Mr and Mrs window cleaner
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hi there,
This is one of my first posts after reading loads on the forum - you guys know your stuff! I'll be posting more Qs in the weeks to come.
We've been running our window cleaning biz for a year now and it's going brilliantly. My husband runs it day to day and we're keen to expand, buy another round and employ a lad to work on our existing round.
From reading the threads it seems most of you prefer the employee route over the self-employed route, which makes sense to me.
I want to know how you business owners with employees manage the lucrative odd jobs that come in off the back of the round. At the moment we get a lot of patio, conservatory, fascia, gutter cleaning requests. How do you make sure these jobs stay within the biz and the employee doesn't take them on the side as extra earners?
A lot of our custies are retired so would see the window cleaner when they came.
Is it just a case of waving goodbye to some of these jobs as a natural consequence of expanding?
Thanks in advance,
Jo
This is one of my first posts after reading loads on the forum - you guys know your stuff! I'll be posting more Qs in the weeks to come.
We've been running our window cleaning biz for a year now and it's going brilliantly. My husband runs it day to day and we're keen to expand, buy another round and employ a lad to work on our existing round.
From reading the threads it seems most of you prefer the employee route over the self-employed route, which makes sense to me.
I want to know how you business owners with employees manage the lucrative odd jobs that come in off the back of the round. At the moment we get a lot of patio, conservatory, fascia, gutter cleaning requests. How do you make sure these jobs stay within the biz and the employee doesn't take them on the side as extra earners?
A lot of our custies are retired so would see the window cleaner when they came.
Is it just a case of waving goodbye to some of these jobs as a natural consequence of expanding?
Thanks in advance,
Jo