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Title: How would you invest £3000 ?
Post by: wpclean on July 26, 2012, 11:07:48 pm
I have managed to save 3k, and need an extra 1000 a month income window cleaning . . . . . how would you use the money . . . . . leaflets, canvassing company, or advertising ?

Thanks for any suggestions.
Title: Re: How would you invest £3000 ?
Post by: spongebob on July 26, 2012, 11:30:04 pm
Canvass yourself say from 3 till 7 each day. Use the money you have saved to make up for any shortfall in your earned income while you are door knocking and not window cleaning.
£1000 will go a long way like this and your results will probably be just as good as a canvassing company. You start paying for your other suggestions and the grand will be gone in no time with no promise of any return. If you spend two nights and find an area is dead you may have only spent £100 or so.
Also are you able to cope with the extra work you generate or will you need to employ. If you do then consider the upfront costs needed for that also.

Good luck anyway. You have got things the right way round.
 

edit: sorry I read that wrong.Thought you had £1k . £3k would enable you to put a lot more time into canvassing as above. Maybe pay someones teenage kids who you could trust to post flyers in an area then follow up with the door knocking.
Title: Re: How would you invest £3000 ?
Post by: Crystal-clear on July 26, 2012, 11:38:20 pm
canvass and leaflet yourself or get a helping hand and do as advised use the £3k as a short fall for lack of earnings on the windows,

Title: Re: How would you invest £3000 ?
Post by: Londoner on July 27, 2012, 08:06:07 am
Put the money away somewhere safe for a rainy day and just go out for an hour or so every evening while its still light. Throwing money at window cleaning is usually not a wise investment. If you have got three grand saved up keep hold of it. One day you will get flu, tear a muscle in your shoulder or something.
Title: Re: How would you invest £3000 ?
Post by: Scrimble on July 27, 2012, 09:37:35 am
i spent 300 quid recently and had 5k flyers delivered and picked up over 30 regular customers from it plus a few one off jobs which got my money back plus some more,

i'd say find a local leaflet distribution company and get some flyers delivered, spend some money on some advertisements in local shops, parish magazines etc, get your van sign written if you dont already,

you could quite comfortably get an extra 1k of regular window cleaning work for under a grand just be smart with your money and do what works for you,

the best way i pick up new customers is get a worker to come with you on a saturday and get him/her to canvass houses around where you are already cleaning a house, they find someone who is interested and you go and quote and clean them there and then, its good because you meet the custy and give them a price and it compacts your work
Title: Re: How would you invest £3000 ?
Post by: leedscleaner on July 27, 2012, 09:59:48 am
hi mate read an earlier post that you were selling a gardiners pole. is it still for sale and if so how much u after for it. thanks
Title: Re: How would you invest £3000 ?
Post by: Scrimble on July 27, 2012, 03:16:56 pm
Quote from: leedscleaner on July 27, 2012, 09:59:48 am
hi mate read an earlier post that you were selling a gardiners pole. is it still for sale and if so how much u after for it. thanks

sold it ages ago
Title: Re: How would you invest £3000 ?
Post by: Steve Sed on July 27, 2012, 03:55:44 pm
Quote from: Scrimble on July 27, 2012, 09:37:35 am

the best way i pick up new customers is get a worker to come with you on a saturday and get him/her to canvass houses around where you are already cleaning a house, they find someone who is interested and you go and quote and clean them there and then, its good because you meet the custy and give them a price and it compacts your work

I really like this idea.
Title: Re: How would you invest £3000 ?
Post by: dannymack on July 27, 2012, 06:18:45 pm
Just give it to me I'll spend it for ya !!!
Title: Re: How would you invest £3000 ?
Post by: Blue Frog Systems on July 27, 2012, 07:19:03 pm
Canvassing
Leafleting
Newspaper Ad (my local wanted £200 for a front page advert on 2 papers covering 78k homes)
Parish mags
Shop adverts (20-50p a week)
Van sign writing if not already done
Im your neighbours window cleaner cards (£3 from vista print - i posted 50ish and got 6 jobs from houses around others i clean and a few one offs)
Logo uniform
Call in at commercial propertys with a business card & ask
Title: Re: How would you invest £3000 ?
Post by: mgba_78 on July 27, 2012, 09:31:49 pm
Quote from: samson on July 26, 2012, 11:07:48 pm
I have managed to save 3k, and need an extra 1000 a month income window cleaning . . . . . how would you use the money . . . . . leaflets, canvassing company, or advertising ?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Doorknock!  Its FREE and hit the right area then your in!

We got nearly 100 customers in May from knocking and leaving a flyer if they werent in.
We are still getting calls from the flyers, had one today infact!!!
Title: Re: How would you invest £3000 ?
Post by: SB Cleaning on July 29, 2012, 07:27:31 pm
Quote from: Blue Frog Systems on July 27, 2012, 07:19:03 pm
Canvassing
Leafleting
Newspaper Ad (my local wanted £200 for a front page advert on 2 papers covering 78k homes)
Parish mags
Shop adverts (20-50p a week)
Van sign writing if not already done
Im your neighbours window cleaner cards (£3 from vista print - i posted 50ish and got 6 jobs from houses around others i clean and a few one offs)
Logo uniform
Call in at commercial propertys with a business card & ask
HI BF

Any chance you could show me what your cards look like for the neighbours? good idea that ;D