Selling Business

All,

I am looking to sell my powerwashing and window cleaning business as my wife and I are planning on moving out of state. I dont have many repeat customers but I do have a company that i clean windows and power wash weekly. This was a very successful part time business i started on my own. This business couple grow exponentially if someone had the time. This is a great ROI. I am selling a 4gpm honda 13hp pw with 200 feet of hose on a 8 foot trailer all in great shape that holds 375 gallons of water. Also comes with 2 x 30 foot unger poles 2 x 16 foot ettore poles 1 x 32 foot fiberglass werner ladder 1 x 24 foor werner ladder 1x 10 foot a frame ladder. All lafders are less then a year old. You get all my sqeegees and t bars. I would have to count but guessing 7 sqeegees and 5 t bars. Im asking $15k obo in the north dallas area. If you are serious please contact me northtexaspw@gmail.com.

Thanks,

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Big Bag O' CRM Reviews

Housecall:
I did a call with Roland at the beginning of the year and it didn't seem mature at that point, but I did the online demo recently and it looks like it's coming along as a pretty nice platform.

So I thought I'd collect some reviews from those of you who are actively using it and those who hit it and quit it. I also think this might be a good thread for you to review your current CRM.

What did you like? What did you hate?

When I met with Roland at the beginning of the year, I brought up tags for route management and they implemented that which I like. It would help me to organize routes, commercial vs residential vs storefront, etc.

I like the idea of automatically sending out postcards since I suck at thank you's. And I think I can implement that as part of my sales process on the front end as well.

I didn't like the idea that I couldn't just print out a bunch of workorders at the beginning of the week. I like the signature capture, but I have a lot of route stops where they need the paper copy or it didn't happen. Some of those would accept the emailed signature copy others want hardcopy. So I'll have to go through and see how many I'll actually have to print vs how many I can do electronically.

TCF:
I'm currently using TheCustomerFactor and it gets the job done. It doesn't do post cards except for Streetbidder types. But what bugs me is the interface. Links are javascript which drives me nuts. If I'm looking at the job list and want to open a customer to edit something it's a js link to a new window and if I try to open a second one it sends it to that popup instead of second new window. Maybe it's just me but js links need to go because with hardlinks I can send them to new tabs to do my work especially since it takes so long to load the customer page. But the price is nice at what, 25 bucks per month?

I'm not going to complain too much about anything because franchise crm's will cost you 50 bucks per WEEK (minimum) and with a proprietary software it's not open to quick updates or features. I had a list of bug fixes/requests and some of them were pretty critical and they never got around to it before I left. Not to mention the hacks I implemented to keep their software from annoying me (custom css hacks, flash blocks, etc).

So what do you guys have/use?

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Insurance question

For those who stay within 3rd floor -
Does your carrier charge more for gutter cleaning? Got a quote for $1,100 per year for window cleaning, screen repair, gutter cleaning listing.

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Video: Cleaning Older Home Windows

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First job

Hi i wanted to ask a question i am just getting started and i am starting off part time and i just wanted to see how long it took some of you to get your first job i have been to see a about 25 business in a week got a lot of no and a few i will call u back

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GlassRenu Scratch Removal System for sale

Complete GlassRenu Scratch Removal System for sale. Less than 6 hours on the system total. All clean and in good condition. I paid over $2300 for this Contractor Grade system. In addition to the complete system, I will include over $150 worth of RenuDisks and a 5-pk of GlassRenu Polishing Compound ($75). Asking price $1,500 or BO (highly motivated) plus shipping.

Gerry
603.726.0985

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Question Compensating technicians

Hi all,
It was great to get to know some of you at the Huge Convention a couple weeks ago. We're a SoCal based company that's doing residential and small to mid-scale commercial window cleaning. We're currently paying our guys on an hourly basis. It's working out okay with a lot of supervision/oversight from me and our GM. However, we're strongly considering going to a percentage system. A few questions:
1.) Is this how most window cleaning companies are paying their team?
2.) If so, what is the appropriate percentage? (We want to pay our guys as competitively as possible while still keeping the company profitable).
3.) If there's more than one technician on a crew, how is the percentage split up?
Thanks for any input.

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