Biz question

C

Crunk

New member
Dec 19, 2011
144
1
0
So I know people on WF are biased, but you guys tell it like it is which is why I love this place. Feel free to be brutal.

Up until this past year, I have had a business plan to start an online marketing/rep. management agency. I know the business like the back of my hand but I didn't want to be at the will of google and wasn't 100% sure on dealing with educating customers and bending over backwards for them 24/7.

So, I found a hole in the market in Roofing of all things. I've got a great mentor who owns a large roofing company. I want to build the company into a B-corporation (give back ~25%). Using conservative numbers, I can net ~ 125k 1st year, 220k 2nd year, and 340k 3rd year.


Both businesses are equally as difficult and have their own risks. What makes me nervous is I've hurt my back pretty bad which makes the roofing business kind of difficult because the first 2 years I would be getting up on roofs, monitoring, measuring, etc..

What does WF think? Be honest. I should add that ~1 year ago I built the marketing department at an dev. agency in town and grew it to 15k/month in rev with 12k of that as profit.
 


How the fuck are we supposed to know? You do realize there's about 500 different variables at play here, right?
 
you want your hand held. you want that group of people that you can blame it on if things go bad. make up your mind. youre the entrepreneur. i go with the agency any day because there already are a million and if they get customers, i can do better. and because im not going to stand on some roof pretending im an entrepreneur. so if you want some hand holding, do the agency.

dont tell us thats not what you want. thats exactly what you want. youve got the business plan and the experience. if you want advice on your business plan, post it. you just want someone to blame when things turn sour.
 
at some abstract level, business is really easy. you offer a service thats wanted and charge a premium on it. businesses that fail are those that either offer something nobody wants or offer no way of learning about them.
 
It doesn't matter. You won't put it in action. Just keep it on the back burner. Either your back or google will fuck you. Seriously though. Action is going to be required. If you sit around long enough the world just might pass you by
 
You need to hurry up and fail. You will be amazed what happens next. Pick one today
 
boy-indie-laptop-photography-roof-Favim.com-150493_large.jpg
 
Hire yourself an employee of the Hispanic persuasion. Make him climb the roofs and take the measurements. Pay him $15/hr and buy his family a fat fucking turkey at Christmas. Count the duquets flowing into your bank account.
 
Build a marketing company specialized for roofing companies?

Develop packages and string on as many roofing companies for monthly fee's ranging from $99-1200/mo and include websites, SEO, PPC, Design etc.

Build a Roofing blog and forum as well as a ton of landers in various markets you plan to attack.

If you elect to do this, for the love of cthulu, don't push social media services. Just include it in your SEO.


edit: like this but less douchey - roofingcontractormarketing(.)com
 
Do the roofing for a while and at the same time build your plan B. No roofing company owner is going to keep you around long term ( I dont know wtf your skills are, marketing? Bitch plz) paying you 200k a year. Once he is self sufficient he will buy you out, shit can you whatever.

Unless you mean you will be taking a regional area and running it as your own?
 
Zaino said:
Do the roofing for a while and at the same time build your plan B. No roofing company owner is going to keep you around long term ( I dont know wtf your skills are, marketing? Bitch plz) paying you 200k a year. Once he is self sufficient he will buy you out, shit can you whatever.

Unless you mean you will be taking a regional area and running it as your own?
Click to expand...

I'm not sure what drug you are own, but you completely misunderstood everything. You read roofing and marketing and made up shit. :stonedsmilie:
 
Crunk said:
I've got a great mentor who owns a large roofing company. I want to build the company into a B-corporation (give back ~25%). Using conservative numbers, I can net ~ 125k 1st year, 220k 2nd year, and 340k 3rd year.
Click to expand...



How old are you? Why is this person a great mentor? (I'm asking those questions so I or others can give further advice... not to slam on you.)



Crunk said:
What makes me nervous is I've hurt my back pretty bad which makes the roofing business kind of difficult because the first 2 years I would be getting up on roofs, monitoring, measuring, etc..
Click to expand...


You're talking about being self employed, not owning/running a business.

Larry Flynt owns the business, Hustler Magazine - or something like that. If his shriveled up penis ever appeared in an issue, that would be the end of his business.

Larry Flynt on a webcam somewhere, jacking his little thing off for people, would be self employment.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom