[jo5hm4n]

To be fair I'm really surprised how well it's gone, there a few big companies setting up franchises in our area so I thought would be really tough going

Internet defiantly brings in better results but it's a bigger monthly investment than i wanted to do

But I've been training  someone to help from August /" September last year and there out by them selves from end February now and they want more income

I've not posted  to show how well I've done,  as I was very deflated by having to canvass after cleaning windows for over 30 years  with a good round already established, but to see the progression I still don't like door knocking 

But hopefully will come to an end by end summer and internet can do it's thing at it's own speed

Well done Tony your smashing it with your goals.  I've also started with the online advertising and it's definitely worth paying for the investment, much cheaper than to pay a canvasser or traditional advertising anyway.  Glad you have posted your results on here.  I think more of us should be posting success stories, to motivate others who want or need to hit goals.  I myself set a goal to hit a certain turnover figure by July/August, but the last 2 months i have already hit the targets already a mixture from online advertising, canvassing and the website working its magic to help bring the numbers up.

Next thing for me is to employ like you have done

 

[jo5hm4n]

Well an update

As I'm quite pleased we started canvassing and advertising 1 march , its now end April

So two months on I'm really pleased we're now averaging 3-4 new clients a week all at the average £30-35  picked few larger £85 clients up

So in all Increased by  £240 a week of 6 weekly clients over  every  weeks six weekly schedule so target is nearly there

Wanted by the summer to be £1600 weekly turnover which is just below VAT

And I think we may just be there, really surprised how much new work you can find when it seem to be so many cleaners out there

Must say we've had a large amount of one offs but people have been very honest and that's all they want so priced well and job done extra cash in which has helped pay for sign writing and advertising

mate im doing well too, havent even knocked a door in 3-4 weeks. Did loads of door knocking and it just gained momentum from there, had to stop as i couldnt keep up with it.
Theres tons of scope for work if your good at cleaning, im happy to admit im getting other cleaners custom. Always make sure im more expensive though, i tell em if you were happy to pay someone who misses windows, turns up when he likes and pes in the back garden x then if you want a proper service its naturaly gonna be more expensive. They then know its going to be a better service cos its dearer.
I knock em out with the best clean theyve ever had on the first 1, tell em how much i like em etc etc and next thing i know theyre passing my number round like a hot bag o chips. Its too easy if your running on the right lines.

Hey, good to hear things are good busy for you too and that you do the best first clean ever, must admit i have changed the way i do first cleans now and really take my time now that im mainly WFP.   I wanted to canvas this month, as of yet haven't even had the chance i've been that busy with taking on new work!  I have noticed though in Gele, it seems like there are lots of new window cleaners about??  Unless it's just me, i've seen atleast 4 new cleaners in the last few weeks who i haven't seen already, and that's on top of about the 4 or 5 regulars i see all the time.  Saw one bloke today with a Peugeot 206 with a  hose reel connected to 2 25L drums out the boot.  Pretty cheap setup, but that's irrelevant if you do a good job ofcourse.  Do you know many of the local shiners or the new ones for that matter?

 

[paul alan]

Well an update

As I'm quite pleased we started canvassing and advertising 1 march , its now end April

So two months on I'm really pleased we're now averaging 3-4 new clients a week all at the average £30-35  picked few larger £85 clients up

So in all Increased by  £240 a week of 6 weekly clients over  every  weeks six weekly schedule so target is nearly there

Wanted by the summer to be £1600 weekly turnover which is just below VAT

And I think we may just be there, really surprised how much new work you can find when it seem to be so many cleaners out there

Must say we've had a large amount of one offs but people have been very honest and that's all they want so priced well and job done extra cash in which has helped pay for sign writing and advertising

mate im doing well too, havent even knocked a door in 3-4 weeks. Did loads of door knocking and it just gained momentum from there, had to stop as i couldnt keep up with it.
Theres tons of scope for work if your good at cleaning, im happy to admit im getting other cleaners custom. Always make sure im more expensive though, i tell em if you were happy to pay someone who misses windows, turns up when he likes and pes in the back garden x then if you want a proper service its naturaly gonna be more expensive. They then know its going to be a better service cos its dearer.
I knock em out with the best clean theyve ever had on the first 1, tell em how much i like em etc etc and next thing i know theyre passing my number round like a hot bag o chips. Its too easy if your running on the right lines.

Hey, good to hear things are good busy for you too and that you do the best first clean ever, must admit i have changed the way i do first cleans now and really take my time now that im mainly WFP.   I wanted to canvas this month, as of yet haven't even had the chance i've been that busy with taking on new work!  I have noticed though in Gele, it seems like there are lots of new window cleaners about??  Unless it's just me, i've seen atleast 4 new cleaners in the last few weeks who i haven't seen already, and that's on top of about the 4 or 5 regulars i see all the time.  Saw one bloke today with a Peugeot 206 with a  hose reel connected to 2 25L drums out the boot.  Pretty cheap setup, but that's irrelevant if you do a good job ofcourse.  Do you know many of the local shiners or the new ones for that matter?

