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Title: Turning customers away.
Post by: geefree on January 15, 2008, 05:06:42 pm
Most of us are building and trying to generate more work,

but are any of you lads so full and busy that you are  not taking customers on.... and actually turning them away?

Gary
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: Paul Coleman on January 15, 2008, 05:11:24 pm
Most of us are building and trying to generate more work,

but are any of you lads so full and busy that you are  not taking customers on.... and actually turning them away?

Gary

I do turn away run-of-the-mill work if itr looks like a PITA (e.g. bad access or appointment required).
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: DASERVICES on January 15, 2008, 05:14:34 pm
Yes, but I pass them onto other window cleaners in the area.
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: bluez on January 15, 2008, 05:15:28 pm
Yesterday I got a job based on quotation, the client then showed me another window cleaners quotation......... :o to say I was shocked would be an understatement. I mean this was about €70 per hour........I can only assume that they didnt want to get it.

It did make me think about my pricing though ???
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: Dean Aspects on January 15, 2008, 05:15:38 pm
Most of us are building and trying to generate more work,

but are any of you lads so full and busy that you are  not taking customers on.... and actually turning them away?

Gary

I do turn away run-of-the-mill work if itr looks like a PITA (e.g. bad access or appointment required).


I am the same dont take on the smaller residential now only large and any commercial

Dean
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: geefree on January 15, 2008, 05:16:36 pm
thanks shiner,

the reason i am asking is ;

i hope someone near me says yes they turn work away, then i can ask them to pass them all on to me  ;D ;D

just another way to generate work and , and all be friends at the same time,  ;) :D

you never know if we all did this we would all have the phone ringing non stop.

(wishful thinking eh)
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: geefree on January 15, 2008, 05:17:34 pm
cheers all
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: Paul Coleman on January 15, 2008, 05:18:17 pm
thanks shiner,

the reason i am asking is ;

i hope someone near me says yes they turn work away, then i can ask them to pass them all on to me  ;D ;D

just another way to generate work and , and all be friends at the same time,  ;) :D

you never know if we all did this we would all have the phone ringing non stop.

(wishful thinking eh)

From Wakefield eh?  I guess that Gatwick is a bit far for you then?   :)
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: geefree on January 15, 2008, 05:20:11 pm
thanks shiner,

the reason i am asking is ;

i hope someone near me says yes they turn work away, then i can ask them to pass them all on to me  ;D ;D

just another way to generate work and , and all be friends at the same time,  ;) :D

you never know if we all did this we would all have the phone ringing non stop.

(wishful thinking eh)

From Wakefield eh? I guess that Gatwick is a bit far for you then? :)


yeh, its a good job im writing , typing this or you wouldnt understand me,

tha nos lol
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: pootwo on January 15, 2008, 05:25:56 pm
I"l bee looking for new cutys now i"m wfd to fill the time ganed with wfd ,full bee for  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: Paul Coleman on January 15, 2008, 05:59:42 pm
thanks shiner,

the reason i am asking is ;

i hope someone near me says yes they turn work away, then i can ask them to pass them all on to me  ;D ;D

just another way to generate work and , and all be friends at the same time,  ;) :D

you never know if we all did this we would all have the phone ringing non stop.

(wishful thinking eh)

From Wakefield eh? I guess that Gatwick is a bit far for you then? :)


yeh, its a good job im writing , typing this or you wouldnt understand me,

tha nos lol

I should be OK.  Although I'm a suvverner, my dad was from S Yorks so I had a bit of practice at understanding you foreigners   :)
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: matt on January 15, 2008, 05:59:51 pm
i only take on "well" priced work now and its MUST be in the area i work, im not moving the van anymore
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: tonylee on January 15, 2008, 05:59:57 pm
I dont thinkl i will ever stop looking for new ones as there always seems to be a reason to dump some of the current ones.
had one today five years with me fortnightly never missed but today left a note asking me to miss them cos of the rain.
these type of customers i thought were the backbone of my business. just gose to show eh.
tony
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: Majestic on January 15, 2008, 06:05:25 pm
I only  take on selected work now, anything not in a area I work in I give to another window cleaner. Most of the Window Cleaners in Fleetwood know each other ( some are related, 4 of them  ) so there is always someone to pass work onto
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: JamesF on January 15, 2008, 06:09:36 pm
thanks shiner,

the reason i am asking is ;

i hope someone near me says yes they turn work away, then i can ask them to pass them all on to me  ;D ;D

just another way to generate work and , and all be friends at the same time,  ;) :D

you never know if we all did this we would all have the phone ringing non stop.

