First Bid - Certified SoftWash Roof Cleaning

Derek Fontenot · Freshmen Member

First Bid

Derek Fontenot · Freshmen Member

Deleted photos to protect the innocent

-- Edited by Derek Fontenot on Sunday 10th of July 2016 02:02:51 PM

AC Lockyer · Administrator

Derek,

We dont discuss pricing on the open forum of the internet. I am sure you understand why. Set up a time to chat by calling Jackie at the office so I can help stear you on pricing this.

Thanks,

AC

Brandon Vaughn · SoftWash Systems Pro Staff

Hi Derek, I sent you a PM, however, I'll add the following -

I'm always high on our jobs. The "competitor's" are using pressure washers, walking every sq. foot of the roof, breaking tiles, and the stains will regrow 2-3x as fast compared to SoftWashing.

SoftWashing SHOULD be more money. Don't get caught up on what one painter tells you, regardless of how respected he is. He is 1 customer out of the tens of thousands you will encounter. Roughly 30-40% of your customers will tell you you are too high in price. However, 60-70% closing ratio on your jobs is more than enough to sustain a very profitable business.

Derek Fontenot · Freshmen Member

Thank you, Brandon for your reply and PM. I replied back and would appreciate your returned input on it. As long as we keep pricing out of the public side, I wouldn't mind if you made your opinion of the situation I'm in public, good or bad, if you feel it would help others

AC, I'm sorry if it came across that I was trying to start an open discussion on this. That wasn't my intention, as I do completely understand the reasons not to.

Any further PMs from anyone else would also be well received.

Steve Mazzuca · SoftWash Systems Authorized Professional

Derek, unfortunately almost all of this awesome forum and bulletin board has been set up as 'viewable by the public', so your commentary, pics and strategy are now out there for all to see-especially in your local area.

I learned this the hard way by simply commenting and trying to help on another post here, where the poster titled it something like "Just cleaned my first roof'. What ended up in my local market on Google was the title "Just cleaned my first roof" as the heading, and then right under it was my company name! Without someone actually clicking on the heading and reading the entire post it looked like we just cleaned our first roof!!!! Obviously not a confidence builder for prospective customers, and absolute gold for a competitor!

I've highlighted this issue before here and suggested better 'signals' in the 'Recent Posts' area. So unless and until this is remedied-be careful what you post here!!

......just sayin'...

Troy Layman · Lead Tech

Good point Steve,

Derek, I would suggest being even more careful if you post on other forums as well. There is another forum that is hosted for roof cleaning out of Florida and I'd posted there a handful of times and not only did issues like what Steve pointed out happen, but about half the links I clicked on took me to the forum post. however, the other half redirected me directly to the forum owners business website. So if you post on another Florida based forum and someone did a search for your company or name it is possible that links would send your potential customers to another companies site, hijacking your customer. I'm not saying it was intentional, or just maybe how the programming on the search engines worked, but the result was the same. Although to compare apples to pears, I haven't had that issue with this forum.

AC Lockyer · Administrator

Derek Fontenot wrote:

AC, I'm sorry if it came across that I was trying to start an open discussion on this. That wasn't my intention, as I do completely understand the reasons not to.

No problem :)

AC