[Sean Dyer]

Im out today at 11 am

[peter holley]

for a single fella with no commitments I think it may be possible!
 
but for a hard working man with an existingting buisness, a wife , and young children (my circumtances) it would be unrelistic...

I started this year with a goal of 5 a week... I got off to a good start , but I found it hard to do week in week out... sure. there are weeks when I 10 or more, but to do it conistently whilst  also spending quality time with the family its difficult as the evenings nd weekends are the besttie to door knock.

I havn't hit my target of 5 a week, but I have gained at least 100 new ones , and without setting that goal I maybe wouldnt have gained as many

[Sean Dyer]

I have same problem, wife and 8 month old dauhter, but i can do weekends and some days when i catch up with work and friday evening, thats about all i  have to play with

[windowswashed]

I think you will easily do it simply because December is full of new potential customers who only want their windows cleaned for Xmas , promising they want to be a regular customer , then come January it's.... not this time, blah de blah de blah.

[mlscontractcleaner]

Oh you sceptical buggar you. After one window clean from us they wont be able to get enough; we're the greatest cleaning firm ever to have be founded, honest, ask my mum

Already started this afternoon, just for a couple of hours covering an area we already clean in and picked up 7 new customers, all but one of them monthly with the odd one being two monthly.

That's the plan initially, to canvass hard in areas we already cover; it's amazing the amount of work we still pick up even after a few years working in any given area. People having a day off work when we're cleaning their neighbour's windows and spotting us, that sort of thing.

Only then will we move onto pastures new and blitz those areas.



I can almost taste the success; think I'll tell the wife to get out and order her new Porsche, then there's the new boat, the trip to Rio; oh it's good being me :

[ryanst1982]

Whatever happens, good luck to the noth of you. Im aiming to have 20 customers by christmas, not in same league but a target all the same

[windymiller]

Good luck if you achieve this.
I think 300 is realistic, on average i pick up 5 new customers a week just from yell and without any canvassing. Last week i picked up 8.
You always pick more up in winter as windows get alot dirtier quicker. So good luck and i hope you achieve your target.

[ccmids]

300 is that all.

[windowswashed]

Good luck to you if you have the time, energy and enthusiasm.
I would be interested to know of the 300+ you pick up between now and Xmas how many of the new ones remain regular customers up until April next year just purely out of interest.

[MSTAV]

i recon it defo can be done if you put your mind to it and find the right areas to keep it as compact as possible, the only prob i find when i canvass up for myself is how hard it is to keep it all compact. Too many wc out there now. Put all your effort in and rewards will follow

[Steve CM]

it would be easy to sign up 300 if your cheap! i would set a traget of overall price as a target then you'll have more quality work but less customers. its not quantity its quality

[RO-Sheen]

RO-Sheen, you are very much off the mark buddy. We started up in business in 1991 and run a contract cleaning business taking care of night clubs, a private school and various other smaller places in their day to day cleaning, shampoo plenty of carpets and have plenty of domestic and commercial customers on our window cleaning books.

This is aimed at obviously increasing the window cleaning side to an even higher level and to see if I can canvass what would amount to a small round in the time given.

Slumpbuster, whilst I appreciate your imput and opinion to say something is totally impossible and dismiss it out of hand so easily is very short sighted in my opinion. Maybe it will be hard, maybe there'll be the occasional night when I can't be arsed to go back out after a hard day ( we start work at 5am mornings ) but if it's at all possible I'll do it ........................ and then have to employ another fella to help clean them I guess

Good for you dude, I (wrongly) presumed you were a one man band and didnt think you may be a well established outfit. 300 is well possible for you with the backing of employees to do the extra workload.
I agree with your comment to Slumpbusters. Nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it. Even if you only get 100 customers it is still 100 more than you would have had. It was a very negative comment from slumpbusters. Go for it dude

[Sapphire Window Cleaning]

I will give that a try lol
I am starting up in Essex, I am also having 25,000 leaflets dropped in a 2 week period.
Would that be classed as cheating lol




Matt

[perfectpanesplymouth]

To the other Plymouth lads on here, don't worry, your work is safe, I only take on the high end stuff

Good luck and I hope you get them, BUT,
If you do get anything smaller you don't want give me a shout (well if you don't ask you don't get )

[Sean Dyer]

it would be easy to sign up 300 if your cheap! i would set a traget of overall price as a target then you'll have more quality work but less customers. its not quantity its quality

Im trying to get my residential rounds upto a certain figure per week, then im happy, im then concentrating on filling my other 2 days per week with commercial and growing it from there, i want to be full with resis by xmas, and then next year refine them a bit for better work

[easycleaner]

Good luck! The works out there, its a numbers game.
Mart

[Murdie window cleaning]

I shall put a weekly update on here every Sunday evening

So what's the scores on the doors then 

[Sean Dyer]

lol

ive just been looking for this thread ive picked up mainly commercials and one offs, excluding them though on residential =

3 jobs to a total of £53.00 per month

i was cheating i had an interview with a canvasser for today but they let me down so its back to knocking myself

will be out at weekend and next week a few days

[Sapphire Window Cleaning]

I've been having problems with my leaflets, I'm hoping that its all sorted out and that I get them within the next week.
I am having letterbox deliver them for me, 15,000 per week for 2 weeks.
Just hope I will be able to cope with response.





Matt

[Murdie window cleaning]

Has the challenge been aborted ? Or have you got an update 

were all dying to know