What was the final count then mate?
I’ve not finished yet. 11,000 went out this week and there’s now around 10,000 a week until about 2nd week of September. So far this spring/summer we’ve added about 250. That’s met growth. The hope is around 500 by the time we get to Autumn. The third van is full.
Sounds good.
Nice and steady by the sounds of it, grow one van at a time getting quality customers is the best way forward IMO.
How many vans do you need in total for it to be worthwhile after all the costs? How long until you get there? Are running costs higher than you expected (not marketing)? Have you factored in getting a unit at some point?
Do you do all the planning, worklists, contacting of the customers?
To be truthful I could stop now or in a week or two anyway and we’d have a very good income. I’m aiming for a minimum of 5 full vans. Around 2,700 regular 8 weekly customers. Turnover on that should be around £450,000. At that point I plan to promote my number 1 guy to part time window cleaner and part time manager.
Re a unit. We moved out of our unit about 2 months ago. We had a dispute over parking with the landlord. At the moment we’re runni from home with the guys taking vans home until we find another one.
I haven’t totted up where we’re at this weekend as I’ve been flat out in the heat for three days trying to catch up a bit. We’re running about 10/12 days behind atm but new guy starts on 16th and we should start catching up then. I had a van die about 6 weeks ago and it took two weeks to get a new one so that hasn’t helped.
But I still “sweat the small stuff”, for example I had someone off this week and instead of thinking about how brilliantly it’s all going really I was stressing about getting further behind and getting down.
