[supernova77]

£1000 a week alone is alot. I do 2 £150 days 9 till 4 and two £100 days 10 till 3 and have a day off, 5days a week window cleaning is knackering I worked for a company a few years ago doing £200 a day for £90 5 days a week basically 8 till 5 and I slept all weekend, never again

Fair enough - But maybe you should up your prices?

9am - 4pm (7 hours) for £150 minus expenses could be improved upon...

Andy

[Don Kee]

Thank you for all the input guys, i have now gained 24 customers in total, i am also interested in buying work so i could expand.

Are you knocking on doors or just leafletting?
Try them both mate, knock on doors ''hello, my names..... I'm a local window cleaner! Just wondered if you may be looking for a regular window cleaner?' ,and leaflet the ones that are out....

[jamie bennett]

It took me 3 1/2 years to build up to £1000 per week now its more like £1500 per week and i work by myself but I built the round up slowly so I could still be reliable and nit let people down, now its just done by word of mouth and advertising on my van I did buy a few small rounds as and when they came up in my area, but be weary of that as I got my fingwrs burnt by another local company who changed his name more than I have had hot dinners, just plug away you will get there as i found tgose years went by fast

[8weekly]

I have been working in the rain today and got 2 complaints.

I recently watched a video on youtube not long ago telling me that rain does not dirty the windows.

I am now a bit frightened to work in the rain but i think i will have to get across it if i really want to earn £1000 per week.

My advice would be to not bother working in the rain at the moment as you don't need to. Use the time to leaflet & canvass. In time you will have to work in the rain and you will be over your fear by then as your fear is because you don't have enough customers.

[deeege]

I have been working in the rain today and got 2 complaints.

I recently watched a video on youtube not long ago telling me that rain does not dirty the windows.

I am now a bit frightened to work in the rain but i think i will have to get across it if i really want to earn £1000 per week.

You need to explain to your customers that to earn £1000 per week profit you have no choice but to work in the rain, they will understand.

[8weekly]

I have been working in the rain today and got 2 complaints.

I recently watched a video on youtube not long ago telling me that rain does not dirty the windows.

I am now a bit frightened to work in the rain but i think i will have to get across it if i really want to earn £1000 per week.

You need to explain to your customers that to earn £1000 per week profit you have no choice but to work in the rain, they will understand.

LOL

[dazmond]

I have been working in the rain today and got 2 complaints.

I recently watched a video on youtube not long ago telling me that rain does not dirty the windows.

I am now a bit frightened to work in the rain but i think i will have to get across it if i really want to earn £1000 per week.

You need to explain to your customers that to earn £1000 per week profit you have no choice but to work in the rain, they will understand.

  ;Dcracked me up that danny!!

[David Kent @ KentKleen]

I have been working in the rain today and got 2 complaints.

I recently watched a video on youtube not long ago telling me that rain does not dirty the windows.

I am now a bit frightened to work in the rain but i think i will have to get across it if i really want to earn £1000 per week.

You really DO NOT need to work in the rain at such an early stage of business building. As you build your business with proper planning you never have to clean windows in the rain AND still earn from your customers. (thats if you dont mind getting wet  ) Good luck, price higher than you feel you should, do a top job and you will not go wrong!

[rosskesava]

You need to explain to your customers that to earn £1000 per week profit you have no choice but to work in the rain, they will understand.

Brilliant. 

[Ian101]

You need to explain to your customers that to earn £1000 per week profit you have no choice but to work in the rain, they will understand.

Brilliant. 

in customer speak ................ to ensure we don't let customers down by being late we have to work in all weathers 

[SeanK]

You do have to love the willy waving on this forum.
O.K. its up to £1500 a week for a sole trader I'm sure somebody can improve on that.
I hear Walter Mitty window cleaning is taking in over £5000 a week and he's a sole trader.

[8weekly]

You do have to love the willy waving on this forum.
O.K. its up to £1500 a week for a sole trader I'm sure somebody can improve on that.
I hear Walter Mitty window cleaning is taking in over £5000 a week and he's a sole trader.

£300 a day for one man is hard work every day, but not by any means impossible. Turnover that is.

[deeege]

You do have to love the willy waving on this forum.
O.K. its up to £1500 a week for a sole trader I'm sure somebody can improve on that.
I hear Walter Mitty window cleaning is taking in over £5000 a week and he's a sole trader.

£300 a day for one man is hard work every day, but not by any means impossible. Turnover that is.

I'll say it. To AVERAGE £300 per day (turnover) for a full year as a sole trader is impossible.

[C o z y]

£1000 a week alone is alot. I do 2 £150 days 9 till 4 and two £100 days 10 till 3 and have a day off, 5days a week window cleaning is knackering I worked for a company a few years ago doing £200 a day for £90 5 days a week basically 8 till 5 and I slept all weekend, never again

Honest valuation. Good on ya

+1 Good post.
 I'm lucky, as I can get good prices here, so a bit higher turnover. He's right though. Even when I was only in my early 30's, I was knackered after 5 days on the glass. Week in week out, anyone would burn out on 5 days at 8 hours a day.

[tlwcs]

I have been working in the rain today and got 2 complaints.

I recently watched a video on youtube not long ago telling me that rain does not dirty the windows.

