How to sell roadside assistance
HOW I MADE $81,000 IN 7 MONTHS DOING ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE 💰 #roadsidegenius
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peace what up family it's your boy young
pooh and welcome to the hustle today
we're gonna be getting into the roadside
assistance industry and is it profitable
uh i have a few questions on my phone
that we're gonna be asking my father and
hope you guys enjoy
my first question is how did you get
into the business
about seven years ago um
my wife had to call roadside assistance
for a service and a young man who came
out to provide the service
wasn't very knowledgeable about what he
was doing so that led me to asking him
questions um regarding the industry how
he got into it and what he was getting
paid and once he started talking numbers
um i immediately became very interested
inside the industry
and from there that led me to uh
reaching out to different companies um
first and foremost i uh
i pretty much engulfed myself in
roadside assistance um videos um
literature anything i could find on the
industry i i read it or i watched a
video about it and um so so that i can
learn as much as i could at that moment
about the industry so um after doing
that
uh i found the company and i got on with
that company um
as a driver and then from there i went
on to become a contractor uh 1099 which
in
in general you at that point you're your
own business and i treat you know for me
i i treated that
like a huge opportunity some people
would take a 1099 position and be like
hey that's it you know i get my business
from this company and you know that's
how they make the money for me not so i
immediately got an llc i immediately got
an ein i immediately got a business
account because for me that was the
beginning of something huge it wasn't a
1099 for me it was okay it's 10.99 right
now in six months
i want to be out completely on my own
doing my own thing and running my own
business so yeah that's how i got into
the industry okay
if someone wanted to get into the
business uh where would they need to
start
um you know
it's a good question um like i said
in a previous uh answer um the
the best thing that an individual wants
want to do is learn as much as you can
about the industry that you're getting
involved in not just roadside whatever
industry you're thinking about getting
involved in so
once again there's tons of literature
out there there's tons of uh
individuals out there um that you know
give out some information um we have we
actually have a roadside assistance um
it's called mobile tire shop academy we
have an online course that we're
currently putting together um
and um we were supposed to launch it uh
uh last month but it's a lot more work
than we expected so we're still working
on that and peop individuals will be
able to go and uh you know go on to the
course and learn at their own pace it's
very important you know to to understand
the industry that you're getting into
because i made a lot of mistakes in my
process so we want to help
people um
make money man you know be the best that
you can be at in this industry but at
the same time you know um know as much
as you you need to know about it so that
you can be successful in it okay
what type of equipment would you need to
get into this business
okay um another good question uh i
starting off um i'll try to run them
down as as quickly as possible um
for starters you'll need a two and a
half gallon uh
two and a half gallon gas can you'll
need a five gallon uh diesel can you'll
need a breaker bar you'll need uh
multiple impact sockets and they usually
come
up about a seven or eight ten pack you
know um you can get something like that
from harbor freight um
most of this equipment you can get from
harbor freight you'll need a jumping box
you'll need uh
you'll need jumping cables uh most
importantly you'll need a lockout kit
that's what you use to open up car doors
um that's very important
um
and you'll need uh strip lug nut
removers okay and uh and another thing
is an impact gun a four-way four-way is
okay i rarely use any four ways i use my
deep sockets and my uh breaker bar to
get the job done but you you know those
are the things oh and uh um uh three ton
jack very important you know
you don't want to go out there and you
don't want to use the customer's
equipment to work on their vehicle for
one it is
it takes too long and for two a lot of
times that equipment is unsafe so you
want to come with your own equipment you
want to have a 310 jack just in case
when you have customers that call and
they have uh you know ram 2500 or 3500
pickup trucks it's gonna be pretty hard
to try to work with that vehicle with a
one ton jack so three ton jack at
minimum yeah uh
what is the total cost for all of the
equipment
okay so
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if you're just um
okay
so you have 12 volt jump box and a 24
volt jump box all right this is very
important
if someone gets into this industry and
they only have a 12 volt jump box or a
pair of jumping cables that will get you
by with passenger vehicles you know that
being regular cars
pickup trucks that will get you by with
most of them
but this industry is huge and you know
the bigger the vehicle the more money so
you have uh you want to be able to
service uh commercial trucks right they
have four batteries right you can't
charge you can't jump those vehicles off
with a 12 volt jump box so you want to
have a 24 volt jump box for those
vehicles
and i'm gonna and i'm gonna break down
why this is so important right yeah
uh
when you do a regular jump
you're looking at charging between 65 75
to 85
right that's around the normal price
range right yeah
so when a customer calls and say hey i
have uh uh an 18 willa you know you know
i need jump started
that
price goes up to 250 dollars right but
it's going to take you the same amount
of time it would have took you if you
were jumping off a
a passenger vehicle right in
five ten minutes you're gone right so
250 dollars for five or ten minutes
worth of work you don't want to leave
any you know that's this that's my
saying you don't you want to you want to
finish your plate you don't want to
leave no food on the table no bread on
the table there's an opportunity there
you want to go after it so
you can you can
spend about between five to seven
hundred and fifty dollars on equipment
on the low end
