Hi Matt, You are probably out now and I hope its going well for you.
I was going to post a serious response but how can you after the last contribution, brilliant!
I always look at canvassing as a numbers game, which has been said, the more doors you knock the more customers you will find.
You are a professional, your posts prove that and there is no way you should be quaking on the doorstep. You are offering them the opportunity to partake of your professional service. The worst that can happen is that they say ' no thanks', in that case thank them politely and move on to the next opportunity.
Every door is an opportunity.
I went out the other day, I have a little boy of 15 months and we share the looking after of him.
So out we went for one hour and did a whole estate, result a couple of possibilities. I knocked every door and if they were in just gave the wording as already on here ' Hi my name is Chris from Combat Cleaning, do you have a window cleaner at the moment? if not I just gave a short precis of my service. If they were out I left a leaflet.
Anyhow the next day I got a call from one of the leaflets: in and out on the first clean and then monthly after.
Thats £130 for my one hours work! initial clean and 11 others in the year.
Try to see every new customer as 12 or 6 times the price depending on monthly or bi monthly cleans.
You are motivated, we know that because you have set a goal, 300 by crimbo so as Nike says ' just do it'
It gets better with practice and as the results come in your income grows so just see each 'no thankyou as a step nearer to an acceptance, the next house could be another towards your goal.
I think you are in Hinckley, my inlaws live in Stoney Stanton so ' up the knitters!'
All the best.
