Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: maxcarpets on February 25, 2008, 10:52:06 am
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Hi Guys
I like to think that we are always busy, always 6 days a week sometimes 7, 3 or 4 jobs a day, ( not weekends ) But at the moment I'm lucky to be doing 1 or 2 small jobs! Whats going on? I still advertise in the same way. I knows its Feb but I didnt expect to be down on last year but if it carries on I will be! Is it only me?
Cheers
Justin
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Pretty quiet myself mate I dont know whats going on
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Dom’s quite commercial ticking along.
Len
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Not really busy by a long shot,ticking over getting quite a few enq`s but all price shoppers.Would rather do one decent earning job than a load of small ones though to be honest.Just quoted £190. for 2x2 seaters 1 x recliner and an ottoman.
See if she calls back.
Got a 2 bed job tomorrow white carpet £134.Quoted for this before xmas last year ! letting agy i work for o me £300. so am ok for a while.Much better than it was this time last year
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Quieter than last month but busier than last Feb ???
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Been quiet but its picking up again.Van in for mot today and it failed :'(
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Quietish last week, busy tomorrow (Tues) to end of Saturday.
Feb. turnover better then last year.
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this is why its important to pick you markets and just marketing to everyone.
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i had my best jan ever :)altho the last week of it was quietish. last week i was rushed off my feet :) but the other weeks in feb have been quiet . this week i only have jobs on mon and wed did have a job for tues but the woman has just called to say she has had a big bill and cant afford to have her carpets cleaned 18 hours notice f###### cow >:(
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ticking over ok, better than last Feb. Jan was good. Lots of price shoppers though.
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had a great start to the year, booked for a week a head apart from some small spaces.
Plus I'm booking an extra job at the end of the day instead of finishing at 2.30ish.
I've decided this is going to be the year when I make it big :D :D
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I had a great Jan, best so far but it has just died since then. I am very suprised to be down on last year, still time I suppose.
Justin
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working every day best feb since being in business due to a large commercial job though
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i seem to be the same as most others, really busy in january and into feb but last week went quiet, i've got work every day but finished by lunchtime, i normally have enough work to work until 4-ish at least, still, that's the nice thing about working by myself, no need to panic, i'm getting all the little jobs done that her indoors wants doing!
colin
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Exactly the same great start but over last 2 weeks gone a little quiet :-\
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Oh well not only me then, seems pretty standard.
Justin
P.S Sorry I had to put the phone down Neil but my son insisted I said hello to Dave the window cleaner, you know how it is.
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Hi Ouys
I am busy but have travelled further.
Definitey up on last year.
Cheers
Doug
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inundated
last Feb was rubbish this year it's like Xmas run in.
Shaun
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Feb has been very busy, busier than any month last year except november and Dec.
Sent all customers a letter middle of Jan offering 15% off all work carried out in Feb because last year was dire, and it seems to have worked, seems also that yellow pages is working had 27 jobs since Xmas, then a few refferalls from those jobs so hopefully this year will be a good one. Seems to me people are keeping the carpets they already have instead of splashing out on new maybe its theoutlook on the economy.
Mark
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Spent 17k between 4x yellow pages and 6x thomsons, ads in carpet cleaning and fire and flood section, had £2500 flood job , £90 carpet cleaning last week.
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not been brilliant, but this last week in feb is the busiest week i've had this year
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Jason, that was brave. I spent 13K with YP last year, I would have been better of buting 13,000 lottery tickets! This year they can take a running jump. But lets not go all YP again.
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Been quiet but its picking up again.Van in for mot today and it failed :'(
Dodgy paintwork?
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Jason, that was brave. I spent 13K with YP last year, I would have been better of buting 13,000 lottery tickets! This year they can take a running jump. But lets not go all YP again.
Justin, Just spend a few hundred next year with them you will prob end up getting the same amount of work.
Do you get much work off your web site?
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Glad to see that I am not alone, lucky if I am getting 2 jobs a day at the moment, feb has been very poor :-[.
Fortuante for me that the dom & comm cleaning side of the business is ticking over ok.
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Telephone has gone mad today. Hope this is the start of the spring clean season.
Cheers
Neil
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just steady away hear which is good giveing me lots of time to get ready to kit new van out
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Things have started to move a bit today, fingers crossed.
Paul,
yes I get a fair bit of work from site, but to be honest as we all know not one kind of advertising is that strong on its own. Most of mine is repeat & referrals.
Cheers
Justin
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Im about the same as last year Jan and Feb are always slow months
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Very quiet at the moment, but last year was unusually very busy.
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'Not too bad so far', is my reply.
I'd like to put it all down to my Charm :o and Great Personality 8) ;D, but I'm sure there are other reasons too ;)
Mind you, we have taken the Tesco approach, (without the profits unfortunately) and carry out many aspects of cleaning. the carpets and upholstery account for about 60% of what we do.
I have noticed that I'm doing alot of moving in or out cleans at present. In January we had a bout of Vommiting and Diarrohea doing the rounds locally, Crap if you've got it, but good for business when they throw up on the carpet before they reach the bathroom, (had 4 of those lovely jobs to do) .
Les