or you can spend 1500 on equipment and
get everything you need right so that
you're fully equipped and fully prepared
for anything
that you're going to encounter as a
roadside assistance uh business owner so
yeah so you're looking at uh i would say
500 on the low end and 1500 on a high
end okay uh what about training
training is very important right and uh
that's why i'm going to go back again to
our um uh online course we'll have a lot
of training in that but um you don't
have to wait for us
uh to launch our online course for you
to find training um for that if you're
in atlanta area i
will personally train um individuals um
in this in this field in this industry
uh full price of course time is money
but i will personally train them but
training is very important man because
for instance right
uh if you if you get a lockout call
right and i've opened everything i've
opened everything from bentley's uh i've
opened everything for i've opened a
few ferraris before
um i've opened a 1942
show vehicle before that this is before
they even had a
passenger door keys it just was the
vehicles didn't even come with it was
just the key for the driver's side door
and nothing on the passenger side uh it
was it was one of the hardest jobs i
ever had to do because i had to be
really really careful with this vehicle
was a show vehicle immaculate you know
in immaculate condition but um
training is very important because
um i've i've
when i first started off i used to have
to go save a lot of guys um in the
industry who were doing lockouts and
if you just get into this industry and
you go out to do a lockout on someone's
vehicle right
and you damage their vehicle
you know you may look at it just as okay
um you know some paint chipped or
something like that or um you know i
seen guys put too much pressure on the
air bag right get the lock open and then
without deflating the air bag they
immediately open the door
that ruins the inside mechanism of the
vehicle yeah depending on what type of
vehicle you're you're opening up that
day that can potentially destroy you
like if you just wasted 1500 on this
equipment
you know uh more money on advertising
right
and
you didn't even set up any insurance
business insurance yet you know or you
got into this industry you don't have an
llc you haven't separated your personal
um
your personal property uh from your your
business entity a person can wipe you
out in a lawsuit you know what i mean
they can wipe you clean out you can be
wiped out before you start it so uh
training is very important man that goes
back to finding out and learning as much
as you can about the industry you're
trying to get involved in of course
uh
how much can someone make in this
industry
uh that always depends on your hustle
okay so um for instance uh from january
1st to
so i say about may i generated 50 000 on
my own
right yeah i generated 50 000 online get
a round of applause for that well you
know we can we hustling all day baby of
course you know so uh yeah i generated
50 000 on my own and before uh me and my
partner went on to bring on 12 uh
uh contractors and my contractors since
uh may till date has generated an
additional thirty to thirty one thousand
dollars so from january to date uh we've
generated eighty one thousand dollars
fifty thousand i generated on my own my
god's generated another 30 in the past
uh two to three months so yeah we're
talking 81 000
in seven months so yeah you can make a
decent amount of money in this industry
that's good
uh how much is advertising
um okay yeah that's a very important
question because i regardless of
everything i've mentioned so far if you
don't if you're not getting any phone
calls
and most importantly if you if you're
not closing those calls nothing else
matters so um uh
for instance uh me and my partner
uh we have a company called um
roadside genius right so it's actually
my partner's actually the owner and
co-founder of that company i'm an
affiliate marketer me and him we have
our own business here in georgia but um
a roadside genius is a roadside
assistance marketplace for the little
guys as well as bigger companies you
know yeah we we
run advertising for companies with up to
20 and 30 fleet of tow trucks but um
for us with us
it's 500
that's what it is to start but let me
break let me let me explain something
real quick let me break this down i went
to another company
just to um because i've also learned how
to create advertising in this particular
field and so um
in my process of learning uh i wanted to
um
test the waters and see what the other
competition was charging and i got in
contact with a company and i'm not going
to mention the company's name because i
have a lot of respect for them in their
hustle um but they were they were
charging me
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they were trying to charge me fifteen
hundred dollars a month right i made
fifty hundred dollars a week six grand a
month to run advertising for my business
right
and um shout out to them man you know
that's them you know do they think but
and another thing is they're not really
they're not really professionals in this
niche you know yeah um
when it comes to roadside assistance
marketing
i don't think and i'm not just saying
this because it's us but i don't think
anybody out there got us beat you know
then i don't think
nobody have us beating that niche and
for five hundred dollars
you can't beat that for five hundred
dollars we'll set up your landing page
we'll set up your my business
we'll we'll get you set up with uh
we'll get you set up with uh apple maps
we'll have you set up with yelp what
happened we'll we are a machine and
we'll have all
that business funnily funneling through
one number one phone number we've had
guys call us in and say hey man turn it
down
i i can't it's too much for me like
they'll have three calls you know three
or four calls
that they've already closed and their
phone is ringing while they're on the
job they're like you know just slow it
down we've had to slow down our
advertising so yeah so for for five
hundred dollars man we'll light you up
we'll light you up man it's
life-changing i promise you and it's
guaranteed we don't we in
we don't tell you that you know you
you know you're gonna make money
we show you you're gonna you're really
gonna make money you know what i mean to
the point where you you actually i
actually advise people man
