What is your magic number

[Mikey P]

You know the one, you get home from as long day behind the wand or a long day on the golf course and you check to see how many jobs got booked that day..

What's the number where one less leaves you just a bit bitter and ready to kick the cat and one more gets the wife a meal cooked by the King?









and here is where good ol' Ken would bitch slap us all with a "165"...

 

[SMRBAP]

I look at the average per day each week, Mondays and Fridays are the busiest phone days for us, Saturdays are the slowest, it's the day my office staff uses to get caught up and press forward so worthwhile cost wise for that alone.

As long as we average 18-20 per day for the 6 days - the cat is safe.

I'd like to be doing 28-30 this coming spring - we shall see.

 

[Desk Jockey]

I go by WDR calls, last week we did 8-jobs, this week only 1-so far.

 

[hogjowl]

I'm not happy with anything more than 1 job a day.

 

[Mikey P]

I look at the average per day each week, Mondays and Fridays are the busiest phone days for us, Saturdays are the slowest, it's the day my office staff uses to get caught up and press forward so worthwhile cost wise for that alone.

As long as we average 18-20 per day for the 6 days - the cat is safe.

I'd like to be doing 28-30 this coming spring - we shall see.

how many trucks?

 

[Mikey P]

I'll be modest and say 8.

We get quite a bit of all days jobs so even at that low number we were booked out 50 to 70 jobs for most of the summer.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

24 per week. I don't care which day they come in, I know they will come.

 

[1moondog1]

5 per day per truck..6 days week.

 

[SMRBAP]

how many trucks?

4 currently, working to add 1-2 by June '14

With 1 possible curve ball, if what I'm implementing for restoration marketing delivers on the high side expectation wise, I may not add any cleaning trucks.

Pressing along prepping both sides for growth - but am willing to stunt cleaning growth for a bit for restoration growth.

I'm losing interest in 80 hr weeks

 

[Desk Jockey]

That's always a tough decision for us, to market carpet more aggressively or stick with the restoration emphasis. We can and have churned lots of dollars cleaning carpet but in the end we do much better when we're doing WDR work. I really don't care what we do as long as it keeps us busy and we're making good money at it.

 

[steamwizards]

I would be happy with 2 a day for 5 days if I could get - being week 1 of the business! In time they will come, lots of ground work going on for the future to get to that number.

 

[Royal Man]

Don't get too hung up on the number of jobs in a day. Often more can be made per day (especially with resi cleaning) by doing less jobs per day and by having the time to provide other services while you are already there. Three a day seems to be a sweet spot for me per day. It's not the difficult to average around 1K a day that way and having very happy clients (you have more time to smooze them. )instead of rushing one job to an other , being burned out and ending up with same amount at the end of the day.

 

[Becker]

I like 4 a day fir myself.
Thus week.

M 4
T 7
Today wi be 5
Thursday wi be 5
Fri wi be 5
Working a rare sat. 3.

PETA wi be happy to know I don't own a cat.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Only 5-WDR calls this week, some weeks are better than others....some weeks we get none. You just never know with WDR, you have to be prepared at all times to capitalize when the calls come in.

 

[dealtimeman]

Water has been slow here for us none this week but a coupe last week. Hopefully it's a cold winter!

 

[Desk Jockey]

We had two this week of the kind you like. The house was sold but papers not signed, one with a wood floor that had to come up and drywall that had to come out. The other is a sewage backup affected carpet which now needs to be replaced. One of the homes is having us clean all their carpet, new to the city they heard we were the ones to call.

Fortunately the only people upset are the realtors that want it done faster than possible. It should all go back fine just not in time for their deadline.

 

[idreadnought]

2000, thats gross dollars not jobs. I really don't care about the number of jobs

 

[jcooper]

I don't need a number, just tell me was the phone ringing or not.

If the phone is ringing we are booking jobs, if not ringing... You get the point.

 

[Chris A]

yeah, similar to Jerry, either we're booking jobs or not. Usually Mondays and Fridays are super busy, with Tuesday and Thursday slower and Wednesday usually dead.

 

[Brian H]

Us too Chris and Jeremy!! It's been a quiet morning here, especially for a Monday. Only 167 calls as of 11:30.

Octobers have traditionally been a slower month for us. The back to school clean up is over, and the clean up for the holidays has not yet started. We'll start picking up in about 3 weeks.

 

[Vivers]

To be honest I don't even ask anymore after 18 years Mikey. But 10 is good and 25 is great!