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£50 is purely a percentage of achieving the exacting overall results your customers will expect for this bespoke…"
Thank you for everybody's response.
To clarify, I am not looking to compete with franchises across the country, that will never go down well. However, I do have a handful of customers, as they get to know me, becoming interested in…"
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Our businesses are about averaging say £45 hr…"
Unfortuately I think you may have little uptake at that price bracket given what some of the national franchises charge....
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Hi All, I've been asked to offer lawn treatment for many of my customers. I've quoted £50 for anything below 300sqm which is probabaly a bit steep maybe? But that includes product itself, application and watering if needed. How do you price granular…
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This is a good idea and i think we should use the Glasgow forum to post these opportunities to our competitors?
As for sub-contracting; I have found that, for the scale of projects in question, as we are set up as the main competitor we have much higher overheads than those at sub-contractual level and that as a cost this might not be feasible. What do you think?