S/E Window cleaner,new and struggling

Charliecherry

Many thanks to all of you for your tips and support,gonna explore some of those!!
My biggest problem i have now worked out is travel and fuel !
I have to travel 40 mile each way to the work (and that takes an hour) but i
am going to try and fill in the gaps en route......

Slinky

Are you living somewhere very rural and remote? If not, why don't you concentrate on building yourself a local round? Not everybody who lives near you is having their windows cleaned by somebody else!

Given time and more local customers you could flog your distant round to somebody else.

OThrifty1

You may find doing the windows at the back of the house as quickly as possible (and well obviously), and a little slower at the front saying hello to passers by will help. You will become a familiar face and more likely to pick up new customers. Flyers dont help that much as most will be filed in the bin and not read.

Mati1968

My husband has built his window cleaning business up over the past 21 years and a majority of it was by word of mouth. He started off on his own estate and built it from there.

As others have suggested you might want to try your own town to begin with. Just because there maybe a window cleaner there doesn't matter, unless you live in a tiny village. There are 5-6 window cleaners here and plenty of work for every body.

My husband and his crew do roughly 80 houses a day. The thing they found that helped speed them up was if they had a few on one street, they'd ask the neighbours saying "As I'm already here doing your neighbours I was wondering if you'd like yours done too".

The fact that he mentions their neighbours gives them more confidence over someone who is just out flyering. They can ask their neighbour what kind of work he does. Then by having more than a few houses in a street he's not having to stop and load and unload the car every few minutes. He can spend a few hours in that area.

If he has a street full, he cleans all the fronts first and then goes and does all the backs. This saves a lot of time.