I Built A Business From Scratch Only Following Claude's Advice — Transcript

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1. 0:00This is me getting clients for a service
2. 0:02business, Cloud AI Build, from working
3. 0:04on abandoned houses to four-bedroom
4. 0:06mansions all the way to concert grounds
5. 0:09with a few accidents along the way.
6. 0:13All to find out what would happen if you
7. 0:16let Cloud AI build a service business
8. 0:18from scratch with zero human
9. 0:20interference. Is the business going to
10. 0:22fail or is it going to be more
11. 0:25profitable than if a human did it?
12. 0:29I want to start a service [music]
13. 0:33business. What are
14. 0:37the top [music] five profitable
15. 0:41service businesses people with
16. 0:46zero knowledge or experience
17. 0:51can start?
18. 0:54Now, Cloud gave me five options. The
19. 0:56residential house cleaning and the
20. 0:58tenancy cleaning, commercial cleaning
21. 1:00and a carpet cleaning. Oh, just hear me
22. 1:03out. The residential house cleaning and
23. 1:05the end of tenancy and deep cleaning is
24. 1:07something that we did in the ChatGPT
25. 1:09video and also the window cleaning I
26. 1:12have done years ago in my old videos and
27. 1:15when I'm making these videos, I want to
28. 1:17try something new. I want to build a new
29. 1:19business that we have never tried before
30. 1:21on the channel and that leaves us with
31. 1:23just two businesses, the commercial
32. 1:25office cleaning and the carpet cleaning.
33. 1:28But, realistically, I don't see the
34. 1:30office business being any different from
35. 1:33the residential house cleaning business.
36. 1:35Now, this leaves us with just one
37. 1:37business that makes the most [music]
38. 1:39sense for this challenge, which is
39. 1:41carpet cleaning. Now, this is the only
40. 1:44executive decision I'm going to make in
41. 1:46this video because rules of the
42. 1:48challenge are I'm not allowed to make
43. 1:50any executive decisions when it comes to
44. 1:52building or running the business. I'm
45. 1:54leaving everything to Cloud. Rule number
46. 1:57two, because I've run a similar
47. 1:58challenge with ChatGPT, at the end of
48. 2:00this video, we have to compare earnings
49. 2:03and see which AI built a most successful
50. 2:05business. Yep, Claude went on to give me
51. 2:0810 reasons why carpet cleaning was
52. 2:10better than all the other five
53. 2:12businesses and I asked it to make me
54. 2:17a solid business plan.
55. 2:23Now, the business plan is ready and I've
56. 2:25looked through it. I'll save you the
57. 2:26whole boring business talk. It reckons
58. 2:28we can make 40,000 in our first year of
59. 2:30trading and 65,000
60. 2:32in our second year of trading. I'll
61. 2:34spend some time studying and
62. 2:35understanding the business plan and
63. 2:37Claude gave me two capital options, the
64. 2:39bare minimum start and the realistic
65. 2:41[music] start, but I went for the bare
66. 2:43minimum start. Why? Because not a lot of
67. 2:46people will have 10,000 pounds to throw
68. 2:48at a carpet cleaning business and when
69. 2:50we did the ChatGPT video, we did not
70. 2:53give it a budget of 10,000 pounds. So, I
71. 2:55feel like it's only fair we use a
72. 2:57similar kind of budget for both
73. 2:59challenges. Now, Claude gave us a list
74. 3:02of items that we need to start a carpet
75. 3:05cleaning business. As you can see, the
76. 3:07first item on the list is a portable
77. 3:10carpet extractor. I do not know what
78. 3:13this is, but
79. 3:15>> This is the one that for water.
80. 3:17Yeah, for the walls, yeah.
81. 3:19That's for the That's for turning it on.
82. 3:21You spin at the bottom and that's for
83. 3:22your walls and you just hold that.
84. 3:24>> So, what about if you want to use that?
85. 3:26How about if you want to use that?
