[joshem]

I would just like to know how often you lot put your prices up? Also, do you do it by a percentage as sticking a pound or so on each house in your round doesn't seem right (someone paying a fiver, another £30).

Cheers

[Sapphire Window Cleaning]

prices under a tenner up by 50p over a tenner up by £1, if a customer moans about the price going up by 50p then are they really worth having?



Matt

[Smudger]

Customers get a price review letter in March telling them new price from April

small cleans would be 50p and large ones maybe anything upto £10 quid - others no increase at all

ie..  £7.00 bung may go up 50p  this year but stays at 7.50 come next year but custy still gets letter and the 'good'
news we have managed to hold our price especially for them  

it's also a good chance to correct any keenly priced work and bring it into line.

only had 1 drop out through price increase this year - however the price increases covered this 30 times over .


Darran

[Ian101]

Customers get a price review letter in March telling them new price from April

small cleans would be 50p and large ones maybe anything upto £10 quid - others no increase at all

ie..  £7.00 bung may go up 50p  this year but stays at 7.50 come next year but custy still gets letter and the 'good'
news we have managed to hold our price especially for them  

it's also a good chance to correct any keenly priced work and bring it into line.

only had 1 drop out through price increase this year - however the price increases covered this 30 times over .


Darran

If there was a  window cleaners manual the section called "Price Increase - how do you deal with it" would say just the above .... good post 

[dazmond]

review every year in feb.tell customers in march then put up in april!mine vary from 50p rise to £5 rise.lost a few here and there but to be honest i was glad to get shut.

i dont put them all up every year but i put some up every year.the ones that i think are underpriced or pain in the bum ones that i dont mind losing if they wont accept the new rate.

ive been a bit more cautious this year with the recession as i put nearly all mine up the previous year.


i made the mistake of not putting mine up for years and years.bad move!dont do it!!every 2 years is acceptable IMO.i think wfp is bringing prices down as we can all clean much quicker than when we was trad only.new guys coming in only know the "wfp speed" and not the slower trad and ladders method.

im charging over 3 times as much as some window cleaners in my area on certain work but i do a much better job and put them on longer frequencies.i dont want to push it too far though.


regards


dazmond

[bobby p]

i do it mid january.im feeling a bit sour then what with the weather so i feel more ruthless.  this coming jan i intend to jack up the prices of ALL the curve front double bayers  to the roof.  hopefully they will ditch me as im tired of doing that stuff now

i want flat front ,flat chested if you like, from now on. 

[Sean Dyer]

i do it mid january.im feeling a bit sour then what with the weather so i feel more ruthless.  this coming jan i intend to jack up the prices of ALL the curve front double bayers  to the roof.  hopefully they will ditch me as im tired of doing that stuff now

i want flat front ,flat chested if you like, from now on. 

I have loads of that stuff, there not so bad, need pricing right though as there is often 10 or more windows in each

[SunShineCleaning]

I review my prices every 2 years and make it worth my while. If you work on a small% or 50p-£1.00 under valued customers remain undervalued. You really need to look at each job individually and assess its cost to service.

One way to work out if your work is undervalued is to ask yourself if you stopped cleaning and employed someone on your work, could you pay them a reasonable wage AND make 20-25% profit from them.

[Ian101]

On suspect work i.e. houses u think are maybe underpriced then time urself and aim for 50p a minute which translates to 30 quid an hour.

Tried it on some of mine last month and a few went up and not loose one.

[Wc Solutions]

price review every 2 years and customer are all aware of the fact.

we say theres no point in keep putting them up every time others bits go up as it would be a daft increase of say 20p here and 30p there etc ....

so we review every 2 years then prices go up on houses by £1 or £3, commercial work goes up by £5 - £10

[EandM]

All my prices start from £10 go up to £150 on domestic and there are no increments of less than £5 and I base the increase on 4% per year.

[steve rix]

We increase our prices every two years by 10% rounded UP to the nearest 50p if under £10 (very few of those now) or the nearest £1 if over a tenner.

[richard jagger]

The true business approach to increases would be to cover your increase in costs and a little more for growth.Which should be at least be the inflation rate plus a few percent more. The inflation is about 5 % and maybe 2 percent more.

[SunShineCleaning]

The true business approach to increases would be to cover your increase in costs and a little more for growth.Which should be at least be the inflation rate plus a few percent more. The inflation is about 5 % and maybe 2 percent more.

Agree. The more you can get away with the better.