If it wasn't for WFP id be doing something else now.
When I first started, I went window cleaning with a local trad guy; he taught me to use a squeegee and do trad cleaning, I worked with him for the summer whilst looking for work. When I found contract job with Chubb Fire heading up a small sales team, I stopped window cleaning for a while, but ending going back to it when my contract with Chubb finished after 6 months due to them stopping their particular avenue they were going down.
I started with nick again, and also gained some of my own customers and it snowballed from there. In 2004 I invested in the wfp technology, I bought a brodex system and a van and maxed out my amex card at the time. Before then I was using my old company car that I bought for cheap as the mileage was 200k I used to stick me ladders on top and use that.
so the short 'stop gap' ended up being a good business, and not long after then I was doing contracts for estates and flats, in London and it was a good money maker. until 2007 when it all went kinda naff and I got out of commercial all together.
So in short WFP for me made this from a stop-gap to a business. And beine able to work on trad tools does give me an advantage over a lot of the new guys coming into window cleaning with WFP.