(wishful thinking eh)

Yeah, I was hoping for something similar too Gazza! Nobody appears to be in my area though - that's what I get for living this far south!  ;D
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: macmac on January 15, 2008, 06:11:43 pm
thanks shiner,

the reason i am asking is ;

i hope someone near me says yes they turn work away, then i can ask them to pass them all on to me  ;D ;D

just another way to generate work and , and all be friends at the same time,  ;) :D

you never know if we all did this we would all have the phone ringing non stop.

(wishful thinking eh)

From Wakefield eh? I guess that Gatwick is a bit far for you then? :)


yeh, its a good job im writing , typing this or you wouldnt understand me,

tha nos lol

Al meet thi darn at newmillerdam, gu for a wark rand t' pond! then intut dam inn for a bit o' snap, quick bevvie & chuck a bit o' coil ont' fire. nice ;)

tony
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: Paul Coleman on January 15, 2008, 06:53:51 pm
thanks shiner,

the reason i am asking is ;

i hope someone near me says yes they turn work away, then i can ask them to pass them all on to me  ;D ;D

just another way to generate work and , and all be friends at the same time,  ;) :D

you never know if we all did this we would all have the phone ringing non stop.

(wishful thinking eh)

From Wakefield eh? I guess that Gatwick is a bit far for you then? :)


yeh, its a good job im writing , typing this or you wouldnt understand me,

tha nos lol

Al meet thi darn at newmillerdam, gu for a wark rand t' pond! then intut dam inn for a bit o' snap, quick bevvie & chuck a bit o' coil ont' fire. nice ;)

tony

A few years ago my sister moved from the deep south up to Co Durham.  When I visited her, she told me about a weather forecast that had referred to "little skytie bits".  At work the next day, they told her it meant snow   :)
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: Chris Cottrell on January 15, 2008, 07:34:05 pm

Al meet thi darn at newmillerdam, gu for a wark rand t' pond! then intut dam inn for a bit o' snap, quick bevvie & chuck a bit o' coil ont' fire. nice ;)

tony

And thats what? Greek?  :) :)
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: macmac on January 15, 2008, 07:48:42 pm

Al meet thi darn at newmillerdam, gu for a wark rand t' pond! then intut dam inn for a bit o' snap, quick bevvie & chuck a bit o' coil ont' fire. nice ;)

tony

And thats what? Greek?  :) :)

That's broad yorkshire mate ( sunny barnsley )
Do you know what a coiloil is?

tony
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: dave0123 on January 15, 2008, 08:10:32 pm
Im quite near to the limit were am too busy to take on anymore work!! water fed pole should be up and running 2morrow or thursday so that should make me abit more quicker.

Thing with me is am young and i wouldnt really want to turn workdown or give them to someone else i want to expand ;) take someone on and keep growing.


dave
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: mgba_78 on January 15, 2008, 09:27:52 pm
Never turned anybody away, why do that??
We're running at 24 days work over a 20 day period now as we never turn work away and are now looking to employ due to this fact.
If work comes in like it does without advertising what will it be like when we go hell for leather over spring with our local marketing campaign ;D

Andy
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: simbo on January 15, 2008, 09:33:45 pm
i had one before xmas that i thought was just a xmas clean which i don't normally do but woman sounded nice, anyway sat at home fri watching the rain and phone went and said lady asks if i would be interested in some more work. Turns out its 7 blocks of flats!!! glad i did now, will think a bit more before passing on from now on
simbo
Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: xxmattyxx on January 15, 2008, 10:10:27 pm



That's broad yorkshire mate ( sunny barnsley )
Do you know what a coiloil is?

tony

swear day keep

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Title: Re: Turning customers away.
Post by: geefree on January 16, 2008, 08:56:47 pm
thanks shiner,

the reason i am asking is ;

i hope someone near me says yes they turn work away, then i can ask them to pass them all on to me  ;D ;D

just another way to generate work and , and all be friends at the same time,  ;) :D

you never know if we all did this we would all have the phone ringing non stop.

(wishful thinking eh)

From Wakefield eh? I guess that Gatwick is a bit far for you then? :)


yeh, its a good job im writing , typing this or you wouldnt understand me,

tha nos lol

Al meet thi darn at newmillerdam, gu for a wark rand t' pond! then intut dam inn for a bit o' snap, quick bevvie & chuck a bit o' coil ont' fire. nice ;)

tony