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How can you work in a bad market?

Oh, that's a great question, and we're going to talk about that today.

Hi there. I'm Angela Brown, and this is Ask a House Cleaner.

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Alrighty, on to today's show, which is from a house cleaner who has this question.

Speaker 2: Hi, Angela.

I own my own cleaning business.

I am a solo employee.

I'm thinking about expanding, and how do I determine if my market near where I live can

support a housecleaning business?

If I travel 40 minutes away, the market is better, and that's where I'm currently going

now, but I've heard you talk about working close to home.

How do I know if my market would support the business?

Angela Brown: Alright, that is a trick question, but what it comes down to is, not all markets

will sustain a house cleaning business.

So yes, it's possible that you live in an area where it's out in the boonies, and you

don't have big neighborhoods where people are willing to pay the big money.

So if that's the case, you have to get creative.

If you want to work near your house, and I recommend you do because instead of you fighting

and competing in a bigger market where there's more competition and where the competition

is more fierce, it will drive your prices down, if you have a very unique spot in that

you might be one of a few people that do what you do in your market.

Now, I grew up in a very rural part of America where there weren't big cities around.

What happens is, you have to get very creative.

As you get very creative, what you might do is you might offer a variety of different services.

So you're not going to be a regular house cleaning business, but the chances are

you're not going to expand and have lots of employees, either.

Because if you do, then you have to go into the big city and you have to pay the big advertising,

and you have to compete in that market.

But if you're a small, independent business owner, you can offer a variety of different services.

For example, you could clean a house, and you could also weed a garden, and you could

also help with canning or bottling fruits and vegetables that a farming community might have.

There are other tasks that you might be capable of doing, such as raking leaves in the fall,

or maybe blowing snow or shoveling snow in the wintertime.

Now, there are a lot of creative, independent business owners

that have done a variety of different tasks.

What they do is go around and sell their services in advance.

Like we know, if we live in the country, we know that there are lots of trees and lots

of forest areas, and all that stuff blows into your yard.

You open your front door and the leaves blow into your house.

That's not cool, right?

So you want all the leaves scooped up out of your yard, and you know that every fall

there's going to be leaf pickup.

You can start selling that leaf pickup in May and June when there are no leaves and

all the leaves are still on the trees.

You can say, "Would you like first right of refusal?"

That doesn't mean they have to hire you, that means they're the first on your list.

People will line up and go "Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm getting too old to rake all my old leaves.

Yes, please come."

You give them a pricing sheet and a breakdown, and here's how much it's going to cost for

a garbage of leaves.

Either you will or you won't cart the leaves away.

It depends on the pickup, if they do pickup in that area or if there's a landfill nearby.

You've got to figure those things out.

But you can put your pricing sheet in effect and sell that service in May and June.

Right now, in the wintertime, we know for a fact that there's snow every year

in different particular areas.

So if you're in a snow area, you may want to invest, as part of your small business,

in a snow blowing machine.

If you do, and you use that for your business, that's tax deductible, as are your rakes and

your wheelbarrows and whatever else you decide to use,

in addition to your regular house cleaning supplies.

So if you sell extra services, and it might be that you buy a ladder and you have a little

thing that helps you clean out gutters, and maybe you do gutter cleaning.

Now, you'll have to have the insurance that will allow you to get up on a ladder, which

is going to be a little bit more expensive than a house cleaning policy.

But my suggestion is that you might talk to your insurance agent and suggest the different

things that you're going to be doing.

I'm going to be gutter cleaning, I'm going to be washing windows,

I'm going to be cleaning houses.

What kind of a policy can I get that's all-encompassing for those things?

It might be a little bit more than the house cleaning, but it will allow you to do more tasks.

Now, once you have your regular customers, those customers are going to talk, because

in a rural community everybody knows everybody, right?

So instead of you trying to go to a city where people don't even know their next door neighbors,

now you know people that know people for miles around.

They will say, "Well, this guy comes every year and he does the snow blowing."

So they're first right of refusal.

They're at the top of the list.

And there are people that will pay when you sell that service in maybe September or October

before the snow has fallen.

You always pre-sell your services so that you stay in business year round.

