I decided to explore entrepreneurial ways of making money about 2 years ago and it’s been a bumpy ride, had a lot of failed ventures, but it’s finally starting to work out! I recently got a job as an aircraft mechanic at a small airport and got to know a lot of the pilots fairly quickly.

The guy that washes people’s planes was overcharging them but there was no competition, so most people just left their airplanes dirty. He was charging like $150 per wash! So I spread the word “I’ll do an initial wash for $120 to knock off all the caked on grime and bugs” and then I’d offer to let them opt into basically a wash subscription. $80 per wash if I wash the plane monthly. Takes me less time to wash it anyways and it keeps the cashflow steady.

Basically, I charged almost half what the competition was doing it for. It’s been 20 days and I already have 6 planes subscribed to my monthly wash program, one of which is a twin engine so I charge $120 for it, bringing in a garunteed $520 a month excluding other odd jobs, and averaging about $45 per hour of labor with very low overhead. Feeling pretty good about it!

  • itsyourlife007BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Congrats! Congrats and congrats! I love reading posts like these. You should be proud of yourself.

  • SketaverseBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Stay tuned for next months episode where the $150 guy brings back business for $75 🤌🏻

  • lordfluffycusBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Excellent work
    Now take that money
    Expand
    Eliminate the competition
    Expand to more airports
    Buy equipment and hire workers
    Start handling all regional airports
    Lobby to introduce more holidays around traveling, so planes are used more and need more cleaning
    Start charging larger amounts, absurd amounts
    Push an aggressive marketing campaign to say unclean planes are a danger to society
    Jack up the prices more
    Some companies will now fail, buy their planes
    Jack up the prices even more, push the marketing for clean planes even more
    Take over everything
    Diversify, do the same with trains
    Do the same with trucsk
    With cars
    Now with people
    Aggressive marketing push that a dirty person is a bad person
    Lobby to make being dirty illegal
    Construct prisons
    Dump shit from the sky to make everyone dirty
    ARREST EVERYONE
    Use your prison labor to craft space engines
    COLONIZE THE GALAXY

  • RotoruaFunBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Congratulations man! This really is a success story, you took a real customer problem, provided a solution and ran with it.

    Think you’ll do very well for yourself with this. In future, look at whether you create a franchise for this, like Jim’s mowing.

  • Agile_Department7364BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    That’s awesome! Congrats on the success. Do you only wash the outside of the plane or do you also wash the interior? If not, that could be some good leverage to justify a price increase