Your a very… very… scary… dude. 
Why couldn’t I find a nice normal caring person to care, I mean worry, about me… :rolleyes: Instead of some crazy person who would scare the crap out of the guy wearing the skeleton mask I saw earlier at Walmart. :eek:
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I guess my sarcasm is a bit too light again…oh well. Larry - aren’t you the king of piling on?
Thanks, but I don’t eat bacon!! However I do own very successful window cleaning company. Here we actually clean windows instead of just talking about cleaning windows. You should try it some time. That is CLEANING WINDOWS!
Be ready. And be prepared. There is no better time to start taking some massive action towards your window cleaning business than right now. You have done enough research and by now if you have been listening you have been cleaning windows every day for practice.
You sure don’t lack confidence or enthusiasm, in this business you have to have both. If you enter into a place of business with a confidence, competency and a winner’s enthusiasm that you can do the job better, more efficiently, and friendlier than the other guy, your gonna land a large percentage of these accounts.
I’ve seen the work that wc’ers around here in Dallas do. It’s horrible work. I think if you can show them your work, show them what type of service you can provide, you can help increase the price in this market. .
One thing for sure don’t allow yourself to become paralyzed by indecision. The time is coming when your gonna have to put down the pen, the mouse, keyboards, ect… and act. Clean some windows and get paid.
Keep this attitude and enthusiasm, you will need it in the coming months. If you hesitate too long, doubts will linger and turn into fears. Yes, you may stumble. Yes, you may be rejected. Yes, you may fail. Most window cleaning companies do. The difference between being a success in this or anything else is not whether you make mistakes or even temporarily fail, but how you respond.
Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May
Great post p2149! 
And what a grand poetic ending it was. Thank you sir.
Actually Leo, I don’t think you are crazy. Most of us took the trial and error method of building a business and we can’t understand why others don’t do that too. However, if you have the time and patience, I suggest doing exactly what you are doing, gather information until you are about to explode with knowledge about the waters of the industry you are going to swim in.
In his book E-myth enterprise, Michael Gerber tells of a man who researched his kitchen remodeling business for 2 1/2 years before ever taking on a job. He rented a warehouse and practiced assembling kitchens and rehearsed every aspect of his business from sales calls to throwing away trash at the job site. The result: 3 Day Kitchens a successful multi-million dollar operation that has been profitable from day one.
Keep at it Leo and Illegitimus non carborundum est.
I do partially disagree with what Steve just said.
You can read and read and keep reading, and you can clean a million windows a day in your mind, but the theory doesn’t give you the field experience, the day to day thing, the frustration, getting to a house planning to be there 2 hrs and spend your 8 hr day sweating and feeling like a looser. You need to try equipment, and I mean TRY, not read about how good it is and how it can help you get faster.
You need to go out and do it, that field experience will help your mind to absorb all that theory better.
You can be “squeegee smart” or “book smart” , and you can be both, but you have to do both things to understand what’s going on.
I agree that you need some context to put your knowledge in but why does anyone need to go to a house and sweat like a loser when You can lay a good foundation from the beginning. Personally I wish I had spent a lot more time in learning and planning before just jumping in. I’m glad for the negative experiences now, but I would rather not learn the hard way.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ~Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
You have the insite of a space traveler, who sees things both coming and going.
"Q"udos to you Paul. ;-)~
~L~
Maybe read this article as well Leo: Window Cleaning by Numbers
