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(From the July 2011 of Pressure Cleaning Contractor online magazine)

by Keith Cox, Sparkle Right Cleaning Service

Editor’s Note: The products mentioned in this article have not been tested by the PCC Magazine staff and this is not an endorsement. The article is based on the author’s experiences/opinions only.

“What would you charge to clean my gutters while you are already here cleaning my home?”

For me, this is an opportunity that used to seem like a double edged sword. Either I either had to charge an amount that might disrupt the good situation I was establishing with my customer, or I was going to charge a price the customer would like, but was ridiculously low considering I could suffer an accidental fall. For those reasons, I never actively sought gutters to clean.

As times have economically become more challenging, extracting profits from traditional means in pressure cleaning has become difficult. While my business is surviving, I find that anything I can do different than the next guy can only help. This leads to my unique opportunity that presented itself several years back.

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