Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Mike Halliday on June 25, 2012, 12:37:55 pm
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some may know that I'm due to have a big operation in Sept the recovery time can be up to 3months, but hopefully I will be back in action a lot sooner..... but the docs warned my it could be 3 months to be able to perform light duties..... a year until fully recovered
for 4 weeks i will be house bound unable to walk unaided.
so 2 things....
1) I'm going to be skint :-\ although my wife works I will still need to bring some money in
2) i will be bored out of my head, laid up, not being able to get out the house.
I have a massive library of carpet cleaning videos, do you think there is a demand for videos to be put onto websites, would people pay for them?
this is just one idea i have to bring in a bit of cash.... what do you think?
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What you having done Mike?
Wife had her knee done 2 weeks ago to the day.
She's bored out of her skull already.
Driving me crackers too, am inventing work in my
diary just to get out of her way.
Are the videos tutorials? If so I would be interested.
John
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both hip joints replaced.
if you look at my website you will see example of the sort of thing I'm suggesting, but they will be more professional and each one will be specific to the company with their own logos and opening pictures and details.
i'm not suggesting they will be of Spielberg quality but for a carpet cleaners website they would work, i could open a specific YouTube account for each buyer and they could either just put a link to it or load it onto their website
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How about selling ebooks this; http://howtoreallybuyaproperty.co.uk/index.php
Or http://www.how-to-get-a-girlfriend.com/ebook.html
It's all online work, you can buy ebooks with reseller rights. I've seen ebboks for sale at £99 which can be bought from a wholesale ebook sellers with master resale rights for £5. Some Mark up. Or there is a website where you can hook up with people who you can commission to write you an ebook. Just make them sign something to give you copywrite.
But it's not easy, it takes a lot of work and research to really make some money.
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Oh forgot videos, well that posh gecko was charging £150 per vid and sold a lot, but that was voice over ect.
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I would buy one :)
Just ain't got time to do it myself
Subject to price obviously ;D
Steve
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Best of luck Mike,i myself have been laid up the last 8 months,not nice ! Like John i'd be interested in Tutorial type material,have been looking for quite a while and there isn't alot out there.Could be a good opportunity to tap into that market if you had the ways and means,no doubt you have the knowledge.
You may have noticed,like everyone else on these forums that new entrants to the industry,like myself,have the equipment,the drive,have taken advantage of training courses but haven't seen alot of what they have heard on these courses put into practice.Tutorial videos covering alot of this at the right price would,in my opinion,be a good money spinner,it would certainly put a stop to some of the 'stupid' questions being asked by newbies,which infuriate some members,for once and for all.I for one would lap up these type of Dvds to assist in my on-going training in all aspects of carpet cleaning.
Desi
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some may know that I'm due to have a big operation in Sept the recovery time can be up to 3months, but hopefully I will be back in action a lot sooner..... but the docs warned my it could be 3 months to be able to perform light duties..... a year until fully recovered
for 4 weeks i will be house bound unable to walk unaided.
so 2 things....
1) I'm going to be skint :-\ although my wife works I will still need to bring some money in
2) i will be bored out of my head, laid up, not being able to get out the house.
I have a massive library of carpet cleaning videos, do you think there is a demand for videos to be put onto websites, would people pay for them?
this is just one idea i have to bring in a bit of cash.... what do you think?
Mike join the Skint Club :o :o :o :o
You could however Consider running BI Monthly Marketing Seminiars for the new people this Forum Attracts.
The problem I have is it looks like its going to take me longer than I thought also.
If I take down my two DIY Web Sites will I loose track position or is it better just to keep them there.
You asked Yesterday about Web Sites , well I think they do better than we realize
I think most of my rivals realize I am decommissioned but it is hard to talk openly when operating in a small market
Still looking for ideas for new enterprise.
Although I like the idea of info commercial producer I do not think i have the talent
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How about selling ebooks this; http://howtoreallybuyaproperty.co.uk/index.php
Or http://www.how-to-get-a-girlfriend.com/ebook.html
It's all online work, you can buy ebooks with reseller rights. I've seen ebboks for sale at £99 which can be bought from a wholesale ebook sellers with master resale rights for £5. Some Mark up. Or there is a website where you can hook up with people who you can commission to write you an ebook. Just make them sign something to give you copywrite.
But it's not easy, it takes a lot of work and research to really make some money.
Craig I looked into this as I used to be in book trade , most are a load of rubbish
I think Amazon will kill this market as their info products sell for about £5 the days of £30 appear to be gone
You have Lee Mcyintyre and John Thornhill was tempted o put in affliate link ;D selling their $900 courses for $5 as a warrior forum special.
In fact Lees new big idea is the info Commercial Website , personally I get bored watching them. But Hey what do I know these Guys claim to make more than a Fasttracker ;D
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Hi Mike
Sorry to hear your problems
Have you considered running marketing courses, there are lots of cc's who are struggling and would benefit.
How successful are these replacements, you might need to look at employing and doing less.
Cheers
Doug
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I'd be up for the courses via download or cd in the post!
Or put them on a dedicated blog and allow access to the videos via membership (paypal) The videos will be on YouTube but you'll have to mark them as private access only with the video streaming on your blog.
All this can be done on wordpress and a plugin called s2member. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s2member/ Its free.
You can also sell seperate downloads with the same plugin above.
Get it sorted Mike!!
And good luck with the op by the way. Sounds like a big one.
