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alansavvi

Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« on: August 01, 2006, 06:21:18 pm »
Just wondered if you thought it was possible? How long would it take? How could you do it? Help me please, just got the credit card bill!

Majestic

Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2006, 06:29:00 pm »
I dont know about a million ,but I know if you put your mind to it you can earn a good living

mick40

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Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2006, 06:30:57 pm »
there was an article in the edinburgh papers a few years ago about a window cleaning firm who were the first in edinburgh to make a million.
if i eat myself will i be twice as fat or will i disappear?

Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2006, 06:41:02 pm »
if you only cleaned residential properties only mixed price and the average overall was £10 per property you could do 20 per day x £10 = £200 x 7 days = £1,400 x 52 weeks =£72,800 if you had 6 employees all doing the same then yearlly turnover would be £436,800.00 .So thearetically you could turnover 1,000,000 within 3 years but thats turnover before wages,van expeses,insurances,income tax, etc etc etc etc etc so theres you figures see you back here in 3 years

Sir Squeaky

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Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2006, 06:53:16 pm »
No.

Try being a stockbroker or a Director of a big corporation.
Not a window cleaner. ::)

Morph

Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2006, 06:56:34 pm »
Phone a friend

matt

Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2006, 07:01:16 pm »
think big

be big

 ::) ::) ::)

Moderator David@stives

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Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2006, 08:12:40 pm »
! or 2 have done it , but they were in the right place at the right time, other than that a sole trader if he gets it right can earn more than a firm with 6 employees,

Remember turnover for show , profit for dough,

sair

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Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2006, 08:52:39 pm »
yes you can. i believe one can do what one wants to if they have a tenasity for it,
but with all things theres a cost, and quite frankly is it worth it theres more to life than a million pounds
Essentially Pure Ltd

beefy

  • Posts: 142
Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2006, 09:14:47 pm »
i can afford to spend all the time i want with my kids thats worth millions--time mate not money

alansavvi

Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2006, 09:18:59 pm »
Can we all stop being philisophical and sentamental and just answer the question. Yes we all know the pitfalls of money just wondered if window cleaning could make you a millionaire and how do you do it?

garry

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Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2006, 09:33:41 pm »
 there was a wc somewhere up north who went home and found his wife in bed with someone else because of that he left home and lived in the back of his van for two years about 5 years later he became a millonair from window cleaning he got a load of big hotel contracts, bet his ex wife is sick now ;D.
this is all true not something iv made up.

beefy

  • Posts: 142
Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2006, 09:35:13 pm »
yes it can obviousely but then so can being a model, a porn star a footballer just not for every one (just -ankers)

Morph

Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2006, 09:56:46 pm »
Can we all stop being philisophical and sentamental and just answer the question. Yes we all know the pitfalls of money just wondered if window cleaning could make you a millionaire and how do you do it?

Yes you can do it.
Go for every job you quote, especially the big ones, undercut all competitors, see them all off, unscrupulously use whoever you can to do the job at the cheapest price, promise to put everything you can right if it goes wrong, avoid spending a penny more than you need to, work all the possible hours you can, put the job before wife and family, get two or three 2yes men" who think the same way as you, and don't stop till you reach a million. 

If that's what you want..............

mick hay

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Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2006, 10:15:02 pm »
there was a wc somewhere up north who went home and found his wife in bed with someone else because of that he left home and lived in the back of his van for two years about 5 years later he became a millonair from window cleaning he got a load of big hotel contracts, bet his ex wife is sick now ;D.
this is all true not something iv made up.
  i know this fella very well, got himself a gorg new wife, 2 kids from the new marriage, just got a 2nd home on "millionaires row", drives a bently coupe she drives a porsche 4x4,  and the kids go to private school.   oh, did i mention his daughter is in my sons class???   ;) ;)

dave carroll

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Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #15 on: August 01, 2006, 10:41:12 pm »
yes
(but on a previous thread) was that when you asked if she wanted her windows doing? DOH!

mick hay

  • Posts: 1072
Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #16 on: August 01, 2006, 11:15:23 pm »
lol..yea it was, best thing i ever did cos it broke the ice and he always comes over and asks how its all going and gives me tips!!!


Paul Coleman

Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #17 on: August 01, 2006, 11:54:04 pm »
Just wondered if you thought it was possible? How long would it take? How could you do it? Help me please, just got the credit card bill!
Theoretically it is quite possible.  I'm not sure that I would be prepared to make the sacrifices needed to achieve it though.

Trevor Knight

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Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #18 on: August 02, 2006, 12:20:24 pm »
You get out of your business what you are prepared to put in!

If you plod around all day then no, the million won't arrive. If you race about each and every day then you might just get close.

Whichever route you chose as long as you pay your bills and are happy then what does it matter?

Trev
Covering Hampshire, Dorset, Surrey, Berkshire

dustycorner

Re: Can you make a million from window cleaning?
« Reply #19 on: August 02, 2006, 07:12:23 pm »
Of course you can make a million from window cleaning, the only ceiling on your earning power is you and that applies in all aspects of our lives. Everyone one allows others or even ourself to put limits on what we can achieve.

My new year resolution was to avoid everyone i knew who continually took negative viewpoints and told me you won't be able to do that or you will lose loads of customers when you switch to wfp etc. why let others rain on your parade because you have the balls to take the risks they would wet their pants thinking about.

Cheers Mark.