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Five easy tips.
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My first tip is something that's free, it's effective. it's tried, it's tested.
It doesn't matter what type of service you provide - you might be a plumber. you might be a spark. you might be a joiner -
we're gardeners. As I say this is the most effective way to make money during the winter and
best of all it's free.
Before I tell you my first tip folks - if you could
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Now my tip, my first tip is the easiest tip, and it's the most effective, and that is to sell more services to existing customers.
people that already buy from you are going to give you jobs through the winter
and I'm going to tell you in a minute about how to market those services to them. Not all customers will know every service that you offer.
The best way to contact customers is with a program called Mailchimp and it's free.
There is a paid for version for it, but it's free I've never paid for it,
I use the free version of it.
If you use service like Mailchimp you can target a lot of your customers and tell them about different jobs that you do.
Today i'm going to show you some of the different jobs that we do in the winter to make money.
Whenever you start sending quotes to customers it can be hard to keep
track of who wants to buy. I use an amazing bit of software to manage my business, I've been using Get Jobber for about the last eight years.
Whenever we send quotes to customers, they can approve them online within a couple of clicks.
I'll convert that into a job, and we can go and do that job whenever it suits.
The night before we're due to arrive, the customer will get an email to let them know that we're coming so they can leave the gates open, or if there's any other requirements for it.
After we do the job within a couple of clicks I'll send them an invoice and those customers pay online,
and I'm away to the next job, and I know that I'm going to get paid and it's 100 per cent seamless.
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For my second tip - now this one's very easy folks is to price jobs in the summer, if a customer comes to you, and says to you can you do a job -
it might not suit you to do it then, tell them that you don't have time to do it, you're happy to do it for them,
you don't have time to do it and put it off to a time whenever you do have. So we're now down
into a quieter time of year and I'll have a list of jobs for customers that we quoted for
in the summer. They have approved those jobs, we know that we can go ahead and do them at a time
that suits us. I'd often say that one job leads to another job. Often whenever you're doing small jobs
a neighbor will put their head over the fence and say, "Son, can you do something similar for me?"
Carry some flyers in your van, and after you finish the job flyer all the houses around
where you've been working. People are going to see your van, they're going to see you in working, then
they're going to assume that you do a good job because you're working for one of their neighbors,
and they're going to have your name and number and it's going to be a lot easier for them to
contact you. So that would be an easy tip.
So, this is another job that you could do during the winter.
We would typically do these after Christmas, but this customer wanted it done now.
So, power washing is a really good thing just to do during the winter.
What I would say about the power washing and how I started doing it, I started off with a small petrol
power washer that wasn't the greatest. In fairness, if, if I was advising my, myself again or advising
you guys - you're best just to hire a professional power washer and that will teach you how to charge
and how to build it into the price. Even after you buy a machine, then you're still charging that hire
price to the customer, and you'll find it you'll make a lot more money doing driveway cleaning
power washing then you will cutting hedges plus you can - there's the rain on - you can do this in a wet
day you can do it on a dry day it doesn't matter. Really good for the winter.
So this is a another job that we do. We do some gutter cleaning.
Now I'm going to show you some tools you don't actually need!
We have the the proper high level tools that do this job safely, but I actually just started out just using the ProGutter system.
We'd have just done bungalows, and then whenever I moved up into, and whenever I started to move into the two-man team
I needed more work for for both of us to do, so with this here we actually use the carbon fiber poles.
The weight of those poles, they're really light. It is a really good system, and then I go along behind, either Danny or myself will go along with the gutter cleaner
and then I'll come along behind them with the GoPro and put that on a window cleaners pole
then we can check all the gutters to make sure that they're all cleaned out.
So that's just us coming to the end of that now.
I'm going to show you a tool that I started off with. which was these here.
Now i'll drop an Affiliated Link down on Amazon where you can pick these up.
These are really good, and they got me going for the first couple of years.
ProGutter and I never came across a gutter that these didn't fit in.
They just go on to a painting pole, one of the extended painting poles,
and then you can get like three or four meters either side
and if you're doing bungalows and stuff these are really good, really cheap easy way to get work.