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Title: How do you sell your round?
Post by: jay moley on June 30, 2021, 05:50:36 pm
How do you work out how much your round is worth?

Once you have, how do you actually sell it to someone?

Is it case of just giving them the customers details (not sure customers would be happy with that) and the price and frequency?

How do you handle it with the customers?

Cheers
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: ֍Winp®oClean֍ on June 30, 2021, 06:04:51 pm
I was just reading your post on the motivation thread about using your brain........... and how any idiot could clean windows.......🤔😅😅
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: dazmond on June 30, 2021, 07:03:40 pm
How do you work out how much your round is worth?

Once you have, how do you actually sell it to someone?

Is it case of just giving them the customers details (not sure customers would be happy with that) and the price and frequency?

How do you handle it with the customers?

Cheers

when i sold a small underpriced round 15 years ago i advertised it in my local shop......only one person phoned me up......it was in there for around 4 weeks!

i told my customers id found someone else to clean their windows as i was cutting back on work due to ill health.......

so i basically had a chat with this guy,showed him my books,agreed a price(£1200)and went out and he cherry picked  some houses to knock on to confirm it was me who was their window cleaner and that i was passing it on to him....all customers seemed fine with it....

the next day he came round and gave me £1200 in cash and that was it!.......

then around a  month or so later i got a fair few ex customers phoning me up saying please will i come back as the new guy had missed half the windows out and done a rubbish job....(apparently he was scared of heights and had a dodgy knee)...he was also cleaning their windows on sat and sun and some customers didnt want him there...he also took his dad with him to foot the ladder.... ;D

in the end i got a load of abuse off his dad on the phone saying id ripped him off as the customers didnt want them cleaning their windows! ;D

that was the last i heard of him......(i never took any of the customers back by the way)
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: Blue Frog Systems on June 30, 2021, 07:53:32 pm
I sold my round 11 years ago now. Advertised it here for 5x the monthly and got it.

Told customers I was moving for 2 years and coming back, that the guy was looking after it and i never went back
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: deeege on June 30, 2021, 08:37:21 pm
I bought a round when I first started 11 years ago. Paid £500 for £500 a months work  ;D Still clean it all to this day.

The guy I bought it off was over the moon with £500, he was a retired engineer who went out to do 3 or 4 houses a day to get away from his wife.  ;D
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: jay moley on June 30, 2021, 08:49:02 pm
I was just reading your post on the motivation thread about using your brain........... and how any idiot could clean windows.......

Thats why im getting out you idiot. Ive built a good business but doing the actual work is just for morons.
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: ֍Winp®oClean֍ on June 30, 2021, 08:56:39 pm
I was just reading your post on the motivation thread about using your brain........... and how any idiot could clean windows.......🤔😅😅

Thats why im getting out you idiot. Ive built a good business but doing the actual work is just for morons.

The idiot who doesn't know how to value his own business?
Or the idiot who then doesn't know 'how' to sell it?
Or the idiot who can't even grasp the process of client transfer?......
 Just wondering which idiot you were referring to, that's all.🤔😆😆
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: jay moley on June 30, 2021, 08:59:01 pm
I was just reading your post on the motivation thread about using your brain........... and how any idiot could clean windows.......

Thats why im getting out you idiot. Ive built a good business but doing the actual work is just for morons.

The idiot who doesn't know how to value his own business?
Or the idiot who then doesn't know 'how' to sell it?
Or the idiot who can't even grasp the process of client transfer?......
 Just wondering which idiot you were referring to, that's all.

Im not an idiot for seeking answers to questions I don't know the answer to.

My point on the other thread is that there is no intelligence to cleaning windows. Its the bottom of the bottom. Idiot job. I stand by that.

Im guessing you're a window cleaning hot shot who loves his job and has all the answers so why don't you enlighten me?
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: ֍Winp®oClean֍ on June 30, 2021, 09:21:56 pm
I was just reading your post on the motivation thread about using your brain........... and how any idiot could clean windows.......

Thats why im getting out you idiot. Ive built a good business but doing the actual work is just for morons.

The idiot who doesn't know how to value his own business?
Or the idiot who then doesn't know 'how' to sell it?
Or the idiot who can't even grasp the process of client transfer?......
 Just wondering which idiot you were referring to, that's all.

Im not an idiot for seeking answers to questions I don't know the answer to.

My point on the other thread is that there is no intelligence to cleaning windows. Its the bottom of the bottom. Idiot job. I stand by that.

Im guessing you're a window cleaning hot shot who loves his job and has all the answers so why don't you enlighten me?

Not really, I just tend to use my brain and intelligence. You may benefit from trying it one day.👍
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: mike1986 on June 30, 2021, 10:01:15 pm
😂 this is hilarious. Great way to ask for advice by trying to insult everyone on this forum 👍
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: dazmond on June 30, 2021, 10:29:24 pm
I was just reading your post on the motivation thread about using your brain........... and how any idiot could clean windows.......

Thats why im getting out you idiot. Ive built a good business but doing the actual work is just for morons.

i think your attitude is all wrong....just because some of us clean windows for a living doesnt mean we are all "morons" as you put it......

its just what i do for a living...i like it.....its a simple,stress free and straightforward business to run and allows me time to concentrate on my real hobbies of weight training and playing drums....
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: AuRavelling79 on June 30, 2021, 10:41:38 pm
Play nicely girls.
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: jay moley on June 30, 2021, 11:05:31 pm
I was just reading your post on the motivation thread about using your brain........... and how any idiot could clean windows.......

Thats why im getting out you idiot. Ive built a good business but doing the actual work is just for morons.

