Hiya ray,
Thanx for your response, if u would rather go the ethical route why not ask the other window cleaners if they would like more work, the ones that say no, will obviously be ok with you, and the ones that say yes, tell them what you propose and see if they would go the same way as you to get additional customers.
100 extra customers would cost approx £2,000 each.
However in the real world this would be very hard to get them all to agree.
I never deliberately try to pinch other peoples customers, the customers we sign up have generally not got a window cleaner, and are very happy to see us in a lot of cases as many say 'we can never find one!!'
Basically you are running a business, how many new hairdressers do you see arguing with other older hairdressers for example because some of the older hairdressers customers are going to the 'new' shop, it just does,nt happen does it, its all down to customer choice, you might be a much better window cleaner than the others in your area, and i,m sure you feel that you are, otherwise you would,nt do the job!
If you chose to get an additional 100 customers, it would,nt make much of an impact in a city of 100,000 houses either (Nottingham)
You can justify what you do so long as you are not directly pinching the other window cleaners customers.
100 extra customers, approx £1,000 per month, would take 2 canvassers 1-2 weeks to put together
All the best,
Paul
