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james44

Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #20 on: March 07, 2005, 08:37:04 pm »
Picked up 1 today just, priced job house £5  con £3


fortnightly clean he said to dear,

solution i said how about £6.50 and do con every other clean

he said yes phew

Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #21 on: March 07, 2005, 08:58:43 pm »
house £5  con £3

Hope this was a dolls house, if not your selling yourself short.  :o What do you manage per hour?

james44

Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #22 on: March 07, 2005, 09:10:06 pm »
Stuart can`t  get big prices up here but i can earn £20 plus per/hr,  prices range £5/£7.50 per house, some cleaners still charge £3.50/£4.00   

Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #23 on: March 07, 2005, 10:12:24 pm »
Ii do one house £200.00 biggest per month takes 3 hours with wfp without stopping

Roy Harding

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Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #24 on: March 07, 2005, 10:15:38 pm »
I do one £340 and she said I could do it weekly if I felt they needed it. :) :)

texas girl

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Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #25 on: March 08, 2005, 03:58:40 am »
When you are filled to the top with your workload, do you consider  subcontracting some and doing some, or is it prefferable to do what you can yourself and drop less porofitables? 8)

Of course as you know, I have gone the sub route.  Even tho it has it's problems, I do like sleeping until 8 or going out on the lake on afternoons. ;D

But it is a close call.  Today I had to go to the police and arrange for an officer to go with me to Cindy's house so I can get my tools back.  :P

I kick myself in the butt because I went against my policy with Cindy. ???

Normally a subcontractor works for 2 weeks and then gets paid for what they did the first week.

With Cindy I fell for her sad stories, and let her slide; WHAT A CHUMP!!!  I am angry at myself.  If a worker has money coming to them, they will absolutely give you back everything.

Subing versus one man operation; a bit of a dillema.  Both are good ond bad.
Debbie

Grafters Cleaning Services

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Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #26 on: March 08, 2005, 08:12:30 am »
last week i picked up £34-00 in new work, yesterday it was £16 this is from being out on  the job and not canvassing, this is all very well at the moment as i'm in the position to take on more, however there will come a time when i will have to stop taking on new customers as i'm not superman and can only do so much in a monthly turnover, i know nobody likes turning work away but i'm not prepared to take on a partner/employee because of all the health and safety regs so where do i go from here to make more money?
JAY "GRAFTERS"
From Southampton
www.high-shine.co.uk

anderclean

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Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #27 on: March 08, 2005, 09:11:38 am »
Mee too have just released 120 houses free to another shiner .Too busy to keep taking more on as most of the work im doing is wfp large buildings.Today done 6 jobs as follows and took up from 9-4

9-1:30 block of flats £265.00
1:30-2:00 2 x shop front £5 each
2:20-3:00 architect building £45.00
3:30-4:00 2 xhouses £10.00 each

easy,
£340- for working 9 - 4 sounds like an excellent day.
is that you on your own ?
or are there 2 of you ?


Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #28 on: March 08, 2005, 05:14:19 pm »
We've had a blinding day (by our standards), but lost one customer due to 'death'.  He was old and disabled and it had nothing to do with me. 

I did have two who died last year actually owing me money!  I'm not worried, I'll get 'em when I meet up with them.  I never let anyone get away with not paying me.

It was a small pensioners bungalow, four windows and a door.  So I've picked up £14.00 and lost £5.00; therefore a running balance of £9.00.

Roy Harding

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Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #29 on: March 08, 2005, 05:33:17 pm »
Only worked half day, tatal so far £30 :)

Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #30 on: March 08, 2005, 05:35:10 pm »
Paulp,

More than happy to let you have the work. E-mail me and let me know when you are next in Bakewell, Derbyshire.

By the way, dispite my best efforts we picked up £35 new work today!

Roy Harding

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Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #31 on: March 08, 2005, 05:40:29 pm »
I have a friend (only one I think)  :(that walks head down scouring the pavement, on finding a 1p, laughs and says £4.99 to go. :) How true.

Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #32 on: March 08, 2005, 05:55:31 pm »
Hope this was a dolls house, if not your selling yourself short.   What do you manage per hour?

Sorry james44, cheap comment from me.

Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #33 on: March 08, 2005, 07:10:40 pm »
Picked up 1 house £30.00
                 1 block of flats £215.00
                 turned away 10 semis ....i still cant get the rest done

Grafters Cleaning Services

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Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #34 on: March 08, 2005, 10:48:00 pm »
best day ever today, i do a old peoples home @ £60-00 takes about 2 & half hours, today they recomended me to another care home, went to do the estimate and picked up the contract, £100-00 should take me about 3 hours
JAY "GRAFTERS"
From Southampton
www.high-shine.co.uk

www.mrgutters.co.uk

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Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #35 on: March 15, 2005, 06:34:29 pm »
i just got a £36 house 45 min work .. 3 X £10 in one road and 1 X £10 i another my customer werent in o i saw a bloke pull up and i asked him he said yip do my windows .. not a bad day ...  ;D ;D ;D
If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Grafters Cleaning Services

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Re: Increase your turnover this week
« Reply #36 on: March 15, 2005, 08:27:47 pm »
2 new jobs today 1 @ £8-00 and 1 @ £10-00
JAY "GRAFTERS"
From Southampton
www.high-shine.co.uk