Window Washing Services

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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 sceptic. In fact, there's so much in favour 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.

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 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 just 90 days. Operating expenses for one person operations grossing this amount should be less than $1,000 per month.

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 thoroughfare 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 this street into the downtown area.

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 - 6 hours a day, 5 days a week.

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.

List Your Window Washing Services, Have An Assistant, Search for Prospects, Contact Them and Ideally Make Your Window Washing Services Appealing More Than Your Competitors Do!

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 your kitchen table, with whatever office supplies you 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 will probably also save time and money as well - by going with printed supplies from the beginning.

There are no "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 your prospective customers.

Talk with them. Listen to them. Get to know them. Find out who is currently doing their windows for them, if they have any complaints and how you can offer them a better deal. When you have actually investigated the service they are already contracted for, and you are certain you can offer them a better deal, put your ideas into the form of a written proposal and give it to them.

Do not be afraid to submit a proposal for a better deal, but remember when you do, you should offer in your proposal 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 are in business to attain wealth - not work yourself into an early grave...

If your spouse is home during the day, she can answer the phone for you and generally set up appointments for you, while you are out making sales calls. She can also type out your monthly statements, see that they are 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 also handle typing jobs as well, so if you are lacking someone to handle these chores for you, chances are you can find all the services you need without too much of a search.

It is 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.

As the size of your company increases and you hire crews of people to handle work assignments, you can usually get your answering service to take on the added duties of job assignment notification or dispatcher. All of this simply points up the possibilities of operating your business out of your home indefinitely, should you choose to do so.

If somewhere along the line you decide to set up an office in a location other than your home, you might want to make an offer or otherwise induce one or two of the people from your telephone answering service. Regardless of how large your work force becomes, it's always best if you supply the window washing equipment and supplies.

Employees should be allowed to take the equipment home with them, and required to use their own vehicles for transportation to each job site. By all means, spend the extra money to supply your workers with uniforms.

Matching shirt and trousers with a big patch on the back of the shirts, listing your company name and phone number, is not only impressive in projecting a professional image; it is also one of your cheapest and best advertising methods.

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