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Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean

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Carl2009

  • Posts: 806
Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« on: January 06, 2014, 03:45:06 pm »
When custies are in I generally get paid (unless they pay online), but I end up having to have a 5 minute conversation with each. With 15 cleans in a day that adds up. The upside is that it's good for cashflow.

When custies are out I can crack on to the next job, but I don't get paid. I get home earlier and can get sorted with the jobs I have here (we live on a smallholding).

What do you prefer?

Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2014, 03:54:45 pm »
When custies are in I generally get paid (unless they pay online), but I end up having to have a 5 minute conversation with each. With 15 cleans in a day that adds up. The upside is that it's good for cashflow.

When custies are out I can crack on to the next job, but I don't get paid. I get home earlier and can get sorted with the jobs I have here (we live on a smallholding).

What do you prefer?

Out, I can work quicker without them knowing and getting the chance to say "finished already", whilst begrudgingly paying me ( doing the maths in their head as to my hourly wage, "and he's just a bloody window cleaner"  >:()

lal

  • Posts: 1113
Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2014, 03:59:11 pm »


  in so i can collect the wedge, without having to come back for it.


Regards
lal

dave f

Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2014, 04:03:19 pm »
out so i can bump all the bathroom windows ;D

C o z y

  • Posts: 7775
Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2014, 04:06:10 pm »
Not bothered. I like the contact and find it builds loyalty in custies. If they pay on the day, good.
No still don't understand, I must be thick

PHILIP HARDY

  • Posts: 189
Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2014, 04:09:25 pm »
Its a quicker job when they are out but you have to do it better, there is one thing a custie always does when they get home and find the 'windows cleaned' card on the floor, yes you have guessed it, they check the windows, They better be done good!!
The Stupid Neither Forgive Nor Forget
The Naive Forgive And Forget
The Wise Forgive But Don't Forget

H20cleaning

  • Posts: 2098
Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2014, 05:00:25 pm »
In... 90 percent of my customers are cash on collection so easier when their in.
If i was busier i imagine i would want them all to be at work and change to direct deb

PoleKing

  • Posts: 8974
Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2014, 05:15:33 pm »
Out!
I'd have them all out and paying DD if I could.
www.LanesWindowCleaning.com

It's just the internet. Try not to worry.

PurefectWindowCleaning

  • Posts: 2303
Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2014, 05:24:58 pm »
100% out...

Ive been doing my round for 10 years, so have a decent relationship with customers already.

Also, my round is slap bang on my doorstep, aswell as being really compact, so collecting isnt an issue. (not that I do even collect, they drop round mine or pop cheque in the post.


With them being out, you can get on with the job.

ascjim

Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2014, 05:43:27 pm »
I prefer out, can blitz it then ;)

mufcglen

  • Posts: 1507
Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2014, 05:56:44 pm »
out and would love them all to be bank payment, but i do have one guy who ive been doing since i started and never met him yet, standing order every month and always out!!!

Johnny B

  • Posts: 2385
Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2014, 07:52:08 pm »
Not bothered. I like the contact and find it builds loyalty in custies. If they pay on the day, good.

+1

John
Being diplomatic is being able to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

robertphil

  • Posts: 1511
Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2014, 07:56:35 pm »
i dont like the days where i never see a single customer

dotty

  • Posts: 371
Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2014, 08:24:41 pm »
like them out cos they try getting me in bed and at my age can only manage about four
p doherty

Positivity

  • Posts: 571
Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2014, 08:26:58 pm »
Two coffees and biscuits today - Mince Pies n Wagon Wheels haven't had those since I was a kid!
Often sat out in the garden or conny having tea and coffee chatting with the pets around and swapping plants and recipes and herbs and stories.
Can't do that when they're out can you?

Matt - aquatec

  • Posts: 216
Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2014, 08:28:11 pm »
Much better if they are out... Most of mine are pay directinto my bank which is good news... Occasionally they are in which is a good thing cus I can have a 2 min chat... But not every time....
Loving the freedom and enjoying the hard work......
www.aquatecwindows.co.uk

trippyboy

  • Posts: 747
Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2014, 09:56:55 pm »
I prefer out, can blitz it then ;)
what he said

G Griffin

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Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2014, 10:05:09 pm »
Do you mean out or out out?
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Carl2009

  • Posts: 806
Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #18 on: January 06, 2014, 10:06:36 pm »
Do you mean out or out out?

In, out

Shake it all about  :)

PoleKing

  • Posts: 8974
Re: Do you prefer your custies to be in or out when you clean
« Reply #19 on: January 06, 2014, 10:07:02 pm »
Two coffees and biscuits today - Mince Pies n Wagon Wheels haven't had those since I was a kid!
Often sat out in the garden or conny having tea and coffee chatting with the pets around and swapping plants and recipes and herbs and stories.
Can't do that when they're out can you?

Exactly! Out.
www.LanesWindowCleaning.com

It's just the internet. Try not to worry.