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17 Year Old Kid JUST Knocked on my door and he was selling...
Hey Gordon,
He says "YOU could do the same thing you know?" Get this. After our Sowpub brainstorm session. Last week my door bell rings and a 17 year old student starts to "pitch me" on his services. His pitch was not the greatest. He started saying something to the effect of. "Hi My name is Aaron and I am with Aaron Professional Services. We are a registered business and we are offering..." etc. etc. I was a little distracted as he spoke because: 1. He had interrupted me while I was working on a project and 2. He had 2 younger kids behind him a young girl and a boy about 8-10 years old. They were Playing in the background. YES on my lawn! So I kinda stopped him and said. "WAIT A MINUTE" is this YOUR OWN BUSINESS? and he said. "YES" Hearing that I gave him a LOT more attention. He proceeded to tell me about his business and that he needed to make some CASH. We spoke for over 45 MINUTES, partly by Quizzing him and Consulting him as to how I could be of service. He was Selling 2 Services 1. Car Washing (Interior and Exterior) 2. Lawn Care Services He had a basic flyer i.e a white sheet of paper with the following words on top CAR WASH ( I have the actual flyer in case anybody wants to see what else was written) I unfortunately do not recall the specific pricing details, as I was not buying. I think he was charging $35 for the Car wash. I started to tell him how and why he should NOT call it a "Car Wash" because a car wash frames the value proposition at about $7 bucks, which makes his price seem ridiculously HIGH. Instead he should call it "Car Detailing" which would frame it as a $200-$400 value and thus his asking price would seem low....And Blah Blah Blah Blah. I STOPPED myself, and Just asked him POINT BLANK. DUDE Is ANYBODY BUYING this and Which Service Are they Buying?? That was when he pulled out his Sheet of paper. ... ... It was HALF Full, so about 15 names, address, and phone numbers. And I think he may have been asking for some cash upfront. NOT SURE about that one. However, I was SHOCKED. But that was not all. He proceeded to tell me that he had ANOTHER PAGE That was ALREADY FULL of names.aka. $$$ WOAH!! He says to me "YOU could do the same thing you know?" This "Kid" proceeded to tell me about how he made $4k last summer doing lawn irrigation? the one with the machine and you put holes in the lawn. The point of the story was that this "Kid" was out there making money. I was so impressed. So much more to the story about his background, and his "other" activities (college pro painters, telemarketing, and a SWAT team... but those are just background info) I'll end with this in regard to ANY Sowpub.com idea ... "YOU could do the same thing you know?" Quote:
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