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.

This episode is a milestone in my journey to reaching my goal of podcasting to you 6 days a week for an entire year. In it, I speak of where we have been in this podcast so far, and where we are going.

In this episode, I review the series I did on Gutter Cleaning FAQ's.

In this episode, I examine the question of whether or not the owner is going to be on the job. When operating as a small Mom & Pop operation, I emphasize the importance of at least the owner showing up at each job if possible.

This is the 4th episode in the Gutter Cleaning FAQ's series, and it deals with gutter guards. In this episode I show how to leverage this question into a discussion that can put you as a professional gutter cleaner in a favorable light.

This episode is the 3rd in the Gutter Cleaning FAQ's series. This is a question and concern that many have, especially busy professionals and rental property owners. In this episode, I show how to position yourself as a professional gutter cleaner in order to answer this question in the affirmative and earn more money in the process.

Yes, believe it or not this is a question which I have gotten on more than one occasion from a customer. Sometimes customers ask this question because they have had their gutter cleaning in the past by someone who was supposed to be a professional, yet ended up leaving the downspouts clogged.

This episode begins a series entitled, Gutter Cleaning FAQ's. In this first of the series, I deal with the question, "How often should I get my gutters cleaned?" and I show how in answering this question, we as professional gutter cleaners have an opportunity to add more value to our customers.

In this episode, we review the episodes we did this week in order to catch new listeners up and to help reinforce the principles taught to those who have already listened to those episodes.

In this episode, I show the power of raising our prices in order to increase our revenues and I give an example of a project that I am working on this year.

This episode highlights the pros and cons of the lead generation service called Home Advisor ( Now Angi Leads ).

This episode highlights my experience on Craigslist and contrasts gearing my ad to high end buyers vs. low end buyers.

This episode stresses the importance of following up on leads. Too many times we as professional gutter cleaners have a "one-and-done" mentality when it comes to converting leads. I give examples in this episode of how I have followed up on leads and it has profited me.

In the episode I explain why I only use Bulldog Gutter Guard. You may visit the website for the product @ http://BulldogGutterGuard.Com .

In this episode I review the episodes of the past week and highlight the relevant points of each one.

This episode talks about an alternative to workman's compensation insurance for commercial jobs. This is specifically aimed toward the smaller companies where the owner is either flying solo or has one or two people working with him.

In this episode, I explore the possibility of being thought of as crazy for putting out so much valuable, actionable free content.

In this episode I give the details about my special offer of a free 1-hour strategy session with me via Zoom. This is a limited time offer.

The episode highlights the importance of positioning as a professional gutter cleaner. Many times we as true professionals will find ourselves in a happy medium between the fly-by-nights and the big companies that go for volume and profit but don't do a thorough job.

In this episode, I show how a professional gutter cleaner that delivers true value can use Big Corporate for leverage in selling gutter guards. As we communicate the value that we have to offer and as our prospects experience the Big Corporate shady sales tactics, we set ourselves apart as the better alternative.

In this episode, I review the episodes which I put out throughout this past week, and I explain why I do the week in review on my podcast.

In this episode I explain the benefits of giving, and not just receiving referrals.

This episode demonstrates why we as a professional gutter cleaning business kill it in the 5th and 6th months of the year. The aim is to set the pace for the listener to do the same.

This episode talks about traditional word-of-mouth referrals as well as the more modern, high-tech word-of-mouth referral systems that are beneficial to professional gutter cleaners and home service professionals.

In this episode, I am emphasizing the need I have for feedback from home service professionals and what is the benefit to them for giving me feedback. Feedback will help me develop this podcast into a world-class resource for professional gutter cleaning and for home service professionals in general.

In this episode a strongly advise anyone who has a growing business to reinvest into their business and optimize it before getting into other streams of income and investments.