Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: DASERVICES on October 26, 2006, 05:09:08 pm
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There are various means of getting work, here are my top proividers of getting
work in order of customers gained :-
1) Recomendation
2) Canvasing
3) Business card through door
4) Website
5) Van sign
6) Advert on other website ( Council )
7) Leaflet
There are other forms like Yellow pages, newspaper, FED etc.. which I have not
used.
What have been your top providers?
Doug
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canvasing.... without a doubt
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Leaflets at present...canvassing to start this coming week.
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face to face, on site.
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Recommendation for me,just seem to get one after another at the moment. However initially got my work canvassing.
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1 2 3 and 7
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1, 5 , ahd Yellow Pages
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yell.com seems to workin quite well for us at mo, quite expensive though cost around £600 with the link to my web site etc, but ive picked up a couple of decent contracts through yell.com in the last couple of weeks.
Dan
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When i started i had 2000 flyers made. Only ever posted 500...1500 still sitting inmy loft!! recommendations count for 90% of my work. Better the devil you know !!
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Leaflets
Van Sign
Word Of Mouth
Parish Magazine
Paul
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All of the above
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We put out about 500 'clean me' leaflets and have not looked back, when we get a call from a new customer we turn up clean them and then knock the doors of that street
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all leaflets, best way i find, they call you so you dictate to them!!
Built me a very nice round in a year of 260 customer, very nicely priced too
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The majority of my new work comes from recommendation, or just being seen out and about.
I/we picked up two new accounts today, just by being seen.
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hi, i started renting a round, what not had been done for a good few 6 months,i went back end of day and told him you lost 90% of your customers and give him the book back and carried on cleaning the work myself,as he could not bothered checking the round himself ;D
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mostly i brought 3 rounds 3 years ago
now its just Recomendation
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hi, i started renting a round, what not had been done for a good few 6 months,i went back end of day and told him you lost 90% of your customers and give him the book back and carried on cleaning the work myself,as he could not bothered checking the round himself ;D
That doesn't sound very 'British' to me. Despite the six month gap in cleans, you've basically conned a window cleaner into giving you some top canvassing tips.
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it beats paying for it ;)
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canvassing, cold calling, telephone canvassing and more canvassing
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Leaflets and word of mouth also yellow pages.
We are just in process of sticking our new flyers in shop windows (25p a week) advertising our other services.
(UPVC cleaning,con roof,gutters etc). ;)
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Recommendations, van writing and photo in parish magazine!!
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Bumper, ???
I think you are well out of order. Your attitude stinks. >:(
Granted, if the work was not done for 6 months he may have lost SOME but you say you carried on cleaning the round, meaning that there was more than 10% of the round left. For it to be worthwhile for you to continue it instead of walking away I reckon there were likely a lot of customers left.
The fact that he hasn't checked it tells me that he trusts you and I think you have just taken advantage of that.
Why haven't you gone out and canvassed your own work? - Because YOU can't be bothered.
Easier to just take underhandedly steal the round off someone else though ey.
it beats paying for it
The fact that you brag about it astounds me. :o
People like you really wind me up. >:(
PS reading through your other posts, I can see I'm right. It's people like you that give window cleaners a bad name.
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Our business has to be built by the majority of canvassing. We sometimes pick up work by being seen at work aswell. :D
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Just picked up a nice £25 job today ;D of a wfp window cleaner, i clean next doors, and told him, his next door neighbour grass is going yellow coz of the pure water thats hitting the grass and kills it, he seemed very intrested he had a word and i got the job ;D told him i always put a board on his grass not to damage it ;D bumper
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Just picked up a nice £25 job today of a wfp window cleaner, i clean next doors, and told him, his next door neighbour grass is going yellow coz of the pure water thats hitting the grass and kills it, he seemed very intrested he had a word and i got the job told him i always put a board on his grass not to damage it bumper
I thought you said on another post that you stick the ladders in the grass to make it look like you do the tops ???
Pure water kills grass ??? ???
is it just me or is this guy for real :-\
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stick it in the soil coz the grass is hard in summer,plus the guy was asking for some tips bumper
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Just picked up a nice £25 job today of a wfp window cleaner, i clean next doors, and told him, his next door neighbour grass is going yellow coz of the pure water thats hitting the grass and kills it, he seemed very intrested he had a word and i got the job told him i always put a board on his grass not to damage it bumper
I thought you said on another post that you stick the ladders in the grass to make it look like you do the tops ???
Pure water kills grass ??? ???
is it just me or is this guy for real :-\
Mark,
Don't get wound up and don't argue with fools. I'm quite experienced in this department, so it's good advice.
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are you saying i look like a fool
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Bad practise bumper >:( >:( >:( If you told one of my customers that I wouldnt be to happy.
You dont need to take work off other w/c's in such a sly dirty way, there is enough work out there for us all, and some.
And as for stealing work from your ex contractor :o :o bad form, YOU SHOULDNT BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU PAL!!!!!!!!! you seem very dishonest and sly to me, I certainly wouldnt trust you to clean my windows. >:(
ProPole
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picked up 15 yes (15) customers on wednesday .......all in one street ;D
turned out their normall window cleaner hadnt been since july ....
one old lady asked me to do them then went to all her neighbours and told them she had a new window cleaner and asked if they wanted theirs done .... (done the canvassing for me .LOL)
wish every week was like that :D
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I think Bumper is having a wind up.
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Yeah, you're right.
I took the bait didn't I!
I just get wound up with injustice. I rent out work so it touched a nerve.
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I think Bumper is having a wind up.
;D
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Another way of looking for customers is local community forums like this one in
London, people are always looking for a window cleaner :-
http://www.movethat.co.uk/London/My/Brockley/?query=window+cleaner&c=0
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I think Bumper is having a wind up.
;D
Well........
Have you been winding us up!!!
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yes sorry. bumper
ps. is that my picture !