@Luke, in the video you said, “Sales growth will be the lifeblood of your company. If you cannot go out and sale new jobs or keep that phone ringing… your company, most likely, will sale.” I know what you mean, but what would you say you should expect in order to grow at a decent rate in the beginning? For my first few weeks I got jobs every single time I went out, but in the past couple weeks it seems like I have gotten roughly one to two jobs per week. Those or commercial and they are recurring, but it doesn’t seem like enough. What do you think?
Also, for a video you could do a how-to episode on selling, what you’ve learned and how you word things. Maybe give some of your experience of what you’ve tried and how you’ve done with them.
It’s not necessarily how many jobs but the amount of the jobs. So when I go out to sell I’m looking at my total dollar value not the number of jobs. I’d set a high daily, weekly and monthly sales goal.
I’m in Joplin, so that’s bad for income. On top of that I’m new to this entire thing, so that’s bad too. I did $248 my first month, then $538 my second month and am going to be at $315 for this month so far as of tomorrow. I expect Christmas and New Year will hit me because who is thinking about hiring a window cleaner during the holidays.
Off of your experience, how does this stack up to your goals and performance?
I’m not 100% on your personal situation or buisness model but I’d want to see at least $1000.00 in recurring work per month as quick as possible. Sounds like your really out there trying hard buddy.
Yeah, I was a good salesman in jobs I’ve had, but this sort of selling is different. Just one or two little things in your approach can fix that for you… plus no one around here has any money.
You say you like to hit $1,000 per month. Is that on average or for any given month? What are the best months and which months are worst?
Is that entire $1,000 from just walking into business and talking to owners or does it include mailing post parts or anything else? Would you mind if I ask what your monthly budget is for marketing - either percentage or dollar amount - and how you split that up? I’ve watched every video on your channel and in the videos with you actually walking into businesses and talking to them it seems like it’s very sporadic. Honestly, my first impression was that you drove like five or ten minutes between the places you walked into and that you just hit three or four in a day then called it good. What is your marketing scheme?
It seems on your videos that you honestly like to help people understand the draws of being a window cleaner and marketing has taken up the vast, vast majority of my time. I market roughly forty hours per week and clean windows for roughly 10 hours per week. This wee has only been about five hours of cleaning. It may be a good idea to help people understand how much time goes into marketing and you did it when you starts versus how you do it now so they will know how to become and stay successful.