[Lee Pryor]

Tomorrow will be the first day with all our vans out together. As many know we have been working hard towards this for just over 2 years since I decided to really go for it with the business. Tomorrow also promises to be our best ever day for turnover as does this month.

We are now very close to our ultimate target of just over £65k a month which I hope to reach by the end of October.

I am excited to see them all on the tracker tomorrow and to see what the days/months turnover ends up at.

work is still coming in at a good pace with 22 new houses joined today. 

[Cookie]

Sounds like you're doing well!

How many vans do you have?

[Lee Pryor]

11

Although 1 is a spare so its 10 out tomorrow which was always the goal.

[John Mart]

Nice one Lee. I reached a couple of goals/round numbers last week.

How many leaflets are you delivering this summer. I’ve got around 130,000 going out with Royal Mail. So far 315 new customers net growth. 6 today.

[Lee Pryor]

Our total leaflets for this year will be 600,000 with a further 150,000 if needed but I hope to hit the goal with the 600k which we are just over half way through

[Tom-01]

What's the profit like?

[Lee Pryor]

Good when I don't spend it all on continuous growth.

[Smudger]

Well done Lee

Keep it up

Darran

[Go]

Great stuff!

How stressed are you? I find it quite draining doing just a fraction of that.

[Lee Pryor]

Yes it can be stressful. I cope by only working in the afternoons and I don't get involved in any of the day to day running. My office staff do all that 9-5 each day. I do the marketing and equipment/vehicle things along with the financial side. A bit like getting off the tools, I have now got off the office work too. I have removed myself from as much as possible day to day.

[John Mart]

Yes it can be stressful. I cope by only working in the afternoons and I don't get involved in any of the day to day running. My office staff do all that 9-5 each day. I do the marketing and equipment/vehicle things along with the financial side. A bit like getting off the tools, I have now got off the office work too. I have removed myself from as much as possible day to day.

What about the scheduling. That must be pretty time consuming and complicated.

[Lee Pryor]

Not really. We use cleaner planner. If I'm in the office I do the worksheets for the next day or the girls do it if I'm not in. Today I did 10 worksheets for tomorrow (164 jobs) in about half hour. Just over £4000 in total on the sheets

[John Mart]

Not really. We use cleaner planner. If I'm in the office I do the worksheets for the next day or the girls do it if I'm not in. Today I did 10 worksheets for tomorrow (164 jobs) in about half hour. Just over £4000 in total on the sheets

What I find is with the constant influx of new jobs and additional staff member it’s ongoing shuffling. We’re behind as well which doesn’t help. It takes me probably more than 1/2 hour to do three.

[Lee Pryor]

We don't shuffle anything because we work on 1 round instead of each person having their own round. Also the girls in the office do all the customer sign ups and data entry.

[Smudger]

Lee

Are you doing paper worksheets or do the guys have a tablet ?

Darran

[John Mart]

We don't shuffle anything because we work on 1 round instead of each person having their own round. Also the girls in the office do all the customer sign ups and data entry.

That sounds as though it would be worse but obviously it isn’t otherwise you would take longer to plan. It’s covering a wide area that makes it harder so for example when you’ve got one guy in a town and able to do £400 but there’s £600 there and you’re not due back for 3 weeks.

[Smudger]

We don't shuffle anything because we work on 1 round instead of each person having their own round. Also the girls in the office do all the customer sign ups and data entry.

That sounds as though it would be worse but obviously it isn’t otherwise you would take longer to plan. It’s covering a wide area that makes it harder so for example when you’ve got one guy in a town and able to do £400 but there’s £600 there and you’re not due back for 3 weeks.

According to some you just miss them out 🤪

[Lee Pryor]

Tablet.

Again we don't have that problem as our round is laid out in a fixed order moving in a clockwise circle. So as per your example if we have the same £600 in one town and one cleaner gets £400 of it the next cleaner gets £200 and the next £200 in the following town which may be a few minutes drive away. The only downside is when a customer then joins from the finished town later that week they will have to wait for their first clean until the next round there.

So when I do the work sheets I simply select the next £400 on the round list and give that to cleaner 1 then the next £400 to cleaner 2 and so on

[Smudger]

Tablets make the whole thing very straightforward
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Darran

[John Mart]

Tablet.

Again we don't have that problem as our round is laid out in a fixed order moving in a clockwise circle. So as per your example if we have the same £600 in one town and one cleaner gets £400 of it the next cleaner gets £200 and the next £200 in the following town which may be a few minutes drive away. The only downside is when a customer then joins from the finished town later that week they will have to wait for their first clean until the next round there.

So when I do the work sheets I simply select the next £400 on the round list and give that to cleaner 1 then the next £400 to cleaner 2 and so on

Oh that makes sense.  But as you say it's the wait of the new one. I get some going elsewhere by the time I get to them!