IM like that al the time! lol.
No wonder time goes so quick working 2 jobs! That's great going for 5 months mate!! How is the girl finding window cleaning? Iv only ever seen 2 women windys!!
Gaining Customers, the golden question! 500 regular cleans since April, spit between 4 to 12 week cleans? If I was asked before I started think I would have thought it impossible myself!! Since leaving the army I’ve done a few things but up until my current job I was a car detailer, believe me the £800 car wash is well and truly over but a few years ago I was booked up for well over a year never having to look for work, all I’ve done is use the same advertising ideas as I did when I started with a polishing rag! Think out the box..........How many times do you see a broken window or guttering while out on your rounds? I’ve split the Island into 12 areas and in each area I have a found a local firm, not a large one but a small local firm who fit or mend windows, I recommend them, they recommend me and it works. With the fact many people aren’t moving but having extensions or conservatory’s built I’ve picked up loads of work this way. Network, recommend any service that will recommend you, gardeners, carpet cleaners the list is endless. I pay to clean 9 news agents windows!! Most if not all newsagents have paperboys, and if you ask they all employ a lad or have someone to set out there rounds, sorting the papers and magazines out. I clean their windows for free and pay the wage of ever who sorts the papers. In every case it’s a few quid a week, about 100 total for all 9 shops but they stick a flyer in every paper that comes out there door, about 11’000 papers a week in total. With just a normal run of the mill printer from PC World I can print 5000 A5 flyers for £18 quid of ink and paper, you just can’t canvases for that price. Target your customers but your true customers, who are you really going to clean for? There are three main types of residential custy, 1 the old they can’t do it. But have a lot of time on their hands, many oap’s have a fantastic social life, advertise in church halls, tea shops, parish newsletters and at church halls / village halls. Doctors surgeries are a good one too!! 2, people at work all day, now this list is endless! But big employers, super markets for instance have canteens / rest rooms for staff, have a word with managers, (an offer of a free clean at their pad works well) and then flyer there notice boards. NHS have a discount news letter that goes out with their wage slips, contact the HR department at your local Trust head quarters and they will put you a free advert in, I didn’t relies there is 26’000 nhs staff on the island, that’s a lot of windows! Ring your local Avon, Betterware, Klean easy rep and have a coffee with them, they drop off leaflets everywhere weekly! Slip they a few quid and they drop off your flyers!! And lastly stand out in a crowed, I got a few polos made up that in large letters say on the back, “need a window cleaner? You need me” then my number underneath, felt a t**t the first time I went shopping in it but after getting stopped four times in Tesco’s and asked for a card I realised it worked!!
Mate I've had loads of help and advise from this forum there's some fantastic members here, if it helps reading my rambles then glad it helps!!!