uh when they get on with us
get somebody to come out there and
partner with you you know what i mean
because it's gonna get really busy and
at minimum it needs to be two of y'all
out there you know so that you don't
that's how we was yeah you know you know
we what we out there you know what i'm
saying they need to be two of y'all out
there man so you can close the calls but
yeah 500 is all you need man okay my
last question was how important is
advertising but it seemed no we we can
go we can go deeper into that
advertising is like i said before is
very important um
you know because when i got into the
industry
i didn't know anything about advertising
i did what most people do you know i put
up my little listing and i thought that
was it people were gonna call but that's
not how it works let me break down to
you how advertising works we're
advertising
especially on google when somebody
googles something
and you look that first those first four
businesses you see if you look into the
left hand corner you'll see
a d you'll see the word ad
those are individuals who are paying for
those top four spots right
and
generally
people
may go down you know four five six on
the first page of google but no one's
going to page three page four page five
page six page seven and that's where
your business is
you know you understand without the
without the right setup
that's where you are somebody will have
even i've seen
uh
situations where people
will put their business name in and
can't even find their business even if
they put their direct business name and
they can't even find it this advertising
is very important man and if it's not
set up properly you will not win you
have to have advertising you have to
have it set up properly there's no way
around it of course to be the best you
got to beat the best you definitely you
got to beat the best and then the good
thing about that is you know
when you advertise you also have to be
able to you know um get reviews for your
company that's very important reviews
are very important because what happens
is
google looks at all that
right so your reviews can rank you right
there's companies out there that have
been in business on google for you know
listed on on google for about five years
right yeah they have
3 000 reviews you know average four
point star those individuals don't have
to run ads like other companies that
haven't you know that doesn't have the
reviews that doesn't have the analytics
and stuff like that those individuals
like that
those companies have to
uh other companies have to pay those
companies just
they're up there you understand when
someone search for a specific um service
those or business or whatever the case
may be those individuals are right there
because they have a high ranking they've
been out there for a long time and
that's very important so when you once
you
have ads running it's also very
important to make sure like i on scene
before i you know when i was out there
and running jobs before i would complete
a job i would walk back up to the
customer window and i would say things
like hey look um
i'm almost finished i'm getting ready to
text you
um
can you please leave my company a review
you can just leave you know
how you feel the service went or you it
it's cool if you can add a comment as
well
that way while i'm completing a service
they will go ahead on and leave a review
because what happens is a lot of times
customers pull off and they'll tell you
they'll leave a review but they're on
the side of the highway cars are going
by 60 70 miles an hour they they're
ready to get out of there they're not
concerned with leaving a review so when
you
complete the job and you say leave a
review they leave they go home and
honestly they may have
loved the service and wanted to leave a
review
but
the situation you know they get home
they have children whatever they forget
so
i always made sure that i got my review
before i left the scene you know what i
mean and that way you know you can lock
it in because reviews are very important
just like advertising so yeah you can't
survive and you won't and
merely make creating a business listing
is is not you can do everything else
that i'm talking about here you can you
can learn uh how to do certain you know
lockouts how to change tires how to
mount balance how balanced tires how to
change valve stems how to properly plug
a tire you can learn you know everything
you want to about the industry online
right yeah on your own you don't have to
come to us you can do all this on your
own but i promise you the one thing that
you will not learn on your own in a
timely fashion
is how
to properly advertise for your business
especially digital advertising these
companies have been around for a while
their master what they're doing and this
is not something that you're just gonna
wake up tomorrow and learn i don't care
how many videos you watch on youtube
you will not learn how to be a digital
marketer today
fast enough
to get your business going you know what
i mean you have to leave that part to
the professionals man yeah yeah well
that's all my questions for today you
got anything to say that no man i think
this i think this was dope um and uh
i like your ideas man and i think this
is gonna be really successful um once
again man i'm gonna leave a link in the
description for roadside genius for
anybody
who uh
who's already in this industry and
you're looking to you know generate more
call leads and close more calls and make
more money head on over to roadside
genius and i have a link affiliate link
in the description down here and you
guys be on the lookout for
mobiletireshopacademy.com
where we're wrapping up the um
the online school here so you know this
is this i'm also going to put uh
maybe over here i'm going to put up uh
we're going to open up our square
account and show you exactly what we've
made today so that there's no you know
misunderstanding about this we've done
81 000 in seven months you can do this
too i did 50 000 plus thousand on my own
one man beating the streets up
this year by myself
so you know what i mean my guys my my uh
my contractors in the past two and a
half three months have bought in 30
grand
okay
so i've made 30 i made 50 thousand
dollars breaking my back out there on
the road and i've made 30 000 sitting
here in my home you can do it too man
peace y'all peace
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