Guess I ticked you off a bit!
Not in the least
Reason number one why I would rather teach than run my window cleaning business for the next 10 years: I hate winter, and I'd like to be able to live somewhere tropical while still working. Seemed like a nice opportunity, since no one seems to have a clear hold on this window cleaning marketing game, and almost no one is doing things right. And before you take issue with this last statement, I do not presumptuously have the right to determine right from wrong, when it comes to marketing, history and testing establish that.
We all don't like the cold dark months, but we are all full-time proffesional window cleaners, and because of this we carry on, the same applys to any customer who dosen't want their windows cleaned in the winter, they are taken off my books and they can find a part timer if they can, I still have bills to pay for.
Like you, I like the hot climate, thats why I go to Africa a lot and my goal is in 10 years, I sell up and move there.
Imo there are no great marketing skills that need to be paid for, is mainly common sense approach to selling your company and yourself to as many people as possible.
The reason that the likes of Microsoft-McDonalds-Apple-Virgin-Ford and all the rest of the better known names in commerce that we know of is no big secret, all of them over the years have done "name marketing" they have spent Trillions and Trillions on advertisting if I do the same, then I would be in the same league as them.
The best way all of us have used to generate new customers has been the direct approach, by door to door canvassing, this provides more customers than any other forms of marketing that there is. But this method can be time consuming or costly (employing someone to do it for you) so we all try out different methods adverts -leaflets -paid for listings on the web and many other methods that cost a great deal, all of these methods have varring results, we would all like the "magic leaflet" that generates more customers than we can cope with, but it does not excist.
Also using marketing plans from elsewhere in the world will not always work over here, for example you have produced an very proffessional sounding recorded message that a protential customer will hear if they phone you.
Telephone messaging services might be more common and exceptable over in Canada and the USA but in the UK we all hate them, we would rather talk to a "live" person rather than kept on pressing this number and then that number before ending leaving a voice message that we hope someone will listen too. I do have a answering machine but I never use it, all I do is transfer all calls to my mobile whenever I am not by the landline, that way I never ever lose that call, whereas with a messaging service, they might not leave a message but phone the next number on the list.
You also said that you only only sell your monthly packs to window cleaners because you are one.
Well you are not a window cleaner, you are a part time window cleaner and a part time marketing salesman, why not take this piece of free marketing advice and change the contain of your products a little and target other trades and industries, that way you will be able to spend more vacation time in hotter climates of the world.