If your getting yourself to the point where you are doing one off cleans, for commercial clients and they aren't asking you to look at other works, then ask them -'have you got any other work you would like me to look at?'
Get yourself in with estate agents & letting agents.
Keep banging out introductory info. The law of averages has to be that if you put enough out you have to get enquiries!!!
Is your leaflet right?. Is your introduction right?. Is how you represent your business right?
Are you the best service provider?. Are you too expensive?. Are you capable of giving them a decent end product?.
Do people think you must be crap because you are too cheap?.
I waited a very, very long time before I got my first commercial client - when I was doing residential work and I thought it was never going to happen.
Now all I have is commercial clients - it isn't the be all and end all.
I am in the last stages of putting a domestic arm back onto my cleaning services, with independent website, literature and everything else, so have gone full circle. It wont encompass residential window cleaning but I know it will pull in commercial clients and will give me bigger options that I am happy to admit I should never have let go in the first place.
Everything is possible if you have enough determination and stamina but if you aren't good at what you do or can't give the desired end result or if your face doesn't fit or a million other reasons you wont get the work.
I don't know why you have the battles you have, I could tell you in an instant if I was with you for a morning but maybe this isn't your area and you should be looking at another way of making money - I don't know if this is right - I may be way off the mark.
Me personally - I know if I went into offering a service where I had to interact with idiots then I would fail because I have no patience, a very short fuse and a desire to knock the nose off the face.
We have situations all the time where I have to rein it in, we pressure wash an area on a store front and some trade comes along and starts cutting or mixing up on it, we have to do it again.
It used to wind me up all the time but it is just more work- I mind a lot less now.
Maybe you need to change the way you think. Maybe you need to change the way you work. Maybe you need a role model that you are prepared to listen to and act on their findings, whether you like it or not!!!!
There are a lot of very good business people on the forum, not just window cleaners, carpet cleaners, pressure washers etc etc pick up the phone and speak to them, go and see them, see what they are doing right, what their mistakes have been but if you want honesty I will give it you - I couldn't give you any work because you don't give me any reason to think that you are capable of doing it.
Speak less on public forums about the problems, feed from the people that seem to be doing well, reinvent yourself as a capable and able business man and that confidence will filter out to the client/s you want.
It isn't just one thing it is the whole thing!!!!
Good luck
Rob
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