Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Michael Peterson on July 25, 2013, 05:22:01 pm
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not looking for a battle here but how many customers do you think a one man band can be safe and have a really good round with i have 327 and 52k a year on 4 or 8 weekly 15 ish a house what do you guys think i would be a lot happier on 340 houses
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what do you guys think i would be a lot happier on 340 houses
Why do you think an extra 13 houses will make you a "lot happier"?
I think happiness isn't contained in having an extra 13 customers; I'm sure there's been window cleaners with more work than they can shake a stick at still as miserable as sin.
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lol Tosh i know desire is suffering but im sure 340 customers would make me feel a little better at the mo ;-)
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plus i didnt know i was so close :-) 13 doesnt seem that far off at all, i just know dazmond has 340 and hes my hero
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maybe 300 customers and 65k a year? would make you happier
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if your not happy on 52k a year you've got no chance
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plus i didnt know i was so close :-) 13 doesnt seem that far off at all, i just know dazmond has 340 and hes my hero
Dazmond is EVERYONE'S hero.
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its not 30k 40k or 100 k i just feel vunerable getting n e where near to under 300 customers and dazmond is my hero in every way ;-)
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bob plum indeed that would make me loads happier however more scared at the smae time for going under 300
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I only have 143 jobs to do on average a month and there are 4 of us.
So you must be doing well. 8)
Roy
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wow what jobs are you doing catherdrals ? lol
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Just let him go. He wasn't bothered, just wanted to know when and where to get his money.
your jobs are huge tho ;D ;D
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not looking for a battle here but how many customers do you think a one man band can be safe and have a really good round with i have 327 and 52k a year on 4 or 8 weekly 15 ish a house what do you guys think i would be a lot happier on 340 houses
Shut up mate lol... 52k a year! You have the perfect round by the sounds of it. Fair play too ya.
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i rekon thats about it for 1 man being realistic and not working into an early grave
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I have over 500 customers on each of my rounds but thankfully 1 round is all fronts and the other is a mixture of the rest both realy good rounds though, mainly 4 weekly schedule.
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bob plum indeed that would make me loads happier however more scared at the smae time for going under 300
its the value of the round not the quantity that makes the money
you could 250 customers a month,clean them in 3 weeks have a week off and still earn 52k
you need to work on getting your averages up
ian101 is good at this he continually refines his round just today he gave away 2 customers and dumped a £25.00 bi monthly job because they dragged his hourly rate down
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When life is all about money its time to reset your goals, I get more satisfaction from talking to some of my old dears and making their day, than earning an extra few quid
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its not 30k 40k or 100 k i just feel vunerable getting n e where near to under 300 customers and dazmond is my hero in every way ;-)
Roy doesn't feel vulnerable having a measly 140 customers (his poverty disgusts me), so 'feeling vulnerable' can't be in how many customers we have. The problem isn't the number of customers, it's the 'feeling vulnerable' and that exists in your head.
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I remember when I started out and only earn't 50k a year. You'll improve as time goes on and work will pick up eventually. Don't worry about it.
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Tosh, you have made me think there my friend, i am always paniking when i get to like 328 and then canvass and bit and then go down to 328 again, but my takings are pretty much the same always in fact they have never gone down only up over the years , i think you may be right as the insecurities are inmyslef thanks
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i think putting up your prices so you are doing less work but earning more profit will make you happier ;D
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i think you may be right as the insecurities are inmyslef thanks
Happiness is also in ourselves, so I've been taught, but it's a bit of bugger trying to find it sometimes! :-\
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True happiness is a meat pie and mushy peas....
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I have 150 jobs a month and spent the rest of my time fishing, I'm happy with that, getting wiser with my age ;)
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True happiness is a meat pie and mushy peas....
If that's all you ate, you'd get sick of it at some point, therefore it can't be true happiness (and you'd end up looking like that saggy-breasted-old-tart, Hector).
I posit that all you get by eating pie is some short-lived relief from the way you normally feel.
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I remember when I started out and only earn't 50k a year. You'll improve as time goes on and work will pick up eventually. Don't worry about it.
;D
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Money buys tangible things.
Happiness isn't tangible.
Wife & kids happy?
Bills paid each month?
A few quid for a beer on Friday night?
That's enough. Any more and you'd just spend it on stuff you don't really want.
Ps-it still really surprises me that people post their earnings on an open forum.
Only me, the accountants and her majesty's finest know what I make.
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I make enough to live and pay my bills I work 2 days a week and earn more than most do in full time employment .
I work to live now not live to work its pointless being the richest bloke in the grave yard I learnt the hard way .
I drive an 03 combo I dont need to work 7 days a week to pay for a van im as happy as a pig in poo
The most stress I get is if ive forgot to wash me scrims or somebody's windows have spotted on a first clean lol .
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Money buys tangible things.
Happiness isn't tangible.
Wife & kids happy?
Bills paid each month?
A few quid for a beer on Friday night?
That's enough. Any more and you'd just spend it on stuff you don't really want.
Ps-it still really surprises me that people post their earnings on an open forum.
Only me, the accountants and her majesty's finest know what I make.
I earned over a Hundred grand last year and next month I intend going to the moon with
Richard Branson.
Do you honestly think that if somebody was good enough to be earning £50.000 + a year cleaning windows they would be the type of person to tell strangers about it.
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Money buys tangible things.
Happiness isn't tangible.
Wife & kids happy?
Bills paid each month?
A few quid for a beer on Friday night?
That's enough. Any more and you'd just spend it on stuff you don't really want.
Ps-it still really surprises me that people post their earnings on an open forum.
Only me, the accountants and her majesty's finest know what I make.
I earned over a Hundred grand last year and next month I intend going to the moon with
Richard Branson.
Do you honestly think that if somebody was good enough to be earning £50.000 + a year cleaning windows they would be the type of person to tell strangers about it.
I do. Yes. People are (sometimes) proud of what they earn (sometimes rightly so) and like to tell people.
Someone very close to me, also a shiner, is always telling me what he makes as it is so much more than they used to make in their previous job.
It's the same story for a lot if us, if not all of us.
Just that some people speak about it and some don't.
In my experience, the ones that don't say tend to be at the higher end of the fiscal scale