Fixed price or hourly rate: how to price recurring garden and cleaning work
The honest trade offs between fixed prices and hourly rates for regular garden and cleaning visits, and how to choose per customer.
Guides
Practical, plain-English guides to running a gardening or cleaning business well. New guides are added regularly.
Handling rain days and staff absences in a service business
A calm system for the two great disruptors of round work, weather and absence: deciding early, telling everyone at once, and catching up without wrecking the week.
Should your cleaning business use scheduling software?
An honest look at when a spreadsheet is fine, the signs you have outgrown it, and what scheduling software should actually do for a cleaning business.
How to organise a gardening or cleaning round
A practical way to plan a gardening or cleaning round: grouping customers, setting day patterns, leaving slack, and knowing when you are full.
Gardening business software UK: what to look for
A buyer's guide for UK gardening businesses choosing software: the questions to ask, the features that matter for round work, and the pricing traps.
How to put your prices up without losing customers
When to raise prices for garden and cleaning work, how much, and exactly what to say, with a ready to copy email template.