 

HI josh yeah i see em all the time, was working in pensarn last week and saw a young ish lad walking round with a bucket n scrim. Took me right back to how i started, crazy!  But still there is plenty of work up for grabs for good cleaners. I get approached all the time by people who are fed up with the current cleaner.
I think its harder to establish a round and i dont see much future for a lot of these new starts, unless theyre like us.

[STEVE-UK]

Tony

Who are then franchise companies?  I think we operate in the same areas

[Tony dunmall]

Tony

Who are then franchise companies?  I think we operate in the same areas

Hi Steve

bizarrely saw my first priors van today as well, that was in crowborough , East Sussex

I believe there's southern counties in the area and now priors there are about 8 other small operators with very large rounds

But I'm not sure what your company is called so you may well be in similar area, do you operate a franchise business or just employ

Tony

[NWH]

I'm not going to mention what firm it was in East Sussex that quoted a job I do but I was asked to clean down all the most awkward facias and soffits you've ever seen on a house I've done the Windows on for years,they are turret shaped that are back to front so they are up and underneath the gutters. I looked round it and as it was 3ish stories it was a scaffold job really due to not being able to get any pressure with the brush,it was a 2 man easy 800 job, another firm sent a bloke round 1 Saturday with a fibreglass 30ft pole and sill brush it took him 10 hours and the firm got 200 poxy quid for it,not the bloke who attempted cleaning it overall lol. Even she took the p in her posh way after all that they tried to get the Windows off of me but failed.   

[Tom-01]

I'm not going to mention what firm it was in East Sussex that quoted a job I do but I was asked to clean down all the most awkward facias and soffits you've ever seen on a house I've done the Windows on for years,they are turret shaped that are back to front so they are up and underneath the gutters. I looked round it and as it was 3ish stories it was a scaffold job really due to not being able to get any pressure with the brush,it was a 2 man easy 800 job, another firm sent a bloke round 1 Saturday with a fibreglass 30ft pole and sill brush it took him 10 hours and the firm got 200 poxy quid for it,not the bloke who attempted cleaning it overall lol. Even she took the p in her posh way after all that they tried to get the Windows off of me but failed.

£200 for that?! Busy fools spring to mind! Obviously trying to fill their time with any old work. I'd prefer to let companies take that work and waste time so we can carry on making high profits with decent paid work.

Madness.

[Tom-01]

Tony

Who are then franchise companies?  I think we operate in the same areas

Hi Steve

bizarrely saw my first priors van today as well, that was in crowborough , East Sussex

I believe there's southern counties in the area and now priors there are about 8 other small operators with very large rounds

But I'm not sure what your company is called so you may well be in similar area, do you operate a franchise business or just employ

Tony

Saw a Pryor's leaflet near where I live a little while ago. Very cheap. And they are 50 miles away round the M25. There's quite a few guys round here now.

I built my business on canvassing and will be coming off the tools completely in June so will be back out there. I prefer taking my time to build a quality, well priced business.

[NWH]

Maybe Lees not in that position but a lot of big firms get big because they are cheap therefore undercutting the smaller operater,I've said this before window cleaning is a numbers game at all levels but with a company that big it's essential that they have a massive amount of work. I reckon with a lot of these so called big fish if I looked at 90% of there work it would be at a price most WCs couldn't compete with,you price work correctly when your cleaning it,if you think I'll just add that on his his and his worksheet you can end up doing work for turnover and not profit. Although saying that a what seemed like very successful busineesman said to me once business is all about leverage,how much leverage you have with the banks or borrowing power.
80% of businesses don't make a profit although all the directors still drive 60-70k cars.

[paul alan]

iv noticed that anyone who posts up look im going canvassing  and then does the fantastic updates is  faking it.   

  folk pat them on the back

 but a month or 2 later theyre posting now im  buying a pressure washer cos the real results were shoite

I I laughed at you when I read this.
You dont believe it can be done, because you dont believe you can do it.
 Come to wales for 1 day and i'll show how its done son.

oh i know how to do it ,iv a full round .  i spose youre another one who  will say im getting  only big bucks jobs when out cancassing,

thing is ,anyone whose been a windie any length of time knows whats what.  big exaggerated claims impress nobody

ha......i get all kinds of prices when out canvassing it doesnt matter about individual prices just hourly rates(no idea what cancassing is) it tells me a lot about you by the way you find it hard to believe that anyone can be successful.
Im not making any exaggerated claims, Im saying its easy to do well at gaining new work if you know how.
So how did you get a full round if its impossible to be good at canvassing?
Is everyone that does well just a liar?
Is it your low self esteem that leads your limited self belief?

