Hello all
Im new to this forum, I have cleaned windows part time 10 years or so. My question is can a person earn a living working in an area of 100,0000 or so. i currently have around 25 customers mostly residental but have only done word of mouth marketing?
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Greg
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Welcome, Greg. I take it you mean 100,000. It is definitely possible to make a full-time living cleaning windows in an area with that population. I do it in a less populated area.
If you take your entire service area there well over 500 k people
I love having a service area with 10M people in it 
Welcome to another Iowa member! If you find some down time this winter Greg and want to meet up in Iowa City sometime for shop talk and coffee let me know. By the way my wife and I were married in Independence and lived there for 9 years.
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Steve, that picture is terrible! Hope you aren’t using that in your marketing
Thanks, sounds like i need to just get out there and sell it.
Thanks Tony that would be great.
as for the Picture, no i use my other side.
[QUOTE=gregschmitz;169487]Hello all
Im new to this forum, I have cleaned windows part time 10 years or so. My question is can a person earn a living working in an area of 100,0000 or so. i currently have around 25 customers mostly residental but have only done word of mouth marketing?
That’s sounds like my kind of area. About 100,000 or so spread over a 20 mile radius. 2011, my first year in business (after 12 years with another company as their window, carpet and floor supervisor/trainer) and I did ok. I made almost the same $ as before but worked about a third the hours. I have about 120 or so residential customers. I don’t do any storefronts because I don’t like it. I have been doing saturation mailings to select carrier routes and other types of direct mail like the top 100 producing Real Estate agents, and professional folks like dentists, doctors and lawyers. Yet I do know a carpet cleaner here who built a very good business in 4-5 years strictly by word of mouth so that too can work. I plan on doubling business this year.
Matthew
Im jealous, but not willing to move.
Welcome Greg! And to answer… Absolutely! I live in a town with half that. You should look into joining the WCRA. You will have the opportunity to benefit from a lot of experience that has taken others years to gain.
NYC suburbs, definitely helps. But in response to the original post:
Although i have a huge service area in a very heavily populated area, 80% of my work comes from a small town with 37,000 people and a median household income of $92k. Its all in how you market, where you market, and effectively domination the area you want to be in.
100K people, unless its the slums you should be able to make a tidy little living there.
welcome aboard greg, yes its very possible
