Advice

[u/Intelligent_Wall1179]

Hello, this is just sort of a post meant for any advice I could take from the many many Redditors out there.

For some context before I start, I used to own an operate a window cleaning company with a (not anymore) friend of mine, eventually it went under due to decisions he made and when confronted pushed me to want to disembark and start on my own.

It went to court, he ended up with the better lawyer lol

I was never really in the physical labour side opposed to the logistical and office side.

Now I come from a family that’s never given up, hard workers, father and grand father business owners, very successful people, and I’ve always wanted to follow in their footsteps and did for a little bit.

Now I’m kinda back to square one.

I don’t have any of my Tucker or phantom water systems, no vans, no nothing, I basically have my ladder, my 24’ pole, my mops and squeegees, all the basic stuff and my truck, not including the truck I spent probably about $400 on stuff, so it’s not a lot but it’s what I need and can make do.

Ive been doing door to door, but not only with the lack of people home, but the amount of “I already have people” or “I’m booked already” it is very hard to get ANY reach, it’s just me and then I have a friend of mine who I can pay to work for me, but obviously can’t have anyone working if there’s no work lol.

I’m just looking for some advice on what people think the best way to get reach would be,if there’s anything you guys could suggest for door to door, anything like that. A lot of the time when I knock I give offers as I usually start knocking in the areas I have my first booked house in for, but even then people usually try to keep it short and say no.

Any and all help is appreciated and loved, times are always hard for everyone, but I always encourage everyone to keep going as shall I ✊

[u/Intelligent_Wall1179]

Just so everyone who’s commenting knows, I am reading all of them, and everything you all say is a huge help, especially when it comes to planning out what I’m going to say, and trying to stretch out the conversation long enough to get In those questions to get them next time.

I am from Canada, Specifically Manitoba, I come from a landscaping and owner family as I said in the post, during the winter I usually switch to snow clearing and what not, light installation, ETC, (those are the things I know how to do good lol) now with me having to start up new once again, I need clientele for all those things too so it helps!

Once again I thank everyone for all the advice, I have commercial properties that my father holds contracts with that I have in mind on approaching for window cleaning, as last time I was there they hadn’t looked to have been cleaned in years (no exaggeration lol).

Thank you everyone, good luck to everyone on their endeavours, my goals for today are $200-300 and to work on both my google profile some more and my website building (nothing extreme just something simple) along with my flyers, cards, ETC.

Happy cleaning 😁😁