When you don’t have a lot of jobs you have time to market! So, that is what I did today. Spent 2 hours putting flyers in bags, and loading up into the truck. Then went out for 4 hours an dropped 500 flyers.

Finished up by 3:45pm and headed for home. By 8:00pm 5 people had called to get an estimate…HURRAY! Figure over the next couple days should get another 5 or so estimates. I’m happy with the results of the flyers. Tomorrow will be spent getting the 5 estimates knocked out, and getting a couple jobs booked.

I have to admit that when I had recieved no phone calls by 5:00pm…I was nervous. I started to think that my flyer was a bust. However I caught myself, changed my thoughts to expect good things to happened. And felt great when the phone started to ring. Funny how something as simple as a ringing phone can change your attitude.

The plan is to get another 500 flyers out by Friday, get the estimates done, and have 3-4 jobs booked for next week.

Have you ever said to yourself:

“If I knew then what I know now…”

Well, it seems I’m in this situation.  My wife got a job transfer to New Jersey…so I’d thought I’d tag along.  I’ve always boasted I could go any where and start the window cleaning business.  “No problem” was my stock answer.

Now its time to cash the check my mouth wrote.  I’ve decided to chronicle my experiences with starting over.  The good, the bad, and the entertaining!

I’ll post 2-3 time’s per week for the first year.  You’ll get to see what is planned, how it is executed and the results.  This will give you an idea on how to start a window cleaning business.  There are ulterior motives for doing this.  This will keep me on the ball…if I say I’m going to do something, then it’ll be easy to find the motivation to finish.