Yeah, I look at the shop front, work out how much I would charge, write it on the back of a buisness card of mine and walk in. Introduce myself and offer the card while asking if they'd like to be one of our custies. Numbers game. Same as knocking doors really.
The custies I get from this are "tick over" income when things are bad like now. It's nearly all 7 and 14 day jobs that keep a couple of hundred a month coming in. I've got a couple of shops that are monthly, but the rest are 7/14 days.
Thats a good idea mate. Do you ask to speak to the manager or just hand it to a staff mamber? And do you get many jobs you quote for? Cheers
Danny
Just got back, picked up one. All the rest have a card with a price written on the back. I expect a 1% to 3% hit rate normally. I dont ask tp see a manager if it's a small shop, just hand the card over while I introduce myself. I don't bother with the Dorothy Perkins or T_Online sort of chains as these have contracts to firms that provide maintenance cleaning of the whole complex etc. Apart from the fact that I'm looking for 10 to 15 minutes of work on each, not a couple of hours as some of the huge shops can take, if you know what I mean.
So it's, walk in, tell them who I am, hand over a card and wish them a pleasant weekend etc. Some ask for a price on the spot, some call later, some don't get back to us. Same as always. Some will, some won't, so what.