Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: geefree on February 03, 2008, 11:40:47 pm
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Or is it simply my area , how are you guys finding it.? ??? ::)
Gary.
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calls been quiet, but been asked at least once a day when im out
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I dont even get that at the moment. ???
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maybe out of town for me eh, as my area is saturated.
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Its a quiet time of year. The money is tight after Christmas and the weather is miserable.
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seem to be getting the opposite here , maybe because the fair weather cleaners don't like the rain not sure but I am not complaining.
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Absolutely dead here untill last week when i got a couple. One wanted a three monthly clean - great >:(
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Domestic very slow......But commercial im having more intrested responces
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Once spring comes along the work will flood in ( pardon the pun ).
This happens every year.
Adam
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asboss, i like you avatar, it does always rain in Manchester.
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I have had no new residential customers since before christmas and only one commercial but its a biggie so i dont care
Dean
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i havent had any calls for a long time till this morning....
1 call - got your flyer through the door, please can i get a quote...
3 minutes later!
2nd call- got my flyer wanted a quote aswell -
both in the same area...
seems to be a steady flow of about 2-8 customers per 2 months, though i havent been that great at advertising only online and a few hundred flyers.
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I have got 2 new and 4 enquiries in the past couple of days.
Also got 1 cancellation though...
Can't wait for my new leaflets to come through. hoping top get lots more business :)
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Have had a call from a Housing Association to quote for 45 houses monthly , got my number from Yell.com
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erm 6 new ones today ;D
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I seem to average at least one enquiry every day, and I have not advertised or used flyers for nearly a year now.
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If you're worried and need the work, get off your a***s and knock on some doors. Over the last 3 weeks I've canvassed up more than £700 in new work.
Got a new franchisee starting full time on the 11th Feb and I've promised him £600/week to start so I have to get out and knock ;D
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If you're worried and need the work, get off your a***s and knock on some doors. Over the last 3 weeks I've canvassed up more than £700 in new work.
Got a new franchisee starting full time on the 11th Feb and I've promised him £600/week to start so I have to get out and knock ;D
Well said Ian, you put some of these younger blokes to shame!
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Have had a call from a Housing Association to quote for 45 houses monthly , got my number from Yell.com
wow, did you get the job?
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i'm with window washers hi ian
starting to come in nicely now i have changed tactics
thanks guys for all the help recently with my marketing
respect
simon
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If you're worried and need the work, get off your a***s and knock on some doors. Over the last 3 weeks I've canvassed up more than £700 in new work.
Got a new franchisee starting full time on the 11th Feb and I've promised him £600/week to start so I have to get out and knock ;D
ERM,!. Do,you think i would have started a post like this, if i was simply sat here doing nothing,
out knocking, leaflet dropping, posting to companies, advertising in shops etc,
its very quiet for some and not others, regardless of the amount of work put in.
and being saturated with w/c in this area does not help,...
its easy to pop on here after getting lots of work canvassing for a day or two, and telling all how brilliant you are,
and then telling everyone to get off their fat arses and do the same...
some weeks it works for some and not others, but that does not mean people are not putting the work in to achieve new customers.
i would not dream of giving that type of advice to people who are obviously self motivated enough to have already set up a business,... or maybe they just sat on their arses until it all came to them eh?
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£150.00 since New Year, from advertising in the local Parish Mag and the local shop.
Not only pleased as its new regular work but also because its the result of effort and motivation.
I need more work I think, although Im behind at the mo, having gone WFP I'll be caught up before long hopefully.
Matt
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5 domestic 1 commercial so far this week.just hope it keeps rolling in like this.
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Ooh the phone just rang - first one this week!
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If you're worried and need the work, get off your a***s and knock on some doors. Over the last 3 weeks I've canvassed up more than £700 in new work.
