Before you join: the demand calculator
Anyone can use it at joinfloorit.com/demand. Type a city or ZIP code and pick a distance in miles. It counts the owner-occupied homes near you from U.S. Census counts, assumes 35% of them have wood floors, and shows what that work could be worth at $2,500 a job.
It's a picture of the market near you, not a forecast of what any one business will earn.
Your goal: break it down
Type in a yearly goal, your average job, your close rate, your booking rate and the days you work each week. It tells you how many jobs, estimates and leads you need each year, month, week and day. Then you know if a slow week is really behind.
A planning tool, not a promise.
Your prices
| Calculator | You type in | It tells you |
|---|---|---|
| Price a job and its profit | Your rate per square foot, minimum job, up to 3 options, coats, finish price, buffer rate and supplies | The price of each option, and what each one leaves you |
| Are you charging enough? | A job's price, its real cost, and your costs percent | Whether your price leaves room for your bills |
The job calculator also takes your drive, card fees, a helper and what it cost to win the job, if you want them counted.
Your ads
| Calculator | You type in | It tells you |
|---|---|---|
| Ad budget | Leads you want a month, and your cost per lead | Your monthly and daily ad budget |
| One more lead | What an ad spent, its leads, and your target cost per lead | Whether a slow ad deserves a little more time |
| How many ad sets | Your daily budget, and your cost per lead | How many ad sets your budget can feed |
Your money
| Calculator | You type in | It tells you |
|---|---|---|
| Split a payment | A job payment, and your percents for costs, taxes, profit and reserve | How much goes where, and what's left for your own pay |
| Tax set-aside | A job payment, and the tax percent your accountant gives you | How much to move to your taxes account |
| Monthly close | Your profit and loss bottom line, and whether you moved savings to pay a bill | Whether the business really kept a profit that month |
Tax percents come from your accountant, not from us.
Where the calculators sit
Each one lives inside the lesson that needs it, next to a worksheet you can print. You run the numbers at the moment you make the decision, not weeks later.