Chris KoernerSerial Entrepreneur and Content Creator

I’m fired up! #sales #doortodoor #sidehustleideas #entrepreneurship #guttercleaning #podcast

23 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Short YouTube monologue by Chris Koerner criticizing a comparison between selling bottled water and door-to-door gutter cleaning. He uses simple arithmetic to argue that selling bottles is logistically heavy (400 bottles = 430 lb) and low-yield at a 5% close rate, and claims four hours of door-to-door gutter cleaning sales could close ~10 jobs at $250 each.

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All right. This video has me fired up, and let me tell you why. Business is more than just multiplying a sales price by a quantity. I will use that same simple math against the logic in this video. First of all, at a 5% close rate, you need to speak to 8,000 people to sell 400 bottles of water. Second of all, 400 bottles of water weigh 430 pounds. That's a lot of weight. Plus, you need ice and a cooler. Third of all, if you were to just knock doors for four hours with a leaf blower selling gutter cleaning for 250 bucks, you could close at least 10 jobs.