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Size a6 is fine what you are holding in your hand,size a5 I think it's a bit big ..

Another red flag for me are the ones who want to be your best mate, they usually want freebies.

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Could listen to you all day. Great resource 👍

Spot on mate

Hi Chris slightly off topic but recently seen your video about using a hotbox to use warm hot water to clean windows in one of your vans ive been looking into this myself and was wondering if it was something you had adopted in futer vans and if it was worth the outlay ad they aint cheap 🤣 and if you have what one do you use bud?

Looking forward to this Chris. Great advice 👍

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️

Also looking forward to it!

Can’t wait

Spitting the facts my mate looking forward to the podcast 🔥

Looking forward to your new podcast 👍

Awesome man💪

Yes mate!!!!

Looking forward to this also 💪

Looking forward to it Chris

I ask the guy who did next door windows to do my windows but every 2 months, wanted £18 - I give him £22 because of every 2 months is a pain but can't afford every month, but he is coming monthly next door anyways.

Chris we prefer to quote in person too. It’s just better to meet and talk. It’s better than even talking over the phone. You both get to assess each other and understand each others ways better. Personal touch goes a very long way and if you can make someone smile or laugh then you’re a winner.

young people want to do their own thing, because old people are gatekeeping & helping their own people.

Leaflets only for the big boy's 👍

Red flag for me is when customer says ‘the old guy just stopped coming’ Probably means you are a bad customer/pain in the arse

So true , Just making a change to the message you send when requesting payment but in particular late payment makes a massive difference too. I used to send something along the lines of please can you make payment for window cleaning on x date and a lot of the time it would be ignored / still no payment. As soon as I changed it to “ we cannot trace payment for your last window clean on x date please check your records and make payment as soon as possible to ; …….when I send that I in most cases get instant payment and an apology

Nice, looks a bit of a beast. Too big for my van though.

I noticed that mail thru letterbox with royal mail has "junk mail" related to recent webpage searches on my phone which suggests advertised payment with royal mail might be a thing for new customers..

Do you have children and a wife?

Created a debt slave system that restricts all personal freedoms and demonises them. Maybe some forced medical procedures under a false pretense will get them motivated...

we do leaflets for Lee pawing, it depends how much u scale, we deliver door to door, and it depends always how much u homes cover and how often... many people who tries once, like 10k a week and drops u off cuz it doesnt work always mever makes it... we been with one roof company and pawing company over 2 years and they always have jobs daily and makes loads of money and only invests 20-35%... most of start up people expects quick results in doing something once... it takes time and repetition...espacialy in advertisment of what busines you are in😊

I have leaflets in my van and at the beginning I dropped loads door to door and didn't work. I advised in a free magazine that cost me around £36.00. I advised in around 10 of them and it's working out good. The clients are senior citizens with more Disposable income than most. So I Quote for a window clean then up sale if there driveway needs pressure washer etc, it's worked out fantastic have a good relationship with the magazine owners. Don't do on line but will next year to build more customers. Fantastic video as always chris 👍🏼

I found leaflet drops to be pointless. For every 1000 leaflets, I posted, I got one job. Just not worth the effort.

