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How to Start your own Window
Cleaning Service
Here's a business that, almost more than any other
with equal potential for real wealth, meets the most strongest requirements of
just about any skeptic.
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 even 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 persons operations
grossing this amount should be less than £500 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 route, and you're
beginning to realise a good profit, you should hire part time help to do the
work while you solicit new accounts and establish regular customers.
You should concentrate on providing regular window
washing services for all the one and two storey office buildings and shop
fronts in your area.
Start with those closest to your home and expand
your efforts outwards.
Choose a busy thoroughfare leading into your
city's central area. Select the one closest to your home, and begin calling on
business owners and shop managers all along this street.
Find out who's currently doing their windows for
them, if they have any coíplaints, and how you can offer them a better
deal. Always leave a business card, after briefly explaining your services.
When you've actually investigated the service
they're already 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, but remember when you do, your proposal should offer more than just a cut
price.
Undercutting a competitor 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!
If your spouse is at home during |he day, they can
answer the phone for you and generally set up appointments for you, while
you're out making sales calls. They may also be able to handle your
accounts.
Should it not be feasible, or if there is no-one
at home during the day, then look around for a good, dependable telephone
answering service.
Many of these telephone answering services also
handle typing jobs, so if you're lacking someone to handle these jobs for you,
chances are that you can find all the services you need without too 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.
As the size of your company increases and you hire
crews of people to handle work assignments, you can usually get yoer 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,
its always best if you supply the window washing equipment and supplies.
Employees should be allowed to take the equipment
home with them, and you can require them 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 shirts and trousers - this is not only
impressive in projecting a professional image, it's also one of your cheapest
and best advertising methods.
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