Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: cheryl new on May 31, 2005, 12:53:25 pm
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Is it just me or has the domestic carpet & upholstery cleaning market gone quiet?
In the past 2 weeks I've cleaned several rugs, but not had 1 enquiry for carpets or upholstery.
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Cheryl
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Hi Cheryl
I'm the same, it's gone dead my end too.
What i hate about this business is that its got no set pattern ???
Last month i did an advertisment offering free this and free that, and it went barmy, so i did the same this month and i have recieved just one phone call :(
Ian
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HI Ian
Have you done what I told you to do with your van?
Gav
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Has been pretty quiet all this year so far, although May has not been too bad, had some decent sized jobs which boosted turnover.
Number of jobs well down on last year, but as I consider myself semi-retired now, I am not too bothered.
I'm sure recent overspending on credit and higher taxes all round are coming home to roost. It was inevitable sooner or later.
Bryan
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im very busy. just finished a lovely job. did not get paid in cash though took a puppy as payment a 10 week old yorkshire terrier, i might soon need it as protection from some of you so naming it killer. :o
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Flat out here.
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http://news.ft.com/cms/s/259a804a-d1cd-11d9-8c82-00000e2511c8.html
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Same here. Very very quiet.
Chris
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Over all quiet, one week its good then goes quiet again. Its half term here in Norfolk, whcih tends to mean a quiet time, but then there is always something that you can say its quiet for, election, holidays, snow, easter etc.
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do you know why you are so quiet.because you are using negatives, cant, shant , wont ,dont, not and so on, if you want to be busy wake up in the morning and change your line of thought to i can, i will, and do something about it. by all agreeing with each other does it make you feel better?no. it makes you feel worse change your modus operendi.and go out and do different ways og getting business in. its out there.and plenty of it. open your eyes. and stop worki9ng in the identical way of each other you can not you cant, good luck sherlock :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
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Nice post Sherlock. I too am from Kent and things are ticking over rather well at the moment (turning over around 100 pounds per week more than last year). Good luck Cheryl and stick with it. Get out there and do some visits, it works for me when I am quiet.
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In the morning I am busy waking up.
One step at a time.
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Thae market has been Pregnant for 3 weeks !!!
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It’s only Tuesday and I have already have had one day off got another on Thursday. >:( :(
Karl
Know what’s like but I have the solution! ;D
John
Talking in the past! Are thee still Prego? ??? :o
Len
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Len if you are talking about John's belly it's bought and paid for!
Shaun who is always out of the way of the kids, because it's easier finding work!!
Shaun
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Len,
nice wit :D :D :D
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Pehaps if you guys spent your 3 grand and joined fasttrack then you woul'nt be quite!!!May is the busiest month i've ever had in three years
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please ill teach you more on ablind date . you dont need to spend 3000. to learn the tricks of any trade. you need whoomph. you need open eyes . you need to watch listen, and learn all these things can be bought far cheaper. nothing wrong with learning and having to pay. but you are a salesman in this game. and if you aint one you never will be however much you spend
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Doc Watson
Can you lock that Sherlock away he is getting on my breasts.
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I went fishing on Sunday and today and I love it, I do not live to work like some of you, I earn plenty and still have time off. Yes I am quiet at the moment but I have just finished an estimate worth "Five Grand" I may or may not get it but If you recall I said I was a great believer in Yellow pages ads that is why I spent £4500 on mine this year. This lead was from the yellow pages ad and the facilities manager told me he picked my company because of the professional layout of my ad!! So If I do get the job it will have paid for a years advertising in one hit. So there. ;)
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It feels quieter than normal here, but thats possibly because Ive not done many suites lately (hoorah!) and for the same money cleaning carpet is much quicker. Turnover is up and thats the main thing.
Dave.
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Hi Guys,
I am busy, had 5 jobs come in yesterday , none very big but keeps me 8 days ahead.
I have noticed that my leaflet response is down but my old customer response is very good at the moment.
I found carpet cleaning a very frustrating business for years , and it is only the last 5 that I have become busy enough that the troughs and peaks even out , because I am well ahead.
Cheers,
Doug
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Hi All,
After a slow start, things are slowly getting better for me. I suppose there will always be areas of the country where some are slow and others are not. The only way to get a good idea of a general slowdown for all of us would be to talk to the people who supply us ALL across the country. Speak with the suppliers and ask them if they are seeing a slowdown.........
If they are, then we all need to up our selling to get more work per person. If they are not seeing a alow down then you need to look at your own set up and decide if you are going about thing correctly.
Not advice, just a way of deciding what you have to do to turn things around. Either way, you need to get out there and sell yourself.
I picked up a nice lucrative job only 4 days ago...... A health club I was passing was having building work done, went inside and asked to speak with manager, mentioned I noticed they were having the work done and had he considered having carpets cleaned afterwards. Went back 1 hour later and did the quote. £1000 job, booked there and then and told me he will want it done every three months! So the work is there, just grab the chances when you see them!
Paul
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I'm extremely busy this month, like I was last month, and like I will be next month and the month after. I can pretty much gauge my income to the nearest £100 each month.
I suggest you sack the carpet cleaning, take up window cleaning and also do carpet cleaning as an 'add-on'; good for when the weather is bad.
Window Cleaning is mostly repeat business; and the rare one-off jobs are highly priced.
Once you build up your round; there's no 'chasing work'. Only improving on what you've gathered; and chopping the less lucrative bits.
Honest! No quiet months for established window cleaners!
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If you are not established yet or have let things go on the marketing side try making a data base (keeps me in work all year round), you may not have got many customers but you'll be suprised how often they will buy and if you send them a colourful letter ie content and ask for referals it will more than pay for itself and is a great confidence booster when the phone rings regularly.
Shaun