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Paying someone to knock doors for your round sounds simple until you ask what they actually won. Three ways to pay a canvasser, the trap in each, and how to see what they brought in.
Knocking doors is still the cheapest way to build a window cleaning round, and paper lists are where it leaks. How to canvass a street so every yes, not-home and call-back turns into a booked clean.
Too many passwords is how trade businesses end up with a reused one, a shared one or a sticky note in the van. Here is how to carry fewer of them, and how TradeYoke removes passwords altogether.
A booked visit's day has come and gone and nothing was recorded. Was it done, does it need a new day, or is it dead? How to decide, why a repeating job makes it trickier, and a five-minute routine that keeps the diary honest.
Gate codes on the back of an invoice, addresses in three apps and a customer who owes you from March. Here is what a customer record for a trade business should hold, and how to check it works on a phone, at the door.
Locked out of the business app in a customer's driveway, or reusing one password everywhere because it is the only one you remember? Here is how passkeys fix that, what to do whatever software you use, and how to sign in to TradeYoke with a fingerprint.
Most of a window cleaner's day happens on a pavement with a phone in one hand. Here is what a round needs from that phone, and how TradeYoke works in your browser and from your home screen with nothing to download.
Looking back from the start of 2024 to now, seven ideas kept proving themselves. They apply to running a trade business as much as to building software.
A tablet is a better planning screen than a phone and a lighter office than a laptop. Here is how window cleaners use an iPad on the round, what to look for, and how TradeYoke fits an iPad or Android tablet in portrait, landscape and Split View.
Retyping the day, the time and the job reference into every text is slow, and it is how the wrong date gets sent. Here is what a good visit message says, how to stop rewriting it, and how TradeYoke's Message button fills the details in for you.
„Ich maile Ihnen ein Angebot“ ist einer der leichtesten Wege, einen Auftrag an denjenigen zu verlieren, der als Zweiter antwortet. Hier ist, was schnelles Anbieten vor Ort tatsächlich ausmacht, was spezialisierte Angebots-Apps richtig machen, und wie der Angebotsassistent von TradeYoke zu einem versendeten, annehmbaren Angebot kommt, bevor Sie die Einfahrt verlassen haben.
A text saying "our bank details have changed" has cost UK businesses tens of millions of pounds. Here's what actually protects a trade business from invoice fraud and account takeover — the habits that help whatever software you use, and how TradeYoke is built to catch a forged message before you act on it.
