[H20cleaning]

recently i have been trying for alot of commercial work, and alot of companys have said '' we have a national contract''.
I have nothing against these big companys and obviously they have done well to get the contracts, however i carnt help but think...

• smaller business's would benefit from keeping good contracts locally
  i think smaller business's would do a better job as usually the business owners are actually the ones cleaning and would make sure they do a good job( as i can imagine some bigger firms employ people and pay very average wages, and with average wages comes lazy, work shy, half a job workers.
  

If you can think of some positives for why the companys use national contracts then please tell me.. but i struggle to think of reasons why!?

[George P]

0ne invoice for all sites - less time consuming for office staff and 1 payment per month instead of lots, same price for all sites, one contact regardless of where the site is, probably alot more but cant think of any at the mo

[one eyed window cleaning]

One nice big fat backhander

[PoleKing]

Agree with OEWC but it also prevents backhanders at store level.
There are benefits-just not to the guy doing the actual clean.

[Scrimble]

there are plenty of commercials that are not nationwide, all the commercial propertys i do are not chains,

[one eyed window cleaning]

Pp

Agree with OEWC but it also prevents backhanders at store level.
There are benefits-just not to the guy doing the actual clean.

Good point, But I do work for a small amount of national companies but have never paid a backhander, and I don't think I ever would unless they could give me a receipt

[Moderator David@stives]

We take anything, National, local, subcontract, housing, everything, there are 50 million properties in the uk, why worry about anything, the worlds your oyster

[H20cleaning]

I am not worrying i am just making a point that has been on my mind, I have only been in business 2 and a half years, mayby my luck will change:)
Just wondered what other people's thoughts were on this .

[Moderator David@stives]

Its nothing to do with luck, just millions and millions of buildings to dip your bread

[richywilts]

dave how much of your work has come from direct sales from yourself

or has a lot of your success been down to getting in with the right contacts, doing good job asking for referrals, asking for extra work