If you run a cleaning business with recurring customers, there is a simple way to make more money.
- Bill every 4 weeks instead of every month.
- There are 13 four-week periods in a year.
- But only 12 months.
That means you get paid one extra time each year without doing more work.
To customers, it still feels like monthly billing.
Sales usually stay the same.
But for the business owner, revenue goes up about 8%, and most of that turns into profit.
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👍 Example:
Let’s say you have 600 customers paying $100 per month.
That’s $1,200 per year per customer.
If your profit margin is 20%, you make $240 profit per customer.
That equals:
- $720,000 in revenue
- $144,000 in profit
Now switch to billing $100 every 4 weeks...
Each customer now pays $1,300 per year.
Profit per customer becomes $340.
Now your totals look like:
- $780,000 in revenue
- $204,000 in profit
Same customers. Same cleaning work.
$60,000 more profit.