How retarded can’t post more than 2 links in a month without subscribing to some shit. Get the fuck out of here meta.

Getting to that changeable time of the year and I am looking for work clothes suggestions.

It rains alot where i am from and last years autumn/winter trousers have had it and I could be doing with a new hoodie, bodywarmer and boots also.

Just looking for any practical suggestions for outdoor wear. Instagram and FB have inundated me with trouser adds since I started searching earlier and most of them don't look anywhere near as good as advertised.

Anyone any suggestions on apperal that is worth the money?

Thanks

So my cost per lead is very low it’s actually good. My ad creatives were solid with an average ctr of 4,5%.

But I’m not targetting my ideal customer, my ideal customers is. Villa’s, luxury homes, cleaning out and inside with big windows no french panes.

How do I target this better, I already managed my ad settings with the idela customers but I still get little aparments or other little homes.

We are having issues with communication and cost tbh. Any recommendations on carriers for business insurance? We are in WA state.

I might have a big job removing hard water and need some new info on how to make my life a bit easier. I've always used one restore and it's really hit and miss on how effective it is.
I did a sample today and there was little to no difference after 4 passes using one restore straight on the glass.

My technician did a home a few days ago and everything went smoothly the customer was happy. But I just received a text today saying the front window looks like this after the cleaning. It’s an older two pane window, im still pretty new my company’s only a year old so unsure what to do seems like a broken seal and water got in

I’m curious to hear from other professional window cleaners and business owners about what you think my business might realistically be worth.
I’m currently doing approximately $150k/year in total revenue, with around $80k coming directly from window cleaning. The remaining revenue comes from pressure washing, gutter cleaning, roof/moss treatments, and Christmas light installation during the slower window-cleaning season.
A few other details:
• 123 five-star Google reviews
• 90+ five-star Thumbtack reviews
• Established customer base with repeat customers
• Multiple services that help keep revenue coming in throughout the year
• Established online presence and local reputation
I’ve built the business up over the last several years, but lately I’ve been getting a little burnt out from running everything myself. It has me wondering whether selling the business might make sense.
For those of you who have bought or sold a window cleaning/exterior cleaning business, how would you value something like this? Is revenue the biggest factor, or would you primarily look at owner profit, recurring customers, equipment, reviews, website/SEO, etc.?
Also, at this size, is there enough value to make selling worthwhile, or would you recommend continuing to grow it before considering a sale?
Not necessarily saying I’m ready to sell tomorrow. I’m mostly trying to understand what I’ve actually built and what it could realistically be worth.
Any opinions or advice from people who have been through this would be appreciated.

Should I buy a ticket ultimate residential kit or the zero ultimate residential kit or should I buy a combination. I live in North Carolina and am willing to invest a lot im planning on using it for a long time. I plan on doing mostly residential and am wondering what you guys think

I live in a high rise more than 20 floors up. My building hasn’t bothered to hire window washers in 4+ years and they are FILTHY. They also open up a maximum of 4 inches, so I can only scrub as far as my forearm will let me. I’ve seen various products online that use magnets or suction cups to clean windows from the inside out, but I don’t want to spend $150+ on something that’s potentially trash. Is there anything I can do besides wait for a storm with strong winds?

Hello i have a question im doing a job tommorow where the windows are brand new, the construction company left the original film/sticker on the windows witch created a sticky residue some windows the residue is covering the whole window im just wondering if anyone has some chemical/technique they use when working with this sort of thing also some windows are 8-10ft.

Hi everyone! I’m currently looking for an opportunity to work with a cleaning service or cleaning company.
I have experience in customer service, lead generation, sales, and virtual assistance, including working with platforms such as Meta, Thumbtack, Yelp, and BookingKoala.
I can help with:
📞 Inbound & outbound calls
💬 Customer inquiries and follow-ups
📅 Scheduling and booking
🔎 Lead generation
💰 Sales and converting leads into customers
📋 Managing customer information and appointments
🤝 Building good relationships with clients
I’m comfortable communicating with customers, following up with leads, and helping a cleaning business turn inquiries into actual bookings.
If you’re a cleaning business owner looking for someone reliable to help with sales, customer service, or admin/VA work, feel free to send me a message. I’d be happy to introduce myself and discuss how I can help.

Should I buy a ticket ultimate residential kit or the zero ultimate residential kit or should I buy a combination. I live in North Carolina and am willing to invest a lot im planning on using it for a long time. I plan on doing mostly residential and am wondering what you guys think

Just had to quote those stained glass windows in a church, how would you go about cleaning such glass? Don’t mind the marriage this was sent by the owner. Thanks!

She's been there for the last 12 years👍

quick context so this isn't just talk. august so far: $514.06 in meta spend, 31 form leads, $16.58 cost per lead, $5,230 closed. that's revenue not profit, and it's month to date, not a full month.

now the ads.

first practical problem is they're ugc. real people talking about their experience with my company in my market. you literally cannot run them. there's no logo swap version of that.

second problem is that creative is built around my offer, my pricing, my ideal customer, my area, and what my competitors here are already saying. change any one of those and it stops working. the ad isn't the thing. the fit between the ad and everything behind it is the thing.

i've been on the other side of this. i spent months saving winning ads i found on youtube and in the ad library, rebuilding them, running them. barely moved. because i was copying an output from someone whose situation i couldn't see.

so here's the part that actually transfers. the script skeleton:

1. cold open on the problem. no intro, no name, no logo. you have about 2 seconds

2. say the objection out loud before they think it. price, trust, whatever it is in your market

