mkbrody

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by mkbrody 13y ago
Hello revelation, all of our employee's are W-2 employee's and work full-time for our company. We pay payroll tax for each employee and while the economics is not as beneficial as the contractor model, if we were ever audited we would be j
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by mkbrody 13y ago
Best of luck with your new business lex. Michael Scharf will be reaching out to you shortly.
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by mkbrody 13y ago
Sorry Jazzychad, all will be fixed with the new site! Michael Scharf also sends his apologies to all reading this.
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by mkbrody 13y ago
Hello Marcamillion, without going into too many specifics about our numbers we actually get a lot less than 30k unique visitors per month. However, 80% of our business is from repeat customers and our customer retention numbers are very st
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by mkbrody 13y ago
Thanks at-fates-hands, we're a service business and care about our clients. Mike preaches this quote: “There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money
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by mkbrody 13y ago
Hello Aco, we have an excellent relationship with Gilt and value them as a partner. I just meant it was an out-of-pocket expense initially.
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by mkbrody 13y ago
Hello JimWillTri, we have incurred a ton of technology costs in relaunching the site and wanted to make some strategic hires. We received a fair valuation for the raise and believe this capital will be enough to propel us to the next level
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by mkbrody 13y ago
https://www.myclean.com/ Thanks!
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by mkbrody 13y ago
Sorry clientbiller, here's the site: https://www.myclean.com/
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by mkbrody 13y ago
Hello Jeremyarussell, all of this will be fixed on the new site. Launching in just a few weeks!
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by mkbrody 13y ago
You're welcome Medell. If your friends live in the NYC area we'd love to clean for them! Our rates are competitive with certain "off the books" cleaners and we are fully insured and bonded. We'd be happy to offer a $25 first time credit
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by mkbrody 13y ago
You are absolutely right ThomPete, you need to either employ or contract someone technically sound to build a great software product. Mike Scharf is a great evaluator and hirer of people. This has helped our business tremendously.
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by mkbrody 13y ago
Thank you for the supportive comments Marcamillion. Mike Scharf hired me to offset his technical inefficiencies. He in turn is the type of entrepreneur and business visionary who is great to work with.
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by mkbrody 13y ago
You're right MattGrommes, thanks for the post.
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by mkbrody 13y ago
Thanks for the post larrys. You make some excellent points and the companies you have pointed out are all excellent companies. The large national franchise model is slightly different form our tech oriented urban based model however. We
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by mkbrody 13y ago
Hello nilkn, MyClean does not contract cleaners. All of our employee's are W-2 employee's of our company.
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by mkbrody 13y ago
Hello ovi256, we received some excellent press early on (Thrillist was huge for us), ran a Gilt campaign, and listed ourselves on free directories. We did not spend any money (outside of the money we lost with Gilt) in customer acquisition
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by mkbrody 13y ago
The founders make a nice living and we continually reinvest into the business.
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by mkbrody 13y ago
Thank you. Our Canadian developer is working on fixing now!
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by mkbrody 13y ago
Thanks!
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by mkbrody 13y ago
More often than we'd like! All jokes aside, he's been great and is very reliable for us.
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by mkbrody 13y ago
I'm not sure where you're located, but you may want to try Angie's List. I know they have a relationship with quality cleaning companies in many areas: http://www.angieslist.com/cleaning/ . Thanks for reading!
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How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business (myclean.com)
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