[TomCrowther]

Re your back Lee. You know what they say, no pain-no gain 

[Lee Pryor]

well i certainly have the pain! and man flu on top, so not the best day. 

[TomCrowther]

All joking aside, you deserve all the success because of the effort your putting in. Do you have an exit plan?

[Lee Pryor]

no I dont. I wouldnt sell, not for a long time anyway. I would like my business to be bigger but the future for me is in the franchising long term.

[Richard iSparkle]

do you charge extra for first cleans lee?

also, ibuprofen is the best over the counter painkiler for back pain.  its fantastic stuff.  it builds up in your system over time so the effect improves over a day

[Lee Pryor]

I dont charge more for first. never have but of course I see why people do.

I am taking that and it is helping. I have never hurt my back like this and im actualy shocked at how bad it is. I laid on my lounge floor for and hour because I could even sit in a chair!

[Richard iSparkle]

sounds bad.  i've had it that bad a couple of times.  once had to make my lunch on the kitchen floor as i couldnt standup!!!! was only 28!

keep taking the ibuprofen...  it works better over days.  you can get stronger stuff off the GP too.  they reduce the inflammation in the muscles which cause the spasm.  my wife's a physio and she swears by it.

[Kwackers]

All sounds good Lee, will keep reading as your results roll in. Good Luck.

[KS Cleaning]

Yep,seems to me Lee has some good business sense,and can handle whatever flack comes his way.

[Crystal-clear]

If they cancel then they cancel, there is no come back to her. Again I would say we just dont get these kinds of problems.

Im suprised you dont have any of these problems.

People are always after something for nothing in our case a one off for the cost of a regular clean maybe this one off craze effects london-surrey  areas the most and areas more out of london aint so mad about one offs?

i always charge doulble or 1.5 minium for the first clean it is the only way of finding out who is serious still people cancel

[dazmond]

i very rarely have problems with new customers either.if they phone me or come up to me on the street they usually turn into good solid customers.

i seem to be attracting good customers all the time these days.i think most new customers have been passed my phone number off an existing customer.best type of work  in my experience!

[Kwackers]

Hows it going Lee?

[Carl@Cwc]

emailed u lee

[Kwackers]

How many did you get in the end?

[William McCafferty]

at times I use both leaflets and directories to gain new work when I need a sudden rush of it.

last year I was putting out 5000 leaflets on a weekly basis, what I found was after 3 weeks I was getting on average 9 new customers a week.

also last week I had a phone call from a women who found me from my advert in the quick find directory, which is nice concidering I placed it 4 years ago.

[Lee Pryor]

It hasnt finished yet. Ive got another 20,000 going out today in my home town

3 of us are also going out door knocking for a few hours later

[Roy Cauldery]

It hasnt finished yet. Ive got another 20,000 going out today in my home to

3 of us are also going out door knocking for a few hours later

Looking forward to an update Lee :
Regards
Roy

[richywilts]

lee good luck with it mate ignore the critics i think you cant beat a leafletted customer, ive always had pretty good results from canvassing and im considering doing something of your size in next couple of months maybe 50-70000 when got bit more money i will only ever canvass around the houses we do now as canvassed customers turn out to be wasters, i think the amount of extra services you recieve for gutter and connys etc not just the windows makes it a much better way of making money, we earn far greater money cleaning fascias and gutters than we do windows and you always get paid at end of these type of jobs never left waiting for payment

[Lee Pryor]

ok so I ended up door knocking on my own today for one reason or another and here is what I got

3x £14 every 6weeks

1x £18 every 6weeks

1x £22 every 6weeks

1 off facia clean for £65

1 off patio jet wash £200

not bad for 2 hours walking in the sun! all right on top of existing customers. first time I have door knocked for 2 years! ive still got it lol 

we also got 2 through out website today so thats 7 regulars today.