Mmmm.....
Anyone who is self employed is a businessman, who a good a one is another matter entirely!
Of the local window cleaners that i know of, Roy Harding is to me what a successful business man is all about.
He is efficient, his books are always up to date, and he's up for early retirement in a few years.
Roy understands the 'business' side of things, he is also very professional in the way he conducts himself, he is a good window cleaner, and plainly a good salesman (you should see some of the accounts he has 
)
He understands the difference between turnover and income.
I envy Roy and admire him too, I could never be as efficient and organised as he is, don't get me wrong, I'm very good at what I do, but my book keeping is appalling 
I'll never be able to retire early, my pension is next to useless, I'll have to work till I droop unfortunately
Most window cleaners treat their turnover as their income....I'll bet very, very few of you work off a business bank account, and have an income paid into your personal bank account...
Where window cleaning is concerned, were you a business man, you would do so...and no...I don't either 
...sigh 
Ian
Ian.
I'm still trying to work out if that was a Freudian slip in your post or if that's what you meant to write 
Shiner, to begin with it was a typo....but I thought it more apt than 'drop'!
With my domestic stuff, there are just a couple who'll make me a cuppa, In a one of the pubs I do I often get offered a drink, and in a couple of the offices I do, one or two of the secretaries often makes me a cuppa too..
But there aren't that many, and If they all offered cups of tea or coffee you'd never get any work done!!
Being a good business man does not mean being some fish-eyed, hardnosed son-of-B.
It means understanding your job, it's market, knowing and identifying your personal strengths and weaknesses.
People skills are vital, and a good business man will be right up on the fiscal side of his business.
And so on and so on, most of us simply go out, do our job, collect the money, pay it in the bank to pay the bills with and deal with things as and when they crop up.
We do ok, its a pretty simple setup being a window cleaner if you are a one man band isn't it.
But the sky is the limit if you have what it takes...
Ian
