[Taylor & Taylor WC Services]

100 customers a month via canvassing is very possible?? I have far exceeded that this month alone but then reality strikes and you have to also care and deliver the service too. Yes we'd all be loaded if we continued adding new customers at that rate but for me personally canvassing full time is impossible even with a full time fella.

I think theres a big difference in the owner of the firm canvassing face to face than a canvasser who is only motivated by money and not developing a quality customer base.

[window11]

complete load of tosh...

iv heard some kak in my time

[Seers]

Hi,

I never thought this post would cause so much strife.

Steve CM - I will try and give you a call tomorrow, cheers.

Slumpbuster - I have no intention of trying to monopolise domestic window across the UK. My original post was to try and get some help on building a large round, quickly, in our local area, South Wales, to supplement our income from commercial works.

However, I do think that if someone was to build a national brand for domestic window cleaning and sub the work to local firms it would work. Quality of work shouldn't suffer. If a local company in a particular area lets the side down you find another firm. We sub work from national accounts, not just in cleaning, and the last thing I would want to do is shoot myself bin the foot by delivering a poor service. Managed well this type of work can be very lucrative.

You have the advantage of being nationally recognised to win work, but have the freedom to deliver a quality service locally. Food for thought.

Cheers,

Huw.

[Ola Normann]

I am have recently hired a guy from east Europe.
He had a friend that needed a job, I said - okey, lets give him a try.

I will give him a HTC desire, and have a GPS tracker that sends me updates every 121 seconds where he is(my wc employee also have this). Will pay him after how many flyers that he delivers.
I will have a secretary that will take care of all the cust handling at a fast an proper way.

Live in a "small" place, and will give this a try.
100K flyers

Hope for a new 500 regular domestic.
I say no for one clean.
Anything over that is just a bonus.
Or, as long as he gets us more cust then what the first cleans cost - I think its a win.

As someone said here on this forum that I liked was that - if some one calls after seeing the flyer or they go to your web page contact form, they usually really want it, and you could put the price at a nice level.

i like the idea of the htc desire. could you tell me more about that please? how do you track with it?

You have a unlimited plan for data for your cell, register the phone on www.instamapper.com
Its free, and easy to put up. You can check all the time where your employees are.

If you work at a office, and you are a manager - you will have a full overview.
But when you got people all over the place, you can not see where and what they are doing.
Easy solution - GPS tracker.
You pay them, you make the rules.

[window11]

in addition to all this,and yes ther's plenty of glass out there, but you'll be supprised at how many window cleaners there are, even mondeo man will have a large round and there's plenty of them about with solid custies who wont even look twice at big brand fish companys trying to take over

ul fail in the first month, south wales u say, where abouts, i thought the welsh were very loyal in staying with what they got