86. 3:29>> So, you use that?
87. 3:30>> Yeah.
88. 3:31>> That is for the um
89. 3:32>> Yep, as you can see, the seller did not
90. 3:34know how to use it, but I paid him.
91. 3:37Right, so this is the carpet extractor
92. 3:40that I just seen me pick up. Now, it is
93. 3:42the first item that Claude told us to
94. 3:43buy. Now, these are branded as
95. 3:45professional carpet cleaners, but
96. 3:47looking at the size, I don't know how
97. 3:48true that is. Now, these retail for
98. 3:501,200
99. 3:52pound, but on a used market they're
100. 3:54about 300. We've managed to pick one up
101. 3:56for
102. 3:58£100. I picked up the second item on the
103. 4:00list, which was a Hoover. Now, I have
104. 4:03managed to pick this one up for £60. And
105. 4:06the next item on the list is a hose and
106. 4:09a wand. As it stands, we have everything
107. 4:12we need to start a professional carpet
108. 4:14cleaning business. Now, the next step
109. 4:16was branding and I'll let Claude handle
110. 4:19everything from name, the tagline, and
111. 4:21the color schemes. Ladies and gentlemen,
112. 4:24the branding is done. To save you time,
113. 4:26the business is going to be called
114. 4:28Carpet Rescue and the tagline is clean
115. 4:30carpets, happy homes. And the color
116. 4:33scheme [music] is navy blue. Now, the
117. 4:35next thing that I'm going to get Claude
118. 4:37to do is
119. 4:38the marketing plan.
120. 4:45Now, the marketing strategy is ready. I
121. 4:48think it's been restricted because we
122. 4:50have a very tight budget and this is
123. 4:52what I came up with. Now, the first item
124. 4:55we're going to execute on this business
125. 4:56plan is building a basic website.
126. 5:02Yep. I spent the night building a
127. 5:04website and this is what I came up with.
128. 5:09You go on the website and then you click
129. 5:11call us now. The call comes up and you
130. 5:13can directly call me. And then there's
131. 5:15premium carpet cleaning. All the
132. 5:16sections have been coded by Claude. I
133. 5:18didn't really do anything. And then you
134. 5:20click book a home visit, brings up a
135. 5:23form, you fill it, you can send us an
136. 5:24email. [music]
137. 5:25And then you go to the bottom, trusted
138. 5:27by thousands. And then
139. 5:29previous work, you swipe and you can see
140. 5:32before and afters.
141. 5:34And then [music] more reviews. And then
142. 5:37the footer.
143. 5:38That's basically it.
144. 5:41The plan today is execute Instagram and
145. 5:43Facebook part of marketing in business.
146. 5:45Now, Claude has given us a monthly ad
147. 5:48expenditure of 50 to 150 per month,
148. 5:52which is fine, but also I feel like we
149. 5:55should try the organic Facebook first
150. 5:57and see how that goes and then
151. 5:59eventually we shall start spending money
152. 6:01on ads. Now, I spent the biggest part of
153. 6:04the day just posting on Facebook and
154. 6:06Facebook Marketplace, and I was
155. 6:09surprised with how quick it paid off
156. 6:10because
157. 6:16Now, the plan was very simple. I collect
158. 6:19the rug, I wash it, and then I return it
159. 6:21to the customer, and that's exactly what
160. 6:24I did. I laid it down, I hosed it, and I
161. 6:27set up our carpet cleaner, but this is
162. 6:30where everything started going wrong
163. 6:32because the carpet cleaner was not
164. 6:34working.
165. 6:40I even tried to use the polish machine,
166. 6:41and this nearly finished me, so I gave
167. 6:44up.
168. 6:46Right, so
169. 6:49I have just returned the rug to the
170. 6:52owner. I didn't even charge him because
171. 6:54I feel like
172. 6:57the machine did not clean the rug. I I
173. 6:59genuinely don't know what happened, but
174. 7:01I can't be showing up to clients' houses
175. 7:04with this. Now, if the machine is
176. 7:06struggling to clean a rug, imagine what
177. 7:09it would do for a carpet. Do you know
178. 7:11what I'm saying?
