When I started my business, I too expected that there would be a great spike in business volume before the holiday season, but it has never materialized. Due to repeat and referral business, my cold weather business volume is not a wipeout, but the winter months definitely represent my slow period. Not sure what can be done about it, especially in a region where there is much cold and wet weather. People tend to delay this kind of work, if possible, until the worst of the weather seems to have passed. But up and down cycles exist in just about every type of business, so some of it is inevitsble.
So the holiday carpet cleaning rush is not a strong or maybe even not a real phenomena. Customers say "you must be really busy with the holidays coming up," so I was lead to believe that there is a definite pre-holiday rush for carpet cleaning. Maybe it's not so. I guess I've got to have something else to fill the winter gap.
The Spring rush is real though. I can vouch for that.
Late Summer into early fall I couldnt keep up.I was also thinking the holidays would give a little spike upwards. Not the case at all. I have a small commercial base that is keeping me semi busy. (Theater, 2 prop mgt companies) the larger mgt company shares facilities with another local agency and today I am cleaning their kitchen, dining room and storage areas for 300.00 Not great money but enough to keep the wolves away
