Im seven months in and learning still each week. Some tips i found useful, people keep business cards, but will bin flyers. trialed just dropping business cards only on a few streets about five months ago and nothing came of it originally at the time, but this past two months I have had four calls from folk on these streets i dropped months back. Also when they give you a call ALWAYS ask how they heard about you. flyer? recommendation? word of mouth? FB page? local FB group ? saw you van? Also trial different flyers, make x5 different designs of x500 each in small quantities, and see what works before rather than ordering x25,000 at once. Note which flyers you drop on what streets/area/postcode. When the work comes in you then know what flyers worked. You quickly learn some flyers work better than others. Also let your customers be your own canvassers, when you do their clean drop them their "weve cleaned ticket" offer them a simple x1 FREE clean for every new customer they send my way. The busy body know it all money saving Queen of the cul de sac has not paid for a clean yet as she keeps finding me work, and we have a joke about it when i call she will pay me one day ! i dont mind. Every new customer is a £120+ minimum pay rise per annum (£10 x12 months) there is no one way single best of getting business, you just need to keep plugging away trying to get business every day by all means possible. Also just because you have done one street once dont mean you cant drop there again. One new estate of new builds that are all perfect all round access , i leaflet or business card drop there every month, people dont have the memory of what flyers came through their door four months ago. becuase i want to work this estate i am slowly getting more and more there. The more you are seen in one area, the better chance of work. Also prior to arriving to a sceduled clean, leaflet drop the neigbours BEFORE starting, the rattle of the letter box the sight of things on the mat and then 10 mins later they see you doing Mrs Jones opposite, they have been soft sold the service already and when they see you if interested they are likely to approach you, making it much easier to seal the deal. whilst not without it problems, i have trialed doing flyers with prices and have had a far better up take rate. As somemone know what it is going to cost, also as del boy says "what cant speak, cant lie" Also what noone has mentioned is use rightmove completed house sales www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices.html sort via most recently sold and there you have a fresh list possible customers
My dear friend flyers are good if you knock in talk about what you can do for them then give them the flyer and put the price on itMy dear friend flyers are good if you knock in talk about what you can do for them then give them the flyer and put the price on it
Great advice as always. When we started out, while I was cleaning the wife would be knocking on the neighbours doors and if we got any. interest I would clean them straight away. We also used to make a note of who wasn't in and call back at a different time of day to try and catch them.
One of the toughest things that people starting in business find, is asking for business. It's almost like bad manners to some people. My time in car sales has taught me many things, and not being afraid say " Can I have your business please" Great vid. Kev
top man daz ive been window cleaning for 12 years now just raised my prices after 10 years got stuck in the rut of pleasing my customers too much now im starting to value my time offering a top service at a price that i am happy with, our time is valuable daz
My first serious comment on TH-cam I think: With canvassing, do you ever take note of the ‘maybes’ and call back a week/two weeks etc later? I’ve heard of some doing this..
Good question and honestly no. If it's a maybee I give them a card and have forgotten them by the time i'm at the next door. It's a numbers game and there's way too many houses to hit fresh and keep going. If someone's actually interested they'll call the number on the card.
Hi Darren. When you canvass, do you knock on doors and wait for answer, and if no one comes then put a business card / flyer through, or do you just post card / flyer straight off? Great videos mate, really helping as I'm just starting off on my own after been working for someone for a while.
Hey man another great video. Iv built quite a big run up now and im at the stage where collecting my money in is too much for me. Need some help with cash collectors maybe a couple of young lads but im nervous about it. Any tips? Do you have any videos on this subject. Keep up the good work. Joe
@@Darren-Green yeah, I know yell.com does that a lot of the time.. When you join they call trying to sell a service saying " if you pay x amount you will or might get x amount of customers contacting you directly" but I know its a lie and a waste of our time and money to be fair 🙄 but in any case would you know a site to advertise a dog walking service? I know it has nothing to do with you or the business but it's just I've joined a lot of Facebook groups and still no interest at all.
