I gave my friend the answer to his financial problem, but he did nothing with it!

A friend of mine is the maintenance man for a condominium complex. His pay is average (gross around $2400 a month)and he complains about not having enough money to do what he wants and just lives paycheck to paycheck.

One of his responsibilites is to pressure wash the walkways and parking stalls and that gave me an idea that would be of great help to him.

I drove around the surrounding neighborhoods and noticed several homes with rather small to medium sized driveways. Pressure washing those sizes could easily be done in an hour or less.

My idea was to create two versions of a simple flier offering driveway pressure washing. One would list a price of $85 for the larger size (still on the small side) and $65 for the smaller driveway that could be done in around 30 to 40 minutes.

I would distribute fliers to only those homes with relatively small driveways. Then, if the response was low, I would go door to door with flier in hand and offer to pressure wash driveways for those who would schedule a job THAT DAY for the reduced price of $59 for the larger size (instead of the flier price of $85) and $45 for the smaller size (instead of the flier price of $65) if they would agree to before and after photos for our marketing.

Based on my past experience, I know this will work.

I told my friend about this and offered the following: I create the flier and he distributes them. Then, if the response is low, I would go door to door while he is with me and I would do all the pitches and secure all the jobs and then he would do the work and keep all the money.

He gets off work at 3:30 pm and has Friday and Saturday off. He also has use of the pressure washer.

Just two pressure washing jobs a day at an average of say $60 per job from direct flier response and going door to door would give him around $600 a week working 5 afternoons. That would match what he already makes and literally double his income.

He's still "thinking about it" and it was almost a year ago that I proposed this to him and he's still complaining about lack of money.

Go figure!!

Lawrence