179. 7:12I ended up not charging them the 25
180. 7:14pounds that we agreed and whatnot, and
181. 7:16I'm thinking
182. 7:18I'm going to make an executive decision
183. 7:20here and do some research and actually
184. 7:24buy a proper commercial carpet cleaner.
185. 7:27Yeah, I spent some time on Facebook
186. 7:29Marketplace looking for commercial
187. 7:30carpet cleaners, and in the morning
188. 7:42>> This is the security ball
189. 7:44of the level of water. When the water is
190. 7:46too high,
191. 7:48>> Yep. He spent some time just showing me
192. 7:50how to use the machine, and he helped me
193. 7:52load it in the car, and off I went.
194. 7:55Right, so this is the carpet cleaner
195. 7:58that you just see me pick up. I have
196. 7:59driven 3 hours to and 3 hours back, but
197. 8:02I think it is worth it. It feels solid,
198. 8:05and this is what a lot of the
199. 8:08professional carpet cleaners use, at
200. 8:09least in the UK. These machines are
201. 8:12strong. Brand new, they retail for 3,000
202. 8:15lb, but obviously we bought it on a used
203. 8:17market. Now, we have spent 700 lb, but I
204. 8:22think it's worth it because it came with
205. 8:24a wand and a hose. Those alone cost 250
206. 8:27lb, but it was all in the price. We paid
207. 8:29700 lb. Now, it got two vacuums, it got
208. 8:32pump, it got a waste tank, it got a
209. 8:35clean water tank, and then it got a
210. 8:37disposable top for you to get rid of the
211. 8:40dirty water. Now, this is all that the
212. 8:43business has been missing. Only thing
213. 8:45left for us to do is market the business
214. 8:48and get clients. Yep, and that was all I
215. 8:51did for the next few days, and guess
216. 8:53what happened? Right, so this is our
217. 8:56first job. And before I show you around,
218. 8:58I'll just walk you through how many
219. 8:59rooms it is and how much money we've
220. 9:01charged. Now, this is a three-bed,
221. 9:03>> [music]
222. 9:03>> and we also going to have to do the
223. 9:05stairs and the hallway. I'll be honest
224. 9:07with you, looking at it now,
225. 9:08I think I slightly undercharged it. We
226. 9:10are charging 70 lb for this job. Now,
227. 9:14minus the fact that I had watched a few
228. 9:16videos the previous night, I did not
229. 9:18know what I was doing, but I started
230. 9:20with overing the whole house, and then
231. 9:22they sent called pre-spray, you lay it
232. 9:23down, give it 15 minutes, and it breaks
233. 9:26the dirt from the carpet. Now, whilst I
234. 9:27was waiting for that to do its magic, I
235. 9:29mixed the cleaning solution.
236. 9:31Now, as [music] you can see, I did not
237. 9:33know what I was doing. The technique was
238. 9:35off at the start, but it got better as
239. 9:38we got along.
240. 9:39>> [music]
241. 9:44[music]
242. 9:48[music]
243. 9:49>> I managed to do the whole house. It took
244. 9:51me about 3 hours, and this is what the
245. 9:54house looked like.
246. 9:55>> [music]
247. 9:59>> All right. So,
248. 10:01that was the first clean that we did,
249. 10:02and what do I think about it?
250. 10:04I think it's not as hard as I thought it
251. 10:06would be, but then also there's a little
252. 10:08bit of things that I didn't really think
253. 10:09of before we went there, like my hose is
254. 10:12not as long as it should be. So, we had
255. 10:14to carry the machine up the stairs, and
256. 10:17it was a little bit messy cuz now my
257. 10:19client was a older man, and I'm asking
258. 10:21him to help me carry the machine up the
259. 10:22stairs, and it was a little bit messy.
