Thread: Professional appearance + Insurance

This is just another example of having a professional appearance. Not just another guy with a bucket and a broom pole.

I have these Quiznos accounts that i do. I do 2 stores for them. I know that the owner of these stores has "other" businesses that he owns. But he has told me that he lets his managers choose who they have to do their windows. I have talked to all of them. To no avail. Then I get a call from the owner on Friday, wanting to talk to me about my service. I am thinking "OK I am about to loose these jobs because of the economy". These are weekly jobs = $55 week. He asks me if I have time to meet with him On Fri afternoon, I agreed and went to meet him. To My surprise there were 4 other ppl there also. His partners.

Introductions were exchanged. One of the owners began speaking and telling me about their plans. They wanted to Combine all of their window cleaning under 1 company. They wanted a company that was professional in appearance , does good quality work. And as INSURED. They had talked to all the other 4 WC's that were working for them. They even told me who they were. That has never happened before. LOL. Any way They told me that they were interested in me giving them bids on all of their store and their Corporate office. An old house they had converted. I told them I had all of that info in the office. I Only needed to bid the Office. I looked at the house on the way home. $80 piece of cake.

So I email the owner that i had been dealing with late Fri afternoon With the bids.

So my phone rings @ 10 30 this morning and it was the Owner. I dont answer business calls on Sunday. So listened to the message. He told me that They decided to go with me and were looking to start next week. all managers have been notified. I did call him back and thank him for the business. He told me it was an easy choice for them. They already new the kind of work I did. The other owners just wanted to meet me before they made a decision. This will work out to 5 new stores the corporate office.
A total of about $ 10,000 a yr of new business for me. They are also well connected and a possibility for even more work. That is how i am going to survive

Nicely done Eddie!