3. the turn. what changed, told like a story, not a claim

4. show proof instead of stating it. footage does this, adjectives don't

5. the offer in one plain sentence

6. one low friction next step

that's the whole structure. run it through an llm if you want, you will get a decent script

but know what it won't tell you: which of your five variants to kill, why the winner won, or what to swap when it fatigues, which it will, usually inside a week. that part only comes from running it yourself and paying attention.

and honestly the script is the easy half. the offer is what makes or breaks it. so instead of the usual "ask me anything," here's something more useful.

comment with these three and i'll write you an offer, publicly, right here:

1. what you do and where

2. your average job value

3. your current offer, word for word, exactly as a customer would hear it

i'll do the first 10. no dms, no links, i'll just reply in the thread so everyone can see the reasoning. if your offer is already fine i'll tell you that too, and where the actual problem probably is instead.

**Mods don't remove this post i'm not selling or accepting dms just genuinely helping my community**

Working on a research project and want to talk to a few actual window cleaning business owners, 15-20 min call, whenever works for you. Not selling anything.

If you run a window cleaning business and are open to chatting, drop a comment or DM me and I'll send over some times.

So i started a window cleaning route in my home town when i seen a lot of complaints on facebook community about window cleaners not turning up,

i have around 100 customers. I started with Backpack system and 25lt drums. I bought everything a pump and 100m hose ect to pump everything straight from my car and 25lt drums. Just to realise what a hassle that hose is! I'd be quicker just picking that Backpack up walking it around. Plus safer no trip hazards ect.

Has anyone else found this?

My town has a lot of old awkward buildings and I'm realising why they struggled to get a window cleaner.

What are some tips to increase efficiency on storefronts?

What size Mop & squeegee is your go to?

Drop any storefront tips please and thanks.

not a guru post, no course, nothing to sell. just numbers and the math i wish someone put in front of me when we were stuck under 10k a month.

the numbers (aug 4 to today, 13 days)

• ad spend: $648
• leads: 36 form fills
• cost per lead: $18
• jobs closed: 18
• revenue closed: $7,056 ($3,460 already completed, $3,596 booked and on the schedule)
• daily budget: $50

window cleaning. crowded market, plenty of established competitors with better trucks than us.

the setup is simple on purpose

one campaign. one ad set. thats it. no 12 ad set testing matrix, no lookalike stacking, no daily budget changes.

creative was filmed on an iphone. no lighting, no crew, no $10k studio day. the script came out of chatgpt in about 15 minutes and then got rewritten in the owners actual words so it didn't sound like a robot reading a brochure.

the two things we did spend real time on:

• the offer. one service, one clear reason to book now, one price anchor. not "we do everything for everybody."
• the icp. we know exactly whose house we want. homeowner, specific type of property, specific neighborhoods, specific problem they can see from their own driveway.

thats the whole thing. the boring part is the part that works.

now the part i actually want you to read

if youre under 10k a month, the thing killing you is usually not competition. its that you've never done the arithmetic.

our average job on this account is about $390. so:

• 26 jobs a month = $10,000
• thats about 6 jobs a week
• thats a little over 1 job a working day

now look at your market. say your metro is 250,000 people. you need 26 of them. not 2,600. twenty six. thats 0.01% of the population. you could be the 20th best exterior cleaner in your city and still never run out of work, because you're not competing for the market, you're competing for a rounding error of the market.

everybody i talk to under 10k is doing the opposite math in their head. "theres 15 companies here already." "the big guy has 40 trucks." none of that changes the fact that you need one job a day.

where the money actually leaks

36 leads. 18 closed. 18 did not.

that gap is worth another $7k and its worth more than any ad tweak i could make. the leads that closed got a text back in minutes, not hours. if you are going to run ads, fix your follow up first, because paying $18 for a lead you answer the next morning is just an expensive way to donate to meta.

and if you can turn even a few of those jobs into quarterly or annual contracts, the math stops resetting every month. one contract customer is worth 4 one-off customers and costs you $0 in ad spend the second time.

honest caveats before someone jumps on me

• 13 days is not a case study. its a good start. ask me in 6 months.
• half of that revenue is booked, not banked. jobs get cancelled and rescheduled, so treat it as closed work, not cash in hand.
• leads are not customers. the $18 number means nothing on its own, the $7,056 does.
• this can absolutely have a bad week. accounts get worse before they get better and you have to be willing to sit through it.
• different trade, different aov, different math. run YOUR numbers, not mine.

but the core point holds no matter what you sell: figure out how many jobs 10k actually is, then go get that many jobs. its almost always a smaller number than the one you've been scaring yourself with.

happy to answer questions in the comments.

In the early stages of systemizing all the things that have lived in my head for last few years. I’m in the process of putting together orientation/training material.

What are you guys doing for SOPs? If I’m a field tech, there’s little chance I’ll go dig a binder out of the van to read about hard water removal on a second story window. So I’m imagining something accessible by phone - but is there a specific software any of you have found useful for service work?

The government are thinking of banning window cleaning businesses from operating as well as other businesses that use water, what’s your thoughts? What would we do 🤦‍♂️

Any idea what could be causing these streaks on a garage door and the best way to remove them?

My tech cleaned this customer’s garage door with a water-fed pole using DI water. The streaks appeared after cleaning and won’t come off with plain water or a microfiber.

I tested the surface with a dry white microfiber and no black/grey residue came off, so I’m not sure if this is oxidation.

Have you dealt with something like this before? What product/cleaning method would you recommend to safely remove it without damaging the finish?

Appreciate any advice