Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Feen on November 04, 2008, 08:07:30 pm
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Credit crunch etc. How's it affecting you? Yesterday I lost both halves of a semi (they are friends and had obviously agreed to stop me together) for the "winter". Doubt if they'll restart in the spring. Went up the street and got a new one without aking. Today I got a really good new one (she was having coffee with her mate when I turned up - give me a quote I live over there). Quite hard to work out where it's all going. I'm better off after this, but after next week....who knows ???
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I had 4 cheques come today.
one said can I go 2 monthly (£12). one said can you leave it til march (£10), one said can you leave it til jan (£22). one didn't have any note-bonus!
picked up £100 per 4 week period last week so i'm up at the min :D
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Lost 1 gained 2 today. Ups and downs, roughly balances out.
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Lost a £19.50 today and gained a £17. On the whole I am still gaining more than losing but the gap is getting smaller. Then again, new business does tend to slow down for me between October and January
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Gaining more then losing.
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LOSING MORE THAN GAINING. I haven't picked up any new work for the last 2 months.
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lost 2 £10's on around i'm selling...lol. pretty depressed 2day tho. feel a bit under valued. going out flyering sunday n canvassing monday usually picks me. used to rounds growing, last time i did it 8 yrs ago...now all seem to be shrinking. all i want is a good reasonable traditional round near home, do it for 20 years, paying bills and next problem being where to spend retirement. am i wishing for a star? fed up of quoting for huge £5 /£10k jobs (have one starting monday) do u have ipaf, do u have cscs, do u have cscs 'working at heights';. have u got iosh, please send copies of your method statements, please send copies of your risk assessments, wot 'provisions' have u put in......f****k me its window cleaning, gimme a break (yes to all), we need to meet on site to show u round, wot procedures for checking for site inductions do u do.....sick of it. i prefer from punters...how many sugars..1 or 2.
i just want peace of mind....somebody somewhere has a round wi my name onnit..please...please retire n gimme.
there.. i feeel like gwok now..all chilled n refined......TILL TOMORROW TEATIME!!!!!!!!!
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one word....DOMESTIC... ;)
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loads coming in, only done 600 leaflets over 2 sundays, been giving work away!! picked up 3 £10 houses on sunday and a £13, and a £16 which should be about £7 but is about a mile out of my way so thought it might as well pay, got about £120 in one offs (con roofs, pvc etc), and still coming, got a few quotes to do tommorow, all from leaflet, only done 1 hr canvassing so far :)
On down side, lost a £4 a month house for "winter" lol, be losing it next summer too for that, unless she wants to pay double :)
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Picked up 5 jobs this week - £80 -£25 - £15x2 - £5 job all monthly's where's the credit crunch hiting worst, down south still seems ok.
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Probably worse in commercial sector at moment, we are down in lost contracts & changed service by a lot....
Gary
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Losing work hand over fist at the moment, although I think it's more to do with me being a crap window cleaner ;D
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since march i have lost 3, and a couple have gone every 2 months, but i have been picking up work at a steady pace every week, some commercial, but mostly domestic...
i try to leaflet for about 15-20 mins every week .... doesnt sound much, but when you add it up over the months, thats a lot of flyers..(and all targeted at the right houses)
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Its going to be a bumpy ride for a while, expect it and don't get put off by it. Keep canvassing or leafletting, its good for morale.
Remember, the best safeguard in a recession is a broad customer base.
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Losing work hand over fist at the moment, although I think it's more to do with me being a crap window cleaner ;D
lol :D
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i picked up 2 new jobs yesterday right door to each other :)
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My commercial is going better than my domestics, all though I've not lost any for nearly a whole month. On the whole I'm probably on an even kill, but only just.
Simon.
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Seems most are finding the same. Today I had no changes at all :D