Just had a call from our 1,050th a month to the day since our thousandth.
Lost a handful over the past month so this is net.
Target is 2,000 by this date next year, so need to get our skates on.
Vin
If we are talking "net", I probably took on my thousandth many years ago.
I had about 400 after 3 years and it came close to 500 at one point.
It wasn't worth a light though. I was doing it all by ladder in those days. It was mostly underpriced. Anything between a quarter and a third were regular "not todayers".
I didn't know any better. I had no mentor and there was no internet. I went into it from desperation due to unemployment and that showed in my prices. The problem was that new customers tended to know existing ones so it was hard to charge them more. I reckon I cleaned more than 50% of the houses in one large village (very small town?). In one road, I cleaned 20 of 35 properties. All underpriced.
Eventually I got resentful enough to wise up. I make far more from my current 220 than I ever did from the 400+ - even allowing for many years of inflation.
At least when building it this time I can focus more on quality than quantity. It will make the build-up slower but I'm OK with that.
I will have 300 average to very good customers on the books by mid summer. That ought to be sufficient.