[Jackal]

I never ever put the price up. It is not good for business.

My way around this is to offer to do more work for more money.

I can grow a £5 per month job into one that happily pays £15-20 by adding small jobs bit by bit.

Windows       £5
door mat       50p
door step      £1
Garage door £2
Lights           50p
gate             £2
Bin                £2
short length of gutter £5
etc etc etc

There are a hundred and one little jobs that need doing, I always have a drop of oil for squeak hinges (£2), and a pot of brasso for a plaque (£5), I pimped my ladder the other day for half an hour (£x).

There is no need to put the price up, just find another way to make them to produce a buck.

this a joke or what    no thanks

[Window Washers]

I never ever put the price up. It is not good for business.

My way around this is to offer to do more work for more money.

I can grow a £5 per month job into one that happily pays £15-20 by adding small jobs bit by bit.

Windows       £5
door mat       50p
door step      £1
Garage door £2
Lights           50p
gate             £2
Bin                £2
short length of gutter £5
etc etc etc

There are a hundred and one little jobs that need doing, I always have a drop of oil for squeak hinges (£2), and a pot of brasso for a plaque (£5), I pimped my ladder the other day for half an hour (£x).

There is no need to put the price up, just find another way to make them to produce a buck.

do you smoke wacky baccy ? 
There is every need to put the prices up, say that to your electric company, the water company the council tax, insurance, fuel blah blah blah,

[windowswashed]

find your lowest 33% and increase them on your next visit dramatically and gauge the response from those that have been increased.
Adjust other 66% to be increased accordingly. No point being a busy fool.

[matty72]

I'm exactly the same as you mate, if i put my prices up some will leave, have decided i will though when i get some more work to cover any i lost only problem is finding it difficult to pick up new work but when i do some of my work will go up but not all of it got to be realistic and make sure you dont loose to much, the ones that are really difficult customers do their windows in half the time and that will make up the difference if they complain price rise, im drunk right now but thats what i think.

[poleman]

Can I just add to this post....

I started my window cleaning business in 1988! and 15 years later I only put my price up 50p each customer!

I just could not continue with such low prices and when we had some bad weather (rained for weeks) I had to give my round away!

So in short you have to put your price up each year or every other year as you have to keep up with the cost of living! everything goes up! (fuel, insurance, road tax, raw goods)

Last year I put my prices up by 10% and didn't lost one customer! next year I will go with 5%

Hope this helps...

[davids3511]

I haven't put my prices up in 5 years as I was afraid I would lose customers. As I took on new work my price increased every year but just not the old ones. It was a decent price to start with so is still ok now. I have just started putting them up 10% and no losses so far.

The thing that showed me was I took on a franchisee and had to fill him with work quickly. I have managed to gain 2k of monthly work since the 3rd week of January. His are better prices than mine and about 60% will pay by online banking. It taught me there are more customers out there willing to pay your asking price (within reason) so if you lose a few, go get some more.

[Tom White]

I never ever put the price up. It is not good for business.

Strongly disagree.

Just put your prices up where they need putting up.  As someone pointed out, if you stick your prices up to an overall increase of £100, you can afford to lose £100 worth of work (you won't though).  However, the poster who posted this failed to mention that you'll be earning that £100 for DOING LESS WORK, giving you more scope to add more to your existing stuff.

Are you still going to have the same prices in 10 years time?  By then, once you've ran out of stuff to clean, you'll be ironing for them and walking their dog.

[dazmond]

ive put 150 customers up this year.kicking in next month.not lost one!i also put most of these up 2 years ago.new work is priced much better out of the estate work i clean.wfp has made me faster as well.

ive never had it so good!!

years ago i simply didnt have the confidence to put up prices.i did a pretty bad job sometimes as well if im being honest.ive upped my game over the last 3-4 years and i attract good customers most of the time.i also dont care if i lose the odd job as i have plenty of work.

you really need to bite the bullet and put them up mate.most of the fears are all in your head mate IF you do a good job and more importantly KNOW you give a quality service!!

[matty72]

i think if you have enough work itsnot a problem if your on the border line with work you have to bite the bullet until your ready to rise prices when you have more work

[dazmond]

as for llaaww saying  he never puts his prices up im sure he s just winding everybody up!!

[AS Window Cleaning]

just go for it, without doubt. all of above (with the exception of odd job man) is spot on.

but don't make mistake of putting up a small amount, in 10 years things have doubled, trebled, or even quadrupled in price. I would suggest putting it up by at least 30 or 40 percent, if you do a small increase it's a wasted opportunity. you have every reason to put price up, so make it worthwhile. nxt time (unless it's in another 10 years lol) you won't have excuse and be harder to get prices more up to where they should be.

also, love the 10 percent (or 1 pound, can't remember which it was) increase comment, I have 350 odd customers, would have 350 quid a month more approx, if I lost 5 (and that's very doubtful) I'd still be mega quids in, and as tosh pointed out. less work for it.

[Paul Coleman]

I reduced a price a couple of years ago.  Mind you it was fair enough because the outbuildings that I cleaned were demolished