[mr smear]

I want to employ some canvassers. What do you think should be payment terms and how much. I don't want to pay established window cleaner canvassing rates i.e 3 times clean. Where is best place to advertise. I don't tend to start till 9 so extra commercial customers would be good aswell. I like the idea of comission but how much. I've got a pretty good round developing needs finishing. Any advice would be good. I want to get to the stage where i employ another window cleaner.

[andrew hamshare]

I pay £5 a lead. Foaf get £5 off next clean. Works well.

Btw, foaf = friend of a friend.

Btw, btw = by the way.

[mr smear]

Thanks that sounds  better. Do you find it easy to get many people who work for £5 a lead.

[pncleaning]

Do you mean £5 per name and address or £5 a clean ??

Paul

[brianbarber]

The £5 you pay, do they do the quote and sign em up, or is it £5 just for an appointment for you to go quote?

Mr B

[roundbuilder]

I pay £5 for a customer ready to be cleaned. A good canvasser will get 4-10 in a couple of hours. Worth it for both parties.

[mr smear]

Where do you get your canvassers eg job centre. Maybe i shouldl look into newspaper ad

[andrew hamshare]

I tell every customer to ask their neighbours and I'll knock £5 off their NEXT clean.  Sometimes get 3 in a row out of it!

One lady referred the little bookshop where she works (one of my favourite customers, really loves a good chinwag).  Then her daughter called me and when I cleaned her windows I had no less than 4 walk ups, including a conservatory clean.  Not really aiming for big earnings as I have found that they create themselves.  That one £5 front only terrace round the corner from me came from a facebook recomendation originally.

From one single word of mouth internet request for a window cleaner I have gained over seventy quids worth of regular work.  Cost in 'refer a friend' payments = £15.  I actually get a lot of satisfaction from saying thank you and pressing a crisp fiver in someone's hand.