[Ryan Craig-Douglas]

hi all,

I have just started my carpet cleaning buisness and i ve just started advertising. At the moment im hiring a karcher puzzi 100 or a numatic ctd 570-2 extraction machine when i have jobs untill i have made enough to get my own machine. The problem is i dont really know which machines are good and wich ones to avoid. if anyone could help me it would be appreciated plus any other words of wisdom would really help

thank you

ryan

[benny d]

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[Paul Moss]

  some body wants some extra cash for xmas

[Fran84]

some body wants some extra cash for xmas

cynic

[Craigp]

I would not want to be starting now.

[Helen]

hi all,

I have just started my carpet cleaning buisness and i ve just started advertising. At the moment im hiring a karcher puzzi 100 or a numatic ctd 570-2 extraction machine when i have jobs untill i have made enough to get my own machine. The problem is i dont really know which machines are good and wich ones to avoid. if anyone could help me it would be appreciated plus any other words of wisdom would really help

thank you

ryan

your link to your website doesn't work....are you for real? hiring a machine for when you get jobs? if you haven't got money behind you, you shouldn't be starting up new in any industry

[tim handley]

   dont advertise if you are going to turn up to clean house carpets with a puzzi....... go away and research......... get some training, do more research then decide how much you can afford to start up........  entry level machine  £2000 ish, then chemicals and tools etc etc etc, oh and insurance!!!!! ive spent around £3000 and im nowhere near where i want to be yet!!!!

[mike1986]

Hi Ryan, i have just started out myself, and i agree with the other post that you need something better than the machines you are using. Have you been on a training course? I attended the course at cleansmart which was very good for beginners.

Perhaps leasing an airflex form cleansmart or a jag 6.6 form worldof clean would be a better option for you. Both of these machines are excellent.

[SteveAllan]

I have to agree with what's already been said, if you have no capital then think again. It's hard to get going at present, I'm a newbie and beginning to ask myself the question have I done the right thing as the work is up and down like a fiddlers arm. If you turn up with a hire machine to a custys house it will look very unprofessional.

[*Hector*]

Hi Ryan..

I started out the way you are now....

But that was 22 years ago, when the response to leaflets etc was much better than it is today, also there were not so many people out there doing the job..

Good luck..

Where abouts are you?

[Ryan Craig-Douglas]

In the aldershot area. I'm currently on termination leave from the army. I'm doing a lot of research and I only am hiring untill I get A the capital or B a good lease on a machine. I'm doing this on the understanding that I'm starting off with nothing and if it all falls through I ain't at a big loss. I am serious about this. If u start off with a lot of capital you have the tendencies to over spend if you are not careful. I don't want to cut  corners and I am intending to do training courses but would rather get a free training course through buying a machine possible with prochem.

[tim handley]

suggest you contact either  matt at  cleansmart nottingham, machines/training/chems
or nick at solutions cornwall, machines/chems, both will advise you............... my first
machine was from matt who is very good for advice/guidance...............

[garry22]

Ryan, in the meantime, get (and read) a copy of "The ultimate marketing plan" by Dan Kennedy.

It's less than a tenner on Amazon and will give you a pretty good insight into marketing - which is the real crux of being self employed.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Ultimate-Marketing-Plan-Edition/dp/1440511845/