When the first leaves start to fall, you start calling those customers on your list, and

you start blocking out your schedule and start filling in the gaps so that you have ongoing

money coming in.

There are so many different things that you can do to upsell your services that go a little

bit beyond house cleaning.

It could be landscaping.

It could be that you also mow yards.

It could be that you do weed whacking or that you trim shrubs or hedges or that you pull weeds,

or that you plant flowers, or that you pick tomatoes or pick avocados.

I don't know what the things are in your area.

But there are so many different tasks.

I know that there are some folks that are getting on in years, and they live near apple

orchards, and they pay a team every year to just come in and pick the apples, pick the

apples off the trees, pick the apples up off the ground.

The ones on the ground, they make applesauce out of, the ones that come off the trees they

sell at the market.

So maybe you're great at apple picking.

I don't know, but my suggestion would be, it's still going to be work near where you

live because the opportunities where you live will always surpass the opportunities where

you have to commute to go and find the work.

Once you get out there, you're competing in a much larger pond.

So they say be a great big fish in a little pond.

That's working in your own home territory and finding things to keep you busy.

And you can charge whatever your rate is.

You might just have one flat rate.

Let's say it's $25 or $35 an hour whether you're raking, snow blowing, washing windows,

cleaning houses.

You could make it really easy on yourself, and then people could hire you at $25 an hour

for whatever the tasks are.

And I say $25 an hour.

I don't know if the area that you live in will support $25 an hour.

I just threw that out as a suggestion.

But find out what the going rate will pay in your market, and then find out what services

you can offer.

Then get really super creative, because this is your business.

You don't have to limit it just to house cleaning, unless you decide that's all you want to do

and you do want to expand.

And if that is the case, I do recommend you commute, and I recommend you got to the big

city, wrap the cars, pay for the fancy ads, hire all the people, hire some managers, and

build a big business out of it.

But if you live in a small area, there's lots of stuff you can do right in your own backyard.

Alrighty, that's my two cents for today.

Until we meet again,

leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.

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WW3 ⚠️Putin takes CREDIT for Trump Kim summit but warns nuclear war threat STILL remains - Duration: 2:57.

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Vladimir Putin has taken credit for the landmark summit between President Donald

Trump and Kim jong-un earlier this week but said there are still issues

surrounding North Korea's missile program and the threat of nuclear war is

not out of sight the Kremlin said on Wednesday that a summit between the u.s.

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officials in Russia have said that they feel positive about the outcome of the

summit and they hope that Moscow can be involved in the negotiating process to

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How to make Cornbread - Duration: 12:18.

HEY TRIPPSTERS how to make corn bread yes you read the title correctly

I'm going to show you how to make corn bread or at least how I make corn bread

you're going to meet a few things and I will tell you what those are but I want

more warn you that the sound quality may change as the video goes but that's

because I will have to walk away from the mic I will be taking the camera with

me when I do but I will have to walk away from the mic so at one point the

sound will be different because the only mock that will pick up the sound will be

the mic on the camera that I'm using but if you have trouble hearing or

understanding anything just drop comments in the dropped questions in the

comments below and I will answer any questions you have but here we go first

thing you're going to want to do is pre-heat your oven to 375 right there

and while that's preheating I will show you what you need you need a skillet

I prefer cast-iron skillets but you can use whatever skillet you have on hand if

you don't have a cast-iron check into getting one they are awesome I love them

okay so once you have your skillet you are also going to need your planting

corn meal you are also going to need self-rising flour doesn't have to be a

name-brand any brand will do as long as it is self pressing for the cornmeal and

self-rising for the flour now you are obviously going to need measuring cups

this one is for solids this one is for liquids and you're going to need a great

big bowl to put this stuff in now I use containers to put my meal and my flour

because I don't like leaving it in the bags and these are containers that

originally have Greece in them Greece Lord whatever you

want to call it you're going to need some of that okay

now once you have gathered all your ingredients what you want to do is there

is okay have your skillet on the stove I'll even turn on a little bit of extra

light so you can see okay scale it on the stove you get a little bit of art it

doesn't take a lot

okay now you're going to take your measuring cup the line for these solids

and you're going to use one cup of

self-rising cornmeal and try not to do that

and I just made a mess

put it up there yeah now you're going to need half a cup of self-rising flour you

