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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: cbcs on December 15, 2008, 08:32:24 pm
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Can anyone give any tips on how to run a smooth, stress free business? Or any tips to make the running of a business a bit easier?
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be organised. Think ahead. plan your days early... dont allow van to freeze overnight. get george.the window cleaners buddy.
There you go bud.. its a start. ;)
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Its all down to planing, not just tomorrow but what you want from your busines in the long term. Where do you want to be in six months how you are going to get there. Its not easy and not stress free.
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That has to be one of the hardest things to achieve when you are in business
Relax take things in your stride dont take things personally get rid of problem customers and problem jobs
Focus on the positive things in your business and personal life and take holidays
I tend to get the most stressed when i haven't taken a break from the monotony of work so i now schedule days off and work towards that its lots of little things but it all adds up to being alot less stressful
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Hire a manager to run it for you :P
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If a deal is not right for you, walk away
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Can anyone give any tips on how to run a smooth, stress free business? Or any tips to make the running of a business a bit easier?
this is hard to say as everyone on here does it but try not to take your work home with you! at least not everyday!
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The success of a business depends on various factors such as a well thought out and executed business plan, effective fiscal, personnel, and time management, hard work, determination, and a will to succeed no matter what the odds. Follow certain basic strategies and business will improve. Below are a few of the strategies that help businesses run more smooth.
1. When following a business plan, running a business is a fairly easy task, as business owners know what to do, how to do it, and when to do it by referring to the plan.
2. Have a well-planned business administration plan. There is software on the market that can aid you in getting all the information in line with regard to your business plan.
3. Be certain to obtain and carefully file all the necessary licenses and required permits needed to run the business. There is software that helps to do this also. Be certain you are running a legitimate company or everything you've worked for can be taken away.
4. Once you set the targets it is easier to guide the company. Have plans for the future of the business and steering the business in the right path towards success will be easier.
5. Good fiscal management is necessary. The right person must be in charge to make appropriate decisions in the correct situations without wasting time on things such as what needs to be done in case of a temporary cash-flow problem.
6. Hire the correct number of people, with the all the necessary qualifications needed for the job. Manage them and be certain they do the job expected of them.
7. Test the employees periodically to ensure that they are alert and perform their duty diligently. Give incentives and rewards to employees to help improve morale and work quality.
8. Be well organized, filing all necessary documents and classifying them appropriately. Make a list of all the bills due and their payment day and have well kept financial statements and records of all bank transactions.
9. Maintain a good credit profile and good credit reports with the credit reporting agencies. Keep a good relationship with the local bank. Have a plan to implement and accelerate debt payoff.
10. Buy assets in the company name. These assets will come in handy if there are cash flow problems.
11. Be courteous and refrain from using harsh words with employees or customers. This instills morale and makes the employees more loyal.
12. Know the competition and make the correct decisions about the quality of the product. Your competition will always be doing more than the minimum required to stay in business. If they fail to do this, they go out of business. Analyze the way your competition does business in order to surpass them.
13. Ensure any Avatar you use is a true representation of yourself on any Internet Chat Forum.
Additional Help
Software is available to help run a smooth business. This software helps people with all of the above and more, maintaining the corporate records and minutes of meetings for the company.
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13. Ensure any Avatar you use is a true representation of yourself on any Internet Chat Forum.
I feel sorry for Mrs Oakley!
Mrs A
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ouch !! ;D
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The success of a business depends on various factors such as a well thought out and executed business plan, effective fiscal, personnel, and time management, hard work, determination, and a will to succeed no matter what the odds. Follow certain basic strategies and business will improve. Below are a few of the strategies that help businesses run more smooth.
1. When following a business plan, running a business is a fairly easy task, as business owners know what to do, how to do it, and when to do it by referring to the plan.
2. Have a well-planned business administration plan. There is software on the market that can aid you in getting all the information in line with regard to your business plan.
3. Be certain to obtain and carefully file all the necessary licenses and required permits needed to run the business. There is software that helps to do this also. Be certain you are running a legitimate company or everything you've worked for can be taken away.
4. Once you set the targets it is easier to guide the company. Have plans for the future of the business and steering the business in the right path towards success will be easier.
5. Good fiscal management is necessary. The right person must be in charge to make appropriate decisions in the correct situations without wasting time on things such as what needs to be done in case of a temporary cash-flow problem.
