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Topic: Commercial Cleaning
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Subject: Commercial Cleaning
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 3:11pm
I have a few appointments set up for commercial estimates this week...
 
Whats the best approach...???measure up and quote???
Try to put them on a service contract right away????
Clean a free area???
 
I normally just quote and leave...if they call they call.....but thats when I didn't care...LOLLOL


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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 3:48pm
I offer a free area if I really want the job. Sometimes that will get you the job. If not, I just quote and leave

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Posted By: jtuseo
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 4:10pm
I quote and leave. Give them something included like deodorizer or anti microbial.

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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 4:22pm
Measure and give a written quote and than ask them would they would like it done, offer them a couple times you have available, try to close the deal before you leave the building. I would not be offering anything  free, commercial is competitive enough without giving your services away.
 Get the initial clean and than go back make sure they are happy with your service and than go for the ongoing maintenance program, the danger of selling the maintenance program first is you will end up doing the initial [correction cleaning] for a lot less than it is worth. If they don't make decision while you there call them back within 48 hours to see what is happening, don't forget while you are there that they have upholstered furniture/fabric workstations that may need cleaned, take the opportunity to let them know about all the services you provide.


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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 4:56pm
Originally posted by jtuseo jtuseo wrote:

I quote and leave. Give them something included like deodorizer or anti microbial.

    

Good one poison the indoor enviroment?? That should be a real asset in deciding who not ot use?

You guys should pay very close attention to what Don just typed?? It may just pay off in the long run??

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 5:02pm
Every commercial job where I have done a demo, usually around 300 sq ft, I have been awarded the entire job. Some have been very lucrative. It definitely works for me

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 5:07pm
Most of my commerical joba only have 300 sq. ft.

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 5:15pm
Then you better make it a 3 sq ft demo

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 5:17pm
That is why I have a little green machine??

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 5:21pm
That's the ideal tool for that

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 5:22pm
It's the 405 model??

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 5:23pm
Awesome. Where can I get one?

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 5:25pm
I think they quit making them? They lasted tooo long??

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 5:42pm
That's the way it always goes

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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 6:45pm
When I started my business in the early 90's, I spent most of that first  winter doing demos for commercial accounts. I didn't think things were working until late spring, and I was overwhelmed! Big smile

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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 6:48pm
Originally posted by cleanex cleanex wrote:

Measure and give a written quote and than ask them would they would like it done, offer them a couple times you have available, try to close the deal before you leave the building. I would not be offering anything  free, commercial is competitive enough without giving your services away.
 Get the initial clean and than go back make sure they are happy with your service and than go for the ongoing maintenance program, the danger of selling the maintenance program first is you will end up doing the initial [correction cleaning] for a lot less than it is worth. If they don't make decision while you there call them back within 48 hours to see what is happening, don't forget while you are there that they have upholstered furniture/fabric workstations that may need cleaned, take the opportunity to let them know about all the services you provide.
do you write down what your going to do for them....Ie pre vac...pre-spray then extract...airmovers will be present for fast drying????

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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 6:52pm
I always did Steamer, so as to separate yourself from the competition. Big smile

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 7:11pm
Can you do commerical drivebys??

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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 7:15pm
Commercial is better for drivebys Doug. Extra wide doors/ shipping @ receiving. Steering

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 7:18pm
Drive threws then??

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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 7:21pm
Exactly! just don't look back. LOL

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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 7:56pm
Smile


Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 8:38pm
Unfortunately you cleaners have been banned?

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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 8:56pm
That's why he is in the restaurant business now. LOL

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 8:58pm
Still uses the same cleaners???

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 8:58pm
Potassium & sodium hydroxide aren't banned yet

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 8:59pm
In Quecbec nothing is banned. Just English?

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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 9:01pm
Smoke your brains out, but don't write or speak english. Confused

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 9:05pm
la welfare province

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 9:07pm
NR will soon be here sticking up for the fatherland??

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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 9:08pm
Don't you mean the Nation? Confused

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 9:09pm
I've never heard him defend it

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 9:10pm
He lives there for a reason?

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 9:11pm
Money?

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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 9:13pm
Smile


Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 9:14pm
What more could a man ask for?

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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 9:15pm
The other 49% receive the alternate menu! Big smile

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 9:15pm
I told you it was money

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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 9:45pm
Smile


Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 9:47pm
You'd be making SGG jealous with that extravagant lifestyle

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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 10:03pm
Sounds about right. LOL

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Posted By: LilNiteRidrhood
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 10:15pm
cmaster you're killing me tonight.Clap


Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 10:35pm
Did you need a chuckle?

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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 10:36pm
Group hug??