Got a new franchisee starting full time on the 11th Feb and I've promised him £600/week to start so I have to get out and knock ;D
ERM,!. Do,you think i would have started a post like this, if i was simply sat here doing nothing,
out knocking, leaflet dropping, posting to companies, advertising in shops etc,
its very quiet for some and not others, regardless of the amount of work put in.
and being saturated with w/c in this area does not help,...
its easy to pop on here after getting lots of work canvassing for a day or two, and telling all how brilliant you are,
and then telling everyone to get off their fat arses and do the same...
some weeks it works for some and not others, but that does not mean people are not putting the work in to achieve new customers.
i would not dream of giving that type of advice to people who are obviously self motivated enough to have already set up a business,... or maybe they just sat on their arses until it all came to them eh?
Show some respect to your elders Gazza! Ian talks a lot of good sense, you should listen to him!!
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I'm a newby but the 4 winters i've been through have been the best for picking up good jobs and reliable customers.
I leafletted town work a couple of weeks ago with 100 leaflets and quoted for 2 but they weren't interested in my price. Last week i leafletted 15 houses in the villages i work and picked up 3 jobs for £40 and a call for another house that is £20+.
February might be better for the monthly salaried people as the end of jan would be the 1st income since xmas/new year.
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scwindows
Have to price it yet, 3 are a bit out of my way. Some areas dont need more work
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Show some respect to your elders Gazza! Ian talks a lot of good sense, you should listen to him!!
l respect everyone who works hard, what i dont respect is someone saying get off your backside, without first of all knowing how hard that, or those persons are working.... i mean the first thing we do is get out there so how absurd is a comment is that.
and he may talk a lot of sense i wont argue with that.... and i do respect him and i do listen to him .
but not when i am out all gods hours knocking doors, and leaflet dropping, and sending mail shots out, advertising as hard as i can afford to. only to be told to get off my arse,
when i simply said its quiet just now and my area is saturated
perhaps your respect on this occasion is misguided,
and i may be older too.
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Show some respect to your elders Gazza! Ian talks a lot of good sense, you should listen to him!!
l respect everyone who works hard, what i dont respect is someone saying get off your backside, without first of all knowing how hard that, or those persons are working.... i mean the first thing we do is get out there so how absurd is a comment is that.
and he may talk a lot of sense i wont argue with that.... and i do respect him and i do listen to him .
but not when i am out all gods hours knocking doors, and leaflet dropping, and sending mail shots out, advertising as hard as i can afford to. only to be told to get off my arse,
when i simply said its quiet just now and my area is saturated
perhaps your respect on this occasion is misguided,
and i may be older too.
Nobody is older than Ian!!! ;D If your area is saturated then go further afield. ;)
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lol. i may have to i think ::)
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i'm with window washers hi ian
starting to come in nicely now i have changed tactics
thanks guys for all the help recently with my marketing
respect
simon
Your welcome Simon ;)
Glad it is working for you :)
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I think in general the number of window cleaners has increased. This is perfectly understandable when you consider whats going on in the jobs market generally.
It always has been the first fall back when work goes slack in other trades and people are looking for some ready cash.
I see other window cleaners everywhere.
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If you're worried and need the work, get off your a***s and knock on some doors. Over the last 3 weeks I've canvassed up more than £700 in new work.
Got a new franchisee starting full time on the 11th Feb and I've promised him £600/week to start so I have to get out and knock ;D
ERM,!. Do,you think i would have started a post like this, if i was simply sat here doing nothing,
out knocking, leaflet dropping, posting to companies, advertising in shops etc,
its very quiet for some and not others, regardless of the amount of work put in.
and being saturated with w/c in this area does not help,...
its easy to pop on here after getting lots of work canvassing for a day or two, and telling all how brilliant you are,
and then telling everyone to get off their fat arses and do the same...
some weeks it works for some and not others, but that does not mean people are not putting the work in to achieve new customers.
i would not dream of giving that type of advice to people who are obviously self motivated enough to have already set up a business,... or maybe they just sat on their arses until it all came to them eh?
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Sorry!!
Didn't mean to offend.
You have to admit, though, there are a lot of people who post on here who won't, don't or can't canvass and then moan they haven't enough work
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Or is it simply my area , how are you guys finding it.? ??? ::)
Gary.
