Thas no chance of double round here
If you say so...
Ok so maybe that's not strictly true.
But I find window cleaning work that hard to obtain that to lower my chances even further of getting work is just not viable.
Lots of windys round here and prices are low. I get very few enquiries off website. Facebook I get a low percentage of quotes as it is because my prices are more than most. Canvassing is always a struggle again low prices. So when I do finally get a customer he last thing I want to do is not get them by charging double. If I had enquiries coming out of my ears it'd be different.
I find that the amount of customers I get is proportionate to the amount of effort I put into getting them. If I waited just for website enquiries I'd have about 30 regulars and about 100 one offs. In other words if you are leafleting/canvassing 10 hours every week then your view is a valid one. If not, then you don't have enough data to give an informed view.
Wrong you could canvass/leaflet 10 hours a day and you still wouldn't have an informed view, your canvassing for work not taking a survey to see what a potential customer may or may not put up with.
At the end of the day we all do the same thing which is pluck a number out of the air and hope our customers will go for it, yes
there will be things around us that will help with that decision, what others are charging, what others are offering, how good is their work, how much competition there is and so on.
Canvass an area full of wealthy types with a shortage of shiners and your going to be a lot bolder than somebody canvassing a
run of the mill estate with a shiner at every corner, similar if your in an area with plenty of competition but all doing crap work then your going to be in the position to charge more for a better job. but no matter what we do none of us will know for sure if we have pushed our customers to the limit price wise.