[Tom-01]

Maybe Lees not in that position but a lot of big firms get big because they are cheap therefore undercutting the smaller operater,I've said this before window cleaning is a numbers game at all levels but with a company that big it's essential that they have a massive amount of work. I reckon with a lot of these so called big fish if I looked at 90% of there work it would be at a price most WCs couldn't compete with,you price work correctly when your cleaning it,if you think I'll just add that on his his and his worksheet you can end up doing work for turnover and not profit. Although saying that a what seemed like very successful busineesman said to me once business is all about leverage,how much leverage you have with the banks or borrowing power.
80% of businesses don't make a profit although all the directors still drive 60-70k cars.

Yeah, then try getting a mortgage!

It's basically all about the bottom line. Yes customer service is a big part of it but if it's a case of always always spending money on marketing you need a hell of a lot of work.

There's different ways to run the type of business we do. It's about what makes each person happy I suppose.

[k.diver]

iv noticed that anyone who posts up look im going canvassing  and then does the fantastic updates is  faking it.   

  folk pat them on the back

 but a month or 2 later theyre posting now im  buying a pressure washer cos the real results were shoite

I I laughed at you when I read this.
You dont believe it can be done, because you dont believe you can do it.
 Come to wales for 1 day and i'll show how its done son.

oh i know how to do it ,iv a full round .  i spose youre another one who  will say im getting  only big bucks jobs when out cancassing,

thing is ,anyone whose been a windie any length of time knows whats what.  big exaggerated claims impress nobody

ha......i get all kinds of prices when out canvassing it doesnt matter about individual prices just hourly rates(no idea what cancassing is) it tells me a lot about you by the way you find it hard to believe that anyone can be successful.
Im not making any exaggerated claims, Im saying its easy to do well at gaining new work if you know how.
So how did you get a full round if its impossible to be good at canvassing?
Is everyone that does well just a liar?
Is it your low self esteem that leads your limited self belief?

will come to wales if

youll sing "the green green grass of home" as you set off -             is that a deal boyo           

[paul alan]

iv noticed that anyone who posts up look im going canvassing  and then does the fantastic updates is  faking it.   

  folk pat them on the back

 but a month or 2 later theyre posting now im  buying a pressure washer cos the real results were shoite

I I laughed at you when I read this.
You dont believe it can be done, because you dont believe you can do it.
 Come to wales for 1 day and i'll show how its done son.

oh i know how to do it ,iv a full round .  i spose youre another one who  will say im getting  only big bucks jobs when out cancassing,

thing is ,anyone whose been a windie any length of time knows whats what.  big exaggerated claims impress nobody

ha......i get all kinds of prices when out canvassing it doesnt matter about individual prices just hourly rates(no idea what cancassing is) it tells me a lot about you by the way you find it hard to believe that anyone can be successful.
Im not making any exaggerated claims, Im saying its easy to do well at gaining new work if you know how.
So how did you get a full round if its impossible to be good at canvassing?
Is everyone that does well just a liar?
Is it your low self esteem that leads your limited self belief?

i will come down to wales and check you out in action , if

youll sing "the green green grass of home"            is that a deal boyo         

heres a deal for you "muff diver" if you come to wales i'll show you me in action!

and you'll be singing"please have mercy on me" u cocky little belter

[k.diver]

 ok  paul you dont much  look like jonesy , still lets be off

dont you go giving me no crappy results, top hourly rate is what you promised me   iv driven a longgg way  to see this

  "the old town looks the same.....

 

 

[paul alan]

ok  paul you dont much  look like jonesy , still lets be off

dont you go giving me no crappy results, top hourly rate is what you promised me   iv driven a longgg way  to see this

  "the old town looks the same.....

 

 

your assuming im welsh because i live in wales??? your welsh jibes have fallen on an englishman.

a bit pointless realy....just like you.

i can teach you 2 lessons

1   how to canvass( not cancass-no wander your shxt at it)

2   not to mess around with someone that'll kick your arse

[k.diver]

  no good then.

you assume im no good at cancassing,and  i had assumed you were the welsh  boy     .iv employees but you wanted me to be  a failure

we are both wrong and i bid you farewell

 

[STEVE-UK]

Tony

My company is Southern window cleaning, not to be confused with southern counties window cleaning who have recently started up in the area (I Trademarked my company name in the event of this situation but thats another story)

we don't operate in Crowborough at present, I can pass on any enquiries we get if you want them?

[Tony dunmall]

Hi Steve

Yes I have seen your vans around, and your right I assumed same company , but now I know differently sorry about that

Yes that would be good about crowborough, thanks

[NWH]

That company you've seen round crowborough is the same one I'm on about there cleaning stuff for peanuts 🥜,let em so called big company with little work if you ask me.

[STEVE-UK]

NWH

I think he's a small operation, 2 or 3 of vans running, you might be confusing the companies also?

our prices are pretty average

I thought his prices would be average to on the high side considering he runs wildfire marketing