Professional Cleaners Success Stories

Confidential Case Study #1:

"How A Young Couple From Alaska Went From Near Bankruptcy To Buying A NewHouse, Two New Cars, And Living The Ultimate Lifestyle—Thanks To The Piranha Marketing System!"

We were starving. The credit cards were maxed out. The winter had just set in and it seemed so bleak.

We were at our lowest point, (charging our rent on our credit cards) we came across an ad in one of the trade magazines. This guy, Joe Polish, had been "starving" out of the business, too. He’s been in our shoes. But, with a discovery of some marketing strategies, he was able to turn around and make $125,000.00 a year with ONE TRUCK. We thought, "That could be us!!!" Besides, at that point what was one more charge on the credit card, so with a flicker of our dream left we got Joe’s stuff.

From near bankrupt to $30,000.00+ a month in less than 24 months!

Are we ever glad we came across that ad!!

In fact, our growth was so phenomenal that when we went to buy our custom home last year, the bank made us write a letter explaining how on earth we could grow so much, so fast. Like the loan officer told us, "People just don’t do that." Well, they haven’t heard about Joe Polish.

Because of Joe Polish and his Piranha Marketing Systems we were able to make over $250,000.00 our third year in business. Doubling our income every year over the previous year.

But, that’s only half the story…

Creating A Lifestyle By Owning A
Business Instead Of A Job

It’s true what Joe talks about in his sales letter. You know, the whole "Lifestyle" thing.
In less than two years we were able to transform a dying shell of a business into a thriving residential carpet cleaning company with two truck mounts.
We paid off the credit cards we had lived on. We had money in the bank for the first time ever!!! We got employees, health insurance, life insurance, employee benefits, new cars, a new home and we NEVER work holidays, weekends, or nights…finally we were living with security and enjoying life!!

This is NOT some hyped up, empty promise. These are REAL WORLD, EASY, SYSTEMATIC Marketing Strategies that can start making you money the day your package arrives. If we hadn’t taken Joe up on his NO-RISK offer, who knows where we’d be, (we don’t even want to entertain that thought!) but, the reality is – we did get Joe’s systems, and they changed our business, our income – OUR LIFE!
What are you waiting for?

Joel and Julie Cohen, Steam Tech, Alaska

Reprinted with permission from a telephone interview with Joel and Julie Cohen.

Confidential Case Study #2:

"I Made $60,000 In The First 12 Months—Using Just ONE Of Joe’s Systems! Since Then I’ve Made Hundreds Of Thousands More!!!"

Prior to finding out about Joe’s strategies, I’d been in the carpet cleaning business for about four years. I had one truck and, like my wife Ann said, "Don, why don’t you just sit on the deck and sip iced tea – you’d make the same amount of money." So, I was having a bit of a hard time being profitable.

Nevertheless, I had some marketing background and a vision. So, I plugged along. One day, at a carpet cleaning seminar, I met this cocky, young guy named Joe Polish. He was just a "nobody" back then and, I soon realized, a really nice guy. (You just have to get past the attitude.) Come to find out, this kid had been struggling and ready to quit the business just a few months prior. But, with the discovery of some revolutionary marketing SYSTEMS, he had turned his business in to a $125,000.00 a year operation – and he only had ONE TRUCK – just like me.

Now, I’m no dummy. So, I attached myself to Joe Polish that weekend. And, with a little persuasion (he was still keeping his secrets to himself back then), I got the guy to sell me one of his strategies. And, unbeknownst to Joe Polish and me, I became the first member of what became Piranha Marketing.

Just One strategy brings in $60,000.00!

Thank god I met Joe Polish that weekend. Pretty soon I had a money-cranking system in my business. $60,000.00 from that one strategy – an incredible return on my investment!
And the rest is history…

Joe Polish reveals 104 more strategies just as good as his first one!

When you find a money tree, you keep on harvesting. Son, I bugged Joe enough and he revealed all of his secrets to me.

I found out I had been doing some things right. (Like I said, I did have a little marketing savvy of my own.) But Joe fine-tuned the marketing I was doing, and opened my eyes to dozens of marketing SYSTEMS I was clueless about. And soon, my business skyrocketed…

Four Trucks Later… I’m Sipping Iced Tea On The Patio And Making Money!

Since then I’ve made hundreds of thousands of dollars with Joe’s SYSTEMS. Today, I’ve got a four-truck operation, and am so busy I could put a fifth on the road tomorrow. My phones rings off the hook, I have a steady flow of good, high quality customers who are not price conscience. Plus, my repeat and referral business is about 82% of my monthly revenue.

And it all started with just ONE of Joe’s SYSTEMS. Today I don’t ever wonder how I’m going to get new business. I KNOW. And Joe Polish is the reason. Every cleaner in the industry needs this kind of marketing know-how. That is – if they want to actually make any money!

Don Deleeuw, Healthy Home Carpet Care, Colorado

Reprinted with permission from a telephone interview with Don Deleeuw.

Confidential Case Study #3:

"How I Dug Myself Out Of Debt And Made Over $614,000.00 In Less Than 36 Months Using Joe Polish’s Marketing SYSTEMS…"

Just a little over two years ago, I started my carpet cleaning business in a town of 105,00 people, competing with 76 other carpet cleaners. (Talk about market saturation!!) And they were all competing by – you guessed it – LOW, LOW PRICE!

I knew it was going to take something special, something different, to market my company the way I wanted. That is – without advertising low prices. And, thank goodness I met Joe Polish.

