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Title: 4 weekly!! or do you do it monthly????
Post by: Tom@clearview on June 16, 2007, 11:19:40 pm
Ello Ello !!  you know when you go on thinking you've got it sussed.......  well that was me till a mate told me that he manages to visit most of his customers 13 times a year??
  thicky here thought i had missed out on a month of the year for the past 32 years !

so this got me thinking !!!? how do you do yours 4 weekly or monthly?????
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Post by: macmac on June 16, 2007, 11:35:56 pm
Both, sometimes 4, sometimes 5. ;)

tony
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Post by: Luke Johnson on June 16, 2007, 11:43:10 pm
every 4 weeks
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Post by: rugby on June 17, 2007, 12:49:35 am
every 5 weeks,when i was every 4 weeks i would be cleaning windows that realy didnt need doing,and very often i would be cleaning a house and thinking christ im sure ive only just done this one.
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Post by: JM123 on June 17, 2007, 01:10:12 am
monthly, we try to keep to the same date each time.  gonna change it over to 4 weekly though, gets you an extra months money each year
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Post by: mark dew on June 17, 2007, 02:19:26 am
i do it 4 weekly. Though i never thought of gettiing in an extra months pay when i did it.
I just thought it would be easier and i might pick up more work if i was in a certain area on a particular day of the week.
Bonus though.
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Post by: Londoner on June 17, 2007, 05:59:52 am
In the "old" days it was always done monthly because it was easier to keep to arrangements like" first Tuesday in the month" or "second Friday" or whatever. The customers would remember when you were coming and everything settled into a comfortable routine.

Now everyone seems to use computer systems where you set up a weekly frequency but the customers don't remember which week it is so don't expect you.
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Post by: pylofm on June 17, 2007, 07:52:19 am
4,6,8 & 12weekly...keeps it nice and simple ;D ;D
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Post by: SherwoodCleaningSe on June 17, 2007, 08:03:55 am
Every 4 weeks.  I do the same work on the same day every 4 weeks.  In my time I think I've lost a total of 3 customers who had moaned at me coming twice in the same month, like on the 1st and then the 29th.  But apart from that it keeps me organized and I've got a good week every week.

Simon.
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Post by: East coast window cleaning Services on June 17, 2007, 08:49:29 am
4 weekly always that way i go on the sameday every month
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Post by: Ian_Giles on June 17, 2007, 09:03:13 am
4 weekly for me, or multiples of 4 at any rate.
I have a couple of offices that are monthly as against 4 weekly, but with commercials in particular it is easier to be weekly/fortnightly/4 weekly. (or twice weekly for a few).
Shops and so on I am on time almost to the minute, domestics...well, I'll get there when I can, sometimes I'm bang on the money, but if I'm delayed cos of weather and so on, or holidays then I can be a couple of weeks late, it's never really caused me a problem.
My commercials have to come first.

Ian
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Post by: gmcs on June 17, 2007, 09:21:08 am
Has to be 4 weekly so you get that extra money only time we are late is if it is Pi****it down then we just work later the following few days to catch up
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Post by: S.A.J on June 17, 2007, 09:30:58 am
I’m 4 weekly as well, do get the odd  comment when we turn up twice in a month, all I say is when I quoted I did state that I come on a  4 weekly basis and not monthly.

Some people still don’t understand when i tell them that ???
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Post by: Russell Macdonald on June 17, 2007, 09:34:44 am
All my work is 4 weeks.

I've lost a few because they wanted 8 weeks, i don't offer that so if that's what they want they have to find another wc.

Macc
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Post by: darren72 on June 17, 2007, 09:40:31 am
Every two weeks.
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Post by: russ_clark on June 17, 2007, 11:38:21 am
5- 6  weekly cycle for me
Then my books are crammed full !
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Post by: Paul Coleman on June 17, 2007, 01:03:23 pm
Ello Ello !!  you know when you go on thinking you've got it sussed.......  well that was me till a mate told me that he manages to visit most of his customers 13 times a year??
  thicky here thought i had missed out on a month of the year for the past 32 years !

so this got me thinking !!!? how do you do yours 4 weekly or monthly?????

Neither.  It's nearly all six weekly for me so the length of the month is not an issue.  :)
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Post by: Paul Coleman on June 17, 2007, 01:07:05 pm
All my work is 4 weeks.

I've lost a few because they wanted 8 weeks, i don't offer that so if that's what they want they have to find another wc.

Macc

That's why I switched to 6 weekly a long time ago.  I had a lot of people wanting bimonthly so I split the difference to bring them all onside.  I didn't have the assertiveness back then to say monthly or not at all.
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Post by: Moderator David@stives on June 17, 2007, 01:10:08 pm
weekly , fortnightly, 4 weekly mostly, some commercial monthly and 6 weekly.

A dozen or so houses 8 weekly, some other commercial 3 times a year.

My bread and butter though is 4 weekly, that gives you 8% more money over a monthly schedule.
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Post by: * mike RH on June 17, 2007, 02:35:39 pm
Supposed to be 4 weeks but I always seems to end up 5!
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Post by: Richy L on June 17, 2007, 08:04:35 pm
same here, i try to make it 4 weekly, but it hardly ever is!


I was speaking to someone the other day and he does all his 3 weekly!! anyone else do that?

Richy
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Post by: matt on June 17, 2007, 08:08:41 pm
i have 6 weeks work ( that busy ) , so i aim for 6 weeks

i like the thought of having a little too much work ;)
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Post by: Tom@clearview on June 17, 2007, 08:35:11 pm
 ;DThanks for the replys fellas...3 weeklys though!!! ;D ;
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Post by: Richy L on June 17, 2007, 09:15:19 pm
I no!!, i dont think many of my customers would be up for that
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Post by: Lakes and Pennine on June 18, 2007, 12:07:51 am
some moand at being 2 a month, others moaned cause not 4 weekly. Yes you get 13 cleans a year, but when do you get holls. Of you do 4 weeks  wrk in months you get the holls on slack week, mortgauge every month, windows every month.