just add that to the mix now I tend to clean as I go so I put things back when

I'm done with them now at this point you're going to want to turn on your

skillet so that the grease melts and is ready by the time you have your mixture

done I heat my on high for this purpose okay now you're going to need 1 glass 1

cup ok 1 cup of milk and it can be whatever kind of milk you drink on a

daily basis it doesn't have to be any special blend

just simply pour one cup just enough huh now

follow me add the lock and the others you just simply stir also

keeping an eye on the grease making sure it's melting and continue stirring now

out of use of expensive service some people we use a whisk and in case you

don't know a little whisk is I can show you maybe yes

some people use a whisk I just use a great big space and I make sure it's

stirred up here and then it's not stuck to the bottom now as you can see it it

has a good texture to it it's not too thick it's not too thin

however if it's too thick you can always add a syringe of cold water so that you

get what turns out to be this quality it's not too thick but it's not too deep

and yes I know my bowl is turning it's because you only using one hand now once

you have it completely stirred up you will

want to keep an eye on your grease okay I don't know if you can see that

staining that is actually perfect now don't you see that sting coming up off

of it or smoke then you just pour any mixture here that that's important

that's your crust and you let that sit there just for a second not too longer

to burn then and yes make sure you have one of these you just pick it up and put

it in the oven

okay sorry I had to go get help Hudson had to have somebody hold a camera for

me while I put any other but that's all you got to do and then you let it bake

for anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes I will shoot again to show you

periodically when I'm checking it to see if it's done yet and let me show you one

more thing this is very important okay you see the burner I was just using oh

dear God make sure that you turned that off when you're done with okay and

that's it okay make sure that you turn the burner off when you're done and you

want to go ahead and clean up what you used okay because that's what I do so

that there's no big mess to clean up later you clean it as you go which means

I'm now as I stop the camera I'm going to wash all of the bowls spoons and

measuring cups that I've just used and if you made a big mess like I did you're

probably going to want to clean that up too or up you know accidentally knocked

meals everywhere anyway I will start the paper again and show you when I check it

to show you how it looks in the oven as it's baking so that we can see if it's

done or not and yes I will show you the finished product when it is done okay

guys it's been about 15 minutes and I'm going to show you what it looks like now

depending on your stove it could take glass it could take longer that is what

it looks like right now which means it is almost done okay guys it should be

done now up there we go okay

there you go you see that okay you see how it's my own building - link yeah

golden brown okay now this is what you're going to want to do grab your

potholder and take this and flip it into a plate

and make sure that you turn your oven off and that is your cornbread when it

first comes out of the oven right there all nice and got a nice crust it's got a

pretty good thickness and when it curves up you are going to want to let it cool

first and once it cools I will cut it and show you what it looks like on the

inside okay it has cooled down so now I'm going to slice it and I'll give you

some information on that in just a minute

now yes it's what it looks like on the inside and obviously it's still hot but

you can see the steam coming off of it she'll be careful not to burn your hands

or your mouth and that is how you make corn bread or as I like to call it good

old-fashioned corn bread now what I was talking about about cutting the bread

when I said I'd give you more information on that what I mean is when

I was growing up nobody actually cut their corn bread they just wretch and

broke a piece off of it but as an adult I discovered you know when you do that

sometimes people don't get enough of the crust the outside rim some people don't

get enough of the inside so I figured out that if you just slice it into

slices then everybody gets a good portion of both the top the rim the

inside so that's why I choose to cut it but not everyone does that but that is

how you make corn bread or at least that is how I make corn bread so if you have

any questions just put them in the comments below and I will try to answer

them for you but I showed you the ingredients

everything you would need and how to bake it and that is all I can tell you

so Elsa and Cindy I hope you guys enjoy this and I hope you enjoy the corn bread

hopefully you will get to make it soon and let me know what you guys think

about it let me know if you like it or it's just not to your taste or whatever

and that is going to do it for now this is Icepets Queen and I am tripping

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How Many Managers Does it Take to Run a Float Center? - DSP 200 - Duration: 9:24.

