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Pete Thompson

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #40 on: December 26, 2014, 12:25:04 pm »
My aim is to finally clean out the garage so I can finally park the van in it.

Mick Kent

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #41 on: December 26, 2014, 12:27:00 pm »
My aim is to finally clean out the garage so I can finally park the van in it.
Thats my job for 2moz... Dump run and garage clean including fixing the leaky roof.

Walter Mitty

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #42 on: December 26, 2014, 12:40:44 pm »
Its coming in so fast and i have gained some great contacts and decent priced work in just 6 months and already it is overtaking my domestics on a daily take and now all my domestics are getting in the way and falling behind.
My domestic work is the nuts even though i find commercial better so will only sell if i get a good price! If not ill have to employ a few more to do it whilst i carry on with commercial but id rather just focus on commercial with my all as i have found im verey good at gaining the contracts and contacts, im hitting more than the telesales girls i use.


That's really good mate. I know a couple of guys who do just commercial and they do very well.

Personally if it was me I would do all I can to keep the domestics as well. A guy I know lost a £40k a year contract overnight due to a company going bust. It didn't send him under but he was worried for a bit and had to build it back up.

Commercial is high gains definitely but it also comes with high losses - but I'm sure you know that anyway  :)

Out of interest what is your domestic work worth and what would you sell it for?

Id only sell if got 10-12x which i know is a long shot but it is super work.
Will test the water after march to see what interest i can build up.

For that sort of money it would possibly need to be a buyer who is already employing and has deep pockets; someone who sees it as a longish term investment to profit from otherts doing the manual work rather than someone making a good wage from a partnership or as a sole trader.
When I bought work previously, I found that some customers saw the change of cleaner as the right time to terminate the service.  They seemed to take the view that if they were having a new cleaner, they would prefer it to be someone of their own choosing.  I suppose it's a bit like when a new person moves into our old customer's house - some of us might view it as a time to increase the price (or if it's a very awkward job - to not go back).
Still, that's a buyer's problem.

Ian101

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #43 on: December 26, 2014, 01:24:40 pm »
short version .... to have £500 a month spare when all bills have been paid  :)

Tom-01

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #44 on: December 26, 2014, 03:05:00 pm »
Its coming in so fast and i have gained some great contacts and decent priced work in just 6 months and already it is overtaking my domestics on a daily take and now all my domestics are getting in the way and falling behind.
My domestic work is the nuts even though i find commercial better so will only sell if i get a good price! If not ill have to employ a few more to do it whilst i carry on with commercial but id rather just focus on commercial with my all as i have found im verey good at gaining the contracts and contacts, im hitting more than the telesales girls i use.


That's really good mate. I know a couple of guys who do just commercial and they do very well.

Personally if it was me I would do all I can to keep the domestics as well. A guy I know lost a £40k a year contract overnight due to a company going bust. It didn't send him under but he was worried for a bit and had to build it back up.

Commercial is high gains definitely but it also comes with high losses - but I'm sure you know that anyway  :)

Out of interest what is your domestic work worth and what would you sell it for?

Id only sell if got 10-12x which i know is a long shot but it is super work.
Will test the water after march to see what interest i can build up.

So what is the turnover per year for it?

sunshine windows

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #45 on: December 26, 2014, 04:06:01 pm »
To get 2 franchisee's at bursting point and to take on number 3.

Maybe employ 1 person to work my round so I can concentrate on building the franchise side of the business.
To climb mount fuji you must first find a path
(Swindon, Wiltshire)

www.sunshinewindowcleaning.co.uk
www.sunshinesoftwashing.co.uk

Ben wood

Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #46 on: December 27, 2014, 10:11:12 am »
My aim will to be up prices some by nearly 4 quid others around a pound. And to fill any gaps in the round to make it more compact. And to stop thinking of employing as I don't want the stress and I don't want to go over the vat. and to pay as little tax as poss.

Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #47 on: December 27, 2014, 01:37:45 pm »
Get a newer van (can't afford brand new) - this may happen very early depending on the quotation to fix my existing one (been working from a hire van for over two weeks).
I want to remain a sole trader - at least for now - and to be turning over an additional £800 - £1k a month by June/July time.
On the non-window cleaning front, by this time next year, I want to have a reasonably solid first draft completed for the book I'm writing.

