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Re: Jumping Ship
It’s pretty frustrating – the first half of last year – my third in the business – jobs from previous customers and referrals were steadily picking up, then around Sept it was like someone turned a tap, things really slowed down, and it’s been very slow since, for example though I’m on Google’s first page for my community there is almost no one currently searching for inspectors and I’ve see my hits as a result of searches for inspection services go down from 20-30 a week last spring to 2-3 a week so far this year!
As a result while I just wrote the check for another year’s insurance there are many other things I can’t do, for example I was planning to start doing IR this year and that’s just very difficult to justify at the inspection volume of the last few months.
OTOH ….I’m getting some business, and several of the people who started around the same time I did are getting close to none, while my neighbor – a very competent ASHI guy who has been in the business for 20 years - has seen his volume go *way* down as well, so it’s clearly a general slow-down and not a bombed marketing effort on my part or a problem with unhappy clients unwilling to refer new business my way.
My decision has been to see what else I can do to stir up some additional business and give it at least another year – what I won’t do though is cut either prices or corners: either can I get paid what I must to earn a decent living doing what I consider a quality job, or it’s not worth doing.
Last edited by Michael Thomas : 02-21-2008 at 06:51 AM.
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