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How One Window Cleaner Scaled to 10 Million Without Marketing
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Lucas and Luna break down how a single-location window cleaning company in Portland grew to 10 million in annual revenue without spending a dime on advertising. They explore founder Dwayne Miller's counterintuitive strategy: instead of buying leads, he built a referral engine by obsessing over the customer experience during the first 24 hours after a clean. The hosts walk through the exact sequence of calls, texts, and follow-ups that turned one-time residential jobs into recurring commercial contracts with property managers and HOAs. They also discuss the economics of a subscription-based window cleaning model and how the company used excess capacity to expand into gutter cleaning and pressure washing without adding fixed costs. A case study in leveraging word-of-mouth and operational discipline to grow profitably.