What book you writing out of interest?

Sorry to be slow in replying - I've stayed at a friend's place for a couple of nights.  Sometimes people feel a bit sorry for me spending Christmas on my own but it is misplaced because I'm perfectly happy with that.
As for books, I have two on the go.  The main one is autobiographical - though I am considering the possibility of wrapping it up in a little fiction too (not decided upon this latter course yet).  The other is an amalgam of short stories - mostly of the humorous variety.
When the autobiographical work becomes too difficult or painful, I break off for a while and attempt to write a little comedy.  I find that comedy writing is not as easy as some may at first believe.  I've had a fairly unusual life in some respects and an autobiography is helping me to make more sense of it; I believe it would be entertaining for some other people to read as well.
My main motivations are about achievement and the therapeutic.  It would be gratifying to feel that enough people enjoy my writing for me to make a part-time income from it.  If so, that would be a big bonus.  If not, at least I've used some time doing something that I enjoy.  I like some aspects of window cleaning too but it's more about the relative freedom of employment than the act of washing glass.

Sounds interesting. Hope it works for you.

Perfect Windows

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #48 on: January 05, 2015, 10:05:09 pm »
1. Existing franchisees' rounds to be expanded until they beg me not to give them any more work.

2. Start two new franchisees.

3. Be even happier in 2015 than I was in 2014.

Vin

CasaDeCabra

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #49 on: January 05, 2015, 10:42:46 pm »
1. Keep on beating Vin at golf every Friday!

G Griffin

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #50 on: January 05, 2015, 11:17:36 pm »
To get below the tax threshold and be happy.
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Window Lickers

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #51 on: January 05, 2015, 11:27:23 pm »
More commercial work, another van, another employee, qualifications. Re-jig the websites with Nath and use Becci Swan.
Liberace's ex looking to meet well built men for cottaging meets.

richywilts

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #52 on: January 06, 2015, 06:41:44 pm »
im initiating price increases at the minute getting all properties up to level im happy cleaning for, i have lost 1 in 35 so far as i tried to increase it by £3 to £18 large 4 bed property with large conservertory so not too bothered she said she going to shop around.

not really got any concrete things i want to achieve this year it was all just about taking back over and getting things ticking over nice, getting pricing correct and then building a little getting work more compact hope to build about another 100 new customers thru the summer.

change over to newer van ive bought in next month or so then hopefully change over to a newer large van that can be a two man system ready to take on another worker on part time basis and work at a level just under the vat.

moving into new house next month or so so gonna be spending time doing it up etc
Richard Wiltshire
Window Clean Direct

richardwiltshire36@yahoo.co.uk
www.windowcleandirect.co.uk
07894821844

Perfect Windows

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #53 on: January 09, 2015, 03:17:46 pm »
1. Keep on beating Vin at golf every Friday!

And how's that gone so far in 2015?

Vin

Stephen.C

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #54 on: January 10, 2015, 12:57:14 pm »
More sex QPR to stay up Derby to stay in the chumps league just to pee off donkey, 6 more vans, to avoid Matt Bateman.
Not to get blown up by Islam nutters  when watching QPR. Drink more quality wine eat less at Matt Batemans favorite café Fat Joe's, work wise im appy ;D.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

www.pureh2owindowcleaning.com

SeanK

Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #55 on: January 10, 2015, 01:03:44 pm »
To try and not get murdered by Vision extremists especially JK999 and just get on with things.
Same here work wise I'm happy.

Window Lickers

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #56 on: January 10, 2015, 02:58:07 pm »
More sex QPR to stay up Derby to stay in the chumps league

No chance of any of that happening. Especially the sex, unless you become a farmer.
Liberace's ex looking to meet well built men for cottaging meets.

Window Lickers

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #57 on: January 10, 2015, 02:59:25 pm »
Sorry mate I mis-read your original post.

More sex with QPR players
Liberace's ex looking to meet well built men for cottaging meets.

Stephen.C

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #58 on: January 10, 2015, 07:12:14 pm »
 ;D wally
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

www.pureh2owindowcleaning.com

Frankybadboy

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Re: What do you want to achieve in 2015
« Reply #59 on: January 10, 2015, 07:17:01 pm »
to see out the year with my 1st full-time employee ;D ;D ;D