6. Hire the correct number of people, with the all the necessary qualifications needed for the job. Manage them and be certain they do the job expected of them.
7. Test the employees periodically to ensure that they are alert and perform their duty diligently. Give incentives and rewards to employees to help improve morale and work quality.
8. Be well organized, filing all necessary documents and classifying them appropriately. Make a list of all the bills due and their payment day and have well kept financial statements and records of all bank transactions.
9. Maintain a good credit profile and good credit reports with the credit reporting agencies. Keep a good relationship with the local bank. Have a plan to implement and accelerate debt payoff.
10. Buy assets in the company name. These assets will come in handy if there are cash flow problems.
11. Be courteous and refrain from using harsh words with employees or customers. This instills morale and makes the employees more loyal.
12. Know the competition and make the correct decisions about the quality of the product. Your competition will always be doing more than the minimum required to stay in business. If they fail to do this, they go out of business. Analyze the way your competition does business in order to surpass them.
13. Ensure any Avatar you use is a true representation of yourself on any Internet Chat Forum.
Additional Help
Software is available to help run a smooth business. This software helps people with all of the above and more, maintaining the corporate records and minutes of meetings for the company.
Which book did you copy this out of?? ;)
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i know where its come from... but usefull advice all the same... ;)
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i know where its come from... but usefull advice all the same... ;)
Really!! I fell asleep half way through the list!!! ;) ;)
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First things first get a Customer base, without them you have no business to stress about.
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First things first get a Customer base, without them you have no business to stress about.
Never thought of that!! ;D
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First things first get a Customer base, without them you have no business to stress about.
First things first, Learn how to clean a window properly!
This forum is just bursting with good ideas!!!!!! ;D
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surprising how many new forum users ask how to get customers, but not how to use a squeegee though ;)
Whatever you do, don't tell them how to use a squeegee!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
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First things first get a Customer base, without them you have no business to stress about.
Never thought of that!! ;D
Good job I pointed it out then! ;D
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Can anyone give any tips on how to run a smooth, stress free business? Or any tips to make the running of a business a bit easier?
Retire and live on a desert island with only female "She Fridays" and a fridge stocked up with cold beers 8) 8) 8)
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i know where its come from... but usefull advice all the same... ;)
Really!! I fell asleep half way through the list!!! ;) ;)
;D ;D
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13. Ensure any Avatar you use is a true representation of yourself on any Internet Chat Forum.
I feel sorry for Mrs Oakley!
Mrs A
Behave!! or I'll send those fan-jets back ::)
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:D
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Actually, the AV is Marty Feldman (you probably know that anyway) from his part in the Mel brooks film Young Frankenstein, check out this link
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AZybFl_pfMk&feature=related
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:D
So Mrs. A; do I discern from your avatar that Alex is a "drip"? :o :o :o ;D
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chris
build up yr round or cut it down to 3 days per week,get someone in to help you on a part time basis,end of.
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chris
build up yr round or cut it down to 3 days per week,get someone in to help you on a part time basis,end of.
he may have 10 men working for him... its not as easy as get a part timer .. end of ....... ::)
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Keep receipts for everything, smile when you chap the door to ask for business, remember there are no patches that belong to someone else, don't go looking to undercut someone- charge what you think it's worth,
niall
oh, and if you're up a ladder, don't step back to check your work
::)
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Can anyone give any tips on how to run a smooth, stress free business? Or any tips to make the running of a business a bit easier?
dump your tv and get out in the evenings.
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Can anyone give any tips on how to run a smooth, stress free business? Or any tips to make the running of a business a bit easier?
When you have sufficient work, free yourself from the customers who try to be overly controlling about when and how you may clean their windows, the ones that you find persistently irritating, the ones who try to haggle the price, and the ones who you sense will bump you for the money (you get a nose for this stuff after a few years though you will never get it right every time).
I know it may sound like there won't be many customers left after such filtering but that is not the case. However, it can take a few years of regular pruning to get a round like the above.
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What Shiner said.
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chris
build up yr round or cut it down to 3 days per week,get someone in to help you on a part time basis,end of.
he may have 10 men working for him... its not as easy as get a part timer .. end of ....... ::)
put an ad in your local paper for apart time window cleaner and you will get at least half a dozen replies back.....do 3 days per week ....then enjoy yr life..end of ;)