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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: RO-Sheen on March 24, 2006, 09:15:31 am
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As some of you know I am a newbie to window cleaning jumping and wfp-ing but was wondering if you guys buy your customers cards or gifts or nothing at all at x-mas?
I was planning on getting some cards printed up wishing them a happy xmas and NY and thanking them for their continued support over the year.
As well as this being an ass-kissing exercise I was thinking that this may also encourage them top give me a x-mas bonus!!!!
I was on a course at BWCA this week and a guy told me that he gives pens with with his business name and number but he was paying £2.50 each for them!!!
Very expensive!!! I know you can get them cheaper than that!
Has anyone tried getting calenders printed uop with your name and photos, and where/how much??
Ta in advance
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Vistaprint for advertising stuff.
I do not give out anything at Xmas...don`t overcomplicate is my opinion...we clean their windows!
Wish them a happy Christmas, do a good job and be on your way...if they tip you, great but I wouldn`t take it personal if they don`t!
By the way, it is only March ;D ;D
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we give out cards,hand written for the personnel touch which helps with tips-the in thing for promo stuff seems to be the key rings with a bit of metal the size of a pound coin(use for shopping trolleys& gym lockers etc)this has your phone no on one side logo on the other and cost less than a quid each
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I'd like some 'window cleaning' subject Christmas cards, if anyone here can supply them.
'Santa squeegying a window' or something.
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Funny old world isn't it?
Domestic customers offer window cleaners Xmas tips (like the postie and milkman) and Commercial customers usually receive Xmas tips from suppliers.
Decades ago I asked my dad (who was a commercial buyer for a zinc smelting company at the time) when does a gift became a bribe and he said his rule of thumb was that to accept a bottle of wine, a box of chocs or at most a bottle of whisky was a normal business pleasantry but that to accept a carton/case of any of them would be a bribe.