Fish Window Cleaning provides 23 years of experience
We give the franchisee the keys to successfully manage his/her own business. FWC specializes in year-round residential and commercial window cleaning for structures 1 to 3 stories. FWC provides a service everyone appreciates with a catchy name everyone remembers. Large territories are awarded to allow the franchise owner to develop a thriving business and not just buy a job.
Contact Information
148 G Chesterfield Ind. Blvd.
Chesterfield, MO 63005
877-707-3474
Fax: 636-530-7856
Jakes on June 27th, 2005 at 12:17 pm
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Andy on February 15th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
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Stan on July 6th, 2006 at 5:49 am
FISH Window Cleaning Franchise Buyer BEWARE. Contact me before you spend your hard-earned savings on a FISH franchise. sbradshaw@insitesolutions.us
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Tanner on September 22nd, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Since you are interested in starting a window cleaning business, I’m sure you have seen advertisements for buying into a window cleaning franchise. Some of those offers can look really tempting, but let’s look a little deeper.
First of all to buy your own window cleaning franchise, you have to make a substantial up front non-refundable investment. Typically in the neighborhood of $25,000-$100,000. And for that investment, franchisors claim to provide you with the following:
Claim: Protected Sales Territory
Fact: This is a fancy way of saying that they will assign you a territory based on your local zip codes for you to operate in. You are only allowed to market and sell your services within your assigned zip code. The only way to move outside your assigned area is to purchase additional ‘territories’…Talk about limiting your growth potential.
Claim: National Brand Recognition
Fact: Give me a break! Let me ask you a question:
Can you give me the name of a window cleaning franchise that’s a household name?
Come up with one? No, neither did I.
Now can you give me the name of a restaurant franchise that is a household name?
I’m sure you can, I can give you a whole string of them…McDonalds, Taco Bell, Quiznos, Subway, and I could go on for days…
You see my point?
Claim: Sophisticated business website
Fact: 99% of window cleaning franchises give their franchisors a single webpage, off the company’s main website and they are incredible generic and blah. For the kind of money you’re paying you should get a lot more bang for your buck.
Claim: Unparalleled Business Support
Fact: By this they mean you get a 1-800 number to call, not your own private number, but a general one that everybody shares for their support questions. So if you can get through to someone to help you, but they don’t solve your problem, then they will send an ‘agent’ out to you to set you straight…for a healthy fee of course.
Claim: Complete Training
Fact: Typically this means that you have to fly out (additional expense) to wherever the franchise’s headquarters is and attend a whopping 2 or 3 day training seminar in which they claim to teach you everything you need to know about window cleaning and running a business. I assure you, even with my awesome package, it will take you more than 3 days to ‘master’ the window cleaning business.
These are just a few of the supposed ‘benefits’ of buying into a window cleaning franchise. Oh and I almost forgot to mention, that in addition to your initial $25,000-$100,000 investment, you are also required to pay and additional 6%-8% of your income in royalties every year for the life of your business.
How good of a deal does a window cleaning franchise sound to you now?
Please don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that franchises are worthless, in many industries they are truly the fast track to success (if you can afford one), but in the window cleaning business a franchise just doesn’t make financial sense.
http://WindowCleaningSuccess.com
Window Cleaning Business on February 18th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Don’t waste your money on a window cleaning franchise. Like Stan said above, BEWARE. why pay thousands of dollars + royalties to start and run a simple business that you can easily start on your own
Dawn Ashley on September 4th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Fish is just what it is, stinky. Forget the lost of investment, there is no $$ to be made! You can never re-coop the initial but then they grossly under-bid the jobs and pay the employees very little. We’ve been in business for 45 years and this franchise is a rip-off, not to mention the owners usually suck, a lot, especially when some of them use to be a good friend, (back-stabber).
William on September 30th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I would agree with the last two posts. I have been cleaning windows for over 27 years and have never needed the expertise of Fish Window cleaning. I have actually found them to be underhanded and very unprofessional. There is plenty of work to go around there is no need to be sneaky and cunning. They are an embarrassment to a industry built on good work ethic and enjoyable camaraderie between window cleaners. I would say avoid any dealings with Fish Window Cleaning
Oskar Latek on October 9th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Hmmm… let’s see, I bought a Fish franchise shortly after graduating college. Experience in business prior to starting Fish franchise in Rochester… 0 months!
3.5 years into my franchise, almost $4ooK in production… you do the math!
Franchise is a great way to learn business and make great money… oh yea… by the way, what I’ve learned with Fish, I’ve applied to my other business http://www.NYmobileADS.com... Can you do it on your own? You bet! With a franchise you’ll get there 20x faster.
Oskar Latek on October 9th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
that’s http://www.NYmobileADS.com
Rosco P Coltrain on October 10th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
400k in production = they get 30k per year, you keep 70k. Congradulations, I guess. You could be keeping 100k. I know that Fish is double dealing the national contractors through a shady referral scheme with at least one of the nationals. It is going to come back to haunt you guys. Then you will end up like Window Butler. History.