Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Terry_Burrows on September 17, 2009, 09:12:26 am
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Hi guys as some of you know we do carpet cleaning and are trying to make it our main project, for us the domestic side has gone dead, just thought how is it for all you other guys how are you doing we are based in Essex ??? or is it all over?
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Phone gone quieter since kids gone back to school.
First half of this month has been good, as has been this year.
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Have had a really good few months ! Work every day,paid outstanding to Hmrc,tax paid on both van and car,also another 12 months mot on my roc ;D
This week however ,just a couple of quotes,and 1 job today !
Fingers crossed it will start to pick up again,before it goes dead prior to Yule !
Been good to have some time off,re joined face book after deleting my account,due to my political views,thought it best before i said something,that would get me in trouble !
Have caught up with people who i have not seen in 20 odd years !
Also found Mr Neylan on there.
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The domestic side has gone quiet but managing to just tick over! The oven cleaning picks up a bit when carpet cleaning goes a bit quiet, heaven knows why!
I'm cleaning quite a few mate's carpets at the moment including the local pub. It's a good time to ask businesses if they would like a free sample clean as it gets you out of the house and noticed, and you have a good chance of clinching a good bit of work!
It's a funny old game this carpet cleaning though, one minute your cacking yourself cos next week's dead, then the next thing you've got a job or 2 every day booked in.... Very unpredictable!
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very very true ??? my area is dead at the mo :-\
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every month is better than the last, apart from june, wierd one that one. but hey ho, can't complain.
derek
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Carpet cleaning side for us is dead to be true. One Carpet and Three Piece booked in for next week, but this was from a job booked back in July.
Everything else reasonable but no where near as busy as we'd lie. Pressure washing has been quiet this year too.
October onwards manic with main customers. Not enough then too much; Isn't this always the way?!!!
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That the c cleaning life ::)
Has always been like that and the only thing that has changed i think is the jan and feb work as it used to be quiet years ago and now i seem to get plenty of work :)
Dont forget the busy time will be oct nov and dec(Well for me)Hopefully ;D
Mark lol add me as a friend on facebook mate :)
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how did you get on today clinton?
derek
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Hi mate went ok today took me ages lol :)
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Phone gone quieter since kids gone back to school.
First half of this month has been good, as has been this year.
So near yet so far Joe, I can say the opposite, July and August was quiet and now the phone has started ringing again.
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Laminated and timber flooring continues to increase in spite of our expectations of it passing it's peak a couple of years ago, so the market is shrinking.
More people are starting up as c/c's
More people are buying the heavily advertised domestic machines - Vax are currently advertising - so it is getting tougher.
It's still a huge market though and it's down to individual marketing efforts to pull them in
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These past few months have been manic for me , not complaining though best July and August I've had since I started 10 years ago. Hopefully the rest of the year will be good ;D
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More people are buying the heavily advertised domestic machines - Vax are currently advertising - so it is getting tougher.
I'm amazed at how many of my customers actually own a Vax! They are good for us because the customer obviously cares about their carpets, and once they have used a Vax, their carpets are going to look trashed within a few weeks. Cue the professional C/C ;D
Actually, I clean local pub's carpets on a regular basis... But they've bought a vax and tried doing themselves to save money ::) They've come back asking if maybe we can draw up a maintainance plan! All thanks to Vax.... I blooming love Vax!!!!
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Ever since end of june things have been getting busier and busier by the end of one week the next seems to get booked up. back in may i stepped up my marketting budget and its worked a treat so far. My work is mostly domestic dont go looking too much for com work but get a steady flow of enquiries for com work of all sizes.
All good down here
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Booked the one i quoted today,doing neighbour Monday (no don`t go there) Then neighbours mum after that ! Then i have to go and spray odour neaut on carpets that another carpet cleaning company has supposedly cleaned ! For the letting agy i work for,i did tell them to call the company who did them,but they have tried,left messages etc,and they have not called back !
They smell like a mixture of cheesey feet,and wet canine ! I bigged myself up here,i always use odour fresh,and in all honesty i could have got the carpets a damn site cleaner.Not sure hat machine they used,but i think they must have left them very wet !
Brownie points to me though,charging them £50. to go and spray some odour fresh !
Couple of quotes next week,and a couple of jobs booked in,i can start the week with nothing,but end up with work every day !
Need to start saving some money,just booked Yule in Amsterdam ! Oh yey ! Can not wait ! Don`t need to do any family type socialising now,which in my books is great news ;D
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16 jobs still to do this month, 9 booked for next month and 20 ish still to gives dates . its been ring ring ring or as a dead as tank tops.
but anit really push the macketing side just yet . thats due to start mid Oct .
