[martinj]

Has anyone used Paul Dale for canvassing as in the forum admin link above? Did he get the work you wanted at a decent price and replace cancellations? Thanks

[Colin h]

I've used him.he hasn't replaced mine yet.i had some non payers
He wouldn't replace,even thou I texted them for payment.i would
Never use a door knocker again

[Colin h]

I know he will come on here that I didn't chase them enough.
He called some of them for payment,they said they would pay.
I'm still waiting for payment from some of the ones he called.

[HampshireWindowCleaning]

What was the overall quality of the work like that he got you, and how were the prices?

[Colin h]

Prices was pretty good,took a lot of texting to get the first money.
2nd was the same.i would say about half are good pay on time custys

[pdale]

Colin, you handed me back 20 'non payers' that you were still waiting for the second online payment from the second clean, from a total of 100 jobs I got you. You don't go collecting, that's fair enough, some cleaners don't. You admitted to me though that you didn't even send a reminder text to half of these 'non payers' and one text to the others.

I phoned 5 of the 20 ... 2 of them apologised and said they would pay that night, 1 said they were away on their holiday and didn't receive a card, 1 said they were unsure what to pay as you had only done the front but billed the whole house and the 5th one had actually paid.

I then handed the other 15 back to you and said it was up to you to chase online payment. Half of them hadn't received a text when you gave them to me and none them a phone call. It is not a canvassers job to chase online payment in that scenario.

[PoleKing]

Why did you phone the 5 PD?

[pdale]

Why did you phone the 5 PD?

I'm not going to get into a public argument with a past client, other than defend myself.

[SB Cleaning]

I've used him.he hasn't replaced mine yet.i had some non payers
He wouldn't replace,even thou I texted them for payment.i would
Never use a door knocker again

Mate thats canvassing for you....you have to expect a few messers its a numbers game at the end of the day out of a 100 freshly canvassed customers I would expect to retain 50-60% decent customers...the ones you lose you will regain eventually from the area canvassed from recommendations/being seen working etc...

I have used Paul myself a couple of times and he's a fair guy definately the best canvasser I've used and I've had a few!!

[Don Kee]

Hows it going paul, business still booming?
Paul did some knocking for me, work was fine and reasonably compact, prices were good, all the customers were made aware of different ways to pay so there were no payment issues when i cleaned them.
Lost a bit more than the agreed 10% leeway, so paul came down and replaced the work with no problems
Clean 97/98% of them still, and ones i dont it was because i dropped them myself as didn't want to clean them for varying reasond (not pauls fault, my choice) but more than replaced them with work picked up in the area

Honest bloke, was straight with me, i told him things i wouldn't do regarding access etc and he stuck within the terms.

On the whole, great result

I'd recommend him to anyone

[HampshireWindowCleaning]

I've used him.he hasn't replaced mine yet.i had some non payers
He wouldn't replace,even thou I texted them for payment.i would
Never use a door knocker again

He got you 100 jobs and 80 have turned out to be good customers, I'd say that's a bloody good result to be honest mate compared to all the other canvassing horror stories you hear. Plus it sounds like some of the 20 bad payers can probably become better if you chase up your money.

[J.D]

For an agreed price I can get you a couple of enforcers that will get what your owned Guaranteed? Your money back if you don't get what's owed! It involves damage and pain to both customer and property though? I take 10% of all monies owed!

[Colin h]

Hampshire how do you know how many he got me? You are wrong
About how messers.i rang him 3 weeks ago to have a chat about it.he
Text saying he would call,still waiting

[pdale]

i rang him 3 weeks ago to have a chat about it.he
Text saying he would call,still waiting

Because I was on the train to London when you rang. I did you call you back over the next few days but went to answer machine, granted I didn't leave a message. However email messages were previously exchanged.

[HampshireWindowCleaning]

You're right mate, I don't know how many he got you, i'm just quoting the figures that Paul used above.

[Jack Harris]

Pauls a fair guy mate, Ive used him and he's got me some really good work and there has been messers but of course your going to get them, He's always replaced the messers when its gone over the leeway % he gets you. I will continue to work with paul.

[PoleKing]

Why did you phone the 5 PD?

I'm not going to get into a public argument with a past client, other than defend myself.

Fair enough, I wasn't looking to bait you.
Just seemed unusual to me. But I've never had a canvasser.
I'd've thought 20 or 0...

[Clever Forum Name]

PERFECT TIMING

Paul did some door knocking for us in April this year. I have just cleaned most houses for the second time now (we dont clean at 4 weeks)

Paul was a little behind on our agreed date but kept us informed and turned up the same week but at the end of the week.

We met around lunch time in our local pub and i discussed the requirements.

Paul asked some pretty relevant questions. For example do we collect? Do we use ladders for access? etc etc.

I left him at around 2pm and went back to work. I received a call at around 5pm and he said how much can i do in a day?..... I said i would like to do £150 ish a day. Bearing in mind these are all FIRST CLEANS. His reply was ohhh best start booking for Tuesday/Wednesday How much have you got then Paul? Dunno at the moment Bud, close to £200   In 3 hours? Yep!

Monday came round which was the first day of cleaning. EVERY customer met me with a smile and was actually pleased to see me.

On my first day i was averaging around the £28-£32 an hour mark. ON FIRST CLEANS!

I cleaned the first part of the round again last week and its quite easy to do £250-£350 on Paul's prices. I would say they are about £1/£2 less than what we would want BUT and i dont know how he does it, you get compact work! Some roads i move the van once for around £100-£120 worth of work.

We had a small blip in where we had a weird day. Paul had knocked on a Friday and booked me work for Monday and Tuesday! Over the weekend and on Monday i had a lot drop out before i even cleaned them. Turns out these freshly canvassed houses were undercut by another canvasser! A few said you were £12 a chap came round over weekend and beat you by £3 So that £9 for a 2/3 bed semi. These are tiny houses by the way. You can average 3 an hour EASY Some where £20 houses and they just changed their mind. ANYWAY I told paul we lost some houses. He came back the same week and replaced the houses and then some.

This is the first time we have used a canvasser and i have to say its been great.

I could go on and on but to sum up.

Paul is awesome.

Work is great.

Prices are spot on for £30 - £40 an hour rate (no rushing)

My only gripe? I wanted to book him for another session and he is booked up. But we have something in the pipe line  

We only asked for a £1000's worth of work as its to put another van on the road and get that started. That £1000 round since April is now around the £1800 mark. Thats from walk ups, and other leads he may get you. £1800 is gross not net at 4 weeks!

Hiring Paul was THE best thing i have ever done.

I would never buy a round now and can't thank Paul enough.

[Clever Forum Name]

Mark that's a bit out of order.

The thread is about a paid advert from P dale. Not canvassing in general!

[Mick Kent]

Lol what a plant!!
As if its the canvassers fault you cant get your money, a replacement customer is for a customer who changes there mind before the first or 2nd clean!. Not for if you cant get your money straight away or if they cancal for a wc poor job.