Hey Guys and Gals:

Figured I’d post a post on feb 29th. Won’t be able to do it again for four years so I might as well take advantage of it. .

Anyway here’s an email recently received. Just some miscellaneous chitchat about a little of this and a little of that. Oh…and I’ve got a super post that’ll be up in a couple of days about this dude who pulled in $8,000 in january just in gutter cleaning, not counting his window cleaning profits. Ah life is good. So definitely stop back and check that out. Here we go:

Hey Steve. Thank you for putting out this program at a reasonable price. I’ve already started the research and in the process of getting started. I got the idea from a guy cleaning windows at an account that I was servicing. He told me that he made about 85,000.00 the year before, I started to laugh. That’s when he asked me why I was laughing. My response was –I’ve been at my company for 12 years and I only make 45.000.00 a year. I’m only making the company the big money not myself.

I’ve been in customer service for about 13 yrs. for a local linen company here is Las Vegas. I will still keep my job with this company, until I start to see the window cleaning business take off. I already have been speaking with a lot of my customers about cleaning their windows, I’ve got a lot of good response. This is Vegas, the weather is always warm. So I should not have a slow time with the business. I’ve already started with the business cards and flyers.

Oh and one thing, I’ve got a business partner. I know you are not to keen on that idea. But my buddy has been my partner on a couple of things and it has worked out. We eventually want to grow this into something big. Our company name is <deleted for privacy> pretty catchy huh. Any ways I just want to say Thank You  Again. 

Joe Hepler

My Response:

Hi Joe:
 
Good morning.  And it’s good to hear from you.
 
I appreciate your comments.
 
Exactly…the window cleaning business is a very profitable business, so I look forward to seeing you making that 85k or more. 
 
Good idea on keeping your current job though at least until you get the ball rolling.  You will find that once things are in place and you follow what I talk about in my manual, the calls will come and the customers will find you.  So it’ll grow pretty quickly.  Just take some good strong initial action to get it rolling.  I know it’s a bit tougher for someone like yourself who has another job, but if you plan your time properly, you’ll definitely be able to do it.
 
When you mentioned that you’ve gotten good response already, that’s the exact reason why I got into the business to begin with. I use to have a mobile oil change business and I was looking to get out of it.  So I began to ask some of my oil change customers (the ones who were in my target market-not all oil customers were in my target market of window cleaning customers) their thoughts on getting their windows cleaned.  The response was overwhelmingly positive.  I mean who likes to spend their weekends doing windows when we can go in there and do it for ‘em for 2-300 bucks or so (or more). 
 
Right…not a big fan of business partnerships, but it’s only my opinion.  You may have the greatest partner in the world over there.  So that’s good.  I’ve just seen so much happen to partnerships. I had a guy in colorado call me recently telling me his nightmare story with what happened to him and his childhood friend.  Long story short…they’re not friends anymore.  But again, you may be associated with a great guy.  Just make sure that you both work equally.  The probs I see pop up is when one guy in the business pushes and the other guy is more of the worker/technician.  Resentments can begin to kick in on occasion.  And make sure you agree on the important details like how you’re both going to get paid for the jobs.  Some partnerships go 50/50 right down the line on all jobs regardless who might have gotten the job.  Other partnerships are arranged where the person who brings in the customer gets the majority of that job’s profits. I personally would go 50/50.  Actually what I would do is hire someone  to distribute flyers/promote and keep 100% of the profits for the company.  :o )  
 
I like your company name. Very nice.  I’m sure a nice logo can be created around that.  Maybe do a caricature (similar to my logo) with the 2 of you in the logo.  That’ll be very unique. 
 
Take care joe. Have a great weekend.
 
Regards,
 
Steve

 

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