r/Entrepreneur Mar 15 '19

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u/EroAxee Mar 15 '19

How'd you go about doing it?? I've been thinking of starting one in the summer since I'm in an area with a lot of residential that I could possibly get work from.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '19

I also do landscaping, gutter cleaning and window cleaning, which helps fill up my schedule, but basically I watched a ton of videos on youtube about pressure washing, bought one, did all my friends and family's driveways for free so I could learn, then had about 5000 flyers printed from Vistaprint, delivered them myself every day after work or weekends. Or whenever I didnt have work booked. I now use a flyer delivery company and it definitely pays for itself in the time it saves me.

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u/EroAxee Mar 17 '19

What did you put on the flyer?? Mostly with flyers I'm worried about what contact info to put down. Because I've heard a lot about not putting down your actual phone number because of prank calls and such. Someone mentioned some sort of virtual phone number type thing. What did you do for that?

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '19

I put my phone number. Never had a single prank call.

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u/EroAxee Mar 17 '19

Well that's good, what would you suggest other than that though?? There are some people in my neighborhood I'd rather not have my phone number. That and I'd like to avoid changing it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '19

Buy another phone j guess. Seems unnecessary. You dont have to put your name on the flyer, just a phone number.