More responsibility usually equals more money. (or at least should)
If you don’t spend time successfully creating and bringing more business in, you starve. They (your employees) will still get their check. You have to create enough business to keep them working, so they can pay for their bills, food for their family, money to take their girl out on a date. If you fail, not only you suffer.
I don’t think employees realize this, or that working for small business owners puts them in great position to learn and practice some of the things that can make THEM successful business owners. If I worked for someone like you or Chris, I’d be kickin’ some saa to promote myself so I can see personally how to be successful in areas where I am not.
I think that in the case of one of the guys who works for me, in HIS head he sees window cleaning and window cleaners as "losers’, even though he’s been doing it for 8 years or so, and makes good, solid coin.
He’s got a mental block, and he’s stopped caring, and seems ready to move on. Anyway, don’t want to bore everyone here…
We’re talking about trucks and stuff on this thread, right?
Yeah! Trucks!!
[SIZE=“1”]P.S. If you ever move to Toronto, Manuel, I’ll buy you lunch, and consider giving you a Paneless Perfection franchise![/SIZE]
I live in an area of extremes. We have a major university, Florida State University, and the State Capitol, so our buildings run from Student housing to Legislators and lobbyists. However, our community is only about 200,000 people in the area. Some businesses are using the wrapped, tricked out vehicles, which I agree, are noticed and remembered. I am currently operating 2 trucks and a van. I replace a truck every 2 years and the van every 4 because of the mileage they accrue. I am using Dakota trucks and a ram van…all are white. I try to keep everything as uniform as possible.
Trucks are a marketing tool. I encourage my people to leave them parked out front by the street so people can see them. However, they can also hurt…I was at a chamber meeting one morning and was asked why my truck was parked in the lot of a “gentlemen’s club” at 2 am…
My answer was technically the truth…we clean the windows and mirrors inside the club, and my custodians clean the carpets, buff the floors and detail the bathrooms 2 times a month…but I did have a conversation with the person who was driving that truck that night, because we don’t go in before 6 am…I also asked the person how they would know one of my trucks was parked at the club at 2 am…
