This depends a lot on your ambition or lack of it. Do you want your business to grow? This leads to employees, vehicles, overheads etc. Or do you want to develop an efficient, well paying round for yourself as a sole trader? I have no ambitions to fall into the first group (been there in a previous life and hate the thought of spending time office bound "directing my empire") and so I fall into the latter group. For that group, I'd offer this advise. Firstly and most importantly, remember that your job is to clean windows. How you do it is your business. I mix wfp and trad how I see fit. Number 2 is be reliable. If the job is 2 weekly, do your best to do it 2 weekly. Or monthly or whatever. Obviously the weather plays a part in this and people understand that. Number 3 (and this is where I need a good kick on the backside
), be a bit of a hard b@stard when it comes to pricing. I used to be better at this, but somehow I'm slipping. Recently I have priced a few jobs silly
Don't really know why, but don't do it