Are you having a better financial year than last?

[Derek]

this will be my 1st full year free from toilet cleaning and i think we might make what we made last year.

thus far the missus and i did 28 resi jobs and 108 comm jobs. average ticket is up possibly $200 over last year.


how is your year going?


thanx --- Derek.

 

[Mikey P]

About even.

Same money less jobs.



Thank god for Tile & Stone.

 

[alazo1]

Probably 10% better. Not good enough yet.

Albert

 

[Guest]

For a part-time biz's about 70% better this year, (my 2nd year)

 

[KevinL]

I can't believe you people are doing this for the money.

 

[Eric Scofield]

Thanks to BRC and Keith Collins 35% better than last year

 

[Dolly Llama]

I have doubled my business from last year

one customer

now I have two


T

Bjorn and Bergen don't count

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we were up and down up and down up and down this year.
Seems like i was always stressed in one of two ways.
either stressed about how we were going to get it all done
or stressed about how i was going to keep the little genies busy.

We did a little better than last year though, but that wasn't hard, cause last year wasn't so great


..L.T.A.

 

[GRHeacock]

Since I am retired, and don't have to work for a living, I am about the same as last year.

My income comes from dividends from stocks mainly, and a little from buying and selling a few stocks.

Extra money comes from selling my manuals and inventions. That's enough for the occasional lunch.

Gary

 

[TimP]

It has really just been my first year. But for my first year it's 100% better than last year as far as business income goes :roll: In all seriousness I have pretty well hit my goal for my first year and I suppose I set it within reason. I should do at least 17% better next year with an increase in price....not to mention I've started measuring wall to wall so I should do more than 17% better. However if it wasn't for installations I would of drowned. So it's very smart to have a back up to pay the bills when you're slow. I think I did 17-20,000 in installations, I don't have the books in front of me but it's the best I can remember.

 

[Jim Martin]

no complaints in my neighborhood...........

 

[Desk Jockey]

Yes, kick ass year compared to last year....of course last year sucked.

Now it's just a matter of figuring out how to hang on to some of it!

 

[Fon Johnson]

That is sort of personal I suppose, but last year was up nearly 100%, and this year will be an increase as well. I have put out a lot this year, so profit won't be what I'd like, but ya gotta spend some to make some..

BRC Rocks!

8)

 

[Steve in Omaha]

more than got my 60 bucks back from this board!

 

[Kevin B]

I got my 60 bucks back too!

I don't have my full numbers in as of yet, but as of October 31 (november was a killer month), excluding over 8K in receivables, we are up about 31% over last year, with a decrease in advertising. We did, however, put a really nice "reminder" progam in place for our customers.

I am happy, i made enough to compensate for an employee, and got myself out of the truck for at least 50 days this year!

 

[steve r]

last year was part time but im up about 400 % and maybe half of that came since september.

if i count my earnings from both jobs im up about 25% but i worked about half the hours.

 

[RichardnTn]

Paying the bills.............Richard R

 

[DevilDog]

Shit no.

DevilDog

 

[A. wilson]

Up about 12% from last year. It has always been my plan to shoot for a 10% increase each year. I think slow/steady growth is much better than fast growth, too much strain in a number of ways.

 

[Bryan Irvin]

This is my first full calendar year in business for myself, so no last yrs #s to compare to, but I will say that I surpassed my goal for the year back in October, and still going strong...living the American dream.

Bryan

 

[Becker]

2007 has been a very very good year!

 

[Doug Cox]

Higher gross, less net. That's what a second van on a one man op will do to you.