Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: MAX Carpets on October 19, 2010, 09:03:11 am
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Anyone else found this. October isnt usually a quite month for us, but seems to have gone very quite. Is it only me?
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Bit quiet too.
Busy selling the Prowler & van though
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Glad its not just me.After a great start to full time CC I seem to have come a bit of a slump,I was putting it down to people holding on a bit to have carpets done for Xmas
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I might be having the day off tomorrow..........................un-heard off for years!!!
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All round to joes soon for the party yaay.
As i say wayne a carpet cleaner is for life not just for christmas ;D
Spot on, Clinton ;)
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Very slow for me too.
Difficult for me to judge really as I haven't been going for long on my own, but it is definitely very quiet at the moment. So quiet in fact that I am thinking of taking a part time evening job.
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Slowed down for me too >:(
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Just been going a year, got hands full, though cc's are fewer per week than earlier in summer
Grant
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peaks and troughs, take it easy while you can em, you and i don't usually stay quiet for long!
;)
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Just had some stair ways at an apartment block book for tomorrow, £400, phew!
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Just had some stair ways at an apartment block book for tomorrow, £400, phew!
It's a mad business isn't it?
2 weeks ago I was panicking as I had no work booked in... Last week I had my best week ever. I was glad to have a trip out to the dentist today and the rest of the day off.... Back to it tomorrow :D
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Stacked out - Sorry !
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I have just given 2 jobs away to a friend on the board so I must be mad/busy/lazy I bet that there's about £300+.
Shaun
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Flat out here.
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People talk about being quiet and some busy, yet 2 jobs a day may be busy for some and 4 a day quiet for others :D
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Could also be the location. Working the same area as Glynn, I too am flat out, but then weve both going 30+ years.
Dave.
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Thanks for the 2 jobs Shaun, they come in at £290 booked for Friday, Fully booked this week amd most of next, last week was mayhem so not too bad this end thank god, this year though on a whole is about 30% down on the first 10 months of 2009.
Mark
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Was behind a cc in Lewisham today he came of the depth of Kent (Ashford area) so some are busy :o
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A pleasure Mark, your 30% down could be the broken legs you recieved when your missus tried to run you over earlier this year ;D
Shaun
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Thought I was going slow but having reviewed last few weeks, whilst quieter than the manic weeks they were still good weeks. So have just put it down to a combination of working at a faster pace for so long that I now just finish earlier and think I've not had as much work to do and/or bigger job tickets for jobs that are relatively easy; and of course the longer you are on site the more profitable and the greater £ per quarter hour you earn you are.
Rog
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stacked out here too, heading for our best month in over 2years.
all good, keep it coming ;D
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been going since 1988, this is why I am a little suprised! I call 4 jobs a day and 2 or 3 on a saturday busy.
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I know that if i was doing 4 jobs a day i would not want to work on a saturday. ???
Up and down here at the moment , one week busy next week quiet. Only 2 jobs this week and have never had that since starting in 2004.
MY mate Del up the road from me is doing better than me at the moment then this time last year i was doing better than him, some of this is just luck.
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Time to bring Databases up to date and send letters or hit phone
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Having the busiest time I have had for a long time . Helped getting in with a cleaning company doing a lot of maintenance work for them , got one this weekend that is three sets of staircases two of 11 floors and one of 8 floors .A good weekends work ,knackers me out, but goes towards the taxman at the end of the month. funny I was in Lewisham yesterday Len doing a builders clean in 4 rooms in the Sidney Arms Lewisham Road have another two rooms to do there next week .
Dave
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I usually contact my old crowd for their Xmas party (my cleaning) and they have actually contacted me this year and reserved their places in early December and they've added to the group, 28 different customers all on practically the same road all booked in one after another (which is nice of them but old people are like that ;D) I call it Cleaner Close! takes up 4 days and I get cups of tea and buns and cake as they think I'm malnurished.
Shaun
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really shaun
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Do you want some work Billy? sub it to you if you like?
Shaun
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up on last october, down on last month, no complaints here.
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I’m working this coming Sunday 8am (normal rate :'( ), as this is the only time I can fit them in and I’m not that busy 8)
Dave
He was driving up Loampit vale towards new cross, oh last week an other Kentish boy TM this time, think it’s about time us cc’ers set up some boundaries >:( >:( ;D
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Busy at the moment, had two quotes cancel this afternoon though. I think they were watching the Thatchers Spawn Budget Special on the tele. Cheers
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Not setting the world on fire here,been ticking over,got a few nice jobs next week,garage on Sat arvo,that i picked up the week before,but other than that,pretty rubbish
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5 week month!! doesnt help
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What an idiot,sat here drinking t and chillin out,just checked my diary ,and was supposed to be cleaning 2 sets of stairs,whoops,not like i can afford to make stupid mistakes,better get my arse in gear
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It's been really quiet for me for the past two weeks now !!!! If anyone's got any jobs going in the brighton area, gimme a bell
07878984295
Anthony
Carpet doctors
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Dead. Never known it so quiet. Lets hope the xmas rush starts soon.
