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 HOW TO START YOUR OWN SUCCESSFUL WINDOW WASHING SERVICE  - FREE REPORT Part 3 of 9

It is said to “know your competition is to know success!” This is true with any business, if you don’t know who your going up against then you can’t plan your attack.

Talk with them. Listen to them. Get to know them. Find out who’s currently doing their windows for them, if they have any complaints and how you can offer them a better deal. When you’ve actually investigated the service they’re contracted for, and you’re certain you can offer them a better deal, put your ideas into the form of a written proposal and give it to them. Don’t be afraid to submit a proposal for a better deal, remember when you do, your proposal should offer more than just a price break. Under-cutting a competitor’s price usually means less profit for you, and an overall deterioration of your reputation. It may temporarily result in more work for you, but you’re in business to attain wealth–not work yourself into an early grave.

 Let me just tell you a quick warning about the “better deal”, we in the business call your type ‘cut throat’s’!  You may need to under cut a few jobs just to get your foot in the door but if you keep doing this it is not good for your business or our industry.  Soon you will find out the difference between working for a pay check and working a business.  If you are coming from a jog making $9.00 to $15.00 and hour your might think wow, $20.00 and hour is great!  Your bids start to reflect this and a year later your still only making $20.00 and hour and now you need help to keep up with your business.  Your business is growing leaps and bounds becasue customers know they have the cheapest services they will ever get and look at you as a sucker…  Doing work most guys would not touch for under $300.00 and your doing it for under $100.00.  Now when you can’t afford to hire any one since you would only make $3.00 profit from them you dicide to do the work your self.  Now if you do break a leg or your back I can garantee you this that in no time you will be sick of cleaning windows and just burn out!!!

This is why you must make sure you are getting the right price for the right work.   It’s O.k. to lower your price now and again but but in this business if you under cut people to get the job then you should remember. “if you live by the sword you will die by it too”

If your spouse is home during the day, she can answer the phone for you and generally set up appointments for you, while you’re out making sales calls. She can also type out your monthly statements, see that they’re sent out on time, and pretty much handle your bookkeeping for you. Should it not be feasible, or for some reason inconvenient for your wife to handle your incoming calls for you, look around until you find a good, dependable Telephone Answering Service. Many of these telephone answering services handle typing jobs as well, so if you’re lacking someone to handle these chores for you, chances are you can find all the services you need without much of a search.

It’s important with this type of business that you have a “live” voice answering your calls. selecting the right people to handle your calls, and spending the extra time necessary to train them according to your desires–even paying a little more to have things done the way you want them done–is almost always well worth the time and added expense. Remember, this is a service business with your growth dependent upon the personal contact you and your representatives have with prospective clients. Work on it, develop it, and cultivate your personal contact transactions.

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 HOW TO START YOUR OWN SUCCESSFUL WINDOW WASHING SERVICE  - FREE REPORT Part 2 of 9

Part one we read about how easy is to start a window cleaning business but what about how to get the work? 

Usually, you won’t have to do much more than introduce yourself, briefly explain your services, and leave your business card. We did this regularly on a once-a-week basis, and after 6 weeks, we had enough business to keep one man busy–6hours a day, 5 days a week.

Remember what I said about keeping track of all the places you leave a business card or bid with.  Also design your business card so you have a spot to write in how much the cleaning will cost… By doing this you turn your card in to a bid at the same time.

Until you become well established, don’t even bother soliciting work on windows higher than the second story. However, it’s best to call on every business, one after the other as you make your way to the downtown area. Later on, you can call upon churches, private schools, businesses located on side streets branching off the main thoroughfares, and even homes if you’d like to try that market. Generally though, you’ll find the residential market too time-consuming to make your efforts really profitable, plus the fact that you simply won’t be able to charge enough to make it worthwhile in comparison to your commercial customers. Apartment houses and condominiums are quite a different story however, particularly when you can land several customers in the same building.

As mentioned earlier, you can headquarter in and operate completely out of your home. You can store your cleaning equipment and supplies in a corner of your garage. Your bookkeeping and other paperwork can be taken care of at the kitchen table, with whatever office supplies your need, easily stored in a dresser drawer.

Speaking of office supplies, you should have a supply of business cards–and an adequate supply of billing statements with your business name and address, plus mailing envelopes and return reply envelopes. You can get away with rubber-stamping your business name and address on your statements and envelopes, but your business will grow faster–you’ll probably save time and money as well–by going with printed supplies from the beginning.

Yes, I know what your thinking, why spend money on printing when you can just do it on your home computer… Well, that is right, that is all you have to do.  Remember this was written back around 1985′ish.

There are nor “real reasons” not to list your home address as your business address, but listing a post office box number–if you prefer–will not really harm your image. The important thing is personal contact–someone from your company regularly calling upon prospective customers.

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 HOW TO START YOUR OWN SUCCESSFUL WINDOW WASHING SERVICE  - FREE REPORT Part 1 of 9

Over the next few days I’m going to post 9 parts of a free report about window cleaning to give you a few basic ideas on how this simple service can rain in the cash even in a sluggish economy.  This report has been around for years but the ideas are still good for us today.

Here’s a business that, almost more than any other with equal potential for real wealth, meets the most stringent requirements of just about any skeptic. In fact, there’s so much in favor of the “little guy” with this business, it’s a real mystery why more people don’t choose this one as the vehicle for their ultimate independence and financial security.

 I will answer this for you, most people don’t like the idea of doing something they think is under them.  Cleaning requires a little humility, but don’t go getting all righteous on us… Because, you need to remember that you are going to be getting paid between $25.00 and $50.00 an hour so you can take that to the bank.

This is a business that can make you rich very quickly…It’s a kind of service business that can very profitably be operated by one person–male or female..The basic knowledge needed for success is simple and easy to learn..Very little monetary investment is needed for equipment– usually less than $100. There are virtually no storage space requirements…You can operate out of your home for virtually as long as you like; and yet, there’s a real demand for this type of business everywhere.

 The average 2008 cost to start up is about $300 to $500 and late on we will break down every tool you MUST have to be successful.

The success potential for window washing services is present in the smallest of towns as well as the largest metropolitan areas. Your risks will be minimal, while your rewards can far surpass even your wildest dreams. Generally, a one man operation in a city of 50,000 can expect to gross $4,000 or more per month after 90 days. Operating expenses for one person operations grossing this amount should be less than $1,000 per month.

Yes, this is possible, but  it depends on they type of cleaning and area that your starting your business.

Ideally, your plan should be to solicit new accounts, do the work yourself and establish a regular customer route. Once you’ve established such a service route, and you’re beginning to realize a good profit, you should hire part-time help to do the work while you solicit new accounts and establish more regular customer routes.

You should concentrate on providing regular window washing services for all the one and two story office buildings and storefronts in your area. Start with those closest to your home and expand your efforts outward. Choose a busy thoroughfares leading into your city’s downtown area. Select the one closest to your home and begin calling on business owners and store managers all along the street into the downtown area.

All good advice and if you keep track of every where you solicit then you can call them every few months to check in and offer your service.  This will save you time and money.

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 Making a Buck with a Squeegee is not to hard.  In this time with so many layoff and jobs drying up things could look grim to others.  Not me, I know one fact and it is the only fact you will ever need to remember.  Every one soon or later needs to have clean windows.  A business will lose customers if they have dirty windows!  It was estimated that the average restaurant could lose 15% of their loyal customers and 45% of new customers when the property is not well maintained and clean.  Well, what is the first thing people see when they look at a business?  Their Windows!

So, let’s find out what it takes to start a window cleaning business.

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