The Ledger
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Scudamore: 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Revenue Plunged from $119M to $80M
“After 20 years of growth, we went from a hundred and nineteen million in revenue is what we'd hit at that peak at that time, and we dropped down to the eighties.”
Scudamore: 1-800-GOT-JUNK? is a $700M business
“One-eight-hundred-got-junk is a seven hundred million dollar business.”
Idaho's Department of Transportation accidentally owned the 1-800-GOT-JUNK phone number
“Yeah, so the Department of Transportation in Idaho owned this one 800 got junk phone number. They didn't know it spelt got junk, but they were using this phone number.”
Scudamore: 1-800-GOT-JUNK? closed 53 franchise deals in a single year
“We ended up doing 53 franchise deals that year, which was just unheard of in the franchise space, and things just started to hockey stick and completely explode.”