting, website management, and sales,but I need someone to be part of the sales team and take on the cleaning responsibilities initially.
As the business grows, I envision you becoming the operations manager, managing/training the crew as we get more jobs. I’ll continue handling the website, accounting, taxes, clients, and overall business management. I can teach you administrative skills and help you grow into a manager as the business expands.
While I can’t make promises about compensation, I’m committed to growing this into a successful company. I’m looking for someone as hungry for success as I am, willing to take this risk with me. I’d cover the launch expenses and dedicate a significant time commitment to sales.
It’s important that you understand the challenges in the early months, knowing that we might not make enough to live off initially. With a year’s commitment, I believe we can scale this up to $100,000 each by the second year.
Trust is crucial. I need someone honest, reliable, hardworking, and trustworthy. I want assurance that you won’t compromise the business by drinking or getting high on the job, and that you’ll show up consistently and won’t commit theft.
If you’re interested, I’ve created a revenue and expenses projection model. Let’s set up a time to meet and discuss this idea further.
If you’ve run the numbers, then how much is in your Marketing Budget? This is the biggest red-flag to me as a Partner.
Seeing yet another Technician that thinks “If I build IT, THEY will come”. Right now you’re marketing the Business without marketing The Business.
Every company is a Marketing company first: it needs to be about 80% of your expenses (reminder it touches most aspects of R&D and Production, and is a deductible Expense).
Before you spend all this money setting UP a [Window Cleaning Business] you should try understanding and Marketing a [Window Cleaning Business] and see just how much Trust and Market Research you are able to drum-up via the channels/contacts you have available to you.
The last thing I want any of my Students doing is thinking they have it solved “on paper” but have chained their Selves to a stillborn entity that can’t breathe because you never gave it lungs.
It’s a recipe for low self esteem as you wonder forever why no one wants what you’re not Offering.
Right now, without better Market Understanding or Proofing, this is too high risk.
What is it? Who needs it? What’s it like to NOT have it? And how does it KEEP making money? What makes it so HARD, and why do we need YOU to be the one to solve it?
These are just a handful of the vectors you need to solve for if you’re going to convince your Self, your Partners, Investors, or future Customers to work with/for you.