I no expert and would not say the brightest person around.
But all that have paid for this, put the invoice through your books an this way at least you will pay less tax.
The company that owns the website that all these people are paying money in to, Fair play to you your business idea is working for you, without promising anybody any work.
This is why i say i am not the brightest person (I wish i would have created a similar website, more profit than trying to produce water fed poles etc)..
Then only thing i would have done before accepting money from window cleaners, was to make sure in any search engine, that if somebody was looking for a window cleaner in a certain area. The web site i created will at least show on the first page of the search result, put do better than that get up the top of the search page, Once this was done, then i would accept payments from window cleaners.
I did type in Google "looking for a window cleaner in a certain area and postcode"
Did not view anymore than the first page of results even the side adds, could not find this company anywhere,
I did get yel.com come within the first 5, which cost me nothing to join.
But i am not stating this is a bad idea, nothing ventured-nothing gained.
But very good idea for a quick business and could work........I may not be to late after all, i have website templates
Even know we all have ideas and different ways of approaching the way we work it.
J.V Price as introduced a new idea or redeveloped a old idea, if works could lead to more wealthy thing for the company.
Those who have paid or joined for the service on offer, could be glad they took the punt and get could results.
Those who never will say "o well" and continue making there business better.
I wasted money (£350) on a add mag called Quick Find, but not the company fault as they are well presented, but where these were delivered which was sort of the same postcode districts, nobody phone for my services for the 6 months period this was live for.
The good thing if this is done right, when humans are searching for this service, they come up very close to the top on the page.
If this works good, next thing will be plumbing ect.... sky the limit.
As from last night reading this, i can tell you i am in the process of creating a site very similar, but may never make it live, even thinking as doing it for all proceeds to go to charities (any way might be talking a lot of nonsense, but we all do sometimes)