Window Cleaning Tip: Dress To Impress
August 26th, 2007 Posted in Window Cleaning TipsI cannot stress enough the importance of presenting a professional image with your company. How you dress either positively or negatively affects that image. On almost a daily basis I see other window cleaners who are wearing dirty or ripped up cloths, big baggy jeans and shorts, crooked hats, underwear hanging out, scraggly beards. Basically looking like complete slobs. I can’t help but wonder how these people manage to stay in business or keep a job.
Think about it for a second. Pretend you’re a home owner looking to hire somebody to work on your house. Now look at the person I described above. Is that the kind of person you want to trust in your house? Not Me.
Customers don’t want dirty grungy people working in and around their houses. They want and deserve clean, uniformed workers who they can tell just by their appearance are going to respect their house.
Therefore it is very important that you dress to impress. I recommend a polo shirt with a collar and nice jeans or shorts that fit you. If you don’t like polo shirts then go to a screen printer and have your company logo printed on nice t-shirts. Its less expensive than you think to get custom shirts made up, you can get a one color screen printed t-shirt done for less than $10 each.
I make all of my employees wear a uniform. My Crew Chiefs all wear Company Polo Shirts with our logo embroidered on them, all my laborers wear company t-shirts with out company logo screen printed on. For pants they have a choice of blue jeans or shorts and khaki pants or shorts. Hats with company logo or no hat at all, combed hair, clean shaven or neatly trimmed facial hair, and all tattoos must be covered. As you can see I’m very strict with my employees appearance, but my customers are worth it and so is the reputation and image of my company.
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