Had customers this morning say you must carry on if you are self employed unless they say you can’t so that’s what I intend to do,flattening out in China which is great news we are about 3/4 weeks behind them so hopefully in that time we will be too.
It’s people that have multiple vans and 1000s of customers that will feel it more I reckon if I started to lose more than I liked I’d stop completely and go back when things have at least improved slightly,until then I’ll keep going.
If your referring to the likes of Pryor’s, my guess would be he’s better placed to absorb the cost than a lot of us.
On the contrary firms like that have 1000s of jobs and multiple staff-vans they couldn’t take the same percentage hit and survive with the same amount of staff unless the problem only last a short time,you could run at break even for a short time but you wouldn’t want to do that long term.
If you lose 10 it could mean a 100 for someone else that’s a worry,I’m not directing this at Lee at all this problem of firms losing work won’t be short term it could go on for well over a year maybe 2 it’s not the Virus it’s what it leaves behind as far as the economy goes.
The last thing people are thinking about at the moment is picking up that leaflet and signing up for a direct debit for window cleaning and that’s a fact,go out and ask 20 people what they would do at this particular time they’d laugh at you.
You need to maintain and try to keep what you’ve already got if manage to get the odd new job brilliant,but spending 1000s on a leaflet campaign at the moment would be daft like I say this is not over once people stop dying from it.