260. 10:24And also, putting the machine in and out
261. 10:26this small car is a little bit of a
262. 10:28mission and a half to a point where the
263. 10:29client recommended I get a van. Now, for
264. 10:32the next few days, I kept posting on
265. 10:34Facebook, but it was dry. There was zero
266. 10:36leads. So, right. So, it's been a couple
267. 10:40of days, and we have had zero interest
268. 10:43or zero leads from the organic Facebook
269. 10:46that we have been doing. So, I think
270. 10:48it's about time we started running
271. 10:51Facebook and Instagram ads as Claude
272. 10:54instructed us. Now, looking at the
273. 10:57business plan they gave us, it said we
274. 10:59have to spend 150 lb a month. Now, when
275. 11:03you break that down on a daily ad spend,
276. 11:05it's about 5 lb. And I'm going to do
277. 11:08that, but I was thinking
278. 11:10I'm going to double that daily ad spend
279. 11:12to 10 lb
280. 11:14a day.
281. 11:15Yep, and that's exactly what I did. I
282. 11:17went back to Claude. I asked him to make
283. 11:19me an ad, and I copy pasted each and
284. 11:22everything back into [music] Facebook,
285. 11:24and 1 day later, this is how the ads
286. 11:27were performing. The ad is still very
287. 11:29much active, and we got 10 pound ad
288. 11:33spend for days and we've reached 3,363
289. 11:37people and
290. 11:41Right, I got some good news and some bad
291. 11:44news. The good news is the ads that we
292. 11:46started running are actually working.
293. 11:48The bad news is they are getting served
294. 11:50to people outside our radius. I'm having
295. 11:53people from Belfast, Portsmouth
296. 11:55messaging me asking about cleans. Now, I
297. 11:58don't know how to get around this but
298. 12:00I'm still letting the ads run.
299. 12:02This morning, we do have a clean and it
300. 12:05came from organic Facebook. It's a two
301. 12:07bed and we have charged 60 pounds.
302. 12:17Right, so the weather is horrible. It's
303. 12:20early in the morning and I'm 100% sure
304. 12:23we've just been stood up.
305. 12:25I'm messaging
306. 12:27the customer. There's no response. I've
307. 12:29walked around and I've managed to find
308. 12:32the flat.
309. 12:33I'm knocking on the door and there's no
310. 12:35answer so
311. 12:37I'm not going to waste any more time
312. 12:38here cuz the weather is horrible. As you
313. 12:39can see it's raining and stuff. So, I
314. 12:42just left it and the next day quick
315. 12:44little update. We have managed to close
316. 12:46our first customer with the whole
317. 12:49Facebook ads and it's not too huge but
318. 12:52it is something. It's a living room, a
319. 12:54bedroom and a hallway and we have
320. 12:56charged 70 pounds. I'm going to go fill
321. 12:59the car with the machine and whatnot.
322. 13:01Show you what it looks like and we'll go
323. 13:03get some money.
324. 13:04Yep, this is what the buck looks like.
325. 13:08Bro, it's so full to the brim. Uh
326. 13:13>> [music]
327. 13:16>> Yep, this was the rug that I needed to
328. 13:19clean so I did that and I had to clean
329. 13:21the carpet underneath and I did that
330. 13:24just before we ran into a problem. Now,
331. 13:27my wand started leaking, as you can see,
332. 13:29and I did not know what to do. So, I
333. 13:32just wrapped a cloth around it, and the
334. 13:34clean went ahead.
335. 13:38>> [music]
336. 13:43>> Now, this is what the rug looked like
337. 13:45after it was cleaned, and this is what
338. 13:47the carpets underneath looked like, and
339. 13:49this was [music] the dirty water that
340. 13:51came from that clean. I drained it out,
341. 13:53parked the money printer back into the
342. 13:55Lamborghini, and 2 days later, Facebook
343. 13:58ads got us another client.
