[eddie d]

im with ian on this one .
i do ocationally loose a custy as they dont like the pole .but not many .
after 3 years poling i believe that it was my own negative thoughts or lack of confidence in the begining that put people off .now i get very few problems .

trad does do a good job every time .but have one bad fall and its all over .i was off 6 months after a fall from 12ft and still have pins .

as far as working in the rain ,that doesnt seem to be a problem either .i just tell em straight ."i need to make a living even when its raining ." most normal people relize this .and except that if they want a reliable regular service then i may well clean when raining .

i dont know what your doing squeak , .

[dai]

I had one today." your not doing them in this" It wasn't even raining at the time.
I can afford to stand firm. I said to her,"don't have them done then. She changed her mind and I carried on.
What they would really like is to have them done only when it suits them. You can't run a business on that basis. If one gets away with it, they would all want it.
I tell some customers that if I was charging what some other window cleaners charge, I could afford to have the winter off.
One way to frighten them is to say, "I have more work than I can do with the darker evenings, lets leave it till the clocks go forward again".
This scares them, they may not want them doing that day, but they don't want to leave it till March either.
This is the reason I don't trim the round. I could lose 20% of my customers without it having any financial consequence.
If customers think that you can afford to stay home every day it promises showers, they are giving you no consideration whatsoever, and deserve none in return. Users will be dropped. Dai

[Sir Squeaky]

Ian's right, I do a good job.
There seems to be no real reason for my lack of work.

I haven't picked up more than 7 or 8 new jobs all year.
The biggest one being £14.
The others have been small semis and the like (£8-10).

Ian gets asked to do places £30, £40 and much more.
Does my head in, it really does.

I'm fed up with working I disagree off on the same old crap jobs, while others go out and do a few cushy jobs and earn two or three times as much.

I'm losing motivation as well as work.

[Davew]

The woman mentioned at the start of this thread was a three story house that i picked up for fifteen quid. Only whilst half way through did she mention she had a cleaner but he charged twenty five and couldn't do the top windows! Cheerio then.

[windowwashers]

thanks squeaky
i was going over 2 wfp ,but  have changed my mind after reading you recent post,s.
mike

Mike if you want to talk to someont thats just changed to wfp give me a call on 01234 870 225, I dont seem to get many problems at all.

[SherwoodCleaningSe]

We've never had a problem with rain and customers telling us not to do them.  But then I always come on the day I say and my customers really like that.  With wfp now it seems like an even better reason to work in the rain as the windows get wet anyway.

I'm picking up plenty of work to, but I think a uniform and sign written van helps with that.

Simon.