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I'm sure the owner of the forum wouldn't mind you promoting the membership site / downloads on here after all the years you've been a mod! 8)
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i was told 2 yrs ago that both hips joint were almost without cartilage and were bone rubbing on bone but at the time the only symptoms i had was difficulty putting on my socks.
then 5 weeks ago overnight i went from pain free to being unable to walk more than 5-6 steps. luckily i have a good doctor who put me on a course of 4 different pain killers which has eased the pain .......which was lucky because i was found out there was a 4 month waiting list for hip replacement operations.
to be honest the 4 months has a positive side i have been saving like mad so won't be really skint but it would be nice to have a bit of cash coming in. My son has just left school so started working for me 4 weeks ago, my plan is that as soon as I can drive ( hopefully 6 weeks post op) I will be his chauffeur and he will do the work, it's a pity I can't get him insured to drive the van as he is too young.
i'm looking at alternatives to either earn money or keep my self busy, the videos was one idea another is to teach my self to use Photo-Shop pro.
doug the replacements last 15-20yrs in a OAP leading an easy life, god knows how long they will last me.
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Mike do some in house training, you know you can do this quite comfortably and you have a big enough area at your place to teach.
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Oh and if you dont fancy that then go and pimp your arse ;D
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Oh and if you dont fancy that then go and pimp your arse ;D
Wouldn't bother doing that, Jim Neal said theres not alot of money in it!
:-* ;D ;D
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pimp my arse.... never thought of that......... is there much call for 49yrs old arses?
I don't want to really do any sort of courses or training its too reliant on people attending, I would rather sell something
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just thought all that thrusting might hurt my hips and the scars might be a bit unappealing... so the arse pimpings out of the question :-[ :-[
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Alltec used to do a course on how to sell at higher prices but never IMO showed you how to do it properly ie audit and combating price objections you would be brilliant at this you only need 10 people at £50 a person.
Shaun
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Mike
The way to go is to have Multiple Income Sources.
So far you got Info Commercials not only for Carpet Cleaning but Indian Resturants
Taxi Firms, Plummers
As your fellow Mods have suggested Training Courses you are ideally placed in the North but to far from South now toll charges have been cut
Plus any other ideas you may have.
JP sells an Audit DVD for about £300 overpriced in my opinion , so you could choose to sell few at that price or lots at £50, I read somewhere you are not allowed to use words Carpet Audit as JP has trademarked it?
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'I'm going to be skint although my wife works I will still need to bring some money in'
You must have a serious cocaine habit then. Being on £100 an hour and Jimmy Carr's accountant I can't see how you can't afford to do something to keep you occupied other than making money, although you are from Yorkshire and maybe that's your way of relaxing.
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'skint' is a relative word, I could do nothing and not worry too much but i see the as an opportunity to experiment. I've always got at the back of my mind the fact that at some point i might not be able to work full time, so if i can start developing other areas of revenue it won't do any harm.
I've also been in talks with my last operative who has expressed an interest in working for me again, so i could just let him do the work and chauffeur me around to do the quotes as long as i can get in the van i could carry on as normal
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Well i think what the lads have suggested about creating some kind of information product on carpet cleaning would be a good move (beginners start up guide/marketing) . The most valuable thing we possess is the specialist knowledge we have. Although it may seem daunting when you think about the amount of stuff you write on here over 3 months, that's probably an ebooks worth. The information would have to be specific and detailed though.
We are all a bad back away from useless so a residual income is a nice bonus.
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the problem with selling information is someone would buy it, copy it, them pass it on to their mates, one copy would go around half of CIU.
thats why I thought about personalised videos with a company profile built in, it can't be sold on
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I know what you're saying Mike and here's the thing.
If I did something like that in an area I was an expert in (not carpet cleaning) I would give it away free! Ebooks sell for not much yet the perceived value of similar information on audio or video is 100 time more. It would be a marketing tool and a list builder.
Ebooks, ibooks, digital magazines, youtube videos can contain links. Links to suppliers of equipment and chemicals, links to closed training forums, webinars..... the ability to generate an income is only limited by your creativity and TIME.
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When I bought my first truckmount I looked for a video on basic maintenance so I could save a bit of money & get a bit of know how, got one in the end not very good quality from chemtex, but would be a good niche to get into ,
Steve
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the problem with selling information is someone would buy it, copy it, them pass it on to their mates, one copy would go around half of CIU.
Mike,
There is an e book system (which I cannot remember at present) where someone has to log on each time with a password to read it. Personally, it would drive me mad. Your next best thing would be a membership site.
As Wynne said, getting as many copies out there, building up a list and selling repeatedly to them is the real way forward.
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the problem with selling information is someone would buy it, copy it, them pass it on to their mates, one copy would go around half of CIU.
thats why I thought about personalised videos with a company profile built in, it can't be sold on
Thats why you have to sell at a premium price or sell so cheap.
Most products I buy come with so many links it makes it hard to pirate
But i know there are loads of techi clever clogs around so you are as usual probably correct. And it would be soul destoying to put in 40 hours on a product and have someone rip it off
I did not say it before but I am really sorry to hear you will be out of action.
If you are able to be around perhaps this is the time to take your company to next level and you just manage it . as you have often said you only cover 6 square miles, lots of over nice towns you could do business in provided your team is trained.
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O.K.
How about doing telemarketing for some carpet cleaners.
And rather than the 'Do you want your carpets cleaned' click, 100 calls a day type thing it would be an opportunity to find out the best answer to every objection, the best approach...etc
You can make some money but the main thing is you would be able to pass this on to someone you hire for yourself.
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Would need to watch Panarama on Monday to see how companies get round TPS regulations
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Would need to watch Panarama on Monday to see how companies get round TPS regulations
Phone from abroad and stick two fingers up to TPS. I had a call from Mumbai a while back and 'Mary' said they get the TPS DNC list so the can actively call it. LOL
Leads from competitions are a good way to get qualified prospects and TPS doesn't apply.
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I agree best prospects are those registered with TPS