Minotaur clean
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So you and your colleague are in one van are cleaning a really long route and you're always running about 2 weeks late (that's without upselling extra work like guttering)
Every time a new customer comes out or calls etc it goes on to the route, there's always a spot. And customers appear to be a little bit happy that you're late rather than on time...
The route is every 2 months so being 2 weeks late doesn't equate to fully employ someone because that person will probably clean it all in around 4 weeks. Essentially speaking he'll be twiddling his thumbs for a month. It also wouldn't be as profitable because we're passing that area anyway therefore two vans will be going out and there'll be more overheads that aren't really required fair enough the work won't be 2 weeks late so that will bring in a little bit of extra money..
My question is how do you employ someone to start a round technically from scratch? Because those two weeks are really within the route we are covering already.
Do you just put out 100,000 leaflets etc employ someone before the calls start coming in? Guarantee his wage regardless and if he isn't cleaning I suppose he can be leafleting etc?
What is the best method I can imagine you'll probably break even on the first year won't you? Maybe even make a loss depending.
Obviously everybody knows Lee prior so when he wants to put a new van on the road a new round the question would be how does he do it I'm guessing it's quite an investment and You've got to be prepared to make a net loss potentially on the wages
And all the other running costs. We all know about the turnover spoken with for example prior however I have a feeling in the first year there is a potential loss or maybe breaking even and you'll do very well to make a small profit with today's competitive salary anyway plus VAT and everything else.
And you probably be subsidising it from the main vehicle ie me and my staff member, in the hope that in about 12 months it makes a profit I suppose like any other investment.
So I have a feeling it's as follows
Purchase vehicle and kit out £10,000
Employ someone full-time £30k
Marketing leafleting etc for one van £30k
First year £70,000 of investment If the staff member has nothing to do I suppose he needs to leaflet and door knock in between
First year bringing in £70,000 inc vat would mean you lose about £10,000
And then year two you're looking at probably making a profit obviously you have to put up with staff member potentially leaving that's always a possibility as well.
In other words it's quite a lot of hassle money and time
Am I somewhat on the right path or is there any other easy way to overcome what I'm trying to potentially accomplish?
You see totally different from building your own business with your own time because you're paying yourself so on days where you're less productive in the beginning you're not having to pay out a salary Which could potentially be more than what that person is actually bringing in sometimes
if that makes sense!
Every time a new customer comes out or calls etc it goes on to the route, there's always a spot. And customers appear to be a little bit happy that you're late rather than on time...
The route is every 2 months so being 2 weeks late doesn't equate to fully employ someone because that person will probably clean it all in around 4 weeks. Essentially speaking he'll be twiddling his thumbs for a month. It also wouldn't be as profitable because we're passing that area anyway therefore two vans will be going out and there'll be more overheads that aren't really required fair enough the work won't be 2 weeks late so that will bring in a little bit of extra money..
My question is how do you employ someone to start a round technically from scratch? Because those two weeks are really within the route we are covering already.
Do you just put out 100,000 leaflets etc employ someone before the calls start coming in? Guarantee his wage regardless and if he isn't cleaning I suppose he can be leafleting etc?
What is the best method I can imagine you'll probably break even on the first year won't you? Maybe even make a loss depending.
Obviously everybody knows Lee prior so when he wants to put a new van on the road a new round the question would be how does he do it I'm guessing it's quite an investment and You've got to be prepared to make a net loss potentially on the wages
And all the other running costs. We all know about the turnover spoken with for example prior however I have a feeling in the first year there is a potential loss or maybe breaking even and you'll do very well to make a small profit with today's competitive salary anyway plus VAT and everything else.
And you probably be subsidising it from the main vehicle ie me and my staff member, in the hope that in about 12 months it makes a profit I suppose like any other investment.
So I have a feeling it's as follows
Purchase vehicle and kit out £10,000
Employ someone full-time £30k
Marketing leafleting etc for one van £30k
First year £70,000 of investment If the staff member has nothing to do I suppose he needs to leaflet and door knock in between
First year bringing in £70,000 inc vat would mean you lose about £10,000
And then year two you're looking at probably making a profit obviously you have to put up with staff member potentially leaving that's always a possibility as well.
In other words it's quite a lot of hassle money and time
Am I somewhat on the right path or is there any other easy way to overcome what I'm trying to potentially accomplish?
You see totally different from building your own business with your own time because you're paying yourself so on days where you're less productive in the beginning you're not having to pay out a salary Which could potentially be more than what that person is actually bringing in sometimes
if that makes sense!