Good evening, everyone. Firstly, thanks Chris for your kind words. Lets get right into the knitty gritty! No, leaflets don’t work and never will work…..if they're SHITE. I find people always distribute small A5 size leaflet….SHITE! Who the hell is going to see that amongst a pile of other letters? No one, I know because I tried it. Everyone knows you need to stand out from the crowd and your competitors…..go big or go home. Send the biggest leaflet Royal Mail will deliver, A3 folded and make them 130GSM non of this 100GSM crap. The biggest mistake I see with leaflets is “your logo is wank” everyone one you see has “NICK WILLIAMS” in mahoosive letters and window cleaning in letters as small as your thumb nail. People don't want to know who are they want to know what you do, so hit them with it as big as you can. Transparency - get your pricing in the leaflet, on google and on your website, ppl love the fact that we don't just turn up and pluck a number out of thin air. Chris, is right we spend around £20,000 - £24,000 a year on leaflets…..ONLY LEAFLETS! We get a return year on year of around 2-3 job per 1000 drops which yields a 0.25% return….in more basic numbers 200,000 drops allows us to put another van on the the road once every year, which is 500 jobs per year bringing in £8000 per month - 3 months we have achieved our ROI. Not as hight as Chris mentioned at 3000…but that number is definitely achievable given more drops No bullshit here…i have physically shown Chris the figures on Cleaner Planner. Handing over the hard earned for a campaign is the easy bit, but to do so to you have to make harsh decisions and make sacrifices like selling your car, to fund the 1st campaign like I did. As it got busier I cleaned the extra work on a Saturday and Sunday that money went to one side until I had enough money for another campaign…rinse and reapet. I worked 7 days a week for 3 years. You have to spend money to grow. Canvassing is a fabulous tool if you do it yourself or train a confident staff member to do it, I have never knocked a door in my life, I have very little confidence and suffering with ADHD along with being on the autism spectrum I struggle socially. You get to a size where knocking doors can no longer match what you get from leaflets. Royal Mail will drop 200,000 leaflets in a month, can you knock that many doors in a month? No. Canvassing companies don't care about your business, they care about their business, they lie and cheat their way to a sale, they're salesmen….and salesmen are twunts. We have a “4 point of interest” rule Leaflets Website Google Van I am struggling to remember what else Chris mentioned in the video, 😂 I will leave you with this “I promised myself one thing “I will never be outworked” I will be happy to answer any questions, guys.

Genuinely think there isn’t a one box solution for anyone we have tried everything our best luck is telling existing customers we are looking for more work, seems a lot harder over the last few years but imo strong organic growth beats anything else. People don’t want to hear that but customers that ‘come to you’ will stay with you, we have had a a nightmare with canvassing, got no where with social media campaigns and leaflets blind dropped are a waste of time in my opinion.

Great video, buddy. I am well thanks. I could write a book in reply to the comments here. I have a lad off this week on leave so I am on the tools, yep, even the big boys have to still get their hands dirty from time to time 😂 I will write a more detailed reply this evening. BTW when are you coming to see the new offices? Chris.

Agree, to do the big leaflet campaigns needs cash as the results won’t be immediate. Looking at ROI over the lifetime value of the customer, this might be great but doesn’t help if you not got the money to pay for them now. Canvassing is free and effective, so when starting out you have the time, but door knocking can be psychologically hard work!

How are you advertising? We are starters and get alot from social media atm and word of mouth,

Theres a company near me in Surrey called Pryor's, the biggest residential company in UK, 23 vans and well over 10k customers, all he does is leaflets but at a million a time and gets royal mail to deliver them, if I remember he said it cost between £50 - £60k a time , so i would say they definitely work, but i like to knock and meet them.

Leaflets can still be effective, even in a world moving increasingly online. While receiving one in your mailbox may seem old-fashioned, they work if you approach them correctly. If they aren’t working for you, it's likely you're either using a poorly designed leaflet or not distributing them frequently enough. You don’t need to blanket an area with 20,000 leaflets. I prefer the "neighbor nudger" approach, where you occasionally drop one off to the houses nearby. This way, if your service is needed, the residents are likely to think of you since you're already familiar in their area. Additionally, I think you're mistaken in believing that distributing 20,000 leaflets will automatically lead to 3,000 customers. Your business might struggle to handle that level of work. The issue isn’t having too much business; it’s about not having enough staff to manage it, which is why growth is important. Using tools like GoCardless makes it much easier to scale your business. If you're still relying on manual bank transfers, you’ll find it hard to grow. I’ve said this before, Chris, and even the business you mentioned earlier uses GoCardless. It’s impossible to run a company of that size with so many employees and jobs without automating payments through systems like GoCardless or Stripe.

Good content again Chris, yes leaflets do work if done at scale & as part of a plan. It is a big investment each campaign that we do but the investment works. But I also get why people say that leaflets don’t work as you did 👍

100% leaflets canvassing I had a company in. Most of them left within 6 months. Waste of money! Try sign people up to go cardless on the door. Impossible. Leaflets you gain there information on your sign up form on website. They sign up to go cardless They have to commit and I find they are better more serious customers. And you don’t have to chase customers for payment. Also with leaflets you can deliver 1000 a week and gain 2-3-4 customers a week and gradually build your business. With good customers. Or drop 10-100k what ever works for you. “Everyone you see online says leaflets are crap so hardly anyone bothers they just stick a post on Facebook or knock doors “ Do something different it works. 😀

