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Ideas For Increasing Christmas Tips ?

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Just wondering if giving Christmas cards to customers increases the amount of tips Window cleaners get, or is there any better ideas out there ?

 
Just wondering if giving Christmas cards to customers increases the amount of tips Window cleaners get, or is there any better ideas out there ?
Yeah, tell all your female customers they should take up modelling. And tell all your male customers you'll buy them a beer if you see them out lol /emoticons/biggrin.png

 
Mind you think that should be the other way round with some customers you may get thesesdays /emoticons/biggrin.png

Yeah, tell all your female customers they should take up modelling. And tell all your male customers you'll buy them a beer if you see them out lol /emoticons/biggrin.png
 
Just wondering if giving Christmas cards to customers increases the amount of tips Window cleaners get

Nah! Just means you'll go on their Christmas card list for next year /emoticons/biggrin.png.

 
Haha you lot crack me up, but be wary of telling housewifes they should be models, the husband might get a bit irate your chatting his mrs up. How about a mass text saying merry xmas and telling them youll be round 15th ish for payments. Just throwing some ideas out there.

 
I had my first crimbo tip yesterday a bloody £1 tip ffs I nearly told her to stick it lol

I just put it in the kids money box tho I do with all the change I get I give it to them to save up .

 
Can anyone say why they expect to recieve 'tips'.

Surley it's down to the customer if they want to give their money away or not.

And yes, I don't do 'tipping', restuarants...taxis...window cleaners, not anyone.

I work too hard for my money to just give it away.

 
I like the idea of it, the same way I like the idea, of saying hello to people as you pass them. There is not really point to it, but it results, in a friendly positive experience. When I go out to a restaurant with my wife, on a Saturday night, and we get a pleasant helpful waiter/ress, I tip. There positive attitude towards there work, resulted in a pleasant evening for me and my wife. Even though they would no doubt rather be somewhere else, on a Saturday night.

On the other hand, your night could be completely spoiled, with someone who was not pleasant.

Often when I am working away, you will see the occasional kid on the other side of the glass watching me intently clean the windows. A potentially frightening experience for any child, depending on how I present myself. So I draw them a smiley face with my squeegee in the soap. Which of course makes them smile, and in turn me smile, as they tell there parents to 'look what the man at the window drew'.

Attitudes and contagious.

 
So what do you lads do if they don't tip? /emoticons/biggrin.png

I would ignore the kid myself and get on with my work as could be seen as being a bit strange drawing smiley faces on windows to some parents.... :rolleyes: Next you will be offering them sweets :lol:

 
Often when I am working away, you will see the occasional kid on the other side of the glass watching me intently clean the windows. A potentially frightening experience for any child, depending on how I present myself. So I draw them a smiley face with my squeegee in the soap. Which of course makes them smile, and in turn me smile, as they tell there parents to 'look what the man at the window drew'.

Attitudes and contagious.
yer i find kids love watching me do the water fed pole, they run from room to room looking out the windows, hands all over the insides of them! lol, times i just hold my brush at the window and as they get closer just turn the water back on and watch them jump back laughing! lol

 
So what do you lads do if they don't tip? /emoticons/biggrin.png
if they dont tip, i dont care i get paid for the job i do, not diffrent from the last 11 months of doing the same job.

 
Only about as strange as a parent dressing up as Santa Claus on Christmas eve, to go down and eat the cookies and milk, they told there child to leave out for Santa and his reindeers.

To quote Grand master flash and the furious stars, "A child is born with no state of mind, blind to the ways of mankind".

With stories like Madeline McCann, I could see why any parent would be wary, but they surely are not so protective as to denied other adults to be pleasant towards them. I remember going up and down the streets trick or treating when I was young. I doesn't happen now. That's part of my childhood my children wont have, because of that kind of thinking.

 

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