Roger,
Congratulations and welcome to the hard part. Selling yourself or finding your niche as you put it in a highly competitive market area. This will take due diligence and heart on your part. Just look around you, anyone with a vehicle or fleet of vehicles could be your niche. Actually, don't look to find just a segment of your profit potential, put together a plan to capture all segments of that profit potential and work your plan.
I don't know what your business plans are or what commitment level you have set for yourself since you live in two different parts of the country for certain time periods, but I would not acquire a bunch of fleet accounts in either area and then leave them high and dry unless you have someone to cover while your away. This would leave a bad taste in someones mouth and the negative feedback could or would possibly be very damaging. If you don't plan on having any coverage while your away then go after the individual vehicle owner or other sources that won't care that your gone unless of course they have a problem or get another chip.
We all have our own reasons as to why we chose windshield repair and have different views as to how we should run our businesses. If you plan on being part time then by all means be part time as it is one of the luxuries of WSR as you can grow at your own pace. You can and will be good at what you do if you are committed. Take it from me, I am part time. Only in the sense that I only do repairs on certain days or at certain times and maintain a fulltime career. As I acquire my accounts I put them on my schedule or work them in always trying to accommodate there needs. What ever you decide, don't half a$$ it, give it all you have and you will be successful...full or part time. I wish you all the success you can handle and GOOD LUCK.
Pay it foward,
Brian
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