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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: darren Jones on March 21, 2014, 07:19:39 pm

Title: Quiet!!!
Post by: darren Jones on March 21, 2014, 07:19:39 pm
Hello fellow CC's

Was just wondering how everybody else is doing for work at the moment. Personally have never had such a quite time 5 jobs for last two weeks. Anybody else experiencing the same.

Darren

Dazzling carpets
Title: Re: Quiet!!!
Post by: wayne zabel on March 21, 2014, 07:49:48 pm
Fits and starts for me in Feb and March.I take 5 calls in a day and think things are getting going then get nothing for 2 days.
Getting repeats but very few new enquiries.
Title: Re: Quiet!!!
Post by: darren Jones on March 21, 2014, 07:55:13 pm
Your right there Wayne

Do you do Adwords?

I was always told when it's quiet to drop the campaigns and then start them when it picks up how about you?

Wonder if there have been any groupon promos taking all the work.

Have you seen any recently

Darren

Dazzling carpets
Title: Re: Quiet!!!
Post by: Deep Cleaning Solutions on March 21, 2014, 07:59:34 pm
Do you get many enquiries from your website Darren?
Title: Re: Quiet!!!
Post by: wayne zabel on March 21, 2014, 08:03:32 pm
Not seen any Groupon deals for ages.

I don't do Adwords as my website is always ranked high on P1.

I'm thinking of making a few changes to the site and taking prices off and see what happens.

Ive been lucky in that although Ive not been busy Ive had a biggish decent paying job each week.Got a decent paying commercial tomorrow.
Title: Re: Quiet!!!
Post by: darren Jones on March 21, 2014, 08:06:47 pm
Yes a good proportion

Say majority of my work is from website

Referrals and friends and family

Do leaflets quarterly and couple of ads in local saver passport
Title: Re: Quiet!!!
Post by: darren Jones on March 21, 2014, 08:13:28 pm


I'm contemplating selling up and doing sand blasting

too much competition now in Manchester

Been doing it 5 years now and this is honestly the quietest I've experienced since my first year.

Jan/feb I accept are usually quiet but without spending 50% of my profit on advertising I don't see how now you can earn a good salary as there are so many other companies popping up.
Title: Re: Quiet!!!
Post by: neil 47 on March 21, 2014, 08:49:09 pm
I've been very quiet even though I'm on p1 4 times
Title: Re: Quiet!!!
Post by: slioch on March 21, 2014, 10:25:28 pm
Interesting.  I've been really quiet too.  Just a few regulars. 

I had been really busy over the winter, mainly with claims work but this is dropping off now.  As my truckmount is down I have been reluctant to push my advertising but I will kickstart it when the new rig arrives in a couple of weeks.
Title: Re: Quiet!!!
Post by: derikraven on March 22, 2014, 06:09:00 am
Tomorrow is my fist day off this month :D
Title: Re: Quiet!!!
Post by: Simon Gerrard on March 22, 2014, 07:26:00 am
Interesting.  I've been really quiet too.  Just a few regulars. 

I had been really busy over the winter, mainly with claims work but this is dropping off now.  As my truckmount is down I have been reluctant to push my advertising but I will kickstart it when the new rig arrives in a couple of weeks.

Which TM are you getting?

Simon
Title: Re: Quiet!!!
Post by: neil 47 on March 22, 2014, 07:48:37 am
derik

I ve worked non stop since September
That doesn't mean I've been busy to me 3 to 4 jobs a day 6 days a week is busy .
Your idea of busy might be 2 jobs a day .
Title: Re: Quiet!!!
Post by: Andrew Briscoe on March 22, 2014, 01:27:59 pm
Reasonable year so far except a few quiet days end of feb. We always seem to have a quiet week end of feb every year. Last few days its gone mental and have booked the next 12 days up, plus have a 900 m2 office to fit in on a friday evening.   
Our adwords is getting 3 times the normal amount of clicks, just hoping there all customers and not malicious.
Andrew
Title: Re: Quiet!!!
Post by: bennymon on March 23, 2014, 08:59:22 am
I wish Google would f#%k right off bring back the full size yellow pages  ;)
Title: Re: Quiet!!!
Post by: stuart_clark on March 23, 2014, 09:27:09 am
Here Here,    I used to get a lot of business from yellow pages but not anymore, it more than breakes even but I spend over 4k with them so it should !
Title: Re: Quiet!!!
Post by: bennymon on March 23, 2014, 06:46:06 pm
When I started out about 90% of my work was from yellow pages  ;)
Title: Re: Quiet!!!
Post by: M.Acorn on March 23, 2014, 07:22:45 pm
Really good Jan and Feb, March rubbish, had a couple of decent sized com jobs, but it feels like my phone has been cut off at the moment, few e mail enq's.
Hopefully it will pick up