When to drop a customer?

Tell That customer if you change your lines it won't matter. If it was me i would keep mowing with your scag. if he doesn't like it them that you can no longer mow. If you have the time to do, most big companies don't, then keep mowing it. you need to keep you customers happy but at the same time you have to make money. Try to pick up other lawns on that street. Tell them right off that bat that you will be mowing with this commercial. they might not like it at first, but change your lines and they'll get used to it. Any Know what i should do. I have several customers that don't allow me to cut weekly. their yards get out of control and i have to triple cut them. I have told them that my price is only for a weekly cut. I have leanred that i should tell customers right off of the bat that i only mow weekly. What should i do with my old customers that want to be cut on an as need basis?

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Originally Posted by [b Quote[/b] (Team Gopher @ May 22 2008,12:18)]Chuck, Did you quote her a higher price and then did she turn it down or did you just tell her flat out, you wouldn't do it? I am wondering if the customer would pay more for a 'manicured job', if I can use that expression like that. I just turned it away Steve, I'm picking up 3-4 new clients a week. I know I would hate servicing that lawn with a 21" machine and I don't think I'm going to buy 36" hydro stat w/sulky anytime real soon because I don't get many customers with the small gates. It's entirley too hot here. So rather than get it, hate it & drop it when the client has left the state & now has to find somebody new via phone I decided just to steer clear & not offer any estimate at all. I think my next machine maybe smaller but probably a 48" ZT not a walk behind. So they sa find your niche.... that's just not mine, I'll leave it to somebody else.

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any sign of trouble with customers, we drop them... simple as that. there is so much business out there, that you shouldnt stress about that one a-hole!! we know within the first 4 weeks if we will keep a customer. If not, we politely tell them that we are not the company for them and they do not fit in our target market. We are a weekly only service! All this fall in lines with our company policies. (I stress to all of you to develop these now an put them in use...no exceptions).


***Sorry if any of this doesnt make sense, im down a finger and on oxycodine.

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Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] ]any sign of trouble with customers, we drop them

I have always found that once a customer starts complaining, the complaints are rarely service based.

Customers will often try to make you quit instead of admitting they can't afford to pay or they have found someone "cheaper."

I agree with James. Unless a complaint is specifically resolvable and the customer is happy with the resolution, I am quick to let the whiners go. There is too much other business to waste time and mental energy on them.

Keith