[deanorfc]

I am new to the forum and with the forums help me and my mate made a decision to give window cleaning a go and start our own business.

On Monday i posted around 150 leaflets in a couple of estates that were a year old, having been a good canvasser in my past i went round the doors tonight and asked if they had seen my leaflet and if they had a window cleaner.
At the end of the nigh after 2 hours knocking doors where we had left leaflets 2 days before we manaed to get 21 customers with £170 worth of work per month. Out of those customers only 3 didnt have a window cleaner, 4 we were !3 lower than excisting window cleaner and 14 were at least £1 over there last window cleaners prices some £2 over.

Cant wait to get leafleting and knocking the doors again, is that a good start for our business ?

[windows_chepstow]

Dean,

Which part of country do you live?  Your profile isn't filled in properly.

Also welcome to the forum.

Tosh.

[deanorfc]

Bonnie Scotland

[JohnL]

Sounds like a good start but I am not sure about undercutting other WCers because all you are doing is starting a downward spiral.

Come a couple of months you may lose the work to someone who undercuts you.

Just my opinion   

JohnL

[windows_chepstow]

Bonnie Scotland

Good!

[Art]

Bonnie Scotland

Good!

Here we go 

[matt]

Sounds like a good start but I am not sure about undercutting other WCers because all you are doing is starting a downward spiral.

Come a couple of months you may lose the work to someone who undercuts you.

Just my opinion   

JohnL

agree'd only 1 winner in the undercutting game, thats the punters

[deanorfc]

Sounds like a good start but I am not sure about undercutting other WCers because all you are doing is starting a downward spiral.

Come a couple of months you may lose the work to someone who undercuts you.

Just my opinion   

JohnL

I always said to myself i wouldnt undercut as i learned from the forum it was a no-no but the customer says they werent too happy with there current cleaner and we gave them our price it just happened to be £1 cheaper and they decided to change, we didnt know the price they were paying their current windowcleaner.

[craig jwc]

As long as you haven't asked what they are currently paying i wouldn't worry about it.

To be honest when i 1st started and went out looking for work some of the people i spoke to didn't tell me they had a w/c until after i gave them a price.

If the present w/c is doing a good job then they won't change. If they have obvioulsy changed because you are cheaper then i agree they will only leave you for someone else who comes along cheaper again.

I didn't take on every job i quoted on only the ones where it was SO obvious they were getting a poor service.

Craig

[matt]

Sounds like a good start but I am not sure about undercutting other WCers because all you are doing is starting a downward spiral.

Come a couple of months you may lose the work to someone who undercuts you.

Just my opinion   

JohnL

I always said to myself i wouldnt undercut as i learned from the forum it was a no-no but the customer says they werent too happy with there current cleaner and we gave them our price it just happened to be £1 cheaper and they decided to change, we didnt know the price they were paying their current windowcleaner.

thats fair enough, i wouldnt call that undercutting, i would have said thats " 1 quid cheaper than the other WC'er"

now if you had asked what the price was and said "i will do it 1 quid cheaper" then thats undercutting

[JohnL]

agreed

[TCs window cleaners]

Where about in scotland are you from dean

[deanorfc]

im from Fife mate, where you from

[TCs window cleaners]

Edinburgh

[macmac]

glad i'm not in fife, never seizes to amaze me how dis-loyal some customers are for the sake of a quid or two!!!!

[deanorfc]

what do you mean by that, i have gained 14 customers by pricing them £1 sometimes £2 over there excisting cleaner, so to me they werent getting the service they were after.

[macmac]

nothing personal matey, just i've had the odd customer in the past, got to know them,chat to them, never over-charged them, always done a top job then WHAM, goodbye, someone offers to do it a pound cheaper and they're off!! some real tight gits round here though, does make me smile to myself sometimes.

good luck

[macmac]

also makes me smile that everyone's first question on here is "where you from?"

[james cairns]

dean hope you have  got a license and insurance, as it is compulsory in scotland, if not the other window cleaner can ask the police to remove you and stop you working for about 6 weeks until you get one

thought I would just mention it as you said you were new to window cleaning, and it might be an area you overlooked

jinky

[simon knight]

Hi Dean, 21 customers in 2 hrs knocking is really good going. The best I ever managed was 11 in 2 hrs.

So yeah a good start.