[Stoots]

My works always getting canvassed . Custys are always giving me  leaflets and business cards . I never lose any .i think it's funny that some guy is wasting there money paying these canvassers . I actually phoned one up about 3 years back . I was selling a small round . Only about 20 houses but nice and compact and well priced . I only wanted the dinosaur Yorkshire price of 3 cleans for em . But the guy said thanks but no thanks he was paying a canvasser to get his work . Wtf .

Well it depends on  what you mean by well priced.

I would always prefer to canvass/pay a canvasser or leaflet because I'm quite picky about the work I want and doi g it that way allows me to get what I want.

Over the last few years I've seen plenty of rounds for sale but not of them suit me. I've seen rounds that are done solely trad, ones that are all cash collection or just underpriced.  It's very hard to find a round to the way you work so buying a round would result in losing many anyway as we won't be a match.

I have some some requirements from my work as follows.

No collecting whatsoever
Water fed pole work
Must turn over at least £30 per hour
No set days/certain times/bad access/phone aheads etc

Canvassing works out about the same cost as buying all things considered but has the benefit of a tailored round.

I don't want to buy another window cleaners habits and ways of working I want to mould the customers to how I do things.

Canvassing gets the bulk of the work, then continual leafletting refines it.

My way of thinking is probably totally different to yours which is the great thing about this business.