344. 14:01Now, this is the next property. Now,
345. 14:03this is a two-bed, a living room, and a
346. 14:07hallway, and I'm not going to lie to
347. 14:08you. Well, the first time I seen this
348. 14:09property, I knew I think we kind of
349. 14:12underpriced it.
350. 14:19Yep. I started with hovering, and then I
351. 14:21pre-sprayed it, and I spent the next
352. 14:24couple hours just doing this.
353. 14:27>> [music]
354. 14:33[music]
355. 14:42[music]
356. 14:42>> Yo,
357. 14:43one thing I'm going to say,
358. 14:46yo,
359. 14:47my hands are This This is tiring. Like,
360. 14:49it doesn't look like it's a lot of work,
361. 14:51but it's a lot of work. My hands are
362. 14:53aching, like Imagine just keep doing
363. 14:56this for like 2 hours straight.
364. 14:59>> [music]
365. 15:02>> Now, this is what the final product
366. 15:05looked like, and at this point in the
367. 15:06challenge, I was not struggling for
368. 15:08clients. The Facebook organic was doing
369. 15:10its magic. I had over 40 leads on
370. 15:13Facebook Marketplace that was sending so
371. 15:15many people my way.
372. 15:23>> [music]
373. 15:28>> Now, this job was pretty simple. We just
374. 15:31had to do a living room, the stairs, a
375. 15:33small landing, and one bedroom. So, I
376. 15:36did the living room, as you can see, and
377. 15:39this is what it looked like. I can't
378. 15:41really show you the bedroom for obvious
379. 15:42reasons.
380. 15:43>> That is done.
381. 15:45That is not done. And that's the whole
382. 15:47bit done.
383. 15:59>> Now, at this point, I went all in in the
384. 16:02organic marketing on Facebook, because
385. 16:03that was what was working. I did the
386. 16:05math, and the paid ads were not really
387. 16:08converting, and when they did, it was
388. 16:10costing us 17 pound per lead.
389. 16:12>> Right, so I got some good news. The
390. 16:14Facebook posts that we created earlier
391. 16:17on have just paid off.
392. 16:20I have managed to close an end of
393. 16:23tenancy carpet clean.
394. 16:24>> Now, this was a big job. It was one
395. 16:27living room, two sets of stairs, and
396. 16:29four bedrooms. We charged 130 pounds.
397. 16:46>> [music]
398. 16:51[music]
399. 16:58>> Now, this next job came from Facebook
400. 17:00paid ads, and we are going to get
401. 17:01serious for a second here. I quoted this
402. 17:04job at 30 pound. It was just a bunch of
403. 17:05stairs and a rug. Now, if every lead
404. 17:09cost us between 12 pound and 15 pound,
405. 17:11if this lead cost us 12 pound, that
406. 17:13means we are working for 80 pounds. And
407. 17:17that just made me think maybe organic
408. 17:19Facebook is better than the paid ads.
409. 17:26>> [music]
410. 17:42[music]
411. 17:47>> Now, this was a rug that came from
412. 17:49Facebook. We had to clean it and [music]
413. 17:51then return it.
414. 17:57And this is what [music] the rug looked
415. 17:59like.
416. 18:04Now, when I was doing this clean, I
417. 18:06[music] got a call for another
418. 18:08potential client.
419. 18:09>> Yeah, just uh two large rugs and just
420. 18:12around here.
421. 18:14>> Yeah, that's fine. Uh what time tomorrow
422. 18:16are you thinking?
423. 18:17>> Uh
424. 18:18that's what I'm saying.
425. 18:19What about 11:00 around?
426. 18:21>> Yeah, 11:00 is fine.
427. 18:23>> 11:00 is okay.
428. 18:24>> Yeah, if you send me the address, I'll
429. 18:26be there for 11:00.
430. 18:29>> Okay.
