Squeezing Blood from a Turnip

[steve_64]

I'm $100 minimum and still lose jobs due to price from new customers.
$50 a room 2 room minimum or 300 sq ft. Unless it's trashed. Price goes up from there.

 

[rick imby]

$200 translates to $120 in Bama.
I get hung up on and argued with all the time.

With your sunny disposition we can't believe anyone would ever hang up on you....

 

[hogjowl]

I’m nice to my customers
And my grandkids

 

[FB7777]

You guys are all ballers.... I have a $95 minimum

 

[DAT]

You guys are all ballers.... I have a $95 minimum

Liar

 

[Nomad74]

You guys are all ballers.... I have a $95 minimum

I’m just a broke carpet cleaner.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

You guys are all ballers.... I have a $95 minimum

Why?

 

[Small town janitorial]

You guys are all ballers.... I have a $95 minimum

Coming from someone who buys a cayenne turbo for his wife? I'm confused. At least I'm pretty sure you posted that before. Could be wrong.

 

[FB7777]

It’s a minimum not a job average

 

[Cleanworks]

It’s a minimum not a job average

That's fine if you have techs and need to keep them working or if they can upsell a little. Every market is different. I do the odd job for less if it's within 5 minutes of me but really can't make money at less than $150 unless I was doing 5 jobs a day.

 

[Papa John]

Ill sometimes do a job for less than my minimum- for a current client, but it has to be super easy and the client must agree to my regular minimum 1st.

 

[Hack Attack]

140 min here, which equates to about 95 usd for 2 average sz areas.. min charge jobs normally work out ok $$ wise but I wouldnt wanna do them regularly

 

[Lee Stockwell]

108 here, but I'll do freebies too as needed.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

Freebies do not count!!!

 

[ruff]

I'll let Greta hit that softball out of Giants stadium

Last year I went to my first MLB game, the Giants.

Never been so bored in my life.
How do you guys keep you eyes open?

I'd rather read again Mikey's 12 paragraphs post on the virtuous wonders of Oreck than go again.

 

[hogjowl]

Dang ... I find baseball to be boring too ... but not THAT boring!

 

[Mikey P]

Is Greta a Soccer fan?

 

[Kenny Hayes]

Dang, what’s this thread about, I forgot?
But, I went to a casino ONCE I was as bored as ruff at a Giants game Pretty funny actually. People blowing smoke on me I DONT GET IT

 

[rick imby]

Dang, what’s this thread about, I forgot?
But, I went to a casino ONCE I was as bored as ruff at a Giants game Pretty funny actually. People blowing smoke on me I DONT GET IT

And at a casino you know for certain you are going to lose money in the long run...

 

[The Great Oz]

If he makes $10 an hour you're asking for 2/3rds of his weekly take home for 2 hours of maid work, show some pity..

$10 an hour in California - AAHAHAHAHA! If a guy can't make minimum wage he doesn't have carpet. Guys living in boxes make more than that.

 

[bob vawter]

Damn ...this thread still ain't as boring as Ruff
His own damm sef.....

 

[Cleanworks]

It comes down to knowing your cost. What does it cost you per job, when you factor in all of your overhead? If you know that figure, then you can add in what you think is a reasonable profit and that should be your minimum charge. Many carpet cleaners don't know that figure.

 

[AdamDumphy]

We have our minimum set up as $159 for 3 rooms up to 200 sqft per room and most people also get some stairs cleaned which always boost us over the $230 mark

 

[Brian H]

I suspect some employees of other companies sabotage the portable so that it wont work.

I suspected that of our employees as well since we were having a lot of portable jobs that had "issues" that caused them not to be able to be done that day and needed to be rescheduled. I changed up our policy so that if a portable job had to reschedule, for whatever reason, the original crew would be the one going back. No big surprise, we stopped having "issues" on portable jobs.

 

[The Great Oz]

I suspected that of our employees as well since we were having a lot of portable jobs that had "issues" that caused them not to be able to be done that day and needed to be rescheduled. I changed up our policy so that if a portable job had to reschedule, for whatever reason, the original crew would be the one going back. No big surprise, we stopped having "issues" on portable jobs.

I found that most of our day-of reschedules were due to the tech, not the customer, so any job that reschedules the day of the job gets done by the original tech.

I suspected the rescheduling tech knew of a difficulty with the job: portable, lack of parking, long hose run, picky customer... and found a reason to reschedule. Had to let the guys know they couldn't get away with throwing crap on their buddies, and that their next job might be with a franchise.