I cant understand why all your customers wouldnt want 4 weekly when all mine do??? your just creating extra work for yourself as will be that much more dirty. i mainly do front only cleans on a 4 week basis charging £10 a pop and never have customers say that im to regular in fact some ask for 2 weekly who are on main roads, even if i did these 6 weekly i wouldnt be able to charge them any more as no one would pay any higher for there fronts.
as for 12 weekly they may as well be first cleans each time especialy in winter so no wonder you charge an extra 50%.
I run my business how I want and the way I want it is how i would imagine most do- to earn as much money as possible with the minimal amount of work carried out to do so, so for me i cant justify having the 6 weekly. I have just over 1000 customers who are all pretty much on 4 weekly bar 100 odd on 8 weekly due to money issues or in central london where i do them every other month on sundays. if i did every customer on 6 weekly id be at a big loss.
So i still cant understand why you say all your customers want 6 weekly? if all your customers wanted you to go 6 monthly would you??? i work my round how i want not how customers want.
If you think a 12-weekly clean is like a first clean, then you clearly have never done one. Also, if you think a winter 12-weekly clean is harder, ditto. It's summer pollen, slugs and spiders that hurt.
Your problem with understanding why I do it is that you're not taking into account the price increase.
A 12-weekly clean takes me seconds (literally) more than a 6-weekly. At a 50% uplift in price, I
LOVE 12-weeklies. I even work very hard at talking my 6-weekly cleans into moving to 12-weekly, so either I'm a complete idiot (possible) or I know something you don't know.
Yes, my round took longer to grow, but equally, with 2/3 of my customers at a 50% price uplift, I'm earning far more per hour in return for that work.
Ref your question about 6-monthly, I have a few. They pay 2.25x the price of a six-weekly. I love them even more than the 12-weekly. They take maybe 20% more time than a 6-weekly clean but I'm earning so much more per hour.
Still, you're on here to pursue an agenda rather than ask a question, so no doubt I'll be totally wrong.
Vin