CFP, Do these guys have a whole Squad of Squeegees? Just asking out of curiosity, I’m sure you know what I mean.
Usually my prices revolve around $6 per pane, most of the guys in the area are around $4 but some are lower. Window cleaning is at the bottom of the pay scale for what we do, so I look for people that need more than just windows. I would rather add the windows to an existing job than to just go to a house and clean windows.
Another way instead of trying to get $20 for a double hung would be to offer a more specialized service. For example house washing is usually a couple hundred an hour once you know what you are doing. Thats a way to boost your hourly rate, cut down on drive time and maximize your potential. Or deck cleaning which averages $200-$300 per hour. Just an idea.
Yes, you are probably right in regards to there must be many happy customers too. Unfortunately, less people are as quick to remember how to give good praise by referrals, but it is extremely easy to remember what you did not like and spread it like wild fire. Such is why, it is very important to always give the Best of your Best to all of your customers all of the time, regardless of your rates.
In my many years serving as a Customer Service Rep, the majority of my personal job security did not come from the happy customers. My purpose was to resolve issues and complaints, hoping to make them happy. However, if it were not for the many many happy ones that we never heard from, we would not have been in business at all.
Joie ~ N. CA
I don’t know about their squadron but I had a pretty funny (and weird) experience with them.
I just wish I had the sense to grab my cell and video what I saw. I GUARANTEE it would have been a YouTube hit…
Care to tell of this random, window cleaning company incident? 
now that’s funny !
Well, because I found it so odd I will tell. I went to quote a house last year and there was another company at the home giving a quote also. I decided to sit and wait for them to get done.
They knocked at the door and no one answered, so the guy walks to the side of the house and in plain sight takes a leak on the side of the home.
I could see him perfectly from across the street!
I was sooo close to calling the number on the truck to tell the office of my visual encounter, but I did not. I thought of video taping it after he got in the truck :rolleyes:
Who does that? Isn’t that what pop bottles are for? 
I saw a youtube video from the UK showing a guy taking a dump at the side of a house.:eek:
That was all I hoped it would be, and then some. Thank you for sharing.
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Actually high ballers give you the opportunity to get some jobs at 50 if not for them you might have to settle for 25 (that is if the low ballers had their way)
I’m a high balla!
Kenny I’ve read a few of your posts. I would hate to believe that anybody would take anything you say seriously. You’ve been in the business 4 years you say, and cleaned 2-5 million windows? You don’t really know how many windows you have cleaned do you? You cant account for the extra 3 million that you supposedly cleaned? Lets say you did 5 million in 4 years.
That’s 250,000 windows per year. Its it possible? Yes but highly doubtful.
What about the hippie guy you met. He works out of a compact car, pulling everything, making 6g’s a month? Lets give the guy the benefit of the doubt. He works 12 months a year. That’s $75,0000 per year. That’s a significant amount of cash for a low-ball’in hippie wagon. “YOU DO THE MATH”
Maybe you two should go smoke on that. Maybe you shouldn’t, its killing your ability to think rationally.
Kenny I pity you. You’re a low-baller and you don’t even know it.
By the way, nobody here hates newbies. Simply suggesting you do a little searching before you ask repetitive questions.
I do! Especially Forrest Gump and Benjamin Buford “Bubba” Blue.
But, I like Kenny.
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You a little cranky Josh?
Say what you really think
I like Kenny. He might be misguided sometimes but he’s an interesting guy, and his posts are interesting too.
45 minutes of work for $50 is not good money. You will be on your way out soon with prices like that. How to you account for drive time, gas, insurance, equipment, time for estimate and maybe a second trip? That is a low ball price.
Unless you were already at the house on the spot, but if you could do that then you are probably not that busy.
Nah, not cranky.Well… maybe a little:mad:
I lack patience with young, over confident, inexperienced guys.
Sorry Kenny. I’m sure you mean well.
Mike I’m sure you’re right. Misguided is the word.
