Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Neil Grainger on December 28, 2010, 05:33:43 pm
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Evening all,
I have just secured a job that I have always wanted to do and am hanging up my carpet cleaning business after 6 years. Just been excepted as a Train driver for South West Trains, always wanted to do it and great long term prospects
I was wondering what parts of the business are sellable, Highly placed website, Customer database with 6 years worth of business, marketing material. Phone numbers and cleaning equipment.
Website would go great for someone up and running in my area.
cheers
Neil
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Neil IMO I would chop it into pieces and sell it like that, you'll make it sell quicker and get more for it.
Not sure how much it's all worth but that's what I would do.
Good luck for the future
Shaun
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I agree with Shaun. Get Google analytics for the website. This way you can quantify the enquiry levels and place a fair valuation on it.
Best of luck with it Neil.
Pete
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Cheers shaun.
Applied for it after we had to stay in the country after having to change our plans on moving to austrail beause of my wife's parents becoming ill. The whole process has taken a year from start to finnish just to get the Job.
Was thinking the same as regards selling it off. Will aproach some of the locals I know to see if they are interested.
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Good luck neil with your new job.
Am sure someone local will make an offer..
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Well done Neil, it's great to do something you really want to do rather than just a way of paying the mortgage.
Your database is by far the most valuable thing you have. If you invested in CleanersMate or similar and kept in touch with Clients, you will have a pure gold mine for someone. Work out average job price, no. of times per year repeat av. lifetime of customer, av referal value per client. Use this as a negotiating tool.
I can't see anyone buying your website unless they bought your business as well. Who would want a website with someone elses business name?
Sadly most carpet cleaners are one man bands with no system in place, no contracts in place, no maintenance plans, so 30years+ yields a second hand van and a few ebay bargains. :'(
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how long before you start the new job? i would look to selling an ongoing business which includes a initial training & familiarisation phase so anyone who buys the business gets to work with you for 6 weeks so they see the business.
this will give a potential buyer peace of mind they are buying a real, moneymaking opportunity. even it you keeps everything going while in-training for your new job.
or why not work part time as a C/C your job will be shifts won't it?
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Mike
Part time would be good but the training programme is 2 years with the first 6 months as classroom Monday to friday. I dont think i would be able to fit it in.
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I would have thought selling the tangible assets off , and then trying to get a sum for the goodwill/phone numbers would raise the most. One tip , get all money up front , I sold a company on a payment plan ,and am having to go to court to get 65k plus costs and interest, leaving me very short.
If you can whip up interest and get a bidding war for your goodwill you could raise a tidy sum.
Good luck with the train Job.
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chooooo chooooooo
good luck neil, all the best mate.
stick it all on ebay as relocation or going concern, list the lot, no reserve, and what will be will be, get shut and move on. thats my 2 penneth worth.
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Hi Neil
Give me a call, may be interested. Be gentle with me though! Would be interested in Database & phone numbers, maybe website. I was advised to get out of CC because of health issues, but I am taking on someone to do my job in 2011. You can call me on 07592898298 or 01189 782529 or maxcarpets@hotmail.co.uk Good luck for the future.
Regards
Justin
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Hi Justin
I'll call you on Monday if thats ok, Have a good New year.
Cheers
Neil
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No problem, when your ready. Happy New Year to you too !
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Wife's cousin is a train driver, piled the weight on.
He's a real bloater now, but rather sickeningly
never earns less than 55k a year.
Good luck for the future.
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I would still love to be a train driver. Lived in a station masters house literally on a platform (even though my dad was a signalman at that time) for my first 11 years. Loved it.
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Good luck Neil, should be a great job. The training is very indepth, but the outcome very rewarding. Non main line drivers earn about 25-30k, Main line 35-40K.
All the very best with it.
Matt
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Its more the flexible hours than the money that will help me, salary at southwest Trains is £45,000 once qualified going up if you become long haul.
Really excited about it now though.
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just make sure you don't go off the rails with all that money, dya get it neil, off the rails! trains!
you won't miss my jokes will ya? ;D
i'll get me train. ;D
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It will be nice to have secure work, will miss not having as much cash in my hand that i can keep away from her in doors.
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Hi Neil, you have mail ;D
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It will be nice to have a regular income and hloidays too i guess and paid holidays.. good luck
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45K. Wow, thats cracking. 8)
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thats a full days takings innit mat.
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I would still love to be a train driver. Lived in a station masters house literally on a platform (even though my dad was a signalman at that time) for my first 11 years. Loved it.
Just the job. :D
http://openbve.trainsimcentral.co.uk/index.html
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thats a full days takings innit mat.
I wish, no where near that! Takings get taken, its what left that counts. Give me 45k, a flask, cheese sandwich and a job on the rails and id die a happy man. Where do I apply?
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You wont have time to stay as a CC.You will be overwelmed with the amount of work involved in been a driver.I used to be a Shunter for a Rail company.It a very demanding training period.It will shock you how much you need to know.I struggled and i was a railway guard before going on the drivers course.
I left the railways because I wanted to spend more time with my family,working long hours in the middle of the night not for me!!
Good job as long as you dont mind working silly shifts.
Chris
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Training programme is 2 years long so i wont be earning anything like 45k until i pass everything, the interview process was very tough and demanding just to get in.
Worked shifts before doing 12 on 12 off, Basic week is 35 hrs and you are restricted on amount of overtime you can do aswell
I applied over 2 years ago for this but sis not here anything from them until august this year, so the whole process has taken a long time.
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My Mrs is a Nurse ,does 7x 12 hour night shifts then has 7 nights off , so she does about 15 shifts a month for 50k a year , thats just under 3k a month take home , I would rather be a carpet cleaner thanks.
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Jason
I see your point but this is something i have always wanted to have ago at, I imagine like your wife, she really likes her job otherwise she would'nt be able to work shifts and deal with the pressure of a career like that.
Nice to have time off during the week, plenty of golf to be played and to be honest i have got fed up with CC a couple of years ago.
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Yes she likes the regular wage , and the thought of a final salary pension , her basic is 35 k , the rest is shift payments ,and responsibility payments .
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I see your fame goes before you!
This is a sneak peek review of the new Thomas & Friends Adventures called Neils Wheels & Whistles. This product is due out from Lionsgate and HiT Entertainment on January 4.
In each of the 4 episodes the engines on the island of Surrey try to be really useful but face obstacles.
In “Jumping Jobi Wood,” Neil and Thomas go to Clapham Junction to fetch some Jobi logs, but while Neil gets freaked out over the strange ways there, Thomas won’t ask the 3 engines from there (Halliday, Day & Hatton) for tips on how to get the cargo.
In “Thomas and Scruff,” the tank engine thinks that a newly arrived engine Neil the Carpet needs cleaning up before going on garbage duty, but Neil the Carpet has other ideas.
In “Neil says Yes” the maintenance engine allows too many demands to be put on himself so he can try to please everyone, and ends up only creating chaos across the South West trains area.
The final episode is “Neil and the Woking Woods”, which sees the older engine Neil commissioned to deliver some coal to the duke and duchess Steve and Sarah of Andover, but he fears going through the Woking Woods and is too proud to ask younger engines like Ashmore, West & Kelly for an escort.