What do you think is stunting your growth?

Is this an open invite?? Haha

Mike Radzik
Pro Window Cleaning
Central Massachusetts

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Hmmmmm…why not. We are always a bit short staffed during the winter.

Can you book a hotel or plane ticket with out a credit card?

Why is your time not as valuable?

You’re right. You can’t. I’ve realized that chasing money is twice as hard than doing the actual work. I’m not sure I will start taking deposits from all my customers but the new ones for sure. With the repeats Ill need to communicate a lot better about payment since they’re already used to the whole just go do it thing.

This answer surprised me.
I literally changed my whole business model because of the headaches that came with commercial work.

  • spending weeks on a job, piling up labor costs.
  • sucking up to one asshole, whose attitude of the day could be the difference between ‘sitting on the invoice’ or turning it in.
  • you’re basically “fronting” them the money to get the job done.
  • one check sitting on some dicks desk, while he’s on vacation (could be a months worth of work.)

Can you ask them for a credit card on file and then you’ll just notify them of the total before charging it? Or since your situation is so backward and weird, how about offering a discount if they use credit?

I ran into that same problem in commercial work but I expect it to be that way so it doesn’t drive me that crazy. Where in resi work with a lot of customers I’d be doing work by them when they weren’t around then have to chase my money. Here’s a scenario.
Customer-"Ok so when you finish up there come by to pick up a check.
Me- work was completed I’ll be in Brooklyn around 8pm
Customer- oh we’re out to dinner can you come by tomo night?
Then tomo and the next day there’s no shot I can get to them cause it’s too late or I have a meeting somewhere else.
I’ll send a text- when can I come by
Customer- no reply
I’ll stop by the house time and time again
Seniora no esta
Customer- I’m so sorry it’s been crazy
My husband will mailed you a check from his office
Me- ok ty
Doesn’t show
Customer- give it a few more days and if it doesn’t come I’ll get cash.
I’ll finally get paid
By now I’m tired of all this hide n go seek.

Unfortunately this happens with a lot of people.
This years gonna be a whole new me.

I like the idea of taking a cc on file then at the end of the job either swiping it or if the customer can bring payment that day I’ll take a check or cash.

At this point, you know they were lying.
Let me guess, that check never came?

That sucks.

+1

Ya that sux Haim You need to figure something out . Chasing money like that is no fun, gets time consuming

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I still have this one ‘[B]See[/B] yo[B]U[/B] [B]N[/B]ext [B]T[/B]uesday’ that I still send invoices from time to time…
It’s just humorous to me, now.

Tiny little house $200 PWash job.

Three years later…eh, what can I say?
It makes me smile. Even though I’ll never get paid.

Yep.
DONNA KEITH (MICHIGAN) IS A PIECE OF SHIT WHO DOESN’T PAY HER BILLS,
AFTER ACKNOWLEDGING THAT WORK WAS COMPLETED TO HER SATISFACTION.

Ahh, the trade off for not having a signature on WCR.
[sits back in quiet satisfaction] :slight_smile:

Lmao!!!

+1

No deposit, no work.

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What % do you get ? It sounds like with Haim there not canceling the problem is there not there to pay him when he is done ,He has to set it straight with then either leave a check,or give me a credit card number or no work .

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Percentage of what?

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I’m sorry! What % of the total job cost do you get down as a deposit?

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Stunting my growth?

Easy… ME!

Im lazy… Not in doing the work whilst im there… it’s going to get new work… it chasing payments… it’s doing estimates… it’s updating my flyers and delivering them…

Basically everything apart from the actual job of cleaning windows…

Right… im procrastinating on this forum… im off to get something done…lmao!

are you a fireman?