Dazmond I know you have a lot to think about and do, as you have just gone over to wfp!But do set yourself targets once you are confident in wfp and you have everything going well,
Most businesses can run on similar ways, Take builders even if they don’t do the work themselves they employ contractors plumber,electrician,joiner ,tiler decorator etc: He makes money on each individual trade
There is nothing to stop you pricing up gutter cleans even if you don’t do the work yourself and not make money from them!
I have been talking to a local shop owner who has just opened up recently who sells plants and he has just started doing grass cutting, I have passed some work his way!
From customers of mine who`s gardener never turned up to cut their grass!
Now this is getting quite comman as the summer window cleaning brigade
I don`t no if you notice but every year there are always different guys going around doing grass cutting they don`t seem to last just like the summer window cleaning brigade so why not make money from it, so included in my house maintenance cleans I am as from next season going to be adding grass cutting and pressure washing as well to offer a total maintenance package! so I will be making money of the gutter cleaner,grass cutter, and the pressure washer guy just like the builder guy even thou I wont be doing all the work
Now everything I do I always try and offer that little bit extra than the others, so as for the grass cutting it will mean grass cutting and all plants watered,think the customers might like this little touch as it saves them having to do them when they get home from a hard days work! i think other people do this but not in my area!
The pressure washing side of things I am still thinking of ideas!
If you look at property maintenace companies they now include everything so why not window cleaners,
If you think back to when you first started doing windows trad then that is all a window cleaner did, clean windows! a few did gutters not all because some felt gutter work was just to high facias where also high work,
But with wfp this has changed window cleaning for the better I might add as it has opened more opportunities for us, Now window cleaners don`t just do window cleaning! Tradesmen are becoming multi-trade are window cleaners just going to clean windows? I think in the very near future more and more window cleaners will begin to realise they can build a bigger better business by not just doing windows!