Door to door

The tree trimming business started out slow.  I knew it was going to be something we would have to work with and constantly improve before we would make any significant money.  We printed fliers at Kinkos and started going door-to-door looking for jobs.  We would drive around and look for houses with overgrown palm trees and knock on their door.  If you've ever knocked on a lot of strangers' doors you know that people do some weird things.  Sometimes we would knock on a door and hear people come to the door, look through the peep hole and then just not answer.  There was also the occasional conversation through the door, where people would go on asking questions and talking to you without ever opening the door.  One time we even had a woman shout down to us from a second-story window above her front door.  The door-to-door knocking paid off though and we had done several jobs after just a few days.