Ricky M
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Been flat out all summer during the good weather and while the kids were off so didn't have much spare time.
But last 2 weeks been very quiet, probably quietest since Jan/Feb.
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Thanks for the replies does seem what areas you live in do make an impact :-\
I did the leaflet drops spent £400 print and drop for 20.000 and got back £130
that was it to bad to be true makes me wonder did they get all droped,or droped in the bin! :-\ the phone has stopped ringing not sure what to try next :-\
we use a Rhino 500 psi in line heater that gives bursts of steam,does a good job.
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tony
i would put out a 1000 on your own or with a friend and see what responce you get, if you get 1 job then i'm afraid your leaflets were put in the bin.
i read in the small print on one leaflet delivery company, "we only garauntee 60% or above of total leaflets delivered"
WTF!
unbelievable
derek
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Tony is a nice name :-X but I am Terry :-X ;D might try that but climate is very bad at the mo :-\
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sorry tony, i'm terrible with names ;D
john ;D
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If you can get infront by a week or 2 the quieter times are absorbed but if you get a constant marketing program going then you can keep steadily busy all year round, easier said then done but if you stop leafleting while you are busy then expect to go quieter later.
Shaun
PS Mark Powell do you still leaflet early in the morning?
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My phone has gone quiet anyone else? I usually get quite a few calls on a Monday but only had 5 which is a poor for the beginning of the week.
Shaun
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9 calls yeaterday, 7 today, nailed a few, quoting a few and passed a few on. september is looking like my best month ever. domestic and commercial steadily increasing, and just had some seo done on my old sight so that should bring more work in in the next few weeks. and referals and repeats have gone mental for some reason, i suppose its cos its been a while now. did a job yesterday who had been referred by 2 different people.
derek
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Do you still do the free spray bottles Derek? I was listening to Chris Evans on Radio 2 today and there was a guy on selling a book on persuasion and he gave some good examples, worth a listen on play back.
Shaun
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Two very quiet weeks after my busiest summer to-date, went almost completely dead, hardly any calls which mean't I caught right up and was no longer working in advance. >:(
But this week has started well.
5 calls yesterday, 3 converted.
4 more today, 2 booked and pricing up the other 2 tomorrow.
Whats the answer ???
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I haven't stopped all year, I really could do with a day or 2 off but it's hard to break the habbit and if I do get a day off I've got loads of little jobs to do, I have 10 days booked up infront so plenty of time for the phone to ring.
Shaun
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Shaun, you really should take some time off, go for a drive, even if its in a northerly direction,
take about an hour each way ;)
Andrew
ps my missus is saying rear yard is starting to look like a scrapyard :-[
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Booked the one i quoted today,doing neighbour Monday (no don`t go there) Then neighbours mum after that ! Then i have to go and spray odour neaut on carpets that another carpet cleaning company has supposedly cleaned ! For the letting agy i work for,i did tell them to call the company who did them,but they have tried,left messages etc,and they have not called back !
They smell like a mixture of cheesey feet,and wet canine ! I bigged myself up here,i always use odour fresh,and in all honesty i could have got the carpets a damn site cleaner.Not sure hat machine they used,but i think they must have left them very wet !
Brownie points to me though,charging them £50. to go and spray some odour fresh !
Couple of quotes next week,and a couple of jobs booked in,i can start the week with nothing,but end up with work every day !
Need to start saving some money,just booked Yule in Amsterdam ! Oh yey ! Can not wait ! Don`t need to do any family type socialising now,which in my books is great news ;D
I like this guy, first the neighbor then the neighbor's mom???? poope he beats shaft!
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Do you still do the free spray bottles Derek? I was listening to Chris Evans on Radio 2 today and there was a guy on selling a book on persuasion and he gave some good examples, worth a listen on play back.
Shaun
yeah working well the old spotter bots, sold one today for a fiver, was cleaning the arms of a suite with my labelled bottle and the cleaning lady was amazed at the food i was getting out, didn't take me long to pursuade her that affordable cleaners spotter bottles were the future. ;D
derek
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Yes it certainly has, no pocket money for me this week. I have consigned my carpet guy to helping with an Alarm installation in a Pork Pie factory!
Matt
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To keep that Kerry Catona out I bet. ;D
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Ha Ha ! Daughter is nice,but you wouldn`t with the mum ! And don`t poo on your own doorstep ! Have more of her family q ing up now too !
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Mike ;D
Shes a real porker ;D ;D