Full Review of using WPS Generation for Canvassing.
I want to be as detailed as possible because for those who are maybe unsure or using a canvasser or don't know what to expect i think it's important to be detailed listing the good and the bad points and what to realistically expect.
I Booked WPS Generation for £1,000 worth of monthly work which cost me £3,000 total. You pay for x 3 cleans.
These are my results.
They Canvassed me £1104. Over generated £100 of work. Most of the work was monthly with a few bi monthly.
Some of the customers didn't want their windows cleaning straight away. Some said start next month, some said start January. So that obviously affects the monthly figures straight away. Also some of the customers decided after the first clean to go onto Bi Monthly so this affects the monthly values too, but the custom is still there.
75 customers Canvassed in total. Of which about 8 where underpriced between £2-5 with one customer being underpriced by £10. There were around 5 customers though that were overpriced by atleast £2-£3. So prices generally where really good apart from the odd 1 or 2. All customers where told by myself that they were slightly underpriced and apart from 2 customers all accepted the new increased price.
1st Month/Clean - We cleaned £807
2nd Month/Clean - We cleaned £689 (week before xmas wasn't really the best idea)
3rd Month/Clean - We cleaned £775 - Also from this we gained £400 of addons we did this month. Total this month was £1175
Total Cleaned after 3 Months/cleans = £2,271 - Inc Addons = £2,671
After 3 Months/Cleans here are the dropouts.
Cancelled before we got chance to do the 1st clean - £230
Cancelled after the 1st clean - £37
Cancelled after the 2nd clean - £56
Cancelled after the 3rd clean - £13
Total Cancelled - £336
Ofcourse you get new customers from walkups seeing you work. So far picked up 6 Customers totalling £95 monthly and just done a few more quotes too yesterday all whilst doing this canvassed work.
My Personal Review
It cost us £3000, and after 3rd Clean/Month we have done £2,671. By the 4th clean i will have made my investment back on what it cost me. By the 5th clean, i will be in profit for the fuel/wages it cost me to get my workers to help me with this new work.
Basically though for a one man band operation you will be back in profit by the 3rd if not the 4th clean. That's a Return On Investment of 25-30% per month, which to me is excellent. I have run several other businesses before and most of which if i made an investment into the business on average it would take 6-12 months to get my investment back and sometimes longer at that. I am currently investing into another non related business and my return on investment is 5% per month and i'm still happy with that as it's a passive income business.
If you can't Canvas, don't want to canvas or like me (current health issues) cant canvas, then i would highly recommend this service 100%. I have canvassed myself over the years, so for me this was about trying something different and seeing how good the results would be. Ofcourse nobody is ever going to be as selective or thorough as you are when canvassing because they dont know exactly the way you run your business, only you do. But that being said, i am very happy and impressed with using WPS Generation for canvassing.
I physically can't canvas at the moment and likely for some time, so this is essential for me if i want to grow my business. That being said even if you can canvas, i would still recommend this service to those who can afford to grow your business by investing money into it rather than time.
The 1st Cleans were a ball ache, we did £800+ in just over a 7 day span, lots of hard work at the time, but hoping that it will be worth it and pays off when you are left with good solid customers after 3-6 months/cleans in.
This review i wanted to be honest and realistic. I couldn't find much helpful information anywhere online when considering using canvassers for about a year or so. I think the pros and cons should always be listed. Aside from the Cancellations and customers underpriced, the only other problems we had was that some of the customers thought the service was 5 weekly instead of it being 4 weekly and ofcourse some of the customers were messers and you know the ones when before you even get out to clean you can tell theres a good chance they could be a messer. Well we had a few of those aswell, but not lots.
Just like when you canvas yourself, you always get atleast a few nutters or messers every now and then, you can't really expect any less getting someone else to canvas can you?
WPS Generation replaces any customers that cancel before you get 3 cleans aslong as it's a genuine cancellation, and not because you did a bad job or anything.
I have booked Yan @ WPS in again for some more canvassing in the next few months and they are going to replace me the work lost. So in theory i will have made my investment back + be getting more customers canvassed for free in a few months.
So for me going forward if everything goes to plan i will be using Yan and his excellent team in the future.
If anyone has any questions feel free to ask, happy to help anyone considering using a canvasser.
Cheers
Josh