The idiot who doesn't know how to value his own business?
Or the idiot who then doesn't know 'how' to sell it?
Or the idiot who can't even grasp the process of client transfer?......
 Just wondering which idiot you were referring to, that's all.

Im not an idiot for seeking answers to questions I don't know the answer to.

My point on the other thread is that there is no intelligence to cleaning windows. Its the bottom of the bottom. Idiot job. I stand by that.

Im guessing you're a window cleaning hot shot who loves his job and has all the answers so why don't you enlighten me?

Not really, I just tend to use my brain and intelligence. You may benefit from trying it one day.

Modded by Moderator. Poster banned.
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: windowswashed on June 30, 2021, 11:58:18 pm
Went to university and could put letters after my name and also got two trades to fall back on with qualifications. Customers can think what they like, I couldn't give a monkeys what their perception of me is . This job fits around my illness perfectly and allows flexibility.  Been picking up top end jobs for quite some time, no way a tradesperson or manager is going to earn  the same as us in the long run if we concentrate on providing a great service built on a good reputation.
How one views their cleaning business  is how one values their service they provide and charge accordingly.  Window cleaning may be the bottom rung for some window cleaners but for others it's taken several years to build up  a reliable source of income that's hard to match.
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: richard connett on July 01, 2021, 07:10:26 am
I think Amazon are hiring if you fancy something different . I wonder how many of the nations workforce really feel like they are using their brains. I’ve friends that spent years at uni that don’t use their brains and are in boring tedious jobs working for the man struggling to get another foot up the ladder.
 You might think that we are all the lowest of the low morons but it also takes self determination , reliability, drive, common sense, management skills , communication skills etc etc etc to have your own window cleaning business
When I look around me I live in a nice area, 2 cars , nice house , motorbike. I also manage to run all this by working 4 weeks on 2 weeks off Monday-Friday 8 - 2!! There’s no other job on earth that could do that and I know it
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: AuRavelling79 on July 01, 2021, 07:38:48 am
I was just reading your post on the motivation thread about using your brain........... and how any idiot could clean windows.......

Thats why im getting out you idiot. Ive built a good business but doing the actual work is just for morons.

The idiot who doesn't know how to value his own business?
Or the idiot who then doesn't know 'how' to sell it?
Or the idiot who can't even grasp the process of client transfer?......
 Just wondering which idiot you were referring to, that's all.

Im not an idiot for seeking answers to questions I don't know the answer to.

My point on the other thread is that there is no intelligence to cleaning windows. Its the bottom of the bottom. Idiot job. I stand by that.

Im guessing you're a window cleaning hot shot who loves his job and has all the answers so why don't you enlighten me?

Not really, I just tend to use my brain and intelligence. You may benefit from trying it one day.

f*** off you c unt

And... You're done. Take a month off.
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: dazmond on July 01, 2021, 08:03:35 am
id want at least 20k(which is nearly 5 times the monthly value) for my whole round...

any window cleaner whos spent many years building up their work into a good,little profitable business should think long and hard before selling it on...

as for selling rounds it might be better to sell it off in smaller chunks(eg £1000 a month for 5k)
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: james peters on July 01, 2021, 08:24:15 am
I was just reading your post on the motivation thread about using your brain........... and how any idiot could clean windows.......

Thats why im getting out you idiot. Ive built a good business but doing the actual work is just for morons.

How insulting¬!!
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: Matt. on July 01, 2021, 10:24:53 am
Jay moley……. What a sausage u are
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: Jay Le Huray on July 01, 2021, 01:36:27 pm
Jay, you ask for advice on how to sell your round but at the same time insulting fellow window cleaners by calling us idiots and morons, there is an old saying "people in glass houses ETC" I'm sure you know the rest of it.

Any idiot or moron on CIU would know how to sell a round there is even a section on it called Window Cleaning Rounds For Sale so it may just be you  who lacks the intelligence on this particular thread.

And as for calling another member a C**T that is totally out of order 
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: deeege on July 01, 2021, 02:40:46 pm
If you look back through his posts he claim to be earning £400 every day easily and has no experience of other jobs other than £10p/h sales jobs. Yet wants to sell up to get a ‘real’ job. And we are the morons  ??? ;D
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: ֍Winp®oClean֍ on July 01, 2021, 04:40:17 pm
If you look back through his posts he claim to be earning £400 every day easily and has no experience of other jobs other than £10p/h sales jobs. Yet wants to sell up to get a ‘real’ job. And we are the morons  ??? ;D

It's just another CIU classic!!😄
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: Innocence & Experience on July 01, 2021, 05:09:19 pm
Admin, where’s your sense of humour, you removed my post 🤷‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: AuRavelling79 on July 01, 2021, 05:15:46 pm
Admin, where’s your sense of humour, you removed my post 🤷‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 🤣
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: Innocence & Experience on July 01, 2021, 05:32:25 pm
Admin, where’s your sense of humour, you removed my post 🤷‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 🤣
Bet you had a little giggle before you pressed delete though  :)
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: Natalie Cruise on July 01, 2021, 06:21:54 pm
There are many websites you could advertise your business on but a card in your local shop or supermarket may be the cheapest and most cost effective way.

www.windowcleanerinblackpool.co.uk
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: the king on July 01, 2021, 06:31:11 pm
What a rude chap🤣🤷‍♂️
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: tlwcs on July 01, 2021, 07:48:14 pm
There are many websites you could advertise your business on but a card in your local shop or supermarket may be the cheapest and most cost effective way.

www.windowcleanerinblackpool.co.uk


Lmao. The links not working
Title: Re: How do you sell your round?
Post by: Matt. on July 01, 2021, 08:02:10 pm
Link didn’t work for me either …… I was guna ask Natalie if she wanted a job on the windows as I have work up there in blackpool  👍👍