@Stephanie Lane meet everybody! We’re glad you are here! In a nutshell, this community is similar in format to FB where it’s easy to scroll, post, comment, etc. A differentiation is a classroom section and we’re slowly adding more there. A new course on pricing just got published within the past month. More will be added. And there’s a Calendar section (I need to add a couple more for this month. December will go up next week). There are weekly calls. Finally, there’s a gamification to this with free stuff and rewards.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16GP55jdrpS_pO8bM8T9cENlF21rEhUz0p61mUqLdDvk/edit Let’s do a test run of pricing. I’ll start with a real client, complete with pictures. It’s 12,000 sqft cleaned 6x/week. What would YOU price it at? Provide in an answer: 1. Your rate per month 2. Total estimated hours 3. Breakdown by percentages of labor, supplies, and gross profit. For example we typically aim for 65% labor, 2% supplies, and 33% gross profit.  Share publicly (or in private): Thanksgiving weekend I’ll share the rate.

I have a former coaching client who came up with a cool idea. She suggested that I create a pricing challenge with this community. I'd create a fictional (or maybe even a real) scenario, throw it out to this group, and see who gets closest to that price. It wouldn't be reward-based since we all can come up with a price and we all could be correct provided the price is profitable. But this way we could work through a price together and see how we each do things differently based on our pricing strategy.

Quick question, I'm curious what is standard and how y'all manage this. In our contracts we have Holiday's listed that we do not work on. When a cleaning day falls on a holiday do y'all schedule the clean for a different day that week, or just skip it all together?

I landed the client!! This has been a 1.5 month process and I have my first client! They spoke so highly of my professionalism and it just made me want to deliver exceedingly above their expectation! So now, I need to hire someone or do I go and do the cleaning myself.