Not sure if you've read my previous posts, I differ with some on here when it comes to rugs, some will tell you to do in your garage, customer house, w/ a tarp, etc.  With VLM it won't hurt the rug much nor will it really clean deep down, even though you will see a difference, I'd still look for someone that has taken the time, money, and training and sub the work to them.  Not just some dude that does it in his concrete warehouse floor, I'm talking about someone w/ a rug pit.  Call around and see who in you're town does it and work something out w/ them.   I make 40-60% from pick up/deliver w/ rugs, and I know they're getting done by someone who does rugs for a living, I won't have to worry about damaging/bleeding/sheeding the rug.

That's my take on it.

I can make people buy shit from a box if I had the cash for marketing.  Maybe you gotta look at your marketing strategies and see what you need to change.

By the way I have that rug dvd and was on the 2-3 days class w/ mark kennedy.

You can make money cleaning area rugs. There are plenty around to clean.

If you don't have a lot of call for that kind of work in your area then maybe working a subcontract deal with a rug plant makes sense.

In the past I've cleaned them on site and brought them back to my shop to clean. The best situation was when we had a location in a busy area of town. People would just drop them off and pick them up. I cleaned them in between other things so it was a great add on for me while I was at the office.

Don't do any of it at this point. I focus just on commercial carpet cleaning.

You should get some education about cleaning area rugs to avoid buying one. There are many places to get the education you need. Also a rug forum in our LINKS section you could check out.

I love rugs

They are a great money maker.  I added $40 to a stop last week for an extra 10 minutes of work.  I clean most of them myself and sub out tough, nasty (urine), delicate & expensive rugs to a local cleaner who cleans them for me.  I'll use my defender for synthetic rugs and my VS LMX for wool and orientals.  I'll clean synthetic rugs in home but prefer to clean wool in garage, smells like wet sheep when wet.

I also purchased the DVD's but didn't have time to do the webinar.  I'd like to have a rug shop in the future, would be good source of income.