Okay. And so then how did you, how did you fix it? Just kept hustling and eventually the phone started ringing. Or was there, was there a silver bullet?
Acquiring Minds
Too Good to Be True: Year 1 in a $700k SDE Business
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It wasn't a silver bullet. It was a little bit of everything. It was, it's still, there's still no silver bullet.
It's. I'm getting there. I'm, I'm close. I could feel it. I'm close. I'm coming close to a strategy. But there's, it's, it's, it's just waiting. I mean, it's basically what he did.
I didn't know what else to do. I was doing Facebook ads. I was spending so much money on ads.
I wanted work so bad. I felt so bad sending my guys home at 11 o', clock, you know.
Yeah, yeah.
How do I look them in the face and say, I just bought this business? By the way, you got 20 hours this week.
Yeah. And it wasn't a seasonality thing. It wasn't just that you bought into the low season and through the natural progression of months, business was going to come back.
I don't know. This is my first cycle. So we bought it last March, you know, what is it? April? So it's our first year.
So over time we're going to see. Because I don't trust the records I have. I don't know historically what's happened month to month.
Oh, what, what do you mean? Because it's all paper and you haven't, you just. It's not easy to analyze or you can't analyze it.
It's very black and white. I just don't trust it. Oh, you know, I don't, I don't know.
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