I'm convinced a V will get way more walk ups than an ordinary van. Our chevy 1 ton is sharp and always clean, walk ups happened occasionally.
Now with the box truck, stuff happens all the time...not just walk ups ...lots of drive by's and we saw your truck calls...We've even been followed to job sites.
Some of this comes from the excitement of the owner, you are all pumped up with your sweet rig and it shows! This excitement sells...." sell the sizzle not the steak".
Here is another scenario,
We stopped at a bowling alley for a cold call while on a job. It was a nice looking place called "Spare Time".
We walked in and it was sweet all bright mixed colored carpet set up for family's and kids parties, it is a new place.
So we find the manager, he says "it's your lucky day, our other cleaner didn't show up and we are getting a quote this afternoon from a another cleaner, so write me a quote and leave it on the desk".
I say ok, but could you just take a second to look at our equipment?
He kinda laughs it off.."Ive seen all the equipment for cc'ing just leave me a quote".
Ok, we quote it and I see the manager BS'ing with the counter girl so I approach him again and he points toward his desk, "just leave it and I'll get back to you". He says.
I say Sir could you just humor me for a moment and take a look at our equipment?
He reluctantly agreed and followed us out....to make a long story short,
he immediately wanted to know if we could handle all 5 locations and the "other cleaner estimate" was forgotten.
We cleaned that location 2 night's later and we landed all 5 locations
the second one is twice the size almost 8000 sf. Haven't seen the others yet.
A restaurant that I have tried to get periodically for a couple of years, it was a former client of a cleaning business I purchased but had since changed cleaners. It's a clean restaurant, the kind we like and the old invoices showed they payed very well. So I stalked it..Gino was always happy with his new cleaner.
So one day while in the area I stopped in and got Gino to look at our set up. Long story short, We cleaned it Monday, during the day too, they are closed.
I never knew Gino had three locations. He mentioned them when he saw the truck.
Get the picture? Big rigs rock.....ours is so clean and sweet inside we show them the cimex and rotary that we pre scrub with explain what we do different and better than everyone else, everything is clean and
polished. They want it bad!!
al