Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: maxcarpets on May 08, 2008, 06:56:28 pm
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I've just worked out mine up untill the end of April and it is slightly down on last year at £86.44 per job. How does this compare with you guys? get you calculators out this could be interesting.
Cheers
Justin
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£110 for the last six months average. It went down when I started website but that's not to say the hourly rate went down, it went up.
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£94.68
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£85
down on last year but working on it.
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I suppose this isnt a real reading as the busiest months are yet to come ( hopefully!)
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I know I will get it in the neck for this but here goes anyway.
It is talked on here a great deal about £100 an hour. If this is the case how can anyones average be less than £100.
Might I suggest that we all raise our minimum or service call to at least £100.
This isnt as difficult as it may sound to do.
2 rooms £100
hsl £100
bit of furniture £100
What can we poss do that is less than £100
If the job (on the phone) is less than 100 just explain your minimum and that you would do more than the initial request to equal the 100. They will be getting more than they wanted which is a good thing and your average will go up.
My pea brain just cant comprehend anyone setting up and doing something for less than £100. Not much we do is done in less than an hour is it?
The odd spot for existing clients I understand but not for a new client for your first visit.
I am not having a go, I am trying to help peoples average.
Best, Dave.
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Dave,
Once again I find myself disagreeing with you, but I assure you it's not out of choice, but I think that's pretty much the most irresponsible post I've ever seen.
Ok, we all know that you earn the big bucks and your customers will pay you up to £400 an hour on commercial jobs and by golly do you spare no effort in telling us all. But Dave, there are people on here who because of the current economic climate haven't heard their phone ring much lately and when it does they will need every edge they can get to turn that enquiry into a sale.
Ok, that obviously doesn't concern you because you've got customers falling over themselves to pay you hundreds of pounds an hour, but many of the people reading this topic haven't and so for you to suggest that when Mrs Jones rings in the morning to find out how much it's going to cost to clean her lounge carpet, we'll say £100. Say that to someone in Wigan or Sunderland and you won't be venturing out of your house much until you start quoting people a realistic figure that bears some relationship to what they consider to be value for money.
Conversely if the phone is ringing off the wall then charge what you like because you can afford to lose the business.
The correct advice by-the-way is set your prices at a level where you get more yes's than you get no's and that figure will vary from one area / region to the next. I know of many people who claim to be charging super high prices and getting it, but who only do two jobs and week, they spend the rest of their time on forums telling people how much they earn.
Some of the most successful people I have ever come across in the business charge moderate prices and do high jobs volume and as have massive bank balances as a result, why? Because they offer their services at a price the majority of people in their area can afford.
But to be fair to Dave if he has found a rich seam of people willing to pay his kind of prices then hats off to the man.
Simon
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Did a spotting job today for £75, took 50mins. I'm very happy with that on top of everything else and I did my best to get more work. Though unsuccessful, I'm sure I will be back.
EOT 2nd floor flat with crappy synthetic low pro. 2 rooms 45mins with a rotary at end of day, yes a rotary. £50
What I want to do is one decent job a day, but so long as the rate works out fine I'll take these jobs.
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Dave
Problem is for many average households some only have one carpet these days and its a stairs and landing or a just a 12x12 room. So thats a charge of £50-£60 for most on here (per area).
Although i do agree with you that £100 should really be a minimum the way fuel prices and everything else is going. The hard part is persuading the customer to get another room cleaned to make up the £100.
Mark
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Mark, you are absolutely right, the one roomers are a problem.
Not much you can do in that situation.
But, if they only have one room of carpet then they must have more rooms of tiles or vinyl or wood or rugs or anything.
Trick is to always come out with a£100 minimum.
I understand it isnt easy sometimes but on the whole we leave more work uncleaned behind than we cleaned in the first place.
Best, Dave.
P.S. Walking back to our vans we walk on a pathway that would need cleaning, so we cant say there wasnt anything to clean.
As was said in "The Warriors" " Its all out there somewhere, we just have to figure a way of getting it." Something like that anyway, been a long time since I saw the film.
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The US cleaners offer $35 a room minimum $100, depends on how brave you are!
Shaun
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Mike,
If you say £110 over last 6 months that would include December, now thats a different kettle of fish. I worked mine from begining of Jan to end of April. I bet if you worked out your average on these dates it would be less.
Cheers
Justin
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Here's something I've noticed. Say you are thinking of getting a new van. You home in on one model. When you are driving along what do you suddenly see all the time?
Think about everything you are capable of cleaning and have a goal of talking about how nice their rug looks or what a nice leather suite they have, then talk about the ones you cleaned last week and how you made your Client feel great.
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Justin
The trend has been up lately but yes you are probably right.
Consistent work is what I hanker but alas I wonder if it will ever become a reality.
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£211.00.
Dave, The Warriors is a great film. Keep meaning to get it on dvd after the vhs one got lost.
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Not bad for a portie boy Kev. :)
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I have an average job ticket of around £150 but last week it was more like £80, I was running here there and every bl@@dy where!
Must admit on reading Chris's post I don't think you'll get many domestic customers spending £2000 + on cleaning the futher you get past Watford going north.
Shaun
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£86 for me
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Not bad for a portie boy Kev. :)
We have good repeat custys Mike ;D
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$240.00 for me,for the last 6 months.
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Just out of interest has anyone actually worked out their average or isit guess work? I only ask because I thought mine was going to be much higher until I worked it out and I'm only talking Jan, Feb, March, April 08.
Cheers
Justin
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Yep, we use an excel marketing tracking & planning spreadsheet. It tracks everything month by month and year. The average we gave worked this out automatically for us - from Jan 1st to 2 days ago.
Kev
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I use a spreadhseet too, my average dates back to when I started!
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I've just started using MS Accounting Express, it's free and you can do all this reporting as well as integration with all other MS packages.
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I've just started using MS Accounting Express, it's free and you can do all this reporting as well as integration with all other MS packages.
Mike, I have just downloaded this - where did you start ?!!
So many menus to choose from
Steve
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Steve
I know what you mean it's a bit daunting. I started off by setting up all bank accounts. Think carefully before setting up categories etc, think about how this will provide useful info when you start using reports.
I don't like learning this stuff it's like pulling teeth, but I like the idea I'll be able to do lots of what ifs and know exactly where I stand right now.
There is a help guide which, for microsoft is actually quite good.