Clean for Profit

The Postcard Strategy Behind a $200K Window Cleaning Business

Clean for Profit

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👉 Take the Local Visibility Scorecard: cleanforprofit.com/scorecard Chip Powell operates in one of the strangest window-cleaning markets imaginable: a small desert town beside Mammoth Lakes, where many of his best customers are wealthy second homeowners who live hundreds of miles away. By late August, Chip had already matched last year’s roughly $175,000 in revenue—and his postcard strategy is helping push the business beyond $200,000. Instead of mailing the homes he wants to clean, Chip uses...

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