Dan
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I dont think that the Chancellor's - Mr we are all in this together -speech yesterday is going to do us much good in the coming months,lets just hopr the public decide not to buy new and have their carpets cleaned.
3 weeks ago i was quite busy and now ive gone quiet - really confusing for a newbie like me.
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I usually get quite a few bookings for the last week of the month, but next week I only have two jobs at the moment. That is the worst since I started. I just hope the phone rings tomorrow and the beginning of next week or it will be pretty grim.
Had someone blow me out this morning as well, which I needed like a hole in the head.
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity...
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I usually get quite a few bookings for the last week of the month, but next week I only have two jobs at the moment. That is the worst since I started. I just hope the phone rings tomorrow and the beginning of next week or it will be pretty grim.
Had someone blow me out this morning as well, which I needed like a hole in the head.
Isn't it strange that when people cancell its always due to anything other than the real reason >:(
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity...
no it doesn't.... where did you go to school? its 'ficu' ::) ::)
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eh?
Personaly I thought Albert had a point....
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Oh and its school holidays next week. Think i just wont bother turning phone on. :'(
Dan
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Although it may seem a bit distastful to think this way, like a bad winter, the economy is going to kill off the weak, leaving more for those that survive.
Some people are not cut out for business and some people are not prepared to change. In many ways the last few years has been too easy for people.
Quite often what you think is the worst thing that can happen in the long run turns out to be best, maybe carpet cleaning is a dying trade and those left will have a worse time than those who are forced out. Who knows.
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Having only just started in August it has been up and down for me. Fully booked for next week, had 3 bookings in the last 24 hours. Most of the jobs I am getting also tend to be full houses, not getting any small jobs at the moment, down side don't I know it at the end of the day.
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I usually get quite a few bookings for the last week of the month, but next week I only have two jobs at the moment. That is the worst since I started. I just hope the phone rings tomorrow and the beginning of next week or it will be pretty grim.
Had someone blow me out this morning as well, which I needed like a hole in the head.
Isn't it strange that when people cancell its always due to anything other than the real reason >:(
This person didn't even bother to phone and cancel. Just left her "cleaner" to tell me when I got there that the customer apparently emailed me the night before to cancel, but I hadn't replied!
Checked emails the night before and on the morning of the job and there was nowt. Begs the question: why not phone me if I didn't reply to this non existant email?
Should have seen it coming really as she'd cancelled on two previous occasions as it was.
Bloody timewasting idiot.
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I also had a no show this week. 35 mile round trip and 2 hours of my life wasted. Now i feel like hitting back.
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Send them a cancelation fee notice.
Dont think you can inforce it but they might pay :) and if they dont, well you dont want them as customers anyways.
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very up and down but i dont tend to let it bother me and tend to refer to the year as a whole and my T/O has consistantly been increasing each year by around 50-75% . use the quieter times to review your business strategy chop change and adjust. if i have an empty day i make it my goal to find something constructive to do business related.
I personally think the next couple of years are going to be very tough as everyone has to tighten there purse strings to pull us out of the mess the last gov got us in but if you can make a go of it in these times then the future will be bright.
ps tip of the day you dont have to wait for the phone to ring go and find the work bng on doors , drop leaflets , mail shots, email market. plenty to do if you let the quieter times bog you down you will struggle to find the motivation POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE is the key
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Oh there is a god. Booked in almost a grand today. This bloody job! ;)
Dan
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Hi Guys
Richard I was doing a job in Wickford, Essex and the jeep type car in front had Basey Fisher from Beccles on it, can't be too many with that name?
As for business until you have a large enough customer base and have cracked the best places to advertise CC's will always be up and down.
Us established guys have gone beyond the critical mass and are always busy to very busy.
Keep at it.
Cheers
Doug
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Hi Guys
Richard I was doing a job in Wickford, Essex and the jeep type car in front had Basey Fisher from Beccles on it, can't be too many with that name?
As for business until you have a large enough customer base and have cracked the best places to advertise CC's will always be up and down.
Us established guys have gone beyond the critical mass and are always busy to very busy.
Keep at it.
Cheers
Doug
Doug
yes that will be one of the relatives the tribe originates from norfolk i know one of my fathers cousins has a car dealership up that way.
regards
Rich