[Adrian Ridley]

Charge  the same as him then.

[Robin Ray]

No one should be charging the same as or a percentage of anyone else just because........

You should be charging the amount you need/want to earn to make your business viable. I hate to say it but Simon Gerards book comes with a spread sheet to find out exactly that.

[Scott Blaney]

Having said that, £30 a room is boarder line expensive on fb. There's loads of guys doing 2 bed houses for £50 and 3 piece suits for £40.

I had a job cancel on me for next week....   They found someone else doing a  4 bed house - carpeted throughout for £40.00.

Laughable really as he has to travel an hour each way to the job too!

[Ian Harper]

Gavin Davey

you can earn as much as you can build and design any marketing media to return.

A tern that you might know is called "return on investment" so you need to find marketing tools that give this.

so in simple terms invest £100 you want you money back plus cost plus profit.

You job is the find lots of different marketing ideas that give you a return on this investment.

The art comes in in the design part. You want a unique reason for people to buy from you and not any other carpet cleaner. we do this by having a message, offer, and exp date.

Once you have this money making machine. you should be able to scale it.

you want as many of these tools as you can make. Years ago a guy named Joe polish gave us over 100 different tools to use. you can still get his information products. if not anything that direct response related. Direct response is a way that you sell to people that are not looking but might if your message or offer tempts them.

when you have these tools working you can buy as many customers as you can deal with. sounds easy but a lot harder in practice.

My advise is try and be a big fish little pond guy. this way you build a farm and your resources can make an impact.

You will find two different approaches here. one high price few jobs or two low price lots of jobs. both work. as long as the number stack up at the end of the month it really does not matter which way you go.

Good Luck

[Stoots]

I've been dabbling with carpet cleaning for over a year now along with slowly building a window cleaning round.

As my window cleaning round grows towards 200 customers I am slowly getting the feeling I will ditch the carpets completely and put my efforts into maximising the profits in window cleaning.

There is a lot more marketting and expenses involved on carpets and although the profits can be greater there will always need to be ongoing advertising.