Hadn’t heard of this. Is it a franchise?
Looks like kids trying to make a few bucks with probably no insurance. You should put a real marketing piece right next to it 
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That as should convince anybody here who still uses clip art in their marketing to stop.
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Haha! Nah, I’ll leave them be. Was just wondering if it was like that college painters thing.
If their prices are so low, you’d think they’d just be better off working for a company for the summer, but hey, they’re going for it, can’t hate 'em for it, maybe it’ll work.
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OK i get it!..lol
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@Window_Spas they stole your avatar!
Send them to your competition’s owners house.
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If they’re in college and can’t use the proper “your,” I’m not impressed.
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i’m not sure about these guys but here and many other cities we have “college pro” who operate window cleaning and painting franchises.
the quality can vary but with 5 cash hungry aggressive future doctors lawyers etc jump out of a car and start knocking on doors they can whip thru your area and take an absolute crap ton of business while you’re laughing thinking they’re just students.
i have tried to hire one of them in the past but he was the team leader and was going to do more business than me.
Like a pack of hungry wolves with a goal in mind!
Pack leader.
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I used to be part of a college painting service in OH called College Craft. I was a crew leader of 4, and we had an eclectic mix of students and folks who couldn’t find a job otherwise. I trained the crew how to use ladders, ladder jacks, and stinsons properly. We’d roll and brush everything out while I did the majority of the trim work. At around 5, when we were finishing up, we’d canvas; knocking door-to-door in groups of two while looking young, fit, painted up and vibrant. We didn’t have door hangers. Only cards. I’d say for each house we painted, we landed 2 more jobs. The office was always bustling, and felt like a stock market floor with people running around yelling with papers overhead to get to the fax machine etc. On average, our crew landed 8-12 jobs a week in an area where cornfields were morphing into track housing.
That being said, I’m not sure if a window cleaning company would function the same unless it was an exterior clean and gutter only system. Theft and broken items would be an issue for sure. I had to fire 8 kids in 4 months due to being unprofessional (painting). Results would definitely be sub-par as well.
Wow. My motivation has decreased quite a bit since then. Almost 100% of my current work has been organic. I’ve done a bit of canvassing with just my card, but that was in the beginning. Now I’m running on just referrals, and building slowly, but with clients that are almost like friends. I just have no passion for business. I’d almost rather earn $25/hr as a foreman.
I wonder sometimes… I went to med-school after getting my environmental science degree, got burned out and settled for an MS in hydrology. In science nowadays, a master’s is like a bachelor’s. I remember my father telling me to get an mba; took a few business classes and despised it, so switched to science with a minor in psychology. Now that I realize everything is business, maybe I’ll just have to suck it up and work on that end of things…
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wah
Not crying here… just have a tendency to be loquacious.
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hey didn’t mean you were crying, it’s an obscure monty python reference a friend and i used to use alot, it’s meant to be sympathetic/empathetic holy crap kind of expression.
i had to look up loquacious cause in the words of the great intellect jethro bodine " That’s cause I “grad-ge-ated” the sixth grade, ma’am. Only took three years".
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