Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Neil Williams on May 31, 2008, 05:22:19 pm
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those businesses who run several guys from their cars, on self employed basis, no training as such, hard selling extras etc etc.
The sort of business that runs from a commercial premises, builds up debts, goes bust then starts up straight away again from a different location under a different name. Then do it all over again.
I believe Mark Roberts and Carpet Guy are two along with myself.
I have a saying....Everything I learnt about how NOT to run a business I learnt from C****s
Perhaps this is why I now carry out work to customer satisfaction, reasonably priced with no hard selling.
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Not quite Neil
I had a cleaning / grounds maintenance business which was started by accident, but took off very quickly giving me a net profit of over £2000 per week within 18 months ( that's about £6000 at todays rates ) Carpet cleaning was incorporated due to the many regular requests from our clients / likewise window cleaning .
I got bored and literally and foolishly gave away that business taking up some other interests as I had the money to just " play at work "
My interest in carpet cleaning was re awakened when a guy I knew was let down and desperately needed someone to help him out of a predicament. This involved working long and hard hours, but I only intended it to last a few months and actually enjoyed the physical work again.
My previous post referred to that period, although the rates were low, they were not bottom end and the self employed guys were left to their own devices.
There was no bait and switch, just lowish prices. Yes, it was a case of cleaning without the extras but clients got fantastic value for the money they paid. There were never any complaints and referrals were common.
What I was posting about was the fact that ..............running a business is about generating cash and this way of doing it was very successfull. No one was conned or short changed. It was simply a Budget type of operation which appealed to many and I'm sure, still would.
We never needed premises there were six advertising areas within a 150 mile circle the phone calls were diverted. The cleaners were Local to their area.