I have dropped about 350 flyers/cards (people started phoning me before I had even finished the drop) in the last couple of weeks and have picked up about £70 worth of new work and have 3 quotes to do tomorrow, I thought this was going to be a worrying month, but it has been the complete opposite, best month i've had so far, and it has also given me the confidence to set a few goals for the next 6 months at least.
Lee
Lee
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£150.00 since New Year, from advertising in the local Parish Mag and the local shop.
Not only pleased as its new regular work but also because its the result of effort and motivation.
I need more work I think, although Im behind at the mo, having gone WFP I'll be caught up before long hopefully.
Matt
Matt, who did you have to contact to advertise is your local parish mag, as It's something worth looking at for me i think, as you're not the 1st person on here I have heard has had much success from advertising in them.
Thanks
Lee
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sonofformby, if you have trouble finding out who to contact for parish magazines then you should go the the church in the area you want to advertise. The church sign will have the vicars name and number. Call the vicar who will be able to point you in the right direction.
oh and gazza, going rural will be a good move for you. I get my most responses from leafletting in jan/feb/march than the rest of the year.
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another 2 today.having a good week
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At Last, got 5 today all quotes accepted.....
sorry too Ian, i value your comments i was really on a downer and then a i read your post....
constructive it was too so let me apologise for being a moody little git ::)
good idea the rural part too mark, that was in my thoughts as well as expanding my scope to other areas
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I was at a loss after xmas during my 1st year window cleaning as i was skint but suprisingly picked up a dozen jobs in jan and feb and it has been the same the last 4 winters. There definitely seems to be a window for picking up rural work in the winter months. And they have been among my best jobs and customers.
Another good thing about rural work is that each job is more profitable on its own than town work that i gained when starting out.
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Do you think it might just be you ? Only kidding gaz you might want to look at different areas for advertising remember "work smarter not harder " ....I hate that quote but over the years I have come to realise its true . I know a lot wc/s over 20 years or so . If you are getting fed up and want a chat you know where I am .
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Do you think it might just be you ? Only kidding gaz you might want to look at different areas for advertising remember "work smarter not harder " ....I hate that quote but over the years I have come to realise its true . I know a lot wc/s over 20 years or so . If you are getting fed up and want a chat you know where I am .
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lol, dont, you will get me paranoid,
thanks for the offer of chat, you sound like you know me lol....
no really, i was on a downer after working hard after xmas for new customers, but feel better now, ;)
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New business always comes in fits and starts and it is really depressing when you are on a down patch. There is nothing worse than going out on a Saturday for four hours leafletting or canvassing and getting nothing. But it does happen.
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£150.00 since New Year, from advertising in the local Parish Mag and the local shop.
Not only pleased as its new regular work but also because its the result of effort and motivation.
I need more work I think, although Im behind at the mo, having gone WFP I'll be caught up before long hopefully.
Matt
Matt, who did you have to contact to advertise is your local parish mag, as It's something worth looking at for me i think, as you're not the 1st person on here I have heard has had much success from advertising in them.
Thanks
Lee
Sorry for not replying before.
Funny you should ask, it was one of my custys who just asked if I did, I think shes part of the local Parish gettogetherclub (whatever its called); Ive seen her with the local bods clenaing out the pond down the road and setting up the Christmas lights outside the Methodist Church.
I had to wait a couple of months before the next 6-month advertsing run was organised. It costs £6.00 a month for a black and white ad and £12.00 a month for colour. I went for black and white and glad I did as they have all the colour ones grouped on one page, its too garish as all the different colour ads combine together to just make you want to turn the page, thus losing the effect of advertising.
In the first week I collared a £70.00 gutter and fascia clean from it and she already had a window-cleaner, so that paid for the next 6 months with half left over, since then Id say Ive picked up about £50.00 a month from it (about, I think) but since the new year its picked up.
Some venue will sell local Parish Mags, find out where and go get one, itll have contact details in the front of it.
Matt