I've worked for 5 different pool companies over the last 20 years and each one had a different business model. The first one charged a flat $40 per visit plus chemicals...but charged outrageous amounts for chems...sometimes up to $800 a month. The second company charged a fair price but churned through employees like crazy...over 50 in a 4 year period. So the customer had a different person in their backyard every week. They 3rd company was just crazy...never had enough chemicals to do your job and took forever to do repairs. I actually had to buy chemicals myself to keep the customer as I was getting paid for by the pool. The fourth company paid you $13 a pool and a 10% commission on all the parts you could/should/ would replace. Needless to say this is a recipe for the customer to get ripped off. The fifth company paid you $16 a pool but gave you way too many pools and bad routes...so if you had 22 pools to do in one day there was no you could do a good job because of the time constraints and Atlanta's traffic. So what is the ideal formula that a customer should look for?
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