Im gonna try this one next week, or my version of. Thanks for the idea. Do the police ever stop by???
tom
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No, I donāt get harassed by the cops. I make sure to smile and wave at them as well. Cops are people tooā¦who also have windows to clean!
I know others have said it but I gotta repeat itā¦
YOUāRE THE MAN!
I love the idea. Itās a nice alternative to door knocking. Youāre still getting that personal appeal without being attacked by watch dogs and waking up babies!
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:eek:! Donāt want that!! 
If you are wanting a black and white answer to ādoes door to door sales workā, the simple answer is hell yes it works. You may annoy a few people, it is kind of a pain in the ass, but it definitely works. The reason that I know is because on more than one occasion, I have went to the wrong address by accident to do a bid and wound up selling the job anyway. I have been thinking about doing door to door sales ever since the last wrong address that I went to but sold last week. I havenāt really had time though.
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Sorry if thats what you got out of that post because that is not what I was trying to say. If I was scared of NO then I would have lowerd my prices a long time ago.
I was meaning to say that IMO you donāt cover much ground walking door to door. Driving would be better and maybe less anoying to people. Get a really good postcard from WCR or one of the guys here and let it do the talking to get them on the phone. My helper and a friend of his passed out 2300 last Sunday and I recieved 7 calls and 2 jobs so far. Walk and tell me how much gets passed out.
If you donāt mind me asking where are you from and what type of organic fertilizer was he selling, does the word mycorrhizae ring a bell?!?
I really donāt like Door-To-Door knocking. I imagine many potential customers do not like being disturbed from whatever they may be doing like reading the paper, talking on the phone, making funeral arrangements - the point is, you just do not know what is going on in peoples busy lives, so I just leave door hangers and they call me at their convenience. Many times someone will be working in the yard or on a car and engaging in friendly greetings that morph into why I am walking up their driveway with door hanger and quick intro is all it takes. Donāt be a pest!
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I feel strongly that knocking will definitely bring good results. But with that being said I have also woken up a baby a couple times and had a few doors slammed. Always be friendly and apologize if this is the case. Be observant to body language as they open the door, if they look irritated just be very short and mention what you do then give them your card and have a nice day. My approach is this. " hello my name isā¦ I do window cleaning and gutter cleaning. I will be doing some work on your street in the next 2 weeks and am just checking with the other houses to see if they would like any work done. Do you have anyone helping you with those services?" Works great for me. Now i alter it if I donāt have anything in the area scheduled but you get the idea. Short and sweet is key. Nobody wants to hear a long offer from a salesman. Check local laws too. I need a solicitor license here to knock. And always have a nice uniform and be lookin good.
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I wish I would of had the balls to talk to the clients door to door when I was in my twentys. but now Iāve been doing this for years I have the confidence and know how that I think I can sell a lot of door to door. Might give this ago with the fact I have to try and keep 2 full time and a couple part timers busy. I never had this place to use to my advantage when I was starting out or at least did not find out about until 3 years ago but most of you guys rock and the rest are d-bags good night. The clean one
Seems to depend on how thick your skin is judging by some of these replies. Personally, I would never knock on anyoneās door because I donāt want anyone knocking on my door. And one day you might knock on the wrong door and end up in a hole with some hairy dude saying, āIt puts the lotion on the skinā¦ā 
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Any one done a āROIā on flyers vs knocking?
I know I get way more flyers out doing just hit and run.
But face to face does seem to be more likely to close.
I wonder what would bring in more sales afternoon of flyers or afternoon of door to door.
hello-first ever reply but doing it w/c 25 yearsāi have done tons of dr to dr. rarely a bad resonse. iām polite and step back from the dr. gotten a lot of customers. they donāt seem to mind once they relize iām not selling anything-iām just there to help them out. this spring-plan to hire friends to go dr to dr 4 me. You get customers you would NEVER get! just a numbers game. people are 95% polite tome. i know a guy in canada-3rd yr in businessāover $100,000!!! from flooding his town and surrounding area with dr to dr teams. amazing. it works-just a lot of leg work. people at the door are"huhā for 15 secondsāthen 'oh-cool" =then we talk.IT works!
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ROI on door knocking is awfuly hard to nail down. Or atleast for me it is. If I pay someone to knock door to door it s ussually commision based off a sale. If you do it yourself, it doesnāt cost other than your time. And whatās the true cost of that? $0ā¦$25ā¦$100 I donāt know. Hopefully someone smarter than I can answer that.
What I can tell you, our close rate is at 3/5 of doors answered. And we tend to get most of the doors opened by the third try. Yes I double knock. Sometimes if the home is one I really want, Iāll try until someone is home. Mean while our fliers get about a 3% rate, but we close almost 25% of those who inquire. And just under 80% of those who we quailify.
I am pretty particular who we do work for. I try to make sure they fit me, as well as I fit them. That whole āideal customerā thing. So it skews the numbers in my favor. If we put out fliers on all willy nilly I am sure our returns would be lower.
The pitch is quick and friendly from greetingā¦ Who we are, What we do, and what our offer is. lt takes 35-50 sec. I look for one of four quailifiers of interest to continue on. If not, I leave them with a card and tell them to wach out for our mailers.
Our process is a bit more than just knocking on the door. We send out an introduction letter, then knock the door. If they donāt answer, we second out a second mailer 7 days later, followed by a third 7-10 days later, followed by a door knock. If they still donāt answer, we send out a fourth and final letter. Followed by a postcard quarterly.
Turning it into a warmish lead.
For any one that knocks on doors read the Door to Door Millionaire by Lenny Gray, and shoud check out Sales Dogs by Blair Singer. The combination of the two is our basic playbook for our door knocking technique. @Mike_Goeller suggestted Sales Dogs to me at the convention in Nashville a few years ago. (Thank You) It is a pretty good read and entertaining.
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I think the law of averages would say ā¦āthe constant hit and runā over the long haul would bring in a better ROI.
Thatās kind of what I feel.
Even at a 1% return I think the volume is the key. Honestly I probably couldnāt find that many people at home knocking. Why waste the time knockingā¦waitingā¦knockingā¦leave flyer.
Drop and go is probably the way to do it.
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hit and run gets out more fliers for sure but zero deals, maybe phone calls that you may sell but not a single deal.
knocking for the same time gets less flyers out but depending on the person knocking they may get some actual business in hand and still get the calls from the flyers left.
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What do you mean by ādealsā.
do you know what his pay structure was?
actual orders or even jobs done and paid as opposed to maybe someone will call from the flyer.
