[Deangsi]

Hi guys iv took on a 2 man team for 2 days a week so i can canvass hard this summer. How many houses should they be doing in 7 hours on your standard estate work few with connys etc with about 1 hour drive time. Just need to know if i should be cracking the whip lol

[windiewasher]

Hi guys iv took on a 2 man team for 2 days a week so i can canvass hard this summer. How many houses should they be doing in 7 hours on your standard estate work few with connys etc with about 1 hour drive time. Just need to know if i should be cracking the whip lol

Surely 30 houses minimum

[Deangsi]

They did 23 today which i thought was crap the one guy is realy slow hopefully he will pick it up over the next week not bad tho for a first day i guess. I can push them bit by bit i think

[windiewasher]

They did 23 today which i thought was crap the one guy is realy slow hopefully he will pick it up over the next week not bad tho for a first day i guess. I can push them bit by bit i think

Give them a bonus if they hit over 30 or slightly more

[Deangsi]

That's not a bad idea to be fair i will do some workings out to decide on a bonus scene. How much would you offer them? £10 each extra?

[windiewasher]

That's not a bad idea to be fair i will do some workings out to decide on a bonus scene. How much would you offer them? £10 each extra?

Couple of quid everyone on top of the set amount.

[AuRavelling79]

It depends. I'm talking bread and butter domestic here - not some big commercial.

Let's say you pay them £80 each, totalling £160 plus van, fuel insurance and equipment costs. So say your starting point is £200 per day to break even.

I would be very happy if they hit £400 as an average and content at £350.

I know the heroes on here will say they can do £250 a day every day on their own but I bet their average is way less.

From my experience 2 men from one van do about 175% what one man from one van does. So let's say one man does £200 then two men £350.

Also an owner operator will do rather more- it's his business after all.

I pay a quarterly bonus where if we hit our monthly target employee gets £100 bonus. If we hit the quarterly figure then the bonus totals £400. (3 x £100 + an extra £100)



 

[Deangsi]

That's a good way of looking at it gold, will bear this in mind. Im looking at canvassing 2 full days per week along with leathlets and hoping for a 50 customer increase per month or 500-600. Looking to do this permanent and as i get more work up there days to 3-4 etc and so on does this sound like a profitable plan?

[MATT BATEMAN (OWC)]

Give them a bonus if they hit over 30 or slightly more

Get ready for the complaints.

[Spruce]

A manager is someone who leads his team and developes them in the way he wants them to go to achieve targets. So one of his main skills is that of being a motivator and team leader.

Staff are motivated in different ways; with some its money, with others its doing a good job he is proud of. Your job as a manager is to identify what makes each employee tick and work with those assets. For some reason, giving bonuses in response to achieving a target is a popular British management trait, but the guys who are money driven could end up taking short cuts and not cleaning properly just to learn the money. The end result is that your business reputation suffers. The guys who aren't money driven just become demotivated and produce less.

I watched several really good salemen in the Reg Vardy car dealerships being promoted to sales managers. When asked what their key function was, several replied that it was to hire and fire. There was no consideration on their part that one of their key responsibilities was to train and 'groom' their staff in the way that would get the best out of their selling skills to sell more cars.

[Rayleigh Window Cleaning Services]

It depends. I'm talking bread and butter domestic here - not some big commercial.

Let's say you pay them £80 each, totalling £160 plus van, fuel insurance and equipment costs. So say your starting point is £200 per day to break even.

I would be very happy if they hit £400 as an average and content at £350.

I know the heroes on here will say they can do £250 a day every day on their own but I bet their average is way less.

From my experience 2 men from one van do about 175% what one man from one van does. So let's say one man does £200 then two men £350.

Also an owner operator will do rather more- it's his business after all.

I pay a quarterly bonus where if we hit our monthly target employee gets £100 bonus. If we hit the quarterly figure then the bonus totals £400. (3 x £100 + an extra £100)



 

+1

[Deangsi]

I will give the old bonus sceme a try and see how that goes i will also say to keep the quality of work as lots of complaints is worse than not hitting targets

[robertphil]

likely theyll increase their speed slowly but steadily . dont make em run before their time

[Sean Dyer]

It depends. I'm talking bread and butter domestic here - not some big commercial.

Let's say you pay them £80 each, totalling £160 plus van, fuel insurance and equipment costs. So say your starting point is £200 per day to break even.

I would be very happy if they hit £400 as an average and content at £350.

I know the heroes on here will say they can do £250 a day every day on their own but I bet their average is way less.

From my experience 2 men from one van do about 175% what one man from one van does. So let's say one man does £200 then two men £350.

Also an owner operator will do rather more- it's his business after all.

I pay a quarterly bonus where if we hit our monthly target employee gets £100 bonus. If we hit the quarterly figure then the bonus totals £400. (3 x £100 + an extra £100)



 

very realistic
nice change on here

[Michael Peterson]

Ian Rochester on here, will be able to advise you well on this, he has a great company close to me, i bought on of his old vans recently and he has staff that go out in groups successfully