What do you do to distinguish yourself from Bucket Bobs? I myself wear a name tag and am soon going to have some shirts embroidered with my company name on them, to present a professional appearance and a sense of legitimacy. In the mean time, I dress nicely and keep my shirts tucked in. I'm also at least having an engraved plastic name tag made up. I have nicely done business cards. I shave (no stubble), I wear clean clothing. I inspect my work. I have no trouble at all telling people that "My company's mission statement is to bring professionalism to storefront window cleaning." I may be a storefront window cleaner but I'll be d*mned if I'll be some greaseball Bucket Bob (though I call him "Dirty Harry"). Storefront window cleaning does not have to be-or be thought of-as the lowbrow work of window cleaning; It depends on how you do it and how hard you want to do a better job at it than Bucket Bob. This is a legit way to make a living in window cleaning. Okay so you won't get rich at it, but done right and with half a brain, the average storefront cleaning operation can pay the bills for at least one person. Being rich is having a lot of money. That, we'll never be as solely storefront cleaners. Financial security is having solid, steady employment. I'll take that over being rich any day. If you can pair the two, great, but how many people really do that in this day and age? Maybe storefront window cleaning is something ideally suited for people in the washing game who have my life circumstances, or they're starting out in glass cleaning. That doesn't mean it's not a legit branch of this trade in which we can take pride for doing quality work.
from Window Cleaning Resource http://ift.tt/1DELrGV
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