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Think of it this way if i was trad and a guy on an estate charged £5 a house and i charged £5 we are offering the same service for the same price in the customers eyes. The only thing seperating our businesses is reliability, frequence of cleans, quality of work and whether or not we clean frames.With WFP every system does the same things. You wash the windows and frames and thats the service. Depending on your frequency you dont have a unique selling point other than price if you are in competition with another window cleaner using a wfp system. This is when price wars will seperate you from competition.
thing is though,if you come up against a big business who has blokes working for him,and he charged £6 a time and they did 3 an hour and gave his employee £7-8 an hour hes still making profit,so they might not go away as quickly thought,as some 1 says,business is business,look after number one
Have to say that i am a commerial window cleaner and pricing is key. You aim to win business off others...However i have always had a problem with undercutting on domestic work. Seems more personal to me. I know many will say 'business is business' but my moral code would not allow me to undercut another and yet for commercial work nothing feels better than to win work in the same way.~Ive just bought into a domestic round and we have already made a clear management decision that we are going to expand the round but if we call on a home where they have a window cleaner then we will walk away!Just not that desperate for work!
I have suffered under cutters over the years, the cycle is nearly always the same.1]Inexperienced newbie desperate for work compares his hourly earnings in his last job with what he can make window cleaning, he charges £7 for a £10 job, thinks at £14 an hour he's minted, and gets some work.2] He begins to understand that other window cleaners are earning double his earnings, and it starts to bother him.3] He feels that his customers are exploiting him and starts increasing his prices4] just as he gets his prices up to the level he thinks they should be, some evil little newbie goes round undercutting his prices.What goes round comes round, nothing changes.
so platinum how would you get more work then? you would drop your prices wouldnt you!!!! btw do you have a van with platinum cleaning on the side?QuoteNo ste that isnt me. Not sign written yet
so platinum how would you get more work then? you would drop your prices wouldnt you!!!! btw do you have a van with platinum cleaning on the side?QuoteI would look at cleaning more on the house like the garage doors or maybe facias ( I was asked twice when i had a wfp).Last resort is to lower the price but ive found that the lower my price the more work i pick up thats compact. When i price high i am vulnrable to being undercut and at more risk of losing more money.If i lost 2 customers @ £6 ive lost £12 worth of work.If i lose 2 customers @ £10 thats £20 worth of work.It will take far longer to build a larger round off high priced work. I prefere moderately priced and competitiveI clean houses for £5-6 a month on a council estate and it has grown rapidly as the other wc does these fortnightly for around £4-5. .I have picked up loads where they have seen they can save money with me. We get on great but customers always look for value for money and like now when there is alot of wcs out there prices get squeezed.
Quote from: Platinum on April 05, 2010, 09:27:53 pmso platinum how would you get more work then? you would drop your prices wouldnt you!!!! btw do you have a van with platinum cleaning on the side?QuoteNo ste that isnt me. Not sign written yet
Quote from: Platinum on April 05, 2010, 09:27:53 pmso platinum how would you get more work then? you would drop your prices wouldnt you!!!! btw do you have a van with platinum cleaning on the side?QuoteI would look at cleaning more on the house like the garage doors or maybe facias ( I was asked twice when i had a wfp).Last resort is to lower the price but ive found that the lower my price the more work i pick up thats compact. When i price high i am vulnrable to being undercut and at more risk of losing more money.If i lost 2 customers @ £6 ive lost £12 worth of work.If i lose 2 customers @ £10 thats £20 worth of work.It will take far longer to build a larger round off high priced work. I prefere moderately priced and competitiveI clean houses for £5-6 a month on a council estate and it has grown rapidly as the other wc does these fortnightly for around £4-5. .I have picked up loads where they have seen they can save money with me. We get on great but customers always look for value for money and like now when there is alot of wcs out there prices get squeezed. do you only clean st helens then? massive council estates everywhere there. compact work is great for me, i will clean 23 houses tomorrow and only move my van twice, it makes you so quick its unbelievable
Platinum, are you in the construction business, running a brickworks, selling cars or finance this week?I can never remember.
Quote from: Ste M on April 05, 2010, 09:43:05 pmQuote from: Platinum on April 05, 2010, 09:27:53 pmso platinum how would you get more work then? you would drop your prices wouldnt you!!!! btw do you have a van with platinum cleaning on the side?QuoteI would look at cleaning more on the house like the garage doors or maybe facias ( I was asked twice when i had a wfp).Last resort is to lower the price but ive found that the lower my price the more work i pick up thats compact. When i price high i am vulnrable to being undercut and at more risk of losing more money.If i lost 2 customers @ £6 ive lost £12 worth of work.If i lose 2 customers @ £10 thats £20 worth of work.It will take far longer to build a larger round off high priced work. I prefere moderately priced and competitiveI clean houses for £5-6 a month on a council estate and it has grown rapidly as the other wc does these fortnightly for around £4-5. .I have picked up loads where they have seen they can save money with me. We get on great but customers always look for value for money and like now when there is alot of wcs out there prices get squeezed. do you only clean st helens then? massive council estates everywhere there. compact work is great for me, i will clean 23 houses tomorrow and only move my van twice, it makes you so quick its unbelievableYes ste its covered in them. I cleaned around 25 houses today but my most profitable estate is covered in terraced houses @ £2-£2.50 a front. Do you clean anywhere in st helens?