[ftp]

At last the silly season could be over - no new customers at all this week.

On another note I clean the house of the boss of a cleaning company. He was chatting away and I asked about the windowcleaning side of his buisiness. He has someone to do his commercial work (his cleaners don't do the windows). He was telling me he paid this guy over £60,000 last year alone  where there's muck there's money as they say.

[EZclean]

sounds like good work for £59k 
dont you think 

[[GQC] Tim]

Haven't had any proper call for weeks and weeks. 

[lee_dewing]

give it a month and everyone will want you to do their windows on xmas eve.

Been caught out in past: custy says will you be back before xmas

I think to myself; oh tip coming my way

"I won't be back till after xmas now"

greeted with grumpy face and no tip

Watch out for the users, want there windows done but must have them done just before xmas,

they don't want the inlaws knowing they have dirty windows.

once you got the windows nice and clean you hear that line:

"how often did you say you called around? leave me your number and will call you in the new year"

 
any new ones in dec will be double for 1st clean

[www.mrgutters.co.uk]

i only had 3 - 4 calls this year..i have adverts in yellow pages on yell , google ad words touch local.

its nuts ... not sure what to do anymore.

lost about 30% of my work to undercutters .

shawn

[Mike #1]

picking work up each week by recommendation and people asking in the street only gained a few custys via free advertising on yell.com

[s.hughes]

I been on Yell.com for the second year (I pay) and not 1 call from it.
Will not pay for next year

[pingu]

Shawn...really....what have you put into place to cover these large losses?

FTP knowing your luck lately is could be that your phone is permently connected to the speaking clock in Brazil hence no calls...added to that ...you have missed a call that was for a 2 bed bungalow which needed cleaning every other day for 250 notes per time and it's only around the corner and the lady is partially sighted.

Dave.

[ftp]

  Funny you should say that. I had a first clean a while ago and spent probably two hours on one house trying to get it right. When I finished I gave my usual speach about how the job might not be perfect first time and if she had any complaints to call me back.
"Don't worry love - i've got cataracts so i'll never spot anything anyway!"  :

[DaveG]

Im still getting 3 or 4 calls a week from recommendations

[matt]

Funny you should say that. I had a first clean a while ago and spent probably two hours on one house trying to get it right. When I finished I gave my usual speach about how the job might not be perfect first time and if she had any complaints to call me back.
"Don't worry love - i've got cataracts so i'll never spot anything anyway!"  :

ive had 1 like that, did a nice job and explained the " not perfect on first clean bit "

she says, no worries young man, i am blind

[JRDEasiReach]

my phone has gone quiet too and i even drive the van signed up and all around the town even when i aint working just in the hope someone will see it and 'ring' nothing, nada

[s.hughes]

Funny you should say that. I had a first clean a while ago and spent probably two hours on one house trying to get it right. When I finished I gave my usual speach about how the job might not be perfect first time and if she had any complaints to call me back.
"Don't worry love - i've got cataracts so i'll never spot anything anyway!"  :

How did she know you were young ? LoL

ive had 1 like that, did a nice job and explained the " not perfect on first clean bit "

she says, no worries young man, i am blind

[matt]

Funny you should say that. I had a first clean a while ago and spent probably two hours on one house trying to get it right. When I finished I gave my usual speach about how the job might not be perfect first time and if she had any complaints to call me back.
"Don't worry love - i've got cataracts so i'll never spot anything anyway!"  :

How did she know you were young ? LoL

ive had 1 like that, did a nice job and explained the " not perfect on first clean bit "

she says, no worries young man, i am blind

I'm not particularly young either, i was 37 at the time

[windymiller]

My phone has been quiet as well this week, only picked up 5 jobs this week via email and were only domestics. 

[www.mrgutters.co.uk]

well mate

ive got nothing in place should this happen , which it has... just carry on as best you can...chin up!! i have thought of gettign a part time job and doing the windows around it but ...nothing pays good enough every is minimum wage..and for part time its not woth getting out of bed for!!lol

[Skyglide]

We are the same, phone's gone quiet. Went round and saw 8 people that called for quotes - got one.
All the rest wanted or have been cleaned cheap as chips.  Undercutters and newbies everywhere.

[dave0123]

Dont worry lads my phone went quiet the other weeks for about a month and now its hone mental again, picked up about in the last 8 days or so.


Just hapens like that now and then  i suppose.

[pingu]

Just cleaning a little semi today and get another one across the road for a nice price...sometimes I really do like window cleaning .

Dave.

[ccmids]

best job i ever had