>>Graham: Alright.

>>Ashkahn: Hey everybody.

My name is Ashkahn.

>>Graham: And

I am Graham, and today's question is.

How many managers would a woodchuck chuck if necessary.

"How many managers do I need if I want to get out of daily operations?

How many managers do I need to take my job?"

>>Ashkahn: How many managers?

>>Graham: How many other people make up a single one of me.

So I think we can get this.

Thank you for submitting that question.

I wasn't trying to make fun of it.

It's a very good question.

What would you say?

At the least, zero.

>>Ashkahn: To replace us?

At the most?

I guess, the full human population?

>>Graham: That would be yes.

Now that we have those upper and lower limits ...

>>Ashkahn: So, I think it's probably somewhere in between those.

>>Graham: Brilliant!

So what do we ... we don't work the shop.

>>Ashkahn: No.

>>Graham: How many managers do we have?

>>Ashkahn: We kind of have like-

>>Graham: Kind of have is already the start to another great answer there, huh?

>>Ashkahn: Kind of like two and a third.

We have like one full manager and two like two-thirds managers.

>>Graham: Uh-huh.

Yeah.

>>Ashkahn: You know what I mean?

>>Graham: Yeah, so we have like, yes, you know a normal business would call it as Tacos

and Taco Supremes.

>>Ashkahn: That's the hierarchy we have and that we Float On.

So, we have one taco supreme at the top and then, right below that person is two just

normal tacos and below that is just, kind of, the rest of our employees.

So, there's really, kind of, three classes of people.

>>Graham: It's really hard to get away from needing one taco supreme, at the least.

>>Ashkahn: It's basically, like one person could do it, but.

>>Graham: Yeah.

One is the loneliest number.

>>Ashkahn: Yeah, one is the lonely, and it's just like, sometimes what the manager person

is doing is like covering shifts that don't get covered and going in when things are broken,

and stuff like that.

So, if you only have one person who is kind of that safety net for putting fires out,

then sometimes they are not available.

You can't expect someone to be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

People have to have days off or go on vacations or sleep or all sorts of numbers of non-work

activities.

>>Graham: Get sick.

>>Ashkahn: Unfortunately they have to do because they're humans and not robots.

Once we get robots, we will be able to answer this question then.

>>Graham: Oh yeah.

One robot.

Done.

>>Ashkahn: It's nice to at least have two.

That way, between the two of them, there's a lot more just coverage that can happen.

It's just a nicer work environment, too.

I think it's just nice when you're in charge of something to have someone to bounce ideas

off of and really just have that back and forth.

I think it just helps refine ideas and make sure that you don't do something totally crazy.

That, to me, is a nice number.

>>Graham: There is a good lesson there too.

Whenever possible, having back up or redundancy in different positions is ideal for all of

those reasons.

Or, on the other side, if someone quits.

If you've trained up one manager and they have been working at your store for four years

and they know the ins and outs of everything and then they quit.

That's a really painful transition.

>>Ashkahn: Right.

Or get sick, you know, all sorts of things even if they don't want to leave your company.

There are so many things that can happen.

They can break their leg and they need to deal with that for two weeks or something

like that.

>>Graham: Yeah.

>>Ashkahn: It's having that redundancy.

It's one of the really tough things about running a business of our size.

It's just very difficult for us to have good redundancy in place, because we have such

a small group of people to begin with.

>>Graham: We did have two managers for a while.

That did also work great.

Then, having this one main manager and two sub-managers or one Taco Supreme and two Tacos

has been working out well.

>>Ashkahn: Yeah, it's a different model around those, sort of, numbers, I think, can all

work out as long as you have things distributed well.

>>Graham: Initially starting out, we didn't even want managers.

We really tried that for a while.

Even as calling things by their taco names, is us really still not liking the idea of

a manager, specifically.

>>Ashkahn: We do love tacos.

>>Graham: And we love tacos, yeah.

But, there are things that are just really hard to, like tasks, that are hard to get

addressed without having someone who's in that higher level of responsibility and often

getting a higher level of pay as a result.

Like Ashkahn said earlier, a lot of those involve things like covering emergency sick

time, going in when something breaks in the middle of the night to get the pumps back

up and running.

