Demographics

[2hipp4u]

Hi all

I am new to the business and still practicing, been doing it for two months, but feel I still need more until I can get that perfect repair everytime. My question to all of you is how many repairs can a person get on average, lets say in an area of 45,000 population with four competitors ? I am only looking to suppliment my income with four or five repairs per day and I know that I will have to go out and get them myself because they won't just fall in my lap. I would really like to hear your number averages per day including your competition and population.

Thanks for your help!!!!

2hipp4u

[glassdoctor]

Welcome to the DeltaKits forum, hippy.

It's almost impossible to find anything relavant to your situation, from what I do or others do in our business. There are just way too many variables involved.

A goal of 4 or 5 repairs sounds reasonable enough, but...

Retail work or fleets, etc? Where do you plan to get the jobs? How many hours a day, days per week do you plan to work?

Then there is the main thing, which we can't answer, is about the way you will conduct business. How agressive and motivated will you be? What image will you present, salesmanship, etc?

Some guys here do it part time, some full time. Some chase volume lower priced wholesale jobs, others go after higher paying retail work.

BTW, keep up the practicing. But if you are only doing "practice" repairs on breaks that you are making, you might want to find a few real-world repairs and see how that goes. Some of the real ones are more difficult than a practice windshield.

[2hipp4u]

Hey Glass Doctor,

Thanks for the reply. as far as business sense goes I think I'm all right there, I have over twenty years working for myself. I was planning on going after retail insurance type work four days a week and put in five to six hours a day and do one day a week working on a fleet route.

I also realize from my own personal experiance this is not a zero sum game , there is a lot of work out there to be had from people who just live with a damaged windshield as long as they can before they are forced to replace it.

I guess I just wanted to get an idea if my expectations were reasonable with my population base.

Thanks

2hipp4u

[glassdoctor]

5-6 hours a day is pretty much full time for a wsr guy... maybe even overtime

I have never done advertising or chased retail work, and I think you will need to do some of that to get work from your pop. base. The fleet and dealer market will be limited... just keep going back and "checking in" on these places until you get the work.

The business-to-business cold calling may work well, but again will be limited in a town your size, I would think.

But combine those sources with some conventional advertising and pavement pounding, and you should be able to find enough to meet your goal.

I live in a town of less than 10,000, but commute to the "city" (300,000?)to do all my work.

If you get mostly $60 retail jobs, it only takes a couple a day to make a very nice part time income. That's $2600/month... $31K+ per year. Many full time jobs don't pay that.

Heck, even one $60 repair per day is over $15,000/year.

You will need to take into account all the bad weather days in figuring "per-day" estimates... winters in the midwest are tough on a wsr guy.