Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Deep Cleaning Solutions on June 27, 2010, 09:54:45 pm
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...does carpet cleaning pickup.
I read a thread on here that it goes dead during the world cup.
I've been steady the last few weeks,but only have one job booked this week :( , when i'm usually fully booked for the week ahead!
Will it pickup now England are out and customers want there party stained carpets cleaned.
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Lets hope so :D fairly quiet here too !
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Hi Guys
Yes probably but Murray's Wimbledon form will be a factor as lots of our customers are female and they like Tennis.
Cheers
Doug
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do people really think that customers don't get the carpets cleaned because of sporting events ::) ::) get real perhaps if you said you would be there at 3pm today the might not book it in but live just goes on.
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Hi Guys
Yes probably but Murray's Wimbledon form will be a factor as lots of our customers are female and they like Tennis.
Cheers
Doug
Shame he hates England isn't it ::)
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i'm with mike, june was my best month ever. 4 figures every week. and no big commercials either.
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I agree with you Colin and think Mikes words were slightly patronising. I have been busy for years but since this world cup started my calls have definately reduced.
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Colin have you lost work due to the world cup?
I have seen world cups, school holidays, rugby games etc..etc..etc never has it made a blind bit of difference to how much work I have on.
steve i'm not being patronising just speaking from personal experience, why does the world cup stop people calling?
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Colin i prefered your deleted answer :)
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Perhaps Mike has a higher class of customer than your average England fan. ;D
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actually thast probably hit the nail on the head, not a higher class but older. i do a lot of OAPS.... perhaps they don't watch the football
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At first I didn't think it could be because of the world cup but it seems that many of us are experiencing lower than usual sales. I haven't said that i think it's for definate that the world cup is to blame but it's quite a coincidence.
Mike, maybe you can suggest why sales are down?
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I cant see why the world cup would stop people booking a carpet clean?! i mean most of the games where at 3pm and 7.30pm anyways! and now its only evening games i think.
Didn't effect me but scotland where in it ;D lol
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but Colin i loved your deleted answer, it showed you had a bit of bottle.... pity you didn't have the guts to leave it ::) ::)
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Just looked at my sales 4 years ago when world cup was in Germany. Hey presto - sales were down on previous month and went up again after tournament
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but Colin i loved your deleted answer, it showed you had a bit of bottle.... pity you didn't have the guts to leave it ::) ::)
But you'd have deleted it anyway Mr Gutsy!!!!... This way, I've beat you to it.... So just get over it and go to bed :-*
Could you repost please Colin as i missed it and like many others who will read this thread i'm curious :)
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Yea curious 2, post it again Colin
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Colin you were right to remove the post if it was offensive. I didn't see it, but this is a forum for cc's to help eachother. Unfortunately some on here are very self righteous and their comments not helpful but serve more in an attempt to pitch themselves above the rest
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From my own perspective got to say it hasn't affected business at all.
In fact takings wise last week was my best this year so far and the week before wasn't far off it.
But it swings in roundabouts......a few months ago I went almost 2 weeks with 2-3 calls throughout and converted none into jobs, yet depressingly reading on here in a thread at the time that some were overloaded with work.
What am I doing different now to then.......not alot. :-\
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I suspect that it is the dire state of the economy and the repeated warnings by government of tough times to come that is responsible for any lack of demand. Some people will be clinging on to their disposable income a little more tenaciously. Who can blame them :o
Nigel
Www.designcare.co.uk
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Think you hit the nail on the head Nigel. There are 25% cuts in every government department apart from health and overseas development due very soon. This is massive and will lead to thousands of job losses. At the moment nobody knows where the cuts are going to fall. I would think anyone with a public sector job, which is nearly half the population, will be reluctant to spend money at the moment.
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Hi Guys
In the past I have found people generally can become preoccupied with short term events but this soon evens out.
On the recession subject, I too believe we are in for a rougher ride as the cuts start to bite. The last 18 months have seen many with an increase in disposable income due to very low interest rates but this will reverse as tax cuts start to bite.
The public sector is overfunded but reducing it will hurt us all in the short term but help in the medium.
Cheers
Doug
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As we have got into politics
In 1992 The public Deficit wasnearly as great as it is today. You may remember interest rates hit a record high. The Chancellor Norman Lamont spent a fortune proping the pound. and Gold Reserverse.
Bit like having to save Nothern Rock and RBS
However bother Conservitive and Labour Governments did not panic and send the Economy into Melt Down by trying to repay the debt too fast.
If you buy a house you do not pay it back in four years
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Last time it took 12 years and i think I amright in saying we went into one of longest cycles of Economic Growth I can recall in my liftime
My personal opinion we are being sent intoa double dip rececision by dececisions made by European leaders and the driving frce is the bankers yet again
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Are you talking about deficit (overspend) or debt, the national debt the Tories have inherited from Labour, the deficit is something else, the difference between what the government is over spending than receiving at this moment in time annually.
The recent package announced will not reduce the debt but the overspend (deficit).