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I see an advert in the job centre for safe style and I thought that would be O.K I knew the
product and it was familiar territory they gave me a driver and a small team of door
knockers.
This is when I literally fell into window cleaning, I was out with 12 other door knockers and
due to being stuck on a door booking someone for 15 minutes I was separated from the
main bulk of the team they all went right and I went left. I knocked on a guys door and did
my pitch, he looked me up and down and said ” Your really good at this , do you want a job
? “ I said “Maybe, what is it?” He replied “give me your number; I’ll call you next week”. We
exchanged numbers and off I went, a week passed and I got a call from him. “See you on
Friday” He said.
He picked me up in the morning, we drove for what seemed like hours until we got to
South London were he handed me a flyer and then and only then told me what the job
was, “you’re looking for customers for my window cleaner friend, it’s a new way of cleaning
windows called water fed pole, it’s going to be massive” he said.
I took a hand full of flyers and knocked the first door I came too, did my improvised pitch
and would you believe it, the customer absolutely bit my hand off. WOW I thought as I ran
across the road to tell him what happened he was shocked and excited with a joyous
expression he said” That’s brilliant I’ve been doing this 8 years and no one’s ever done
that before” Bit of high fiving and back patting and I’m soon on the 2nd house and a 2nd
booking, 2 in a row. That was it I’m hooked at the end of the evening we did a tally up and I
got £420 on my first night.
I didn’t hear much for a couple of weeks so just carried on working at Safe style, then I got
another call seeing if I wanted to do some more knocking for him. This went on for a while,
quite in frequent, more pocket money than anything at this stage. I took a canvasser friend
of mine on a few jobs and could tell that there was something to this window cleaning
canvassing.
After a pretty heavy night drinking me and my canvassing friend on the Saturday morning
were in my front room we looked in our pockets we had £5 between us and 4 cans of
fosters.
I looked at him and said “this isn’t any good we need to make some money, what we going
to do? “
He replied “let’s buy some phone credit, Ill text out loads of cleaners from Google, see if
we can get some canvassing work for ourselves in Portsmouth”
30-50 texts sent and within minutes I’ve set up 2 meetings with cleaners.
We arranged to meet the guys at a café near to where we lived it was late and they was
just closing, just as well as we didn’t even have enough money to get them a cup of tea or
anything. Being local I knew of quite a nice snooker club that had a quiet area round the
back so we took the cleaners in there. Bit of a chat and they agreed to give us a go.
Fantastic.
We arranged to meet another cleaner at the snooker club the following night and again
they agreed to give us a go. Fantastic.
So me and my canvassing friend set to work on getting the first clients work together and
at the end of the week arranged hand over. This is a defining moment for Whizz-Bizz I’m
sat in front of the cleaner and he says. “Right I want the work it looks good, BUT I’m only
giving you half the money now and the other half after I’ve checked the work.” 0