[DASERVICES]

 There are various means of getting work, here are my top proividers of getting
 work in order of customers gained :-

 1) Recomendation
 2) Canvasing
 3) Business card through door
 4) Website
 5) Van sign
 6) Advert on other website ( Council )
 7) Leaflet

 There are other forms like Yellow pages, newspaper, FED etc.. which I have not
 used.

 What have been your top providers?

 Doug

[macleod]

canvasing.... without a doubt

[pylofm]

Leaflets at present...canvassing to start this coming week.

[macleod]

face to face, on site.

[Franky2020]

Recommendation for me,just seem to get one after another at the moment. However initially got my work canvassing.

[ok cleaning]

1   2    3   and 7

[Majestic]

1, 5 , ahd Yellow Pages

[daniel b]

yell.com seems to workin quite well for us at mo, quite expensive though cost around £600 with the link to my web site etc, but ive picked up a couple of decent contracts through yell.com in the last couple of weeks.

Dan 

[julianbiggs]

When i started i had 2000 flyers made. Only ever posted 500...1500 still sitting inmy loft!! recommendations count for 90% of my work. Better the devil you know !!

[pjulk]

Leaflets
Van Sign
Word Of Mouth
Parish Magazine


Paul

[D woods]

All of the above

[a-r window cleanin]

We put out about 500 'clean me' leaflets and have not looked back, when we get a call from a new customer we turn up clean them and then knock the doors of that street

[mick hay]

all leaflets, best way i find, they call you so you dictate to them!!

Built me a very nice round in a year of 260 customer, very nicely priced too

[windows_chepstow]

The majority of my new work comes from recommendation, or just being seen out and about.

I/we picked up two new accounts today, just by being seen.

[bumper]

hi, i started renting a  round, what not had been done for a good few 6  months,i went back end of day and told him you lost 90% of your customers and give him the book back and carried on cleaning the work  myself,as he could not bothered checking the round himself

[matt]

mostly i brought 3 rounds 3 years ago

now its just Recomendation

[windows_chepstow]

hi, i started renting a  round, what not had been done for a good few 6  months,i went back end of day and told him you lost 90% of your customers and give him the book back and carried on cleaning the work  myself,as he could not bothered checking the round himself

That doesn't sound very 'British' to me.  Despite the six month gap in cleans, you've basically conned a window cleaner into giving you some top canvassing tips.

[bumper]

it beats paying for it 

[steveaqua]

canvassing, cold calling, telephone canvassing and more canvassing

[petski2]

Leaflets and word of mouth also yellow pages.
We are just in process of sticking our new flyers in shop windows (25p a week) advertising our other services.
(UPVC cleaning,con roof,gutters etc).