Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Doug Holloway on December 28, 2008, 08:28:41 pm
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What is the number 1 plan you have to grow your business in 2009.
Mine is to work even harder at getting my websites into the top rankings and to improve my shop(s)
Cheers
Doug
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mine is to get a web site which is on the way i hope just need some dirty carpet pics now
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doug
thats 2 ;D
only joking
mine is to somehow target commercial, ive not tried yet and have no idea how too. but thats the plan, all be it slightly flawed at present. :-[
derek
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Hi Derek
My shops are websites so 1 and a half ;)
Commercial is much harder to target that domestic but potentially more rewarding.
Cheers
Doug
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this year is when I really get stuck into the pressure washing. come summer I want it to be at least 50/50 with the carpet cleaning.
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Is that what you want the space for in the van?
Shaun
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Hi Guys
Mike , do you like pressure washing , especially in the summer or is there just more money ?
Cheers
Doug
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Mine's to stop being a lazy sod and deliver leaflets myself on my quiet days...
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The tinternet
I don't know about everyone else but at first it was all double dutch. didn't make much progress at first cos everything was new.
Now I feel I have at least a base knowledge to build on.
Would like to be above the directories for my area, not sure if that's possible. After that better conversion and capturing contact info.
Mike
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Shaun, My vans so big it all fits in! but I do have a new P/W machine that i want to bolt into the van.
Doug, more money, easier and more job satisfaction!!
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What PW have you got now? has it got more power or more flow?
Shaun
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Funny that, I've just been going through my objectives for 2009 today.
Of the ones I can tell you about, firstly to get our new workshop sorted out, secondly to put more focus on the commercial side, window cleaning, office cleaning and carpet cleaning.
I'd like to put another 650 ltr hot water wfp system on the road this year, possibly another Ionics and I'd like to take on another two teams of office/domestic cleaners.
I also want to review our database and then mail shot all our previous customers with regular quarterly letters.
There are other projects in the pipeline, but can't disclose them just yet.
Mike, we do a fair bit of pressure washing and gutter cleaning but I find it to be very seasonal. Got a 4000 psi Honda GX390 and it eats through the work.
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Want to get something else off the ground as my c cleaning runs itself now and to earn money when i am not working :)
Think like mike does offering another service is an ideal way to get you through the quiet times :)
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my mission is to get a bigger van & truck mount machine, and expand my current letting agent contracts, lettings have really picked round here the last 3 months or so, so il be pushing that, get my website sorted, and take another part time cleaner on.
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Take it slow and steady as not sure what this current climate might bring and spend more time with the family, but mikes got me thinking, pressure washing sounds like a nice idea too, especially when it warms up a bit.
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The power washing is lucrative but hard work and does take time to get the skills i :)
A good set up i think is the guttervac ;)
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Clinton
There's one just come up in the buy and sell section.
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Mike
Yes thanks for that i saw that too and spoke to the guy a few months ago about it.
Thing is it needs a gennie and washer so it woukd have to be put in a box trailer ???
Or can be run from domestics from there electric like our machines.
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We had a good look at the guttervac idea a while ago and there are too many situations where it is not suitable and the only option is to get up there with ladders and pull the stuff out.
Most people will only call you out when the gutters are full, roots are 4ft long and running down the downers........ gutter vac can't cope with that, or when the tiles come halfway over the top of the gutter and you only have a narrow gap to get in, or when there are retainer bars every 4 ft along the length of the gutter.
My opinion is that there are too many situations where it's not suitable to make it worthwhile investing in.
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Ian
Same here had a go with one few weeks back and the gutters had those bars every few feet ???
Didnt want to wear a hard hat too :D
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So really you need to Cherry Pick your jobs. ;) ;D
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;D
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How about this mike ;D
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I would quite fancy that!
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I wont be going on truck mounters in 2009 I have closed my account.
The treatment of Derick was unfair, he was not goading anyone but simply making a point, a valid one too. Ok derick can come across cocky but he never deservered that you cant ban someone for dissagreeing with you and call it a free forum. Theres a very old fasioned attitude on there that is if you have not been cleaning carpets for 90 years you have no right to an opinion, it's laughable.
Craig
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Craig
Don't do yourself out of a resource because of Simon.
There are loads of good guys on there that will help you out (especially as you have a 4.0 ;D ). And I'm heartened by some of the comments on there after the event. Ultimate power corrupts and all that.
PMSL when he said well I might consider letting him back on if he apologises. Should be other way around for being so childish. ::)
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i would like to apologise to everyone who thinks i come across a bit cocky, ive been reading a few of the older posts and it does seem that way, thanks craig and a few others for pointing that out, i don't mean to, call it confidence or cockiness, its prety much the same thing so i'll try and tone it down abit in the new year. ive made a lot of friends on here, more than i thought and would like to keep it that way,
my wife kept saying i'm cocky, but i thought she meant something else and so i just thanked her. ;D
so thats one of my many new years resolutions.
ps...good on ya craig, theyve lost a good poster in you. and i admire your honesty.
pps.... just come back from seeing the wife and she's sitting up and has eaten something without showing me what she ate afterwards. ;D
them drips they give her are amazing, whats in em? viking?
have a good night guys.
derek
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Hi Mike,
Its ok there is always the american truck mount forum as a resource and for techical help, they have the same tms :)
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Mike
Do you hav an account on t mounters ???
OOps sory sir mike ;)
Craig
Think you have done the right thing a in my opinion thats just childish ::)
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Just a minute, let's get this straight. Simon is someone who like me pays out his own hard earned money to to run and maintain TruckMounter's for anyone to use free of charge. Why then should he put up with someone like Derek constantly trying to goad him into an argument purely for the sake of it. This didn't happen once, or even twice but every time Simon made a comment on almost "any" post. Why should he put up with this? Would any of you if you were paying out your own money to provide a resource for your fellow professionals?
It's Oh so easy to pick at someone else and make rash judgements about them when you're not in that position yourself, but it's also a little cheap, don't you think
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i think we should just leave it now, ive said my piece, ive been banned, people can judge for them selves whether it was me in the wrong or simon and make there own minds up, lets just concentrate on why we're here (or there), to make our business work. i'm happy with ciu, the guys on here are very knowledgable and can tolerate my cockyness, so i feel at home.
glyn
lets just move on, ive said my piece on here and i'm sure simons said his piece on tm. its all getting a bit silly now, (and yes ive played my part in that).
lets just move on.
happy new year glyn, (and simon) onwards and upwards eh.
derek
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I think one of the problems with forums is people can take what is written down as gospel, and not as if you were speaking one to one. Every part of the country we have a way of putting thinks over and that can create a problem in its self.
2009 we should not let miner issues create problems
Happy New year
David ware
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Back to topic, I have just ordered mega cheap leaflets £68 delivered for 10k printed both sides!! ;D
Yes there is a cach, they are A5 white 80gm paper with just black print, as they say its the message that counts. :)
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Craig
That cheap mate :o
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£99.99 for 10000 full colour decent A5 paper one side.
Another £25 for them if you want them to design it with you.
Regards
John
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Clinton
Yes I'm lurking on there.
Bit slow on the Sir Mike, I do a lot of good work for charity, The Osbourne Viking Trust, but didn't get a letter from HM.
Where is that climb?
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Hi mike
h i didnt know you were on there ::)
Sory it was just a picie i got of the net :)