Ah well ive booked it in for next week so time will tell if I’ve got it right, I was thinking of binning it off from some of the comments but I’m intrigued to test my pricing and then learn from it either way - that’s what it’s about after all isnt it?
Cheers guys 👍🏿
Even when we've been around a whilst we all don't get pricing right sometimes. When you are quoting you don't know all the issues you might encounter. You also don't know what the customers perception of what they value the clean at when quoting.
To begin with we played the supermarket game. When supermarkets advertise specials they usually increase the price fractionally on other items to compensate.
So some jobs you may not do so well from where others pay better than expected. When we first started the small round we were given were mainly council house tenants. They were underpriced but we got paid on the day and neighbours paid for those who were out. We later put the prices up and a lot cancelled because their perceived price was less than the new price we were asking.
If we had done the price increase earlier then we would have lost out. Leaving it until after we got our round established meant losing those customers didn't impact on our turnover as much.
The old expression taking the rough with the smooth applies to us cleaners as well, although we need to keep the rough as small as possible.
As Daz says, some jobs take ages to do to start with but become quicker over time. If they don't, then you can always go cap in hand and ask for an increase because the job is taking longer than you estimated it would. If they don't accept that then you choose. But if you continue to clean, you will loose.
