I am a little nervous as I feel like it could encourage other cleaners to start popping up left and right or get cranky customers to be confused when their price is higher. With that said it will also be nice to not have to travel to see the tire kickers, takes a lot of estimating time and gas away and separates me as none of my competitors advertise prices and customers like transparency and to be able to see what stuff cost. Think when you go to to a car lot and they don’t have the price up. There is pros and cons but I am excited to see how it turns out.
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IMO not a great idea as it eliminates leads coming into your funnel. Someone sees your price, they call and get your voicemail message while you are working. They don’t want to play phone tag so then they call the next competitor, and say “Tgrove window cleaning” says they will clean my windows for X amount per pane. Competitor says that they can match or beat that price. Better to have something like Responsibid to get leads to give you their info in exchange for a bid. Which will follow up until they book or decline.
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To be honest I think I did the same thing as you did. I even had the same reasoning, and someone offered me the similar advice I wrote above. I listened to that advice, used online bidding tools, built my business up, and I was able to sell it for a great cash offer. All because of the sales system I established that was anchored by using ResponsiBid.
Very possible! Never thought of that, I will give it a trial run. But what’s to stop someone from calling me and saying Joe’s crystal clear quoted me $140.00 what would you be. I mean carpet cleaners around here will advertise sq ft price and they are doing just fine.
The effectiveness is dependent on a few different factors.
- Do you know what other guys charge?
- Have you done Market research?
- Have you made a pro’s con’s list for making your pricing structure public?
- Do you have a UVP?
- This could be part of your UVP, Is your online so exceptional compared to other cleaners (in terms of number of reviews and rating of reviews) a prospect won’t really want to go with another company because yours is so much better in comparison?
I’m not intending to give you a direct answer because well the best ideas come from deep thought. It’s a great question though! And I’m confident that you’ll be fine either way, you’ve got the WCR forum and a good head on your shoulders.
I live in a pretty small town. Not everyone that calls me is getting multiple bids. I think we sometimes forget that. Do you get multiples of everything you pay for, sometimes yes and sometimes no. If someone goes to my website and it’s professional and they like the price they may not get other bids. I think a lot of us forget if people see something they like and are ok with the price they don’t always go and get 5 others or even any. I don’t price shop every single decision I make. If I look somewhere and get a good feel and the price is good then sign me up
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There can be so many variables from job to job. Leaving them with a ball-park-estimate based on window count and doing a walk around for an actual price if the bid is accepted might be a better way to go? Johns $8 on a price sheet might have some stupid landscaping to deal with. That can sour your plan in a hurry. Just a thought.
I understand, that is the reason for the disclaimer
Is $1 & $2 your price to wash the screens? Or just remove, wipe, replace? To me, even with a screen washer, screens take longer than cleaning the window. By the time you remove, walk to the cleaner, clean, wipe dry, walk back, reinstall…
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It is to mop them and bat them dry with a towel! That would put a sliding window at 15 dollars and to my knowledge that is very common on here! I also am right in my percentage acceptance range where I am not super cheap or too expensive and also net 6 figures as 1 guy so I am happy
I own a screen cleaner and may use that if I ever have a crew of 3 guys but in my opinion it is a waste. It takes forever to stack screens in one spot, wash them and then run them back when you could remove them while your at the window and then put it right back
Hey Denver13, I think it’s a great idea. I’m in Australia and here we have the same thing - NO ONE advertises their price. It will be a great differentiator and, as far as funnels go, if you get enough traffic it will help to weed out the “tyre kickers” and you can use all your time building your business or cleaning windows instead of running around for quotes. I actually plan to do a similar thing myself though I never have advertised my prices in the 10 years I’ve been in business. Good to see someone giving it a go. Will be interested to see how it pans out for you.
Not knocking your pricing/process, just curious. My market is a much lower price per window but I’m higher on screens which would put us at similar pricing for the whole thing.
The way I see it I’d rather charge more per pane and less per screen. I make more to show up at the property than someone that charges less per pane and more per screen.
Ok y’all win. First Facebook person since I posted prices. Hey what do you charge? (I send a picture) she replies I don’t understand your pricing model. I remember when I started my business 5 years ago I would talk to people about panes and they would be lost between the difference in a window and a pane. I explain to them it’s like a carpet cleaner requesting the square footage as opposed to how many rooms you have and people would look at me lost. So annoying
