[derek west]

mark
are you honestly saying that, if i got my wife to ring you and pretend to be a custy who wanted some carpets cleaning, when she asked "how soon could you do it" your answer would be, not until the 23rd of march 2009, and i'm guessing the waiting list is still growing?
unless your charging a £1 a carpet, or you only do 1 job a week, then i take my hat off too ya mate, thats phenomanal.
does anyone else have trouble swallowing this, or am i a naive newbie.
FULLY booked up, seriously?
yours
sceptical derek
ps, if your fully booked up, i'm guessing thats sort of £1500 to £2000 a week, gauranteed for the next 4 months.

[russell james]

  i found a bit exagerated

[cleaningmaster]

He does have to pay for his new Truckmount

[Mike Halliday]

'fully booked' to some is part time to others.

 someone will  say they are fully booked, then in another post say they are home for 1pm every day.

 I''d be fully booked  a month ahead all the time if I only did 1 job a day and went home at dinnertime.

[clinton]

1 job a day

[M.Acorn]

Got 2 on today 10.30 start,1st job 80 odd take hour or so,2nd job 2 bed house,got to wait for the call to say removal men have been ! 1 bed room stairs land and lounge £116.Then thats me until monday,one job so far monday lounge and stairs £100.Then will hopefully be putting my new heater motor in the van ! no fun went in feb this year and not got around to sorting it out,think i am cming down with something,having wet feet and jeans ,did a sofa yesterday and my jeans were soaked ,getting into a cold van with no heat afterwards was not nice.

[mark shannon]

 

Sorry lads just making the point you have to take what people say with a pinch.

Booked a week in advance.

[sherco]

Got two jobs next week, lounge carpet £70 then another lounge, stairs and landing and one bedroom £140 and tiled floor in kitchen/utility clean and polish, remove one broken tile and re grout £150.00. Then tiling rest of the week.

[derek west]

in the 6 months ive been trading ive never been fully booked, not even for one day.
am i bovvered?
am i f**k
derek

[clinton]

Mark

How are you finding your new set up

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I've got a space at 4pm on the 15th and the 2 days knowone wants Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd in the afternoon.

Shaun

[mark shannon]

Clinton getting new setup on Thursday.

Derek with your positive attitude you'll have more work than any of us  (even Shaun) after a year or two.

Find allot custys want weekends scared to take time off.

Mark

[clinton]

Mark

Sorry thought you got it leas few weeks :

Be good to know how you get on mate and am sure you will be getting your outlay back in no  time mark

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Cancellation for next Saturday afternoon, woooooh is me

Shaun

[derek west]

looks like shauns on one of his many wii fits next saturday, might come round and woop his ass.
derek

[clinton]

 

[Ricky M]

13 jobs booked next week (mon-fri),3 a day except tue , just 1 but its a 9am til 1:30pm but need to take new baby to see some of the Mrs family in the afternoon .
  13 jobs = £930     not the best but put the prices up with the regs is going to be a slow process

I posted some time ago saying that i have lots of bookings for next year and was hit with lots of " O yes we belive you NOT ! " and all that crap !!!!!!

I do and DONT see why folk dont belive , Ive now today got 247 jobs pre booked for next year with this system ive adapted to marketing my lil CC biz and its a non aggressive . in the run up to xmas Ive got 48 jobs pre booked inc the 13 from mon and most are recos & regs, however I dont have a web page JUST yet & no yel., just yel pages bt book and had 8k leaflets dropped and recos .
I recon 33% of my new work is reco . and my regs reco me for there gain !
LAST YEAR IN DEC THE BIZ TOOK £1586 FOR THE WHOLE OF THE MONTH !!!!!
but I was just a helper watching and learning ( STILL LEARNING )
I spend 7 days a week working on my biz and developing .
        ***********My clients market my biz for me************

A very ped off Ricky

[Neil Williams]

Yes exactly. 
Nice size advert in YP, 4 web sites out there with 3 in the first 3 pages and we don't even get enough enquiries to fill up the next 2 weeks never mind actual jobs converted.
As for 22,000 leaflets going out, somethings not right as most believe in 1% return in enquires. Thats 220 enquiries. Convert 50% to jobs and that should be enough to keep someone buisy for a whole month.

Good to see all you guys are really busy, you can all turn your phones off now for the rest of December. I have got to know loads of cleaners around my area and none of them ever say they are booked out for weeks, ever. Christmas is never the best anyway, Give me a July and August anyday over Xmas.
Its seems really strange to me that customers book so far in advance as most only book 3 weeks out at a max. Most dont no what they are doing next week let alone 1 or 2 months out.

[Mike Halliday]

Neil, no one belives in a 1% return on lealfets, like you say that would bring in a vast amount of work. its more like 0.01% which on 22k lealfets would bring in 22 enquiries/jobs

Ricky, if you want people to believe you don't say......

this system ive adapted to marketing my lil CC biz and its a non aggressive

..........in the amount of time it took to type that you could have just told us what it is. as a guess you proberbly tell the customer their carpets need cleaning yearly so rebook each job as you leave.

[russell james]

it really depends how you put the leaflets out, i had 22,000 go in my local newspapers, had about 8 calls!!
however, i can spend a few hours putting out 5-600 and i will get 4-5 calls sometimes