[paul alan]

If you had to start all over again, lets ay you was not 100% happy with your customer base.

What would you do differently next time?

I feel like things could be better my end.

[Smudger]

Offered 6 and 12 wky rather than 4 and 8

Other than that maybe starting the business 10 years earlier than I did as sky’s the limit with opportunity


Darran

[Shrek]

Same as Darran regards to the frequencies. Make more money for less work is my ultimate goal

[Cookie]

As Darran & Shrek. Also I wouldn't be afraid of pricing higher...

[Slacky]

Offered 6 and 12 wky rather than 4 and 8

Other than that maybe starting the business 10 years earlier than I did as sky’s the limit with opportunity


Darran

Those two. Give it my all from the word go. I have regrets and the not pushing headlong in to it from the get go is my biggest by far.

[paul alan]

I think for me, losing the fear of losing customers has been a turning Pont.

I want to strip it all down and build up something awesome.

I'm looking for condensed work, Gocardless, and more higher priced work. I want higher priced work as I find talking to customer's when collecting seems to be the biggest waste of time I encounter in a day. Frustarting too when they settle into a long explanation of something you couldnt give 2 hoots about. Even when you say "well I must go-got loads to do" they dont listen at all.

[paul alan]

Offered 6 and 12 wky rather than 4 and 8

Other than that maybe starting the business 10 years earlier than I did as sky’s the limit with opportunity


Darran

"the sky's the limit" love it!

[Stoots]

Not starting out into business/self employment sooner, took me till I was thirty odd to realise there was more to life than working for someone else....that's probably my biggest regret that I didn't see the opportunity when I was much younger.

[Marc Stock]

If you had to start all over again, lets ay you was not 100% happy with your customer base.

What would you do differently next time?

I feel like things could be better my end.

I wouldn't have started window cleaning at all; and persevered with my city job instead and dumped my nightmare wife id probbably be semi retired now with a fat bank balance; and a massive house on the st George's Hill Estate...
..im.not.joking either.

I Started window cleaning  at 22 years of  age partly due to my (at the time) very jealous and controling siciliian wife i married at 18 who didn't like me working away in the city; or having any type of career for that matter; and i was still able to buy a 250k house at the age of 25  from the window cleaning business i managed to pull together a few years later. 2 years after that it all went tits and i lost everything; divorce, house, taxman..u name it it happened.

[Slacky]

So, I take it marrying a Sicilian is out of the question 😂😂

[paul alan]

Not starting out into business/self employment sooner, took me till I was thirty odd to realise there was more to life than working for someone else....that's probably my biggest regret that I didn't see the opportunity when I was much younger.

I am 40 next week, after reading some of the posts here recently I feel young!

I feel blessed that I'm even thinking about making a more secure future at my age, your still young Adam, and your a tryer. Its only so long before you find the "thing" that see's you right. Just got to keep going.

A good friend of  mine has always been a bit of a wheeler dealer, not scared to give anything a go. I always said he'd be rich one day because of it When vaping came into fashion he spotted it right away and opened a shop, he now owns 3 houses, all mortgage free and he's only 35.

God loves a tryer.

[Slacky]

It wouldn’t surprise me if I end up getting married at some point in the not too distant future. She’s not from Sicily by the way, but is a customer

[paul alan]

If you had to start all over again, lets ay you was not 100% happy with your customer base.

What would you do differently next time?

I feel like things could be better my end.

I wouldn't have started window cleaning at all; and persevered with my city job instead and dumped my nightmare wife id probbably be semi retired now with a fat bank balance; and a massive house on the st George's Hill Estate...
..im.not.joking either.

I Started window cleaning  at 22 years of  age partly due to my (at the time) very jealous and controling siciliian wife i married at 18 who didn't like me working away in the city; or having any type of career for that matter; and i was still able to buy a 250k house at the age of 25  from the window cleaning business i managed to pull together a few years later. 2 years after that it all went tits and i lost everything; divorce, house, taxman..u name it it happened.

I love window cleaning! and I dont cleaning windows, incidentally I enjoy that too.

But then I would as a former plumber/electrical engineer, window cleaning was a step up for me( I didn't realise it at the time).

Seems like its a step down for you.

[paul alan]

It wouldn’t surprise me if I end up getting married at some point in the not too distant future. She’s not from Sicily by the way, but is a customer

Is this the one you mentioned a few months back?

[Marc Stock]

So, I take it marrying a Sicilian is out of the question 😂😂

Siciliian women are very very beautiful..this girl was 21 and i was 17. I pursued her and won her over, we got married a week before my 19th birthday and i had a good job in the city; my customers were Dresdner Bank, CitiBank, Fortnum & Masons, Morgan Stanley it was a ticket to a real high flying career.  Lets just say her jealousy got worse and worse to the point i had to consider changing my job and window cleaning at the time seemed a very weird but i thought temporary job to show her what its like to live doing  a poo job vs what i thought at the time a good high flying job; as punishment to embarrass her. But it ended up being a good business to be in its own right which i didnt expect lol.

Anyway they say; if you want to see what an english women looks like when she is older, check out her mum. If she is a fit mum then deal done.

What I didnt realise that with Scicilian women; if you want to see what they look like when they get older? Yeah? Check out her father, as genrally they end up short, fat, and hairy.

 

[Slacky]

It wouldn’t surprise me if I end up getting married at some point in the not too distant future. She’s not from Sicily by the way, but is a customer

Is this the one you mentioned a few months back?

Yes.

[nathankaye]

In essence isn't that what we do as window cleaners anyway. Build up better rounds and drop the dross, which is also based on experience

Or is it a mid life crisis thing where we want to go back in time but as the person we now are.    When I hit forty a Yr back, that's exactly what I thought. But I got married at 22, owned my own house by 25 and by then had a family of three young kids, 2 cars, 2 dogs and was happy with life. Then wanted my business in order by time I was 33 n I got the opposite, wife went off with someone n ended it all. Forward to forty n re married n again have kids. Can't go back n change ote as that would deny some amazing small humans of their lives. However, my business has grown, I'm more wiser n business savy now and areas of my work which have been comfortable and don't like price increases to gradually bring them to the  going rate of today, will soon get sold on, when my new areas I'm working in replaces them financially.   

[The Jester of Wibbly]

I would stay off this forum 

[John Mart]

It wouldn’t surprise me if I end up getting married at some point in the not too distant future. She’s not from Sicily by the way, but is a customer

I don’t think that’s a good mix. Have you broken anything yet there?

[Slacky]

So far nope.....