Work suddenly went quiet

[rapalaman]

Got quieter if anything - got some hedge trimming to price to try and fill august. Got a week booked in for each of September/October and November. Regulars coming back but new enquiries down by at least 50%

[maybelateron]

Certainly not the usual endless request for quotes, but by no means dead in the water; also got the regular hedge/repeat pollards ringing up on top of the regulars booked in from one season to the next. Tall hedges are such a mixed bag - a pain when you are busy, and a godsend when you are quiet!

[ben_y]

Gone very quiet for us. Also now struggling to get the money on jobs that we need. Have tried lowering my prices and that hasn’t helped. We have stayed relatively steady up until this month. We have 4 or so weeks ahead but not many new enquiries coming through. 

[Dan Maynard]

I think June was deathly quiet, starting to get a trickle of enquiries now so I was getting a bit more optimistic.

 

News outlets currently enjoying the gas and electric price increase to come so that's maybe spooking some people - certainly my Mrs is thinking about it and we have plenty of firewood.

[Steve Bullman]

Things aren’t looking good. Hopefully it’s just down to people spending £2000 a week for a caravan in Cornwall and next month will be better. Hang in there 

[Mick Dempsey]

September is always a big month here for restarting the year, more so than the Xmas break.

The French are very seasonal in their habits, August means holidays, so non urgent work is not thought about.

[Mr. Squirrel]

I’ve been seeing things pick up recently. Not sure how long it will  last, I suspect when peoples heating goes back on it’ll tail off again. But for now, it’s ok at least. 

[Retired Climber]

3 hours ago, ben_y said:

Gone very quiet for us. Also now struggling to get the money on jobs that we need. Have tried lowering my prices and that hasn’t helped. We have stayed relatively steady up until this month. We have 4 or so weeks ahead but not many new enquiries coming through. 

Lowering prices won't help conversion rates. If anything, put prices up. 

 

[ben_y]

49 minutes ago, Retired Climber said:

Lowering prices won't help conversion rates. If anything, put prices up. 

 

We had put prices up a few months back. But last 5/6 weeks we seem to be priced out a lot more on domestic as people look for the cheapest quotes… 

[devon TWiG]

I have enough work to do , but I am not doing it as it is too hot  !!   at the beach a few times a week now , maybe a few trips in a nice aircon Scania ...trees can wait , been there for bloody years whats the rush !!😂