[Stoots]

So i have a chap working with me now 4 days a week. Doing ok with just windows to be fair picking up first cleans steadily but would really like to start getting into some extra jobs to add a bit of variety if anything and break the monotony of just windows every day plus having something to fall back on when the weather is really bad would be nice.

I have a gutter vac, it needs repairing but just needs a new motor so thats easy enough, i dont have a pressure washer or softwashing equipment but dont mind investing if the demand is there. conservatory roofs and fascias of course i have equipment for.

Main thing though is how do you guys get your work for these type of jobs ? i have about 650 customers but very rarely i get asked to do any extras, very occasionally i do maybe half a dozen times a year but its hardly anything worth investing for.

Facebook ads, google ads, repeat customers, website, leaflets  ? i know some people just do gutters or pressure washing just wondering how i dont really get asked.

Im having some leaflets designed which i will be posting through with my windows cleaned today slips to remind customers i offer these services

[Smudger]

I would say your current resource ie.. customers are unaware that you do anything else but windows - I may have this wrong but im sure you've posted that you hate doing them, so customers look elsewhere for these services...

start by letting them know you will clean s/f/g - Conny roofs etc... add a flyer to your next cleaned slip

going forward for a wider catchment - parish mags are excellent - sign writing on van - flyers - web site

Facebook - a few enquiries but of the waste of time variety

Darran

[SB Cleaning]

Lots of my window cleaning customers ask for extra jobs to be done, seems strange you don't get asked.....my slips I leave window cleaning customers to let them know ive cleaned the windows have all the extra jobs on its a DL size  with one side with photos of extra jobs so it's like I'm leaving a flyer advertising every time i clean the windows, i get 5000 printed which costs peanuts and lasts ages.

[AuRavelling79]

Word of warning - especially with an employee - make sure insurance is in place for the other jobs you do.

[james peters]

As above . just let your customers know .    The good thing about this is you can choose to up sell , but only to the jobs you fancy taking on .
you are already at the job cleaning the windows , so you wont have to spend time driving out to quote .

over the past couple of years  I have dipped my toe into softwashing, which I do with a back pack.  this  can pay double or tripple what you can get per hour window cleaning.   even just one a month is a nice change ..

[JandS]

I've had it where I've rocked up to do windows and there's someone there cleaning fsg.........asked them later why they didn't ask me and they said that  they didn't know I did that....more than once.

[SB Cleaning]

I've had it where I've rocked up to do windows and there's someone there cleaning fsg.........asked them later why they didn't ask me and they said that  they didn't know I did that....more than once.

I have had it too...all my extra services are on the pay slips i leave and on the van

We are just the window cleaner to most customers  they are oblivious to anything else we might do

[matthewprice]

When you are onsite.. point out the jobs needing done . Usually you will get them to do

[Stoots]

Cheers guys I will start with just making each customer aware. Will post a leaflet with every clean.

[NBwcs]

I dont promote "extras" as such, i just take on what i get asked to do as wet day jobs and have to say, the last 6 months have been the quietest ive ever known in 19yrs. Not that im bothered, i dont enjoy working in the rain,but im guessing its down to the cost of living crisis, whilst it would appear that Joe public still want their windows cleaning, they appear to be holding back on  gutters etc , maybe its just this area?

[Stoots]

I dont promote "extras" as such, i just take on what i get asked to do as wet day jobs and have to say, the last 6 months have been the quietest ive ever known in 19yrs. Not that im bothered, i dont enjoy working in the rain,but im guessing its down to the cost of living crisis, whilst it would appear that Joe public still want their windows cleaning, they appear to be holding back on  gutters etc , maybe its just this area?

There's definitely an "area" thing about it.

I work within a few miles of city centre  all my jobs are terrace, semis and the odd small detached, what I would call your average Joe  I don't really clean big houses
. Meanwhile I know a guy other side of Leeds who works in the posh area surrounded by money and large detached houses everywhere he is inundated with pressure washing and roof cleans with what sounds like hardly any effort.

[dazmond]

So i have a chap working with me now 4 days a week. Doing ok with just windows to be fair picking up first cleans steadily but would really like to start getting into some extra jobs to add a bit of variety if anything and break the monotony of just windows every day plus having something to fall back on when the weather is really bad would be nice.

I have a gutter vac, it needs repairing but just needs a new motor so thats easy enough, i dont have a pressure washer or softwashing equipment but dont mind investing if the demand is there. conservatory roofs and fascias of course i have equipment for.

Main thing though is how do you guys get your work for these type of jobs ? i have about 650 customers but very rarely i get asked to do any extras, very occasionally i do maybe half a dozen times a year but its hardly anything worth investing for.

Facebook ads, google ads, repeat customers, website, leaflets  ? i know some people just do gutters or pressure washing just wondering how i dont really get asked.

Im having some leaflets designed which i will be posting through with my windows cleaned today slips to remind customers i offer these services

Pretty obvious really....just keep your eyes open and look at your customers properties when your there cleaning the windows and let them know you can clean there f/s/g,conny roofs and solar panels(give them a price)and book them in next time you clean their windows....

I do this occasionally.in fact I've got an elderly customers f/s/g to clean tomorrow.they are absolutely minging but she will be so pleased when I've finished and it'll be much more job satisfaction for me than just maintenance window cleaning.ive not charged her much (£60)but it'll only take me an hour tops.....🙂

[G Griffin]

I reckon monotony is a state of mind not always changed by a different way of cleaning or a different area that needs cleaning. 

[the king]

when im on the glass i allways plant the seed i do this or that if your ever intrested ect get loads of add on's that way