A large percentage of my work is cleaning shop fronts, I too have 1 account that is £2.00.
But all around it in a small arcade I have 5 other shops, two at £8.00, one at £5.50, one at £5.00 and another at £7.00, including the £2.00 shop I'm all done in roughly 10 or 15 minutes.
shops are fought & sought after, they are great when you have a bunch of them, but to get them you have to go in cheap...or rather it feels cheap, particularly when you have to find somewhere to park and then go and clean the shop front, unless you are charging good money it isn't worth it.
Getting a toehold isn't easy, plus you have to be as regular as clockwork too, sometimes twice a week as Trevor has said.
I'm not really prepared to admit to what I can turn over in under 3 hours of doing shop fronts/pubs/small offices etc, but it's...er...pretty good.
One of the downsides is the collecting, some days it can take me an hour walking around town to get them all collected.
I'm in town about 6am and most the actual window cleaning is all done by 10ish at the latest (generally).
Then there are those that you have to call back on to do the insides, and if you have time off you have to cover the work too.
You are part of the fixtures & fittings, and they only miss you when you don't turn up! And if you are irregular they will soon dump you for someone else.
So £2.00 might sound ridiculously cheap, but if it is a shop next door to one you already do, and it only takes you 30 seconds to clean, well, it's good money
I only have one shop at £2.00 I might add! A few more at £2.50, more still at £3.50 and the rest vary, across the board the average will probably work out at a fiver...I must total them up and see what the actual average works out at...
Ian