The Six Figure Gutter Cleaner

Hallelu YAH!  In this episode, I am asking my audience to celebrate our 100th episode with us!  This is a major milestone for me and I am looking forward to continuing to serve you through this podcast.

In this episode, I review the past week's episode and encourage the listener to either go back and listen the first time, or go back and review any episode that was found to be helpful.

In this episode, I explain why I have a short customer life cycle and how I believe it has been to my advantage as a professional gutter cleaner.

In this episode, I speak about my experience with BNI in times past and how I am finally joining the organization.  BNI is Business Networking International.

In this episode, I explain why we as professional gutter cleaners must have a minimum service charge.

In this episode, I talk about how there are situations we can get in as professional gutter cleaners wherein we are suspected or even accused of having done damage to property that we didn't do.  I give an example of how I handled such a situation.

In this episode I talk of business wisdom from the scriptures and how Proverbs 13:23 applies to us as professional gutter cleaners and home service professsionals.

In this episode, I review the episode I did for the previous week.

In this episode, I speak about managing your finances as a home service professional, and a professional gutter cleaner in general.  I also recommend a book on this subject as well.

In this episode, I discuss the aspect of working in the rain as a professional gutter cleaner. I give my advice as to when to and when not to do so.

In this episode I discuss the issue of the accumulation of leaves as a result of being a professional gutter cleaner.  I offer suggestions as to how to properly dispose of them.

In this episode, I talk about asking more money from customers and how to do it in such a way that is honest and ethical.

In this episode, I talk about the revenue generating tool that has stood the test of time.  It is not the most popular, and many people avoid it, but when used properly, can yield great results.

In this episode, I review the past episodes of this week.

In this episode, I talk about how I am extending my free strategy sessions that I offered last month until the end of this calendar month.  Because we are in peak season, this is a great time for beginning and intermediate professional gutter cleaners to take advantage of such an opportunity.

In this episode I highlight the benefits of partial gutter guard installation jobs and how we as professional gutter cleaners need not overlook them.

In this episode, I stress the importance of thinking on your feet as a professional gutter cleaner.  I give an example of how I had to do so in a critical situation.

In this episode I discuss how I offer alternative services to my customers such as window cleaning.  I explain how I don't offer them to everyone but only to select people, and what is my criteria for doing so.

In this episode I explain how that in the price quote process, we need to get a certain percentage of "No's" in order to run a profitable business.  If we get too many "No's", our prices are too high, yet if we get too may "Yes's", then our prices are too low.

In this episode I review the previous episodes I did throughout this past week.

In this episode I explain how we as professional gutter cleaners can take something ordinary like gutter cleaning and turn it into an extraordinary business.  I give a personal testimony of how I graduated from college and was supposed to do extraordinary things, but ultimately ended up in the cleaning business.

In this episode, I discuss the marketing strategy of moving away from pain vs. moving towards pleasure, and I give an example of how I applied this concept to my own marketing efforts and the results that followed.

In this episode, I talk about how to handle talkative customers and how to steer conversations with customers into a situation where you are receiving valuable information that can prove to be profitable to you.

In this episode, I talk about how 2008 was such a good year for me that I did not realize that we were in a recession.  I give the reasons why the recession of that time did not affect me in a negative way, and how you as a professional gutter cleaner can apply the same principles in this coming recession.

In this episode I talk about the job description and how I have used it in my business.  I talk of how I use it in my pitch to prospects before giving them the price quote, and of what is the most important element of my job description.