Basically, being that around the clock kind of safety net.

You know?

>>Ashkahn: Yeah.

Or just deciding something every once in a while.

You know?

We have a lot of fear of authoritarian decision making happening where if there's one person

at the top just making decisions willy-nilly, but in reality, sometimes people just don't

want to have to make the decisions themselves.

There are certain decisions where everyone else in the company is like, "Great, we've

discussed two or three options.

You just choose whichever one sounds good."

Having someone to, at the end of the day, make a decision or two here or there just

to decide on something and keep moving forward is a useful thing to have too.

So having someone who feels like "Okay, the buck stops here."

I've heard a lot of "We've all come up with a bunch of good ideas but we can only choose

one of them.

So, let's go this direction."

I think our model works really nicely now too.

Especially with the two two-thirds managers.

>>Graham: Tacos, yeah.

>>Ashkahn: Two tacos.

Because, it turns out almost that we needed more than high level decision making.

It was flexibility.

More people to be available to go in and deal with missing shifts or things breaking or

having to order something at the last minute or whatever.

Having three people instead of two to spread out that availability.

I think our shop functions just as well as it did before.

I think their lives are a bit easier.

It's still a little less stress on people individually.

>>Graham: And it actually, ultimately, saved us a little money on payroll.

>>Ashkahn: Actually, it did.

>>Graham: Doing it that way.

>>Ashkahn: By changing and paying more, like, all three of those people got paid a slight

pay increase when we did this.

It's still saving us money.

>>Graham: Yeah.

Which, of course, depend on what the heck you are paying to begin with.

It's almost arbitrary to our circumstances, but worth mentioning.

>>Ashkahn: Really, you want to start this process early.

Getting people trained on, especially like, how the pumps and filtration systems work

and things like that.

It just takes some time.

>>Graham: Yep.

How you like your breakfast, since one of the managerial responsibilities is to cook

breakfast for us every morning.

You know?

>>Ashkahn: Yeah, the shade of brown your coffee is.

Like, how much mocha that goes into it.

>>Graham: Yeah.

Well, before you even hire a manager, you should start this process of grooming, or

I guess shadowing is almost more what it is.

It's just when you're doing stuff that only you know how to do, make sure there is someone

else around also doing it with you.

It's a great motto.

>>Ashkahn: Yeah.

That's the nice thing about having a couple people, too.

They're kind of always shadowing each other.

If one person leaves, it's not as debilitating for you as having just a single person there

who could leave.

>>Graham: Yeah.

Even though we only have one main manager right now, the fact that there are, sorry,

Taco Supreme.

The fact that we have these other Tacos' means that if our Taco Supreme takes off, you know,

one of those Tacos can become Supreme themselves.

A lot easier than you can just take a normal employee and turn them directly into a Taco

Supreme.

>>Ashkahn: Yeah, the sour cream.

I guess that's our recommendation.

Is, two to three.

It seems.

>>Graham: Yep and use food-based comparisons, rather than straight managerial titles.

>>Ashkahn: It really spices things up.

Great.

>>Graham: I really enjoyed this episode.

>>Ashkahn: Question answered.

We did it.

Done.

>>Graham: I'm glad we all came together here today.

>>Ashkahn: In the bag.

Alright.

If you have more questions that we can just crush like we did this one, you can go to

floattanksolutions.com/podcast.

>>Graham: That's it.

>>Ashkahn: That's the whole URL there.

Yeah.

Go there.

>>Graham: Yeah.

Go to floattanksolutions.com/podcast.

There's a little surprise for you there, too.

>>Ashkahn: You don't even have to type in the name.

Just go there.

>>Graham: If you go there, whatever day you are listening to this, there is a little surprise

there for you.

You should check it out.

>>Ashkahn: Yeah.

I don't even know what it is.

That's the surprise.

>>Graham: Yeah, that's right.

You should, you know, just go take a peek.

>>Ashkahn: Alright.

Okay.

>>Graham: It's a box asking for questions, though.

I ruined the surprise.

I ruined the surprise.

Alright.

Bye everyone.

>>Ashkahn: Bye.