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Cake day: November 13th, 2023

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  • Why do you need insurance or an LLC?

    Do you have any meaningful assets?

    If you break something, pay to fix it.

    In the beginning you are going to need to go door to door and get paid in cash, Venmo, Zelle, etc.

    It’s going to suck, but door knocking is the only way to get business in the beginning. You’ll be paid immediately when the job is done and the transaction is over.

    But, man…it sounds like you really need to go work for someone else first.

    That is the best, and maybe only reason to be an employee; to be paid to learn.

    Have your completion train you and pay for your equipment.

    Learn the operations, how to deal with customers, and learn how your competitors do their marketing.

    Don’t start a business because you hate working for other people. Start a business because you KNOW you’ll make money.

    Once you establish the business, then the fun begins: you need to beat out all of your competitors.

    Business is war and anybody who tells you differently is naive and is surviving from the scraps the top player doesn’t want.

    It’s winner take most, even in pressure washing.

    Go kill.

    You only eat what you kill.



  • Great question and good job getting your business concept envisioned.

    There are basically two types of business.

    High volume/low margin (think Smuckers Jam) or high margin/low volume ($20/jar artisan preserves from a farmer’s market).

    Assuming you’re no going to be able to compete on price because you’ll not have the manufacturing capacity or sales volume, then you have to compete on quality and sell at a higher price.

    Do your products make car detailers more money or save them a significant amount of time?

    If so, you MAY have a business.

    If not, you do not.

    You’ll never beat McGuire’s or Armor All at their own game.