[dazmond]

seriously mate i wish you all the best but i think you really need forget about VAT reg and all that nonsense.

go out 5 days a week with your worker and work the round with him.at least start off and do an hour or two in the morning if you ve got other things to do.

lower the expectations of what your worker can bring in a day to £200-£250.

praise him and offer him a bonus at the end of the month if all work is completed.

dont let him have anything to do with the money side.you collect in the evening or on the day,online,SAE etc.

show him some days how hard you can work and hammer it for a week or two with him.


if he sees you working hard with him he s more likely do it as well.show him the basic standard you expect for each clean.

concentrate on keeping the customers you have and only take work on that comes to you.

[dazmond]

treat him to a nice breakfast in a cafe if you start on early commercial when finished before cracking on with domestic.

dont expect him to work longer than 7 hours "on the glass" per day.


lead from the front and make sure customers see you out and about with him cleaning which obviously they will if you get out on the tools with him.

[keyser soze]

^^^^what he said. that would be a good way forward... all the best

[colley614]

Why you stating the obvious? Seriously guys the lads got 2 vans on the road, I'm sure he's aware of basic leadership skills

[keyser soze]

have you read his posts .

[colley614]

I've read his posts but come on the lads got 2 vans on the road and a big unit. He's just got rid of 2 Lads and is rebuilding with his top employee. I reckon this time next year he'll be flying. He's talking about doing a big leaflet drop and he's got a trade counter ready to start supplying chemicals. If I got where Richy is I'd be unstoppable. I'm sure he makes the decissions before he posts on here. He just wants feedback from other people to see how they would go about it. I'm sure he knows what he's doing to get where he is. I'd pay good money to buy what he's got.

[Paul Coleman]

I've read his posts but come on the lads got 2 vans on the road and a big unit. He's just got rid of 2 Lads and is rebuilding with his top employee. I reckon this time next year he'll be flying. He's talking about doing a big leaflet drop and he's got a trade counter ready to start supplying chemicals. If I got where Richy is I'd be unstoppable. I'm sure he makes the decissions before he posts on here. He just wants feedback from other people to see how they would go about it. I'm sure he knows what he's doing to get where he is. I'd pay good money to buy what he's got.

I think he will be OK too so long as he doesn't try to build too quickly.  That's the feeling I get anyway.

[www.com]

Some people are not cut out to be business men. If you cant keep a simple window cleaning operation running then.................. Its one thing being out on the tools and paying someone to work with you, and another to have the savvy to sit in an office running a operation successfully. From his posts it seem like he wants to sit in an office while others are out there working for him, which is fine, is you've got the nouse and business acumen. This seems to be lacking.

I think that is what people are getting at.

[mikecam]

I've read his posts but come on the lads got 2 vans on the road and a big unit. He's just got rid of 2 Lads and is rebuilding with his top employee.

Are you reading the same posts as me? I read he's got one van and one employee, who he's getting complaints about and he also has a bad attitude. The others left.............

[keyser soze]

i cant help but like the guy (only from his posts) he seems a honest and likable guy . but seems to want too easy a life. there are days i feel less motivated but once i force myself to get going im fine. like to see him follow what every man and his dog is trying to tell him.

[Frankybadboy]

me thinks it all fall on deaf ears,

[richywilts]

I have two vans but since I've refined all the work one van can do all the work I've been waiting on leaflet PDF being sent over from graphic designer to send to the printers so that I can begin marketing again but he's lost the file luckily a friend who printed last batch still had it so starting week after next il be out leaflet dropping and doing first cleans that come in

I'm in catch 22 position if I cut employees hours n did more work myself on tools he's not gna hang around coz he needs full time wage

[Roy Cauldery]

I'm starting to believe that Richy is a made up
person to keep the forum ticking over with good/bad comments etc
I am relatively new here, but the posts I have read are alarming
How can anyone be running a business with the complete load of nonsense he is posting on this forum?
I appreciate that it's open for positive and negative comment alike but sometimes I just want to bang my head against a wall when I read his latest installment and therein lies the quandry - I have posted against my better judgement again!!
How can anyone who openly comes on here asking advice, completely ignore it and plunge head long into another disaster and there you are-I have fallen into the contium again!!
Please help me break this eternal cycle of doom and tell me that he is actually a real person who's had a bit of bum luck and is turning it all around-damn , I'm in the continuum again!!!!!!!!!!

[Nameless Drudge]

I know exactly how you feel,sometimes i have to get up and go and walk around outside.

[Nameless Drudge]

And that stops me posting what first comes to mind.

[Roy Cauldery]

And that stops me posting what first comes to mind.

I know,I know -breath in and count to ten thousand , and reeellaxxc

[rosskesava]

I'm starting to believe that Richy is a made up
person to keep the forum ticking over with good/bad comments etc
I am relatively new here, but the posts I have read are alarming
How can anyone be running a business with the complete load of nonsense he is posting on this forum?
I appreciate that it's open for positive and negative comment alike but sometimes I just want to bang my head against a wall when I read his latest installment and therein lies the quandry - I have posted against my better judgement again!!
How can anyone who openly comes on here asking advice, completely ignore it and plunge head long into another disaster and there you are-I have fallen into the contium again!!
Please help me break this eternal cycle of doom and tell me that he is actually a real person who's had a bit of bum luck and is turning it all around-damn , I'm in the continuum again!!!!!!!!!!

I do also keep thinking something is not right.

Although not in the present but in the past, having employed and having run contracts and been a sub contractor also albeit in a patnership, some things don't seem to have that 'ring true' aspect about them.

I can't put my finger on what exactly.

[Roy Cauldery]

Glad I'm not the only one

[Moderator David@stives]

Ah you've sussed me, it's really me.

On serious note, richy, just thinks out loud on the forum, looks for a few ideas, looks at all the advice, them makes the decision.

I am just guessing but I think he will have a well run business, with all the answers in a couple of years.

Any person who employs has been where richy is now, at some time in the past, hell I am even there now, one day it's all going smooth, the next day, you want to get rid of it all,

But somehow we keep going

[Window Washers]

Ah you've sussed me, it's really me.

On serious note, richy, just thinks out loud on the forum, looks for a few ideas, looks at all the advice, them makes the decision.

I am just guessing but I think he will have a well run business, with all the answers in a couple of years.

Any person who employs has been where richy is now, at some time in the past, hell I am even there now, one day it's all going smooth, the next day, you want to get rid of it all,

But somehow we keep going

What Dave said i think is right too