Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: John Walker on June 30, 2011, 11:08:42 pm
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I'm sure this has been covered before but i would like to re-visit and hear your views.
Offer the customer the choice of 5 weekly at say £20 or 10 weekly at £30 etc. This saves the customer money over the year but it means when I do a days clean at the higher rate my cost/effort vs profit ratio is well up by 50% for same amount of work.
I realise I would need to get more customers which isn't too much of a problem but I like the idea of more bucks for the same effort.
Unless I am missing something, it's a win-win situation. My profitablity goes up for the same amount of work and the individual customer pays less per annum for their window cleaning.
I am already doing this for a small number of customers which seems to be working well. It's great to be getting say £30 for a clean as against the previous £20. And to be honest it doesn't really take a great deal more effort to clean at the extended period on regular cleans - not that I tell the customer that as they are still saving overall.
I would be interested to hear if anyone is already offering a similar service and how it's working out.
Retires to the bunker and awaits flak......... ;D
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I give a price for a 4 weekly interval, and add on 20% for an 8 weekly clean, works well for me.
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It's a good plan, John, and it's something I've being doing with larger detached properties for a few years now. I do a lot of properties at either every-two-or-three month intervals, all nicely priced work.
Just make sure you use your longer frequencies as a selling point. Tell 'em many window cleaners still insist on cleaning every-four-weeks, however you prefer to offer a longer frequency at a slightly higher price to cover the time involved in cleaning the extra build up of grime...
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Tosh, what image did admin remove?
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I'm sure this has been covered before but i would like to re-visit and hear your views.
Offer the customer the choice of 5 weekly at say £20 or 10 weekly at £30 etc. This saves the customer money over the year but it means when I do a days clean at the higher rate my cost/effort vs profit ratio is well up by 50% for same amount of work.
I realise I would need to get more customers which isn't too much of a problem but I like the idea of more bucks for the same effort.
Unless I am missing something, it's a win-win situation. My profitablity goes up for the same amount of work and the individual customer pays less per annum for their window cleaning.
I am already doing this for a small number of customers which seems to be working well. It's great to be getting say £30 for a clean as against the previous £20. And to be honest it doesn't really take a great deal more effort to clean at the extended period on regular cleans - not that I tell the customer that as they are still saving overall.
I would be interested to hear if anyone is already offering a similar service and how it's working out.
Retires to the bunker and awaits flak......... ;D
I do 6 weekly. If they want 12 weekly it's 50% more. I've only been doing this very recently.