Woo
Well done, still aint been out yet, gonna start beginning of Sept still practising my cleaning. Hope Im as fortunate as you have been. What did you say to the people and did you also give card
I personally wear a company logo embroidered top (around £8 each max from
http://www.eliteindustrial.co.uk/ ) and try to be as polite as possible. " Sorry to disturb you, I'm just trying to build up my local window cleaning round, do you have / need a window cleaner at the moment ? "
Most people are polite and just say we have someone or we actually don't have someone. I'll then offer them a price and stress a high quality finish. If they accept I'll then note down the number (having a notebook and pencil - pencil won't run out and make you look silly) and tell them when I intend to first clean and that I'll put a small note through to let them know I've been etc.
I'll then give them a card so they know I'm genuine.
I've also found a good tactic is when they tell you " ohh we have someone - my hubby/me does them " I'll say - here's a card anyway if you change your mind, I only charge £x (having estimated roughly before knocking) and do a very professional job. I tried this last night, and out of the 5 or 6 that said this, 2 booked in, and 1 other sounded like they'd be calling.