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Nice you going with TP4?

No southern Vermont

Average temperatures don't happen anymore. The average temperature worldwide has risen several degrees in the last few decades yet the averages they show in weather stats are the average of the last 150 years or so. Anyway it can be 80 until thanksgiving for all I care. Just be cold for Xmas time

It's getting dark hella early now. Sunset is the same as March 30

I love sitting between Moe Ghoul and Phillycore. Very intimate.

Maybe Elk mountain with Afroman..what a gem

Gonna ski a lot.

My uncle who was a patroller at Jack Frost got to ski blue for free but I think he needed a letter from his director.

bjakeski welcome to PASR

I'm surprised your wife hasn't made you go to a doctor or go on a diet. You ski moguls yet!???

I don't understand that one Shadows?? Pregnant people gotta work

Post a picture of the Empire State Building lol

Shadows you cleaned the Sheraton jetport and the one hospital. Those are good gigs

Shadows I see you are busy adding updates to your Facebook business page. The question I have is how are you going to get people to come to and like your Facebook business page?? For now it's just me Johnny law, VTMark and two others who see all the updates. You might want to start a personal Facebook page and then invite all those people to like your business page.

I haven't had any beyond minor stuff like sprains and a broken toe... You mentioned various research. Several cancer researchers have been close to a cure and have made major headway and you wanna know what happened to them? They were murdered? The pharmaceutical industry doesn't want a cure for cancer which sickens me. http://www.anonews.co/doctors-who-discovered-cancer-enzymes-found-dead/ Shadows weren't you badly injured at camelback and Whistler?

My bedroom was chilly this morning and still comfortable in my place. I might not even turn on AC today.

Have you received any jobs due to your leads? Have you cold called businesses before? It's hard and time consuming but shows persistence and at worst you're leaving your card with some front desk receptionist who might pass it on to the decision maker.

Getting charged per lead makes sense...the non real numbers I'm sure are figured into the equation. 80% real numbers sounds pretty good. The craziest is at least a few times my customers have tried to sell me something. Recently a customer came in with a photo of his parents tombstone and rudimentary measurements and asked for pricing info. It was around $5,000 and he said he didn't have money for it then launched into a sales presentation with various promotional items like pens that doubles as a Styllus and refrigerator magnets. He was even trying to engage the office manager and tossed her some swag... Another time recently an older husband and wife were shopping for a tombstone and at some point asked us who did our printing and I said Nacci and they said wow they're expensive my son owns a printing business. They never bought just shopping and a few days later I had a voicemail from their son saying he heard we needed printing services. Shit is hilarious...I love that approach pretend you want to buy something and then end up trying to sell them..the old switcheroo.

I don't know if anybody watches the Jon Olsson vlogs but they're pretty good. He helped usher in new school skiing around 2000 and now lives a semi charmed Lyfe split between Monaco and Marbella Spain..this episode he puts a ski box on a Rolls Royce.. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8DNM7bdaK2A

Don't you get free passes at the big K for being a patroller???

I don't follow. It's your business put your name on it. Be proud of it.

I really dislike work email. Half the calls we get are people asking if you got my email. There are also a few people we work with who call everytime they send a fax asking if they got our fax. A lot of simple tasks like a basic lettering job or a duplicate memorial stone where there's nothing for customer to pickout so I say I'll mail you contract. They then say can you email it..gosh they wait months and even years to order a tombstone and won't wait a day or two for mail. Sure will email contract and take credit card info over the phone and pay the stupid 2-3% fee for visa or MasterCard. Then some people I say I'll mail contract and they say oh I like doing things face to face I'll just come in so they come in and don't even bring their checkbook...they say you can just do the work and bill me for it. I've had people say I won't pay for it until the work is complete and then I tell them we don't do work without money and say we've been here since 1929 we aren't gonna ruin our reputation by ripping you off. It's not like if someone orders a pizza and never picks it up..we have enough display pieces. The industry standard is half down as a deposit and other half upon completion and if they don't pay balance we repossess the tombstone.

There's a thing called voicemail. The majority of the calls that come into my office go to voicemail cause I'm sitting with families, on the road and out of the office or am busy with work and don't feel like answering the phone..or they call when it's evening and weekend hours when I'm not there. A couple times a day I check voicemail and then call everybody back.

For credit cards first of all why are you paying 24% interest that's about as high as it gets. Transfer credit card debt to a credit card with a 12 month 0% APR will prob bump up to close to what you pay now in interest but after a year of zero interest. Is the $2500 on credit card close to the credit card limit? If it is every month your credit is actually getting worse. The goal is to use somewhere between 1/4-1/3 of available credit. Also as your business is established and you are paying off credit card bill completely every month be sure to take advantage of reward points. Most are like 1% cash back or equivalent in merchandise or gift cards. I don't think any bank is gonna take the time to write up a loan for $2500. They only stand to make a few hundred on interest. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/personal-loan-bank-credit-union/ My business has a line of credit with our bank just in case cash flow is light in order to meet payroll. https://www.sba.gov/blogs/6-step-guide-how-get-business-loan Your business is considered a start up. Start ups have a much smaller chance of acquiring a bank loan than an established business. If and when you ever look for a business loan, a business plan and earnings projections are required. The key to any successful business is solving a problem successfully. A person needs their windows washed is a problem and you solve it with your services. I wouldn't turn your nose down on residential work. You might wash a homes Windows and the homeowner owns a bunch of commercial real estate and hires you for a larger job cause you did a good job on a small job. There's slot of stupid paver shit I don't wanna do. A local church is having us engrave 18 pavers. It's a $900 job as much as a single flat marker but we do a good job maybe they will want more work done or recommend us to their congregation. I have trouble turning down business. And until I have fuck you money I'll only turn down business if the customer is completely nasty to me and my staff.

Business page is seperate from personal page. You won't see me posting sandwich pictures on business page.