Originally this business week started off great! It wasn't 5 minutes after I posted last weeks blog that we received a call from someone who had responded to one of our craigslist ads saying they wanted a pretty decent sized landscaping job done. We gave them two different quotes and they went with the higher bid because they wanted more landscaping done then average.
We went to our shop and loaded up the trailer and all of our equipment, drove to Home Depot and rented a piece of equipment we were missing....and started driving a little bit more when out of no where one of the tires on the trailer EXPLODED! I guess you can say that was kind of surprising. Luckily there was a tire place less then a mile away so we went there and fixed the tire for a little over $100 dollars! It was definitely a bummer to have to be $100 dollars out already when were were heading over to a $265 dollar landscaping job....but crap happens and being prepared for that crap is important...so we just went to the job like nothing happened!
We did about 80% of the job and decided to finish the rest of it the next day for timing reasons! After we dropped all of the equipment off and we were almost home...the truck broke down! ! ! What a BUMMER! I called my mechanic and he had a towing truck there within 30 minutes. To put a long story short...a few days later it cost me $252 dollars to fix. We used the 20% we have been setting aside for the business to fix the problem and the remaining that I owed was significantly lower!
SO the next day I loaded two back pack blowers, two weedeaters, and about 18 fifty five gallon trash bags into my Mitsubishi Lrv Expo and drove to the job to finish it up! We finished it after about 4 more hours of work!
The lesson this week is to always be prepared! Don't expect disasters...but if one occurs roll with the punches and do what you have to do to eliminate the problem as smoothly as possible.
On a positive note ...I am meeting with the person in charge of marketing and advertising for the "Oklahoma Gazette" on Monday. This magazine goes out to 55,000 people all of whom are in the area I want to mow! I'm hoping to be able to post some small ads in this magazine to boost business!
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