I am now a bit frightened to work in the rain but i think i will have to get across it if i really want to earn £1000 per week.

I'm with Ian, you have to educate your customer from the outset that you work in most weather conditions.
What you are getting with so few customers is everybody else's crap. The people who have possibly burnt or been burnt by several other cleaners.
Just another challenge on the way to your 1k weekly profit, there will be plenty of crap to sort along the way.
I would go as far to say only 4 out of 10 will be the right sort of custard.
Tony

[8weekly]

You do have to love the willy waving on this forum.
O.K. its up to £1500 a week for a sole trader I'm sure somebody can improve on that.
I hear Walter Mitty window cleaning is taking in over £5000 a week and he's a sole trader.

£300 a day for one man is hard work every day, but not by any means impossible. Turnover that is.

I'll say it. To AVERAGE £300 per day (turnover) for a full year as a sole trader is impossible.

Probably. It is tiring to maintain and the weather will be a factor plus holidays have to be taken, but I don't think it is impossible. Without doing the maths, £330 on a working day might do it if you assume 46 weeks worked out of 52. It is not impossible. It would be for me, but a fit 30 year old could do it. I don't have that much work incidentally just yet so it isn't something I'd have to worry about. 

[Mick Kent]

Without sounding big headed or a willy waver!!!
I got fed up with my rubbish round i started with so i sold it and got into canvassing for others and it wasnt long before irealised how to go about getting realy good work and to concentrate on compacting more and more instead of venturing out further and further, i learnt that 5x£10 fronts from 1 spot that took 15 mins max to clean was better than a £50 house that took an hour etc etc...
I moulded my business so i could do a min of 30 compact £10 fronts a day and only be on the glass 5 hours as i take and pick my daughter from school and i achieved it and more! most of my stop off's i do a min of 3 fronts which between 3 and 5 is average but sometimes i have 15/20 all from the same spot with the best being 24 which get done in under an hour! And yes i am splash and dash but i know what i have to do to get the job done to the customers satisfaction.  So with proper planning and dedication you can do realy well in this game, if you put your all into it and believe instead of being negative and doubting then you are onto a winner.
5/6 years ago i had a rubbish round of £8 houses scattered everywhere which i hated getting up for work and doing, it took me 3 years to turn everything around after selling up and canvassing for others to get 2 full rounds built based on mainly front only cleans.

[deeege]

Without sounding big headed or a willy waver!!!
I got fed up with my rubbish round i started with so i sold it and got into canvassing for others and it wasnt long before irealised how to go about getting realy good work and to concentrate on compacting more and more instead of venturing out further and further, i learnt that 5x£10 fronts from 1 spot that took 15 mins max to clean was better than a £50 house that took an hour etc etc...
I moulded my business so i could do a min of 30 compact £10 fronts a day and only be on the glass 5 hours as i take and pick my daughter from school and i achieved it and more! most of my stop off's i do a min of 3 fronts which between 3 and 5 is average but sometimes i have 15/20 all from the same spot with the best being 24 which get done in under an hour! And yes i am splash and dash but i know what i have to do to get the job done to the customers satisfaction.  So with proper planning and dedication you can do realy well in this game, if you put your all into it and believe instead of being negative and doubting then you are onto a winner.
5/6 years ago i had a rubbish round of £8 houses scattered everywhere which i hated getting up for work and doing, it took me 3 years to turn everything around after selling up and canvassing for others to get 2 full rounds built based on mainly front only cleans.

Good on you mick.

You averaging £300 turnover per day as a sole trader though?

I'd be willing to bet that's it's impossible. A tax return would be needed as proof. Any takers?

[dazmond]

24 fronts in under an hour at a tenner a pop?so thats £240 for under an hours work mick?

ive heard some rubbish spouted on this forum over the years but.........c,mon mick!!get real!!

[8weekly]

Without sounding big headed or a willy waver!!!
I got fed up with my rubbish round i started with so i sold it and got into canvassing for others and it wasnt long before irealised how to go about getting realy good work and to concentrate on compacting more and more instead of venturing out further and further, i learnt that 5x£10 fronts from 1 spot that took 15 mins max to clean was better than a £50 house that took an hour etc etc...
I moulded my business so i could do a min of 30 compact £10 fronts a day and only be on the glass 5 hours as i take and pick my daughter from school and i achieved it and more! most of my stop off's i do a min of 3 fronts which between 3 and 5 is average but sometimes i have 15/20 all from the same spot with the best being 24 which get done in under an hour! And yes i am splash and dash but i know what i have to do to get the job done to the customers satisfaction.  So with proper planning and dedication you can do realy well in this game, if you put your all into it and believe instead of being negative and doubting then you are onto a winner.
5/6 years ago i had a rubbish round of £8 houses scattered everywhere which i hated getting up for work and doing, it took me 3 years to turn everything around after selling up and canvassing for others to get 2 full rounds built based on mainly front only cleans.

Good on you mick.

You averaging £300 turnover per day as a sole trader though?

I'd be willing to bet that's it's impossible. A tax return would be needed as proof. Any takers?

A tax return wouldn't prove that. Unless you are talking £300 declared profit per day and that I reckon would be pretty much impossible.