Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: maxcarpets on July 24, 2006, 06:06:35 pm
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How do you think business will be throughout the summer holidays??
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If this week is anything to go by really busy ;D
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not so sure. Bookings are slightly down for us ( at the moment \)
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Agreed, Only Monday and the phone has not stopped ;D
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maybe I'm panicking a bit early.
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Much busier than last year,but then the early part of the year was slow.
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ok, ok so its only me! Thanks Guys.
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Normally one of the best months of the year, was last year.
July has been the best this year so far.
Max are you from Wokingham?
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we had a record Month in May, then set new records in June but for some reason ( I thought maybe hot weather ) things have slowed a bit. I'm sure it will pick up, we have our biggest ever advertising campaign planned for August so it is all in hand. Yes I am in wokingham, neighbour!
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Good to see someone local on here other than Mr Parry. If you ever need anything just give me a shout.
I come from Wokingham too. lived most of his my life their but have not wanted to work their because getting around is such a pain.
How did you find the forum?
Cheers
Neil
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No problem, I wish had known that a few weeks back ( big Nightclub, hell ! ). I found forum last week by accident. Who's Mr Parry?
Regards
Justin
MAX Carpet & Upholstery Care
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dont do Nightclubs :) but other work always interested in.
Dave is from Bracknell but does not post much.
How do you find the sponsored listings on Yaho and Google.
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Sponsered listings ok, no one type of advertising is the answer I find. Why not Nightclubs?
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Crap hours, tons of chewing gum and really dirty.
Dont do much commercial work. just have a few regulars. Mostly domestic for obvious reasons.
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Finding it a bit slow over last few days, booked 3 out of 4 today and also picked up extra work from custy did suite for. This is the busiest week of the year for the airports, so alot off people on holls.
Roll on september when the little tykes are back to school and mum wants to clean up.
John
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That was my thoughts on it, but everyone else seems busy?
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The secret is dont rely on having all your eggs in one basket - diversify when you can. Dont just stick with cleaning carpets & upholstery, add on office cleaning, leather cleaning, window cleaning etc etc.
We offer many services, we are always busy and I run 14 vans with 26 staff. If you want to earn the REAL BIG money the two key words I will say is remain PROFESSIONAL & DIVERSIFY as quickly as possible, otherwise like I was, you get stuck in a rut just doing carpets and earning £400 per week.
:)
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im really quiet but ive only just started on my own but im about to start putting out 5000 leaflets per month and the yellow pages comes out in a couple of weeks so its fingers crossed :) :)
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£400 per week ?
Wouldn't even do a full day for that.
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that what I was thinking ::) ::)
lets all clean windows and muck out offices.
Bennymon, put out 5000 a week then you'll be busy ;)
Mike
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i wish i had the budget to put out that many :o do you put out that many if so how many jobs would you expect on average per week from them :) :)
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Summer is play time. Why would you want to be busy anyway. Go on holiday, thats what the summer is for, best, Dave.
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£400 per week ????????? it must be a very short week.
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im off to euro disney next week :) but at present im getting about 2 jobs per week so if i dont work i will not be having any more holidays come to think of it i cant even pay my bills :'( :'(
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Hi Bennymon,
Put the leaflets out yourself it costs you nothing. Its not like your too busy cleaning carpets.
Then forget Euro disney it will be the Ritz ;)
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probably best to spend on advertising, visit euro disney at a later date.
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its allready booked and paid for :)so i can enjoy it but when i get back its time to work i have 2 jobs booked in for my first 2 days back im also going to deliver some leaflets and knock on some doors if i get busy can anyone recommend a good company to deliver leaflets in the guildford area many thanks :) :) :)
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i dont advertise.........................................my work comes from recommendations............ yes i could enjoy more work if i advertised............. but i am already doing a f/t job...............and do cc around my other work...when the cc work outweighs my f/t job i will stop...........and just do cc!!:D:D:D
for 3 days last week i did £900
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Posted on Monday that things were slow, only booked 3 jobs, then bang 8.30 am Tuesday the phone rang and rang untill 9.30 in the evenning when i booked my 12 th job Wednesday slow again booked 2 jobs, today Thursday booked 5 out off five enquiries. Theres no pattern to the work and you cant predict whats around the corner.
John