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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Tim Rose on December 11, 2007, 06:35:18 pm
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Do you do free cleans?
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have to add a reply, I do not offer free cleans ever to get custom, if there is a problem with our cleaning then it is done the next day free.
the only time I would offer a free clean is if my customers recommend enough new business to warrant them getting a free clean. normally 5 maybe 10 new customers.
Ian
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Do free cleans pay the bills. ::)
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Do sainsburys give away free shopping!
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Do sainsburys give away free shopping!
No, only Dale Winton.
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Do i do free cleans?have you been out on the P155.
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Only my mum's and an old aunt and uncle. Oh and our house as well.
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I do, but only because she got me a £450 job (she's a school bursar) ;)
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Do sainsburys give away free shopping!
If you collect enough Nectar points they do :)
I might take a year to get a free shop out of them though.
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Actually, yes.
I used to do the one window of a nursery next to one of my other jobs, because I knew some of the girls there.
Took 30 seconds to do, but not worth knocking the door and fetching the boss for the sake of a quid!
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20 quid gifts and free cleans, you dont want to clean my house do you ??
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20 quid gifts and free cleans, you dont want to clean my house do you ??
http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=47133.0 ::)
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:o :P
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Rosy,are you sure window cleaning is for you? one of your eariler posts was about giving customers presents :o and now you want to offer free cleans ;D ,i think you would be better off doing charity work ;D ;D
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Rosy,are you sure window cleaning is for you? one of your eariler posts was about giving customers presents :o and now you want to offer free cleans ;D ,i think you would be better off doing charity work ;D ;D
I was just thinking about that thread myself after reading this one.
I am lost for words.
Really I am, I think the only thing Im liable to say might offend, so I'll shut up.
Matt
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Rosy,are you sure window cleaning is for you? one of your eariler posts was about giving customers presents :o and now you want to offer free cleans ;D ,i think you would be better off doing charity work ;D ;D
I was just thinking about that thread myself after reading this one.
I am lost for words.
Really I am, I think the only thing Im liable to say might offend, so I'll shut up.
Matt
Try shutting up, it suits you better. Don't you xxxx's read the threads properly?
I merely added a poll in addition to this thread by Lee.
Try reading it again (if you can).
been wfp 15 months,
probably got 250 customers
trouble is i made classic mistake of under pricing, i'd say 30% under priced.
Was thinking of putting out some home made leaflets in really nice areas offering a free clean for the front of prospective customer.
hopefully they become regular.
Reason being if i could build up some better priced work fast then go back to original work and hit customers with letter explaining i under priced at the beginning.
If they dump me it won't matter as hopefully would have picked up new work anyway.
Am i crazy has anyone ever offered a free clean to get customers?
does it work or do you just get exploitecd?
lee
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Rosy,are you sure window cleaning is for you? one of your eariler posts was about giving customers presents :o and now you want to offer free cleans ;D ,i think you would be better off doing charity work ;D ;D
Why don't you go on a self-control and concentration course and try reading the threads properly?
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i just said no...but thinking about it, i do the daughters school for free...(theres about 10 windows)
put me in good sted as we were new here...and a fair few customers too...lol
every good turn n all that
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I do the odd free clean for one of my contractors but i get about 10k a year worth of work from him. Also will do a odd sign for nothing but only to regular quality customers Never Never give free cleans for nothing back in return
Steve
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I do mine for free :D
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I put all my customers names in a hat once a month and draw it at the end of the month the winner gets a 2 week holiday in the carribean i think im being more than generous 8) ;) ;D
Sorry for being sarcastic im just hacked off with customers at the minute i would only consider doing a free clean if id left the windows in a mess
regards
Brett
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Rosy,are you sure window cleaning is for you? one of your eariler posts was about giving customers presents :o and now you want to offer free cleans ;D ,i think you would be better off doing charity work ;D ;D
I was just thinking about that thread myself after reading this one.
I am lost for words.
Really I am, I think the only thing Im liable to say might offend, so I'll shut up.
Matt
Try shutting up, it suits you better. Don't you xxxx's read the threads properly?
I merely added a poll in addition to this thread by Lee.
Try reading it again (if you can).
Time of the month luv?
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Pressure of xmas shopping. :P
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I thought Father Christmas brought all the presents.
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Interesting thread, there is a carpet cleaning training company that has " free carpet cleaning " as one of their main marketing ploys. There intention is to develop a client out of a customer, so they offer one carpet clean for free, so that they can demonstrate how well they clean carpets.
Now when you consider that many people will only have there carpets cleaned once a year or two, then it could be a long time before they see the real benefit of this marketing, but for window cleaning, as we clean the windows every month, you could see the benefit much quicker.
When I was first starting off, I used to put in a very low price for Show houses on new estates, so that I could be on the estate every week and find out when people were moving in, this was very succesful and now I realise that I could have done these Show houses for free and still it would have been worth my while.
I know over the years that every time I am asked to go into a new area that, customers start to come to me and the area develops, if I was in need of work, getting a foot-hold in a new area by doing one house for free, would be a good marketing ploy.
But as a commited christian I also know that there is a principle called " Sowing and Reaping " and so over the years I have also looked for opportunities to sow some free window cleaning, not every day or even every week, but every now and again I would clean someones windows for free.
Next week I have a customer who has been a customer of mine for probably 10 years and last time around she told me that she was out of work and could I come round to her less often at the moment, well I will do her house for free, probably take about 45 minutes, but she has been a good customer and will continue to be when she gets another job.
Gardeners know that you cannot keep taking out of the ground without putting something back, so even if it is just at this time of the year ( christmas ) find away that you can put something back into the area's that you work in, and you will find that next year you will have a better harvest.
Blessings
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... and there is no such thing as a free lunch. Which is just as well.
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I do a cancer hospice near me four times a year for free and a womens refuge whenever they call me, I would regularly drop a free clean voucher in my more regular custys letterbox for them to pass on too friends and i do my neighbours my mums and my sisters for free. BUT I DONT BUY XMAS PRESSIES.
I dont do any of these for what I get back, but I do get referals from them but lifes too short too be so busy that I cant take half an hour to do a freebie. If the notion took me I would not charge someone on a whim just to make me feel good and because I can as I work for myself it's one of the benifits in my opinion.
I also get asked to sponsor spot prizes from time to time for various good causes and generally do a voucher for an inside outside or a g,s,f
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It also talks about a fair days work for a fair days pay in the bible.
:-* :-*
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we do free cleans on all first cleans.
we let them try before they buy
only ever been " done " once
we advertise free window cleaning and it is ,we then give a quote, a very accurate quote as we know what it really costs
clients love it
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I voted yes but only if the customer has recomended us and we get the job and if this happens quite a few times say 5 at a least, then we dont really do a free clean but we just do their insides for free that way we lose no money, just a bit of time!!
Andy
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Out of interest there was something on Radio Two about taxi drivers, and one of them rang in to say that his company would do a free journey if they were late to a call by more than ten minutes...
He once went from Louth to Newquay in Cornwall on the strength of that promise!
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What a fool.
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NO
Never have and never will.
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I clean my next door's house for free; but only when I do my own; which is after loads of nagging from Wor Lass.
He's a nice old guy who lives there, a retired army Warrant Officer with a knackered back; he's a proper gentleman and his German wife is a canny lass too.
They're neighborly neighbors, so I don't mind doing theirs free; six times a year(ish); and I've had to fight hard not to take a payment from them.