I run a small carpet cleaning business , and I am thinking of setting my 21 year old son up with his own full time business as a window cleaner this summer when he finishes Uni.
As a family we know how to run a business etc , but my main question is about "door knocking " and canvassing , if you knock on a door and the home owner tells you they have a window cleaner do you say Ok thanks and move on, or try to find out what the other guy is charging and convert that customer over to you , I am not interested in trying to start price wars or dropping to very low prices to win business over as nobody wins by doing that !
On the estate we live on there are about 100 houses and about 3or4 window cleaners clean on the estate, would it be seen as "unprofessional " for one window cleaner to try and win over all the house holds? or is that how most of you working by "sharing" areas as you know that you cannot clean 100% of houses on an estate / street / area.
cheers , Paul.