Tom,
Everyone goes through this as some stage, we are all looking over the fence to see if the grass is any greener over there, you're looking over the fence into the carpet cleaners garden and if you look hard enough you will see that there are just as many brown patches as in your own! (I've been looking over the fence into Mr & Mrs Weir from Ayrshires garden and their £161M, there's was looking quite lush!
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I'd personnally stick with just window cleaning for now, there is lot less in the way of outlay, less maintenance, less risk of problems, less advertising, less of everything that is bad for a business!
Of all our business diversifications, window cleaning brings in the best profit margin and the least hassle.
250 customers is a good base but not really enough to make it secure, and you will probably be able get around them all in a couple of weeks depending on the size of the properties. Set yourself an achievable target of 5 new customers a week for the next 12 months, you will have doubled your database and will be able to take on someone to work with you. Use the bad weather days as marketing days, get out and door knock, leaflet drop, etc.
It's amazing... once you see that you are making a decent amount of money each day, the boredom tends to go away..........funny that