My first full year in business was 1996 and I grossed $193,080.00. Not bad for the first year. Oh by the way, it was all residential… no big restoration jobs, no apartments…just $193,080.00 of residential cleaning with nice, fat profit margins. And, I made most that money using just ONE of Joe’s many strategies

Not Exactly What I’d Call "Beginner’s Luck"

Some of you die-hard skeptics might just think I’m lucky. Ha! If you only knew. In that first year of business I broke the world record for "breakdowns"; I was forced to buy another van just because one was in the shop for 3 months, and I had my house burn down – taking all my worldly belongings, my work truck, $15,000.00 worth of equipment, my computer and client list with it. Lucky?

I don’t think so.

Yet, because of Joe Polish’s marketing systems, I still managed to have a "first year" that rivals most people’s 10th.

So, how does someone survive their first year in business let alone a first year littered with personal disaster?

Discover The Secrets Of The Master: Joe Polish

It’s simple. You get Joe’s marketing systems and you follow his directions to the tee. No need to reinvent the wheel. It’s a no-brainer. Just one Joe Polish strategy delivers over $1,000.00 a week… and it costs just a few bucks!

How have I done since my first year? My business is booming. In 1997 I closed out the year at $291,000.00. And to date, I’ve made $614,000.00 using Joe’s systems. Plus, I have 3,217 residential clients!

And, I’ve done it all despite my unlucky start into this business! Because of Joe and his SYSTEMS, I have been able to get as many new customers as I want. I get an enormous amount of referrals. I am totally unaffected by the competition. I make more money in a 3-day work week than the average carpet cleaner makes from a full month of struggling and suffering. And, best of all, I ENJOY my business!

Thank you Joe Polish!

Jim Wolverton, Like New Cleaning, Oregon

Reprinted with permission from a telephone interview with Jim Wolverton.

Confidential Case Study #4:

"I Was Struggling Along With Traditional Marketing Methods…Until I Discovered Joe Polish And His Marketing SYSTEMS…And I Quickly Built A HIGHLY PROFITABLE Four Truck Operation!"

I'd been involved with the carpet cleaning business since college. That's how I supported myself while going to school. Well, cleaning carpets, toilets, floors…but eventually just carpets. So, I get out of college, I'm $15,000.00+ dollars in debt, but I don't want to give up on the carpet cleaning. I'd been "bitten" by the bug – the entrepreneurial bug – and was determined to start my own business.

So, me and a buddy pool our resources, buy a couple of portables and go for it. Well, the partnership went bad, as partnerships often do, and I found myself deeper in debt and having to move back in with Mom and Dad. (While they scratched their heads wondering what their "college graduate" son was up to.)

It was humiliating. Just me and my stinky portable living back home with my parents. But, I still had that vision, and that "bug." So I ventured out solo.

Traditional Marketing Methods Just Don't Cut It

I worked really hard. I mean hard. And, when you work that hard you should be making money. But, the reality was, I was still broke. Still in debt. I was "marketing" my butt off. The traditional kind of marketing, that is. You know, running high priced "professional" looking ads in the phone book, money mailers, the newspaper, I even tried going door to door. But…I was losing more money than I was making. I was frustrated. Yet, I knew there had to be a way…

That's when I met Joe Polish. When I discovered Joe's marketing systems, I found the missing piece to my puzzle I'd been looking for. It was the piece that completed "the big picture" in my business, and made it clear just how easy it really is to make money (a lot of money) cleaning carpets.

From Flat Broke To The Cleaning And Restoration "Expert" In My Area

I admit, I honestly thought I would be packing his stuff up and sending it back. I am a skeptic. But, to my surprise, his stuff is good. Really good. So good in fact, that just ONE of his "ready-made" ads landed me on the local television station, when flooding hit my town, as the area "expert"... My business SKYROCKETED.

In less than 48 months I was running a 4 truck operation. I was able to pay off my college debts. Able to pay off my business debts. I was able to take home a paycheck (a good paycheck). I was finally able to fulfill my entrepreneurial dream!

Once I discovered Joe's marketing systems, I realized why all my traditional attempts at marketing had failed. It's so easy now. I KNOW how to make the phone ring. I KNOW how to keep a steady stream of good customers coming into my business. And I KNOW how to keep my current customers loyal.

Joe makes it so simple to succeed in this business. No matter how big or how little you are, you need these marketing systems. I can't believe what a difference Joe Polish has made in my business, and MY LIFE. He transformed me from a dreamer to a doer, and for that I sincerely thank him!

Bob Bagley, Integrated Cleaning and Restoration, New York

Reprinted with permission from a telephone interview with Bob Bagley.

Confidential Case Study #5:

Dear Joe,

Life wasn’t always this good. Six years ago I was on the brink of disaster in this business. I struggled every day to keep my business alive, scratching for every nickel, working 14-hour days, no vacations, no future and stressed to the point of collapse. I was exhausted and frustrated when the most remarkable thing happened.

In 1994, I met Joe Polish who revealed to me a simple marketing tool he was using to successfully grow his unique business. Long story short, I applied the same tool to my carpet cleaning business, and was stunned by a non-stop flow of high quality, high-ticket clients.

I went from $60,734 to $164,589 my first year, (that’s more than DOUBLE), $240,878 my second, $302,558 my third, and $313,86 my fourth. And just last year (2001), with only one truck, I made a staggering $327,646.

Best of all, I have personal freedom, and I’m finally assured of a brilliant future. Four years ago I set up a secure retirement account, and last year I took more than 4 weeks vacation, including 2 weeks in Hawaii to visit my son. This year I plan to take even more time off and my business will keep running as smooth as a Swiss watch. Best wishes for your success.”

Robert Peters, Genie Carpet Service, Texas