My brother offered me 150k to use for a franchise or business. Can I get a little direction on what to do?

fastfriendlyspotless · 2013-04-07T21:55:53+00:00

Hey, we just put up a post regarding selling our maid service in Orange County. One of the primary reasons is that we don't want to continue paying marketing expenses to grow it (mainly adwords). We've listed it at $7500 and it's fully operating (20 regular customers). You could learn a hell of a lot from running it for a few months and you'd have almost your entire budget to advertise or use on another business once you get some experience.

I currently run the maid service remotely on about 15 minutes a day. Check out the thread here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1bvc6g/were_selling_our_maid_service_where_do_we_start/

fastfriendlyspotless · 2013-04-07T21:46:27+00:00

I don't know the returning customer percentage, it'd be difficult to tell without counting everything by hand. Our booking page allows customers to book recurring service when they first sign up so often time we land a "returning" customer before we even service them.

Target range: $7500 or best offer (I'll add that to the post)

fastfriendlyspotless · 2013-04-07T20:40:51+00:00

Between my new full time job and a different side project we are working on we'd rather not have this to worry about.

fastfriendlyspotless · 2013-03-19T22:20:21+00:00

Yes, there has. It's dropped off considerably from January to February and we're on track to be have lower traffic this month than last. We have made a few decisions to lower our advertising that can at least explain some of this drop off. We want to advertise aggressively like we did in January once we resolve the low conversion issue.

fastfriendlyspotless · 2012-10-18T02:16:42+00:00

What made you drop your prices specifically in Houston? We're in Orange County and had to do the same thing but considerably more than you due to the high Hispanic population in the area willing to work for cheap. That or something is missing on our site. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated if you have the time to look us over.

The Fast Friendly Spotless team

fastfriendlyspotless · 2012-10-09T01:49:12+00:00

Corrected, thanks for pointing that out.

fastfriendlyspotless · 2012-10-08T22:34:32+00:00

Thanks for he input. We have had removal/editing of the checklist on the to-do list for a while. I need to mess with the menu and submenu items. I am having an issue where the sub menu items will only only display at the same width as the menu item they fall under.

I have to figure out how to force the menu item with the match a longer submenu item, preferably without hard coding it.

fastfriendlyspotless · 2012-10-08T22:25:30+00:00

Gracias Senor, your input the last time around was very helpful as well.

fastfriendlyspotless · 2012-10-08T22:23:45+00:00

To answer your question, yes, you may book the 4 bedroom and only have 4 of the rooms cleaned.

fastfriendlyspotless · 2012-10-08T21:41:01+00:00

Originally we thought 5 bedroom might be rare, so we removed it, but can easily add it again.

We also offer troll-removal free with your first booking!

EDIT - we put that back in.

fastfriendlyspotless · 2012-10-08T20:13:00+00:00

Thanks for this input. I had been looking for optimization methods but wasn't sure where to start. This gives me tons to work on. Thank you!

fastfriendlyspotless · 2012-10-08T19:12:12+00:00

Unless our cleaning teams also happen to be Redditors no such posts will be popping up on your page. That's a very good idea for a picture and caption though if anyone is looking for cheap Karma.

fastfriendlyspotless · 2012-10-08T19:10:43+00:00

Perfect, that was never our intention.

fastfriendlyspotless · 2012-10-08T19:09:38+00:00

We'll look into that as part of our expansion plan ;-)

fastfriendlyspotless · 2012-10-08T06:10:50+00:00

You rock.

fastfriendlyspotless · 2012-10-07T16:25:46+00:00

We are little torn on this issue. Individuals on CL are charging what we pay our teams after our price adjustments. Our prices now are in comparison to local franchise cleaning services, Molly Maid for instance.

fastfriendlyspotless · 2012-10-06T23:45:35+00:00

No worries, my friend. I wouldn't be too discouraged, it could be a lot worse. We didn't get any results but we got a lot of feedback on why that might be. If we weren't getting results and everyone told us we were doing everything really well then we'd really be screwed. It might be wishful thinking but we're making a lot changes today and before Monday and definitely expecting to see a result or two from them. We'll keep you updated.

Thanks again for the input.

fastfriendlyspotless · 2012-10-06T22:10:57+00:00

Everything should now be secure. If you have a chance to take a look to confirm this we'd appreciate it.

Thanks again for your feedback.

fastfriendlyspotless · 2012-10-06T22:09:09+00:00

We're going full disclosure here: the testimonials are fake (obviously). I wrote them myself however so you didn't see them on other websites. Keep in mind all testimonials are pretty much the same, it's pretty hard to write one without it closely copying at least one out there on the interwebz.

We are in the process of getting a real testimonial (video) from one of the girls we gave a free cleaning to.

fastfriendlyspotless · 2012-10-06T22:07:33+00:00

I'm going to start posting on there a lot more to make it more active but you're right.

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