Interesting approach with scale, obviously not something a small operation can do though lol I tried leafleting in a small way like you at first it didnt work same as you. So I started door knocking way more effective, however I do have a method of leafleting I personally use which has a way higher success rate then those professional ones you buy lol I print my own. Small squares with my basic information and what a typical service includes, all black and white. I fit 8 on one piece of A4 so it's incredibly cheap to print thousands of these things but the one thing I do different is include a "Personal Quote" this is front and centre of the slip. I simply write my quote, post and move on. The return on these little gems is amazing and you don't really have to set aside time to do it either. I mix it in with my cleans, when I get new customers I'll clean their windows and then drop a few "Personal Quotes" I encourage anyone to try this for themselves and see how well they work.

0.5% is an unusually good return. I did 600,000 this summer over five months and got 0.15%-or 900 customers, I don't hit them 4 times though, I do 600k individual houses. From 100k leaflets, you'll get around £2.5k-3.5k extra services (gutters, etc.). With all things accounted for it works out about a 3x cost per customer, obviously this depends massively on your individual fee structure, mine is fairly high. You also end up paying higher costs when you get into high volumes as local leaflet delivery operators can't handle the workload in the timeframe that's needed for it to work, so you have to use Royal Mail, which is much more expensive. I spent £63k Ex VAT this summer.

I'm 6 weeks into my own business, I'm traditional, I bought 1500 leaflets, I too have turned forums inside out and most say leaflets are a waste of time, I've probably posted just under half of them so far and picked up 6 customers from them.

That's quite a big investment plus imagine trying to add 3000 jobs to your schedule all within a few weeks!!! Chapping is good as you also get to asses the customer and their property. I suppose on that scale you win some, you loose some, so all good.

I think the worlds pretty mucked up for young people, how many of them have a chance to get their own house or flat?

😮 so if I'm only going to be able to work whatever job for 5 years😮 why bust my ass doing something physical😮

😮 we've also reached the point with AI😮 it doesn't matter if you're a plumber or anything like that you probably only got five years left to do whatever that job is😮 go look go look up the uni tree 16000 robot motherfuker can do backflips and break walnuts with his hands he got 16,000 how much are they paying f****** electrician😮 and plumbers and s***😮 probably enough that if one of these things break they can buy three more😮

😮 we're not going into the physical labor is because we have phones and we saw what happens when you do your body gets destroyed😮 we're not joining the army because our country is corrupt the army doesn't pay enough😮 and we actually do understand what's going on in video games so if we go to that in real life we'll all die😮 we're trying to do cushy office jobs😮 because I know robots are coming if not here so why am I going to bust my ass doing something physical when I can get paid about the same amount of money sitting in an office😮 now if I'm offered to do something😮 physical which I have experience in😮 for significantly more money than an office job then yeah I'll definitely do it😮 but only for a time to get a paycheck😮 we're working smarter not harder😮 that's one half of us the other half is just straight up lazy😮 or so poor they can't even work😮 more mentally ill one of the three😮 there's also a fourth group of gen z that's already become rich😮 or has Rich parents😮

I'm gen X. I'm 47. This generation was caused by the generations before it. I can't blame anyone for not wanting to be a wage slave. The oligarchs use people for profit. It's obvious. Using others for personal profit is wrong. Especially when they're using others who are desperate and have no other options caused by the oligarchs.

If the young are so bad, who tf raised them??? Who did they learn from? Its amazing to see older generations act like you can get a generation of absolute bums from a generation that was the complete opposite, you don't get oranges from apple trees, man 😂😂

1 word...DEMOCRATS

High paying sit down jobs = women. It's not even that we want to be the sit down type necessarily its that the boomers pushed the narrative "IF YOU DONT GO TO COLLEGE YOU"LL END UP A BURGER FLIPPER OR WORSE...A MANUAL LABORER WORKING OUTSIDE BREAKING THEIR BACK EVERYDAY". They literally pushed intellectualism over any type of real work and the sit down jobs have paid better for the last 20 years.... but every problem today can be traced back to the male loneliness epidemic and the rise of feminism. Every guy is chasing the highest paying jobs by any means necessary.... and everyone also wants to really be somebody now, content creator or media personality too...