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 10:41pm
Sure

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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 10:42pm
Followed by a happy meal? Big smile

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 10:44pm
You're making me hungry

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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 10:45pm
Cook something up while your cleaning. Drooling

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 10:46pm
I don't have to. It's a sushi bar

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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 10:49pm
I would stay with the california roll. Big smile

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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 11:03pm
what happened to information on commercial quotes???

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Posted By: jtuseo
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 11:28pm
How is spraying down antimicrobial posioning the indoor enviornment? Are these people licking the carpet? Even if they did they wouldnt get sick from the antimicrobial. You would have to drink it straight from the bottle to get sick from it.

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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 15/January/2007 at 11:58pm

Smile



Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 16/January/2007 at 1:15am
NR, they do that willingly for pleasure

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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 16/January/2007 at 1:43am
Smile


Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 16/January/2007 at 1:48am
You're probably right

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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 16/January/2007 at 2:44pm

how did the job go last night?



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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 16/January/2007 at 2:54pm
Awesome. Took 1.5 hours. The owner who is a friend of mine, moved all the tables and chairs

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Posted By: pilediver
Date Posted: 16/January/2007 at 3:08pm
Doing a Keg tomorrow early

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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 16/January/2007 at 3:21pm
Nice when they move everything. I always hated those jobs when everything is to be moved and you show up and it's not   

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 16/January/2007 at 3:29pm
That's when you go home

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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 16/January/2007 at 3:33pm
Did that a few times!     

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 16/January/2007 at 3:45pm
Me too. Happened last Tuesday. Now I have to do it tonight

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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 16/January/2007 at 3:59pm
better to go back than move it yourself.....next time you'll call ahead...LOL

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 16/January/2007 at 4:14pm
Nope. I'm too stupid to do that

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 16/January/2007 at 4:45pm
When is the last time you made reservations to clean a greese pit?

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 16/January/2007 at 5:10pm
I don't make reservations to eat there, why do I need to make reservations to clean

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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 16/January/2007 at 6:18pm
move the chairs once...move them forever

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 16/January/2007 at 6:32pm
Out the door

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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 8:40am
Give them 2 prices 1. They move the furniture or 2. You move the furniture, triple the price if you move it, they will move it!

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 10:20am
Or they will find someone who will move it and clean it for less

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 12:24pm
Just give one price including chair moving you don't have to state that on the quote. If they are moved it's a plus if not you have already figured it in?

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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 2:02pm
How does that work??? for most of these arseholes the lowest price is the law

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 2:46pm
Tell them to quit shopping at Zellers

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 2:55pm
Laws are made to be broken? who made up that law anyway?

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 2:58pm
Zellers. They stole it from SGG

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 3:02pm
GTA the lowest price in the land for ccing

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 3:08pm
I think I'll move there

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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 3:38pm
people that live out side big urban centres prepare to pay more...it's just fact....
 
inside the urban centre it's dog eat dog


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Posted By: pilediver
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 4:53pm
you should move to Calgary .50-1.00 sq ft and carpets dry in under 2 minutes

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 4:57pm
I think the water is drier in Calgary than anywhere else?

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Posted By: pilediver
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 5:00pm
High fecal count

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 7:40pm
A lot of bull$hit in Calgary

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Posted By: pilediver
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 7:44pm
Masterbeaster capital of the world too!

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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 7:44pm
Cow town     

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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 7:44pm
Smile


Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 7:51pm
And maybe he ships glides.......and maybe he doesn't bull$hit...........and maybe he's rich. Do you follow me here?

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Posted By: pilediver
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 7:52pm
big wages are in Fort MacMurry and Grande Praire

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 8:02pm
Quite a few people have left here for Calgary. They tell me they will be making good money

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Posted By: pilediver
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 8:10pm
It is a nice place to live. I was born and raised in Southern Alberta but moved to the coast in 85. Lots of jobs in Calgary but it has gotten expensive to live there.

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 8:27pm
The cost of living in most of the booming areas has gone up with the wages

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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 9:04pm
Smile


Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 17/January/2007 at 9:41pm
I thought he slept in a van

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 18/January/2007 at 7:39am
What is the cost of dying??

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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 18/January/2007 at 8:42am
Cheaper than living

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Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 18/January/2007 at 5:13pm
I know that we were born to die..............all through that process you have to pay the Tax Man........there's no way around it.
 
How much do you think that would be?????????


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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 18/January/2007 at 7:49pm
Who are you? Introduce yourself please

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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 18/January/2007 at 7:57pm
Smile


Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 18/January/2007 at 8:09pm
She's out waaaaaaaay more than in

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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 19/January/2007 at 1:34pm
Out to lunch?

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