Jobs!!! jobs!!!.....

[psk]

:hanged: As the emoticion states... i need more jobs, contracts around london otherwise contemplating suicide lol.

Could you tell me where to get servicing, breakdown jobs or contracts from?

Thanks

 

[dontknowitall]

Customers?

Easy to be flippant but it is difficult in some areas from what I can make out.

It took me a good while to get going (after an initial six months of walking into all sorts of jobs). Marketing is the key and in this game your best marketing is recommendation (having done a good job, at reasonable/good quality and at a fair price).

Getting to this stage is quite hard work (putting cards through doors, creating good and effective adverts in the right places, etc).

I was once taught that the best way to market was to think of your typical customer. Age, status, gender, life style and other things like this. For example, young family, single person, elderly, and so on. You won't meet or see many of the elderly outside the school gates or, as a result, reading the school magazine. Single people won't read magazines like The Lady or Cross Stitch. (Okay, there are exceptions!)

Once you've zeroed in on your typical customer you then taylor your advertising to suit and to capture what they read, listen to, etc. Then you create a budget and advertising campaign geared to gaining these customers - not too many messages on the advert as it's too confusing. Just one or two messages either promoting your name, a discount scheme you're offering or something like that.

It's hard work though - nothing's easy in this life.

Hope things pick up quickly for you.

 

[SimonG]

Could advertise a pre winter special '10% of all services before end of September' or '£5.00 off with advert before 1st October'. If people think they are getting a deal they might just snatch your hand off. I went to look at a bathroom that is less then a year old and needs re-doing. Bottom line was that the cust got somebody in offering oap discount, didn't get any other quote, small bathroom, plastic cladding, took 5 days for two young lads 'plumbers' and an experienced hand for 2 1/2 days. They charged, labour only, wait for it, £750. It's absolutely shocking, but my point is the customer was drawn to the 'oap' offer.

 

[GQuigley67]

5 days to do a bathroom ??? couple of monkeys

 

[SimonG]

12 1/2 man days. To strip out bath, wc, basin and towel rail. Fit a shower tray (900 quad), move towel rail pipes to opposite wall (stud walls), plastic clad walls (no corner beads or edge strips round windows, butts up to coving but looks like a set of steps), new basin (wrong trap and 15mm speedfit squeezing out all over), wc about 4" off of wall (no reason for this as its an angled pan conn) pipe boxing that falls off when you flush the crapper, towel rail not straight, re used mira excel shower that was over the bath (leaked through ceiling) and she can only use the shower on half because the tray fills up (the waste pipe from the shower runs up hill). Lets just say I have heard these clowns names and 'court' used in the same sentence.

..............and all for the princely sum of £750.

 

[GQuigley67]

that is shocking, paying more for a bunch of useless cowboys when you could of had a professional do it for less

 

[Resolute]

12 1/2 man days. To strip out bath, wc, basin and towel rail. Fit a shower tray (900 quad), move towel rail pipes to opposite wall (stud walls), plastic clad walls (no corner beads or edge strips round windows, butts up to coving but looks like a set of steps), new basin (wrong trap and 15mm speedfit squeezing out all over), wc about 4" off of wall (no reason for this as its an angled pan conn) pipe boxing that falls off when you flush the crapper, towel rail not straight, re used mira excel shower that was over the bath (leaked through ceiling) and she can only use the shower on half because the tray fills up (the waste pipe from the shower runs up hill). Lets just say I have heard these clowns names and 'court' used in the same sentence.

..............and all for the princely sum of £750.

Were they called Bodgit & Scarper?

 

[SimonG]

Were they called Bodgit & Scarper?

It was either that or 'Rush and Bodgit'. Had a go at the cust about it as well, she paid up before the job was complete and didn't get them back to sort stuff out. I will say that the said company actually once called me in to their own home to change a heating pump as 'she' had had somebody in that day changing a radiator, hadn't filled the system back up because he was leaving on holiday that evening and burnt out the pump. I beat a hasty retreat with a few choice words.