Im seven months in and learning still each week. Some tips i found useful, people keep business cards, but will bin flyers. trialed just dropping business cards only on a few streets about five months ago and nothing came of it originally at the time, but this past two months I have had four calls from folk on these streets i dropped months back. Also when they give you a call ALWAYS ask how they heard about you. flyer? recommendation? word of mouth? FB page? local FB group ? saw you van? Also trial different flyers, make x5 different designs of x500 each in small quantities, and see what works before rather than ordering x25,000 at once. Note which flyers you drop on what streets/area/postcode. When the work comes in you then know what flyers worked. You quickly learn some flyers work better than others. Also let your customers be your own canvassers, when you do their clean drop them their "weve cleaned ticket" offer them a simple x1 FREE clean for every new customer they send my way. The busy body know it all money saving Queen of the cul de sac has not paid for a clean yet as she keeps finding me work, and we have a joke about it when i call she will pay me one day ! i dont mind. Every new customer is a £120+ minimum pay rise per annum (£10 x12 months) there is no one way single best of getting business, you just need to keep plugging away trying to get business every day by all means possible. Also just because you have done one street once dont mean you cant drop there again. One new estate of new builds that are all perfect all round access , i leaflet or business card drop there every month, people dont have the memory of what flyers came through their door four months ago. becuase i want to work this estate i am slowly getting more and more there. The more you are seen in one area, the better chance of work. Also prior to arriving to a sceduled clean, leaflet drop the neigbours BEFORE starting, the rattle of the letter box the sight of things on the mat and then 10 mins later they see you doing Mrs Jones opposite, they have been soft sold the service already and when they see you if interested they are likely to approach you, making it much easier to seal the deal. whilst not without it problems, i have trialed doing flyers with prices and have had a far better up take rate. As somemone know what it is going to cost, also as del boy says "what cant speak, cant lie" Also what noone has mentioned is use rightmove completed house sales www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices.html sort via most recently sold and there you have a fresh list possible customers
My dear friend flyers are good if you knock in talk about what you can do for them then give them the flyer and put the price on itMy dear friend flyers are good if you knock in talk about what you can do for them then give them the flyer and put the price on it
Great advice as always. When we started out, while I was cleaning the wife would be knocking on the neighbours doors and if we got any. interest I would clean them straight away. We also used to make a note of who wasn't in and call back at a different time of day to try and catch them.
Did you record the not at homes on an S8 ? Wink
@@stevefleming8742 🤣🤣🤣you should know we aren’t allowed to use the S8 now so just write them a letter instead
One of the toughest things that people starting in business find, is asking for business. It's almost like bad manners to some people.
My time in car sales has taught me many things, and not being afraid say " Can I have your business please"
Great vid.
Kev
Dont ask dont get!
Some golden advice here, and a gentle kick in the arse that we all need :) Cheers
Gentle? 😜
Always worth watching...
👍 great advice again Darren
Always have a small crucifix hanging from my mirror Darren. Gods been good to me on the window cleaning front 😉
Thanks as always for posting....
top man daz ive been window cleaning for 12 years now just raised my prices after 10 years got stuck in the rut of pleasing my customers too much now im starting to value my time offering a top service at a price that i am happy with, our time is valuable daz
I done the same mate
Another great video.
Very well delivered and really useful
What is ur vat no so I can hire y my man changes me vat you'd b much cheaper please print ur vat no
Thanks once again for top advice as I'm just starting out and I find all your vidoes very helpful with great info
Great video thanks for the tip about the business cards 👍
Great video as always Mate 👍
Top video as always Darren, all the best for 2019 mate
Hi buddy how many staff have you got working for you You look a very busy man
My first serious comment on TH-cam I think:
With canvassing, do you ever take note of the ‘maybes’ and call back a week/two weeks etc later? I’ve heard of some doing this..
Good question and honestly no. If it's a maybee I give them a card and have forgotten them by the time i'm at the next door. It's a numbers game and there's way too many houses to hit fresh and keep going. If someone's actually interested they'll call the number on the card.
Hi Darren.
When you canvass, do you knock on doors and wait for answer, and if no one comes then put a business card / flyer through, or do you just post card / flyer straight off?
Great videos mate, really helping as I'm just starting off on my own after been working for someone for a while.
Did you manage to get that cyber man mask while you were out shopping??
Only problem asking your friends they will want love job from you meaning very cheap Darren ..... cool video 👍
But friends or family might not even pay you even you need that money for your job!
They pay the same as everyone else and sign up to GC too.
'watching what's him name on the Jeremy Kyle show'. Would that be errr, Jeremy Kyle Darren? haha
So they named the show after him? Shows how much of my attention he gets. :)
Hey man another great video. Iv built quite a big run up now and im at the stage where collecting my money in is too much for me. Need some help with cash collectors maybe a couple of young lads but im nervous about it. Any tips? Do you have any videos on this subject.
Keep up the good work.
Joe
Do you get cold calls ringing you to sell a service?
All the time but because my number is all over my web site, social media etc.
@@Darren-Green yeah, I know yell.com does that a lot of the time.. When you join they call trying to sell a service saying " if you pay x amount you will or might get x amount of customers contacting you directly" but I know its a lie and a waste of our time and money to be fair 🙄 but in any case would you know a site to advertise a dog walking service? I know it has nothing to do with you or the business but it's just I've joined a lot of Facebook groups and still no interest at all.
Darren if your knocking on doors and they say yes do you get them to sign up by direct debit or wait for the first clean to be cleaned. ??
Yes
@@Darren-Green that was a very unclear answer . Lol .
@@tylorchaffey9990 very clear answer if you only read the relevant first question -- cant listen to scouse Dave ask more than one a time :)
What is that accent? Sounds like a bit of a saffa
I thought you were smart but you say you're not religious