Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Danny Guest on February 05, 2013, 12:17:03 pm
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Out last night and gained £125 per month of work.
Not many in and 70% happy with current cleaner.
Back out again tonight!
I can't wait to get going. Anyone else growing their business for 2013?
Regards Danny
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Yes mate im at it too. Not a bad result at all there. I was out and only picked up £60 worth last night but every little helps, its best to work out what you achieve month by month instead of by day i find. Last month i picked up an extra £880 a month all from soley canvassing. Hoping to hit the same or better this month. Just keep knocking.
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What % would you expect to be good long term customers?
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Well george says i have been through 2753 customers 38 on suspended and i have 1344 current customers mainly monthly with a small percent at 8weekly so i have roughly a 50 percent retention overall over the last 5 years which id say is quite good going.
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Well george says i have been through 2753 customers 38 on suspended and i have 1344 current customers mainly monthly with a small percent at 8weekly so i have roughly a 50 percent retention overall over the last 5 years which id say is quite good going.
Interesting comparison to my own figures. Since I started here in Ireland in August 2011 I have had 363 customers. Around 170 are regular/semi regular, I have dropped 6 and the rest are one-offs or ring me when they need me.
John
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Yes i think anything around the 50% mark retaining as a regular is on to a winning run. Anything below id question my ability to do the job properly.
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I will be canvassing when i get caught up.
Im hoping for 100 new custys and then tie up the contract im getting.
I will need to take someone on then and then i will be canvassing for another 200 custys.
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How on earth do you service 1344 property's? ??
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How on earth do you service 1344 property's? ??
Quite easy in fact to easy if im honest as finishing by 2-2.30 most days.its only 25 a day for each of the 2 vans im actualy canvassing heavy at the mo to up them so everyday will be 35 a day.
All my work has been canvassed to my needs which has mainly been well priced fronts and made sure everything is compact.
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I will be canvassing when i get caught up.
Im hoping for 100 new custys and then tie up the contract im getting.
I will need to take someone on then and then i will be canvassing for another 200 custys.
You have been mentioning this contract you are getting in every post for the last 6 months now docwindows. What's the delay?
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how do you find canvassing housing estates in the day mick? many takers ? cheers ;D
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how do you find canvassing housing estates in the day mick? many takers ? cheers ;D
Never realy canvass in the day deangsi the few times i have have been crap unless its the weekend where you can pick up loads in the day. Between 5.30 and 8.30 mon to fri i find by far the best time to get out knocking and anytime within reason weekends.
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Come back with £30 per month of work tonight but did get out a little late
Try again tomorrow
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keep up the good work danny, i plan on going out this saturday to pick up a few new custys to replace some bad ones i've dropped
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What % would you expect to be good long term customers?
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50% is a good minimum to use
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Yes mate im at it too. Not a bad result at all there. I was out and only picked up £60 worth last night but every little helps, its best to work out what you achieve month by month instead of by day i find. Last month i picked up an extra £880 a month all from soley canvassing. Hoping to hit the same or better this month. Just keep knocking.
good luck to you mate,how to you keep going with all the rejection ?
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Another £38 a month of work
Out again Saturday for 4-5 hours
Danny
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Added another £25 a month to the new work after 1hour canvassing today.
I'm aiming for an extra £2000 a month of work in the next 6 months
Good luck to everyone canvassing and leafleting
Danny
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what do u guys normally say when they open the door
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£107 new 2 Saturdays ago and £80 last Saturday. Out again this Saturday,id like to achieve a £300 posnd a month increase minimum ;D
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Yes i think anything around the 50% mark retaining as a regular is on to a winning run. Anything below id question my ability to do the job properly.
:o :o :o :o :o :o :o
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Yes i think anything around the 50% mark retaining as a regular is on to a winning run. Anything below id question my ability to do the job properly.
:o :o :o :o :o :o :o
why are you shocked to high to low ?
these are about right I have found, even with contracts in place the long term drop off comes to around this figure ok maybe 10/15% higher with contract but still drops
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Things must be different here up North. I have never door knocked (not saying door knocking is a bad thing) All my customers come from leaflets or recommendation. Leaflets have the prices on and clearly state its for a ongoing monthly (4 weeks) clean.
Percentage wise I run a little over 4 % drop off rate this is based over the last 3 years wfp. Also have 23 suspended for bad payment or dog mess.
Not blowing our trumpet or saying others are doing something wrong.
We charge a 'fair' price clean all frames and vents including all garage doors.
There are a few good companies in my area, but the largest (Around 7 vans with around 20 windies) is not so hot with customer satisfaction so I seem to do well in retaining the ones I can fit into the round.
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in the whole time since building your round from scratch you have only lost 4%???? Pull the other 1. So no one dies, moves, loses job, son does it, husband decides to do it, cant afford it, 1 off brigades, messers etc etc have ever been on your round???.
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in the whole time since building your round from scratch you have only lost 4%???? Pull the other 1. So no one dies, moves, loses job, son does it, husband decides to do it, cant afford it, 1 off brigades, messers etc etc have ever been on your round???.
Thats correct. This is not a wind up. Genuine.
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Leaflets have the prices on and clearly state its for a ongoing monthly (4 weeks) clean.
Do you guesstimate the price and write it on the flyer? or do you have fixed prices for 3bed semis etc?
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What daz is saying I can second , running a round down south is so bloody stressful compared to up north lol I used to remember the days when I'd say I have 7 customers who canceled this year! or ritten off £45.
Lol now I'm writing off £500+ a year and god knows how many cancelations
or go out knocking and keep 100% of the customers lol, everything was less stressful I also heard that leafleting works some fairy tale stories of over %2 return ,we can get away with charging much more down south but the lies customers will say to your face are shocking compared to relaxing 4 weekly Frequencies up north where people actually want you to turn up are worlds apart , sometimes I wonder the amount of hours and money I spent on canvassing who knows where I'd be better off , down here you do find customers who are serious too but no way near as easy up north
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Im running on 4 weekly frequency and have customers wanting me to go back to 2 weekly.
I am canvassing both 2 weekly and 4 weekly and find people in my areas tend to want the windows cleaned as often as possible. Theres a guy here who does clean every week and charges not much less than my fortnightly price.
Ive been doing commercial quotes this week so ive had no canvassing done but i will be out again on saturday. Slowly working my way towards the goal.
Danny
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Im running on 4 weekly frequency and have customers wanting me to go back to 2 weekly.
I am canvassing both 2 weekly and 4 weekly and find people in my areas tend to want the windows cleaned as often as possible. Theres a guy here who does clean every week and charges not much less than my fortnightly price.
Ive been doing commercial quotes this week so ive had no canvassing done but i will be out again on saturday. Slowly working my way towards the goal.
Danny
Are you pole or trad with that frequency ?
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Im running on 4 weekly frequency and have customers wanting me to go back to 2 weekly.
I am canvassing both 2 weekly and 4 weekly and find people in my areas tend to want the windows cleaned as often as possible. Theres a guy here who does clean every week and charges not much less than my fortnightly price.
Ive been doing commercial quotes this week so ive had no canvassing done but i will be out again on saturday. Slowly working my way towards the goal.
Danny
Danny i though you said you were going into property or something??? Seems like your going on well with window cleaning