Right, I have been going about 11 months now. I have got 174 customers which the first 70-80 maybe more came from me door knocking, then a few from radio ad and paper ad. The rest came from recommendations and seeing me out working and finally quite a few from flyers. I have not activly door knocked since I dont know when, probably April-May time. I know I could easily have had a full round by now if I had door knocked but have not done so as I have had my kids a lot who were not all at school so could only work 3 days sometimes 4 a week, so i let the round build up by itself if you know what i mean.
Well now my mate who I used to work with is possibly taking voluntary redundancy and we have briefly talked about him coming in partnership with me. I have no idea how this would work tax wise, what the best route van wise would be, i.e 2 man set up or get a trolley. He is keen to introduce pressure washing, Which would be a bonus on wet days.I have never been overly interested in this as i have no idea about resanding etc and i did not want the extra start up expense.
I believe we could motivate each other into really building up a round big enough for both, and include pressure washing for now and really push gutter clearing this autumn especially now 1 can foot a ladder. This would help with cash flow while we build up the round.
Anybody gone down this route? Is it a good/bad idea? What happens if/when we reach the high tax threshold? Is it double as there is two of us? or is it classed as 1 as its 1 company?
Am I running before I can walk? I think we could really motivate each other, But it means a big drop in my already low pay packet!! But we should build this back up.