[Chris R]

I have some new competition in my area 

Time for me to pack it in and find a new trade 

Goodbye 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk:80/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130198410499&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:GB:1123

[Straker Cleaning]

This time next year ........... they will be MILLOINAYRES 

[Deep Clean Newcastle Gateshead]

This time next year they will be able to afford an other wheel for there car!!!

[markpowell]

£45.00 for a room 20 sq ft thats a room 5ft x 4ft maybe a pantry or airing cupboard, hes only charging £2.25 a sq ft thats good value. An acerage lounge at 18 x 12 would come in at £468.00  

[markpowell]

truck mount or portable his ad doesnt say

[spencer davies]

They had better make sure the machine is emptied before putting it in the back, otherwise the run the risk of tipping.  :

But they will appeal to a certain type of customer.


S

[Chris R]

£45.00 for a room 20 sq ft thats a room 5ft x 4ft maybe a pantry or airing cupboard, hes only charging £2.25 a sq ft thats good value. An acerage lounge at 18 x 12 would come in at £468.00  

Mark,
its not £45 for a room up to 20sq ft.
Its £45 for a room up to 20ft Square     20ft x 20 ft = 400sq ft for £45 !

[Straker Cleaning]

37.16 sq metres for £45.00 ......... £1.24 a sq metre  :

No wonder they can only afford 3 wheels  :

[klinger (spa clean)]

Looks like his truck-mount has vibrated one of his wheels off..."what a Plonker!!!"

[turneylogan]

Its a team of two... they dress up like Batman and Robin.

[*paul_moss]

Guys if we are taking the p i s s out of them,dont you think that customers are going to be the same?

Chris nothing to worry about here mate,doubt  they will even be around in 6 months.   
 
 
 

[carpet guy]

Ignoring the " eyecatching " marketing tool, what's wrong with £45 for an average lounge, or £50 for an average suite. Bet there are are loads on here charging around that, or even less. Bearing in mind that you rarely clean single carpets and when a suite gets cleaned there's usually at least one carpet to do at the same time, so the average ticket would be around £90 to £100.

At two jobs per day he's going to get at least £1000 a week or double the national average wage, is he a muppet, or maybe just a young guy starting up and with his smart marketing approach, likely to become a successful businessman in a couple of years ?

If he's a young man, he will be perfectly capable of getting through 4 jobs per day and that would give him around £2000 per week !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder how many carpet cleaners earn a third of that ?

Never underestimate the opposition.

rob

[Shaun_Ashmore]

There's not much room in that vehicle for the apparatus of the trade though!

Shaun

[martin19842]

hi there

interesting,   like ive said before,  when you run your own business you know how much you need or want to earn and therefore you market yourself to achieve that.

a guy with a fully kitted out van, with either truckmount or portable, the knowledge and experience, will always charge more.

another way to look at it is

work smart, and hard.

unfortunately people come ang people, the turnover in our area, from local ads and the phone book from one year to another is quite interesting.

quite clearly they will be busy,

therefore

potential clinet sees their cheao price calls them, but they cant do anything for say two weeks, potential client then calls you, an hey you can do it a bit sooner, the client accepts your higher price and you get the work.

you turn up to clean do a good job, and listen to the tale of the competitior who cant get there to do it for weeks.

the client then refers you to their friends as a company that provides a good prompt service, hey you might not be the cheapest in town, but that client thinks your great.

just an opinion

regards

martin

[*paul_moss]

Rob, you have put an argument forward which is correct, but only from some body experienced in this game. I doubt if these guys have 10% of that exprience or business sence and by the look of them, they are at the other end of the scale just trying it out as first timers.

[AJB]

When i started as a sub-contractor for a natonwide company, many new starters
used small hatchbacks to work from. succesful operatives would be banking anywhere from £1000
to £1800 a week!  This was 13 years ago. With a Woodbridge Powermate , wand, hand tool, and about
8 5 litre bottles.
Just remember his vehicle will carry what he needs, and will turn heads.  They may laugh but they will
see his name.

[carpet_care]

Thought the obvious spelling mistakes would put potential client off

      Lack of attention to detail. :

          Andy Locke.

[Mike Osbourne]

I thought it was the new Dave Ingram high powered porty.

[carpet guy]

You will find plenty of spelling mistakes on here !!!!!!!!!! I'm guessing the Little Reliant is for Marketing and unlikely to be used to actually carry out the operation and from that point of viewI think it's pretty smart marketing.

The biggest car retailer in the country uses a strange looking old Renault van to advertise and he's a mega millionaire, a local Taxi company has a very old taxi, brightly painted and liveried which is parked around the county in a different lacation daily, another taxi fibm has an ancient London bus carrying their logo, parked in hard to miss locations each day.

The little Smart car has been adopted by thousands of companies, to great effect.

If you see a name often enough your brain will associate it with it's marketing message.

So..............who you gonna call /

Well not you, but your prospects.  Don't be shy, get your message out their or nobody will find you.

Paul's right about my perspective being due to being ancient, but I've kept my eyes and ears open throughout my many years and remember what works, or have afair idea of what might work.

rob

[Mike Osbourne]

Of all the things you want to associate yourself with-a plastic pig?

OK it gets attention and probably publicity but you wouldn't want people to associate it with your business.

Now if he had a back to the future De Lorien or FAB1.