Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: harunh on September 22, 2013, 09:23:17 pm
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Been trading for 16 months now and my target for 18 months is to gain 400 customers.
Currently on 360 customers and their all good paying regular customers
Ive gone from 170 customers to 360 customers since may... All of my work is gained by door knocking and word of mouth and advertising
I will be employing someone fulltime in a few months time.. and i believe i can get up to around 600 customers before March/April if i carry on the way i am going :)
If u want work then u gotta go out their and look for it :)
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Good targets and easily achieved.. Fair play mate you have done well.. Realy well.
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Well done. I remember you starting (posts on window cleaning forum, which I haven't been on in so long). Are you stil trad? Bet you're chuffed with those figures.
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Lol is he still trad ......he's never puck up a squegee never mind used one lol
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I would look at getting your average price up before employing, didn't you have an average of something like £6.70 a customer?.
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Think his average is £4 .
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What does average price have to do with any thing, i don't worry about average price i just make sure my hourly rate is good ;)
Paul
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Well if your average is low you are working harder for a higher hourly rate .
Work smarter not harder !
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I'm quite happy doing one window and front door for £5 the hourly rate isn't too bad neither ;)
You can have a average price of £50 but the average means nothing if that work is under priced.
Personally all i care about is the hourly rate i don't care if i do 7 or 1 job to get that hourly rate its all money :D :D
Paul
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Well done great effort I'm on an expansion drive myself
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new cleaner will take at least a year to settle into wfp work, unless you want countless complaints.
If he ups his average price that will compensate for being slow for a year maybe even two.
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average price is £7.50 plus 10% of my work is fronts only mainly at 4/5 pound so that drags my average price down a bit
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Well if your average is low you are working harder for a higher hourly rate .
Work smarter not harder !
You can have an average of £6.00 per house and do 6 per hour, and you can have an average of £10.00 per house and only manage 3 per hour working at the same speed.
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Would rather do 3 houses. 3 less moves. 3 less everything.
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Would rather do 3 houses. 3 less moves. 3 less everything.
+1
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I do agree with hourly rates btw. But if he increased all his houses by £4 and got the average up it would make his life easier.
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Would rather do 3 houses. 3 less moves. 3 less everything.
A would rather have the £36 per hour rather than the £30 per hour, and for some of us you wouldn't have to move to clean 6 £6 houses
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I do agree with hourly rates btw. But if he increased all his houses by £4 and got the average up it would make his life easier.
So how many customers do u think would stick with him if he increased prices by over 50%?
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Prob most would cancel it was example and not a plan for him.
I can't comment on the £30 vs £36 as everybody is different.
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Less moves all day long over stop start stop start otherwise you end up cream crackared by the end of the working day and cant keep a good working pace i easily do 25-30 jobs a day when compact, if spread out id prob only get half done if lucky.
I do on average 6 stops a day doing between 2 and 8 jobs from each spot. Stuff working and driving about like a headless chicken moving for every job...defo not for me.
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Some people eh ;D ;D ;D.
Work smarter not harder its not rocket science but then again we are on a window cleaning forum .
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I earn £20.00 per hour average and am up north so its very decent to be honest :)
Aslong as your in good profit thats all that matters.... some people work different to others.... but my prices are very fair aslong as am happy and the customer is happy that is the main thing :)
Gavinb you may have higher priced houses but your monthly takings in total would be lower then mine... but ill be working more for my money and i dont mind that mate :)
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I do agree with hourly rates btw. But if he increased all his houses by £4 and got the average up it would make his life easier.
So how many customers do u think would stick with him if he increased prices by over 50%?
Depends what the 'going rate' is round his way.
If the going rate is a tenner & that's what he's now charging, he'll probably keep most of them.
He could lose nearly half and be 'up'
I'd do it.
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Well done.
Don't take any notice of the smart alecs and snide comment merchants on here.
What you will probably find is you will fill your diary, and then increase your prices later.
I'm pretty confident that when you have done a couple of years you'll look at some of the prices you charged at first and think 'That wasn't enough' but hey it's a learning curve.
If you don't charge enough you will chase your own tail and not make much money, but it takes time and in the meantime you need to pick up work.
Keep knocking you'll get the work.
£20 is better than a lot of jobs, but you need to make a decent amount to cover you when things go wrong, or you get ill or the weather is crap for weeks.
All the best
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Well done.
Don't take any notice of the smart alecs and snide comment merchants on here.
What you will probably find is you will fill your diary, and then increase your prices later.
I'm pretty confident that when you have done a couple of years you'll look at some of the prices you charged at first and think 'That wasn't enough' but hey it's a learning curve.
If you don't charge enough you will chase your own tail and not make much money, but it takes time and in the meantime you need to pick up work.
Keep knocking you'll get the work.
£20 is better than a lot of jobs, but you need to make a decent amount to cover you when things go wrong, or you get ill or the weather is crap for weeks.
All the best
It's called advice and opinions.
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Work in all weather... may take 2/3 weeks off in the year when we have bad snow but other then that i work all year round even in the rain cos cleaning in the rain doesnt make a difference