[harunh]

Been trading for 16 months now and my target for 18 months is to gain 400 customers.

Currently on 360 customers and their all good paying regular customers

Ive gone from 170 customers to 360 customers since may... All of my work is gained by door knocking and word of mouth and advertising

I will be employing someone fulltime in a few months time.. and i believe i can get up to around 600 customers before March/April if i carry on the way i am going

If u want work then u gotta go out their and look for it

[roundbuilder]

Good targets and easily achieved.. Fair play mate you have done well.. Realy well.

[Joe Bromley]

Well done. I remember you starting (posts on window cleaning forum, which I haven't been on in so long). Are you stil trad? Bet you're chuffed with those figures.

[gavinb]

Lol is he still trad ......he's never puck up a squegee never mind used one lol

[Clever Forum Name]

I would look at getting your average price up before employing, didn't you have an average of something like £6.70 a customer?.

[gavinb]

Think his average is £4 .

[PAUL ERITH]

What does average price have to do with any thing, i don't worry about average price i just make sure my hourly rate is good 

Paul

[gavinb]

Well if your average is low you are working harder for a higher hourly rate .
Work smarter not harder !

[PAUL ERITH]

I'm quite happy doing one window and front door for £5 the hourly rate isn't too bad neither 

You can have a average price of £50 but the average means nothing if that work is under priced.

Personally all i care about is the hourly rate i don't care if i do 7 or 1 job to get that hourly rate its all money 



Paul

[Ian101]

Well done great effort I'm on an expansion drive myself

[Clever Forum Name]

new cleaner will take at least a year to settle into wfp work, unless you want countless complaints.

If he ups his average price that will compensate for being slow for a year maybe even two.

[harunh]

average price is £7.50 plus 10% of my work is fronts only mainly at 4/5 pound so that drags my average price down a bit

[KS Cleaning]

Well if your average is low you are working harder for a higher hourly rate .
Work smarter not harder !

You can have an average of £6.00 per house and do 6 per hour, and you can have an average of £10.00 per house and only manage 3 per hour working at the same speed.

[Clever Forum Name]

Would rather do 3 houses. 3 less moves. 3 less everything.

[windiewasher]

Would rather do 3 houses. 3 less moves. 3 less everything.

+1

[Clever Forum Name]

I do agree with hourly rates btw. But if he increased all his houses by £4 and got the average up it would make his life easier.

[KS Cleaning]

Would rather do 3 houses. 3 less moves. 3 less everything.

A would rather have the £36 per hour rather than the £30 per hour, and for some of us you wouldn't have to move to clean 6 £6 houses

[KS Cleaning]

I do agree with hourly rates btw. But if he increased all his houses by £4 and got the average up it would make his life easier.

So how many customers do u think would stick with him if he increased prices by over 50%? 

[Clever Forum Name]

Prob most would cancel it was example and not a plan for him.

I can't comment on the £30 vs £36 as everybody is different.

[roundbuilder]

Less moves all day long over stop start stop start otherwise you end up cream crackared by the end of the working day and cant keep a good working pace i easily do 25-30 jobs a day when compact, if spread out id prob only get half done if lucky.
I do on average 6 stops a day doing between 2 and 8 jobs from each spot. Stuff working and driving about like a headless chicken moving for every job...defo not for me.