[Sarah Kirby]

How I see it is that those of you slating the idea obviously have enough work and are satisfied with your income not to worry about it but for others, times are hard and yes carpet cleaners too can fall on hard times so it seems like a no brainer to me for a number of reasons. Maybe some of you should offload those chips you carry around on your shoulders and give it a go......it wasnt very long ago that a lot on here were moaning about how quiet things are........better to have a small amount of income than sit around idle...imo

[Paul H]

Nothing ventured nothing gained IMO.. you have to think outside the box to get in the box...I agree that maybe you knock some kind of care / maintenance follow up plan together deals for upholstery cleaning etc.. even trying to sell those own label spotter bottles that some of us give away free....may get you an the odd extra £5 or so here and there......my missus always get the pampers etc,, and spends a little of whats she's saved on a few products....

good luck and keep all them customers on a data base and take it from there with referal offers / vouchers or whatever....hope it goes well

[Helen]

Surely nobody wants anyone else to fail with however they chose to market
I'm not in favour of the groupon way, but each to his own

Jason how long will your vouchers be valid for?
"The deal is    up to 20 m2 of carpeting cleaned for £28  , any furthur cleaning is at £2.50m2  Groupon keep 40% of the deal  so I get £17 per clean , which equates to £57 when the £40 original marketing cost is added in , plus the opportunity for other work and a regular customer , which in my experience is about a third of all jobs visited. "

I am pretty sure that Jason will be marketing in other proven ways that he has shared on here with us in the past, so won't be buidling a database of people that just want cheap

[mark_roberts]

Why not offer 75% off protector treatment when you get a carpet cleaned at full price.  You could easily swallow protecting a room for a few quid while you get paid normal price for cleaning.

Just be very careful.  80 jobs at an hour each is about 3 long weeks work at low prices.

When its going live.

Mark

[Paul Evans]

Seems there is a company in Manchester doing a groupon deal at the moment
£50 Voucher to have carpets cleaned Buy for £15.
139 sold as i type. any further work above £50 is carged with a 30% discount.
And he aint expensive to begin with. up to 145 sold.

http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/manchester/BragCleaning/527286

Paul

[jasonl]

Its the normal price cleaning which is sold where the profit is , of course I am not retarded enough to work for £100 a day  , it is a business decision , and a form of marketing

[rycalshaw]

who sets the prices for this,couldn,t you just bump up your price to begin with then after groupon take their cut etc your still left with a better profit and the custy believes they have a great deal coz groupon as told them so...

[Paul W Jones]

Seems there is a company in Manchester doing a groupon deal at the moment
£50 Voucher to have carpets cleaned Buy for £15.
139 sold as i type. any further work above £50 is carged with a 30% discount.
And he aint expensive to begin with. up to 145 sold.

http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/manchester/BragCleaning/527286

Paul

So will this guy get £7.50 per deal on this?  And he's now sold 151.

[Paul W Jones]

Just noticed that Groupon are hitting adwords with '70% off carpet cleaning in your area' deals.  How long is this going to last!!

[Paul Evans]

Its the normal price cleaning which is sold where the profit is , of course I am not retarded enough to work for £100 a day  , it is a business decision , and a form of marketing

jasonl

Who said you was retarded ?
I was definatly not implying this. And i am sure it could work done in the correct way.

Good luck Paul

[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

Seems there is a company in Manchester doing a groupon deal at the moment
£50 Voucher to have carpets cleaned Buy for £15.
139 sold as i type. any further work above £50 is carged with a 30% discount.
And he aint expensive to begin with. up to 145 sold.

http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/manchester/BragCleaning/527286

Paul

Just seen where this busines is based. He's welcome to every job he can possibly get.

Rog

[cozy]

He's now sold 164 jobs at 15 quid a pop that should cost 50 quid a pop. 2460 quid instead of 8200 quid. How long will they need to get those jobs done and what about the nearly 6000 quid drop in takings? This is designed for restaurants and chip shops guys, not CC.

Glad it's not me.

I forgot, half of the 2460 goes to Groupon.

[David_Annable]

Hi

There is another site Living Social Deals very similar, have seen carpet cleaning on there as well.

Dave

[cozy]

Yeah, saw that advert on TV. Just checked Groupon here in windy Germany. Closest deals near where I live is about 80 miles away. A few bits about hotels in Berlin etc etc. Not really got going yet. (Thank God)

[cozy]

Here's a firm in West London, lots of customers will get to see "What they can do"

http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/london/innovatecarpetcleaning/478784


Here's their web site http://innovatecarpetclean.co.uk/

[davep]

667 jobs, should clear that in a week 

That gives them £26k, minus Groupon they have £15600

5 jobs a day 7 days a week = 50 jobs done

13 weeks and jobs a goodun

[derek west]

667 jobs, should clear that in a week 

That gives them £26k, minus Groupon they have £15600

5 jobs a day 7 days a week = 50 jobs done
13 weeks and jobs a goodun

well at least your english isgood davey

[davep]

Doh!

[cozy]

It leaves them 13000 quid. for 667 jobs, fancy some of that ? Each job is at least 19.5 quid. Where do I sign??

[jasonl]

667 customers on the database , a third will become repeat and referred customers at full price , life time value of those customers is many thousands . I am looking for a business with a client base , not a quick buck today.