[paul ette]

just lately in my area im seeing lots of new people around, see one guy yesterday, drove up to me in a 2010 plate vivaro with a brand new ionics systems installed etc probly about a 10k setup. i asked him how long he had being doing it for and he said since march this year, he reckoned he brought in 250 ish on a good week, jeez talk about running before you can walk. really dont see how you can spend that much money on a setup before you have a customer base.
then again i was broke when i started so didnt have a choice to spend very little on a setup.

[ascjim]

the van will be on ebay next year

[robbo333]

He probably got made redundant and had a payout. You can have all the kit in the world, but unless you're doing a good, trustworthy, reliable job, it ain't worth squat! 

[CLEANCARE WC]

Im not saying this about him, but there is a well known phrase...

                  ALL THE GEAR AND NO IDEA

[paul ette]

thats what i thought, made me feel a bit small when im standing there with a diy kit an an old van, but could not beleive it when he said he only earned that amount. whats the point...

[Nick_Thompson]

You can have all the kit in the world, but unless you're doing a good, trustworthy, reliable job, it ain't worth squat! 

Spot on Robbo!

[keyser soze]

just lately in my area im seeing lots of new people around, see one guy yesterday, drove up to me in a 2010 plate vivaro with a brand new ionics systems installed etc probly about a 10k setup. i asked him how long he had being doing it for and he said since march this year, he reckoned he brought in 250 ish on a good week, jeez talk about running before you can walk. really dont see how you can spend that much money on a setup before you have a customer base.
then again i was broke when i started so didnt have a choice to spend very little on a setup.

at least i'm busy .... and not on the social

[KS Cleaning]

just lately in my area im seeing lots of new people around, see one guy yesterday, drove up to me in a 2010 plate vivaro with a brand new ionics systems installed etc probly about a 10k setup. i asked him how long he had being doing it for and he said since march this year, he reckoned he brought in 250 ish on a good week, jeez talk about running before you can walk. really dont see how you can spend that much money on a setup before you have a customer base.
then again i was broke when i started so didnt have a choice to spend very little on a setup.

Well when so many spout how much they can earn down your way it's hardly surprisin you see lots of new cleaners.........word gets around.

[andyM]

just lately in my area im seeing lots of new people around, see one guy yesterday, drove up to me in a 2010 plate vivaro with a brand new ionics systems installed etc probly about a 10k setup. i asked him how long he had being doing it for and he said since march this year, he reckoned he brought in 250 ish on a good week, jeez talk about running before you can walk. really dont see how you can spend that much money on a setup before you have a customer base.
then again i was broke when i started so didnt have a choice to spend very little on a setup.

Was he a fireman? 

[Nick_Thompson]

It's becoming very annoying having to convince new customers that just because the last guy cleaned their windows with "a pole thingy" and left them in a worse state than before he started, doesn't mean that I will repeat the procedure.

There seems to be an inordinate number of individuals going round wetting window for a living and disparaging our beloved purified profession in the process.

[robertphil]

newish vivaro says it all

[Nick_Thompson]

By way of an adjunct to my last post on this matter, just recently, the only way I could convince a potentially new customer that I was really worth employing was to offer a free first clean... yeah, I know. I payed for the opportunity to convince them that I was indeed a window cleaner.

[Nick_Thompson]

I got the job!

[tlwcs]

By way of an adjunct to my last post on this matter, just recently, the only way I could convince a potentially new customer that I was really worth employing was to offer a free first clean... yeah, I know. I payed for the opportunity to convince them that I was indeed a window cleaner.

I always say decorators all use the same tools, some do a good job and some are 5h1te. Its the same with us

[Nick_Thompson]

By way of an adjunct to my last post on this matter, just recently, the only way I could convince a potentially new customer that I was really worth employing was to offer a free first clean... yeah, I know. I payed for the opportunity to convince them that I was indeed a window cleaner.

I always say decorators all use the same tools, some do a good job and some are 5h1te. Its the same with us

 

[SeanK]

Good luck to him.
The best incentive to make a go of something is to have a lot of money riding on it.

[robbo333]

You get good and bad in every trade, that's how life is.
Be professional, look smart, clean signwritten van and be nice and polite...and have a laugh!
If I ever have a wary pole customer, I clean one downstairs window for free and come back later the same day.
I show them how good it looks, give them a bit of chat and give them a fair price.
If they don't want, then I don't want them as a customer.  

[Nick_Thompson]

Good luck to him.
The best incentive to make a go of something is to have a lot of money riding on it.

Absolutely Sean. I couldn't agree more. We shouldn't jump to conclusions. The insufficiency of the evidence obviously precludes a conviction.

[paul ette]

if it was me i would of spent the money on a round or get a canvasser to smash an area to peices to get me started, rather than buy a van and cant earn nothing with no customers... just sayin

[dazmond]

so he is working 1 to 1 and a half days a week?i bet he has another job as well!