Business Growth Guide

Step-by-step guides to growing your window fitting company from startup to success

Sales

Here's our collection of information to help you with sales in your business.

Dominating your local area

You don't need to be the biggest window fitter. You need to be the obvious choice in your patch. That means being findable (Google Business Profile, …

April 10, 2026

Where does your work actually come from? How to track referrals properly

You know referrals matter, but do you know which referrers are actually sending you work? Most fitters have a vague sense that "word of mouth" drives…

Jan. 18, 2026

CRM for window fitters

Most CRMs are built for sales teams, not tradespeople. You don't need lead scoring, email marketing automation, or sales pipeline analytics. You need…

Jan. 8, 2026

How to stop losing track of quotes

You send quotes, then lose track of them. Some sit in your email outbox, some in a spreadsheet you update sporadically, some just in your head. By th…

Jan. 6, 2026

Why your window fitting quotes keep going cold (and the follow-up system that fixes it)

The moment you send a quote, a clock starts in the customer's head - not yours.They're comparing you to two or three other fitters and waiting to see…

Dec. 31, 2025

Quoting and Estimating Software: Boosting Accuracy for Window Installers

You’re probably still quoting in Word, copying numbers into Xero, then re-typing sizes into a supplier portal, and every re-key is another chance to …

Aug. 4, 2025

How to get more customers for a window fitting business

You’re probably losing decent window jobs because you’re hard to find, slow to reply, and you’ve got no system for turning happy customers into the n…

July 24, 2025

Strategies For Winning Sales Proposals

You lose jobs because your quotes look like everyone else’s: vague, over-explained, and missing the bits clients actually care about. That costs you …

Dec. 29, 2024

Calculating Job Costs: Tools and Tips for Accurate Quotes

You’ve probably lost money on jobs that looked fine on the quote but got eaten alive by “small stuff” you didn’t price in—consumables, shipping swing…

Dec. 22, 2024

Five Unconventional Ways to Attract New Customers for Your Window Fitting Business

You’ve probably tried the usual stuff—Google Ads, Facebook posts, maybe a leaflet drop—and it either costs a fortune or brings in timewasters who nev…

Dec. 16, 2024

Your Reputation is Everything: How to Keep and Improve It

You’ve probably lost work (or had a job turn sour) because a customer didn’t know what was happening, you missed a call-back, or a date slipped and n…

Dec. 14, 2024