431. 18:46>> [music]
432. 18:53[music]
433. 18:57[music]
434. 19:05>> Right. So, last night we [music] got
435. 19:07another client. Now, this client had two
436. 19:10properties, but they were all relatively
437. 19:13just smaller jobs, just the landing and
438. 19:15the stairs on both properties. So, this
439. 19:18was the second property.
440. 19:22>> [music]
441. 19:23>> So, I spent some time just doing it and
442. 19:26we charged them 60 pounds.
443. 19:33>> [music]
444. 19:42[music]
445. 19:55>> Right, so this is the second job that we
446. 19:57got and this is just basically a whole
447. 20:00the host events and whatnot and it's
448. 20:02quite huge. I don't know if the camera
449. 20:04can do it justice, but I have to whisper
450. 20:06the second part. We have charged 80
451. 20:08pound. So, we got to get started. It
452. 20:11should probably take us about 4 hours.
453. 20:14Now, I underestimated this clean. A
454. 20:16clean that I thought would take 4 hours
455. 20:18ended up taking 8 hours. I kid you not.
456. 20:21I started the clean at 8:00 p.m. and I
457. 20:23did not finish until 3:00 a.m. Now, this
458. 20:25made me realize when you're starting out
459. 20:28some cleans are meant for professionals
460. 20:30and this was one of them. The hall was
461. 20:33too big and the carpet cleaner can only
462. 20:35hold 30 L of water. So, this meant I
463. 20:38kept having to drain the [music] dirty
464. 20:39water and fill with new water every
465. 20:41after like 20 minutes. Now, imagine
466. 20:43doing that for 4 hours. Nonetheless, I
467. 20:47spent the 8 hours doing the clean and
468. 20:50this is it.
469. 20:51>> [music]
470. 21:00[music]
471. 21:05>> And it's on my [music] soul.
472. 21:08I'm locked in.
473. 21:08>> [singing]
474. 21:09>> I'm locked in. I got this.
475. 21:11And that's on my soul.
476. 21:12>> [music]
477. 21:13>> Time's moving. I've been losing track of
478. 21:15where I've been.
479. 21:16Had to quiet all the voices living in my
480. 21:19head. I see the riches of the world. I'm
481. 21:21not impressed. Know that [music] I'm far
482. 21:23from perfect, but trying my best.
483. 21:25Looking up to the sky, I'm feeling
484. 21:27grateful.
485. 21:28>> [music]
486. 21:28>> Boy, I had to walk away from the fake
487. 21:31world.
488. 21:31>> Right, so this is the fun part that
489. 21:33we've all been waiting for.
490. 21:35The challenge is done. We can now
491. 21:37stretch it any further than this cuz the
492. 21:392 weeks is over. Now,
493. 21:42what do I think about this as a
494. 21:43business? I'll be honest with you. I
495. 21:44think this is a very good business
496. 21:46because we have only done it for 2 weeks
497. 21:48and you've seen how easy it was for us
498. 21:50to get clients. Now, in terms of how
499. 21:52much money we've made. Now, we had a
500. 21:55total of 11 clients and we managed to
501. 21:58make 685
502. 22:00pounds. I think from a new business,
503. 22:03this is really good. And our expenses,
504. 22:07we've spent 700 pound on the machine and
505. 22:11then the Hoover was 60 pound, the
506. 22:12cleaning supplies was 70 pound, then we
507. 22:15spent 51 pound on ads. Now, this brings
508. 22:18our total expenses to 881 pounds. But
509. 22:22just hear me out. If I keep doing this
510. 22:24business for another 2 weeks, we will
511. 22:26break even. Now, if we compare this to
512. 22:29the domestic cleans, I still think this
513. 22:31is a much better business because we get
514. 22:33more customers. Easy. The only thing is
515. 22:36the start-up capital for this was a
516. 22:37little bit higher. I still think carpet
517. 22:39cleaning is a much better business. Now,
518. 22:43thanks for watching. If you enjoyed the
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