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John L View Drop Down
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote John L Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17/February/2006 at 1:10am

I hear ya Mr.Steamer.,, and agree,,

Auto mechanic experience sure is a plus...

Have car problems you can't figure out and if your like me never take your ride to the repair shop here is a good forum that i visit once in a while....

 

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote carpetologist Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17/February/2006 at 4:12pm

The people I see fail is because they borrow the money to buy the equipment starting out day-one in debt. They have no money left for promotion and advertising and do not have the ability to go out and sell or telemarket in any way, shape, or form.

They send out 20,000 flyers and have an answering machine on their phone. The first round of flyers generally never work, I buy their equipment back and the cycle starts all over again.

But yes some do make it and do well and that does my heart good to think I was part of it all happening. Money is not everything in life. You need satisfaction.

It's not surprising though that a greater rate of success comes to our new Canadians who came to this country from more difficult backgrounds. They hang in longer and are very persistent and even have much less going for themselves but persistence can bring prosperity.

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Taking advantage of the Canadian Immigration laws and kindness doen't hurt either.

Taking advantage of the Canadian Welfare system for newly arrived immigrants are a great cash advance not offered to all those Real Canadian Born Citizens that do fail because of not having the same safety net.

Taking advantage of their own closed knit society of immigrants that arrived before them also helps.

I suppose if we natural born Canadians want to succeed in any type of business be it carpet cleaning or any others we must first go on Welfare, buy our clothes at the local church basements, apply for food baskets, and horde our earned cash money we didn't pay tax on, then when we have enough of Canadian hospitality...........move to the states

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Ted, you said it.... Lack of experience.... you all get ill when anyone mentions sub-contracting...

I haven't heard one of you say anything good about subbing...

Let me tell you it gives you good experience, if your not willing to work for someone or learn from someone you stand no chance.

Many of you buy equipment and its beneath you to work for anyone else, you rather bring the stuff back to Ted or let the bank take it, or sell it cheap just to get out.

Experience is the key to any business, the do's and dont's you have to know... learn while getting paid to do it.

I've subbed for a long time... this year was my first year running my trucks under my own flag.

but it was the years of experience from subbing that gave me the know how to run my own operation.

Without that experience I would surely fail... like so many weekend warriors or part timers I see just jump in blind

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I admit that I jumped in with both feet, and I haven't been super prudent. I should've had more ducks in a row. The main thing that helps me is that I've lived in this city all my life, and I have a good network here. For example, I got the money to outfit my rig for tile and grout, because the title rep at my friends mortgage brokerage needed her tile done. I told her we weren't set up for it, told her how much I needed to start, and she paid me that amount to do clean her tile. I was still cheaper than Stanely Steemer, plus she actually trusts me. I'm not ahead monetarily, but I'm all set to offer this service (just have to update my marketing).

It also helps that my business partner and I are both single with no kids. We can live on chilli-mac as we build the business, without having to worry about supporting anyone but ourselves. Good thing my gf isn't materialistic. ;) On the subject of her . . . I took her to Disneyland for Valentine's Day. Wow . . . I'm so thankful to have such a pretty girl--if Disneyland guests represent an accurate cross-section of the United States, I need to thank my lucky stars I'm not paired up with a mutant.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Steaminpile Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18/February/2006 at 1:39am

it's tough for me to imagine doing what I do without having done it for a while first

 

 

 

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote doug Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18/February/2006 at 7:49am
Steame is so right. I wish I would have kown what I was getting into before I jumped. Back then there wasn't the oportunities to learn and get the experience there is today.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote cleanex Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18/February/2006 at 3:08pm
Trial and error back in the early days Doug.  Nobody had a clue,if not for the OPCCA a lot of us would have folded up.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote John L Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18/February/2006 at 3:30pm

Concur with steam and doug....

I worked for Holiday cc'ing...

then Universal,,, then Preferred,,, then Stanley Steamer for a total of about 3yrs before i went on my own....

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote thermedix Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18/February/2006 at 4:34pm

Great discussion, I was a Union Electrician, making $33. hr. for 6 months a year, I would go to work with a friend cc when layed off, we had a great time and I learned the biz, my friend got killed in a car accident and I purchased the business from the estate, turned it from a good business into a great business, we would buy our chems in 45 gal drums. Had many tm`s and lots of good gov. contracts. Would have made my friend proud.

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Ok we passes all the good stuff... the next on my list is customer service....

I'm sorry but a lot of carpet cleaners are really just cleaners.... they lack personality and customer service.

I love calling the local guys to hear how the answer the phone... they never use company name...a good morning... or even Hello.  Most times you get "YEP" in your ear... If I'm a customer I just hang up.

Or while in the house you have no corner protectors drop cloths or clean rags to help protect the customers prize possesion...

you don't smile or make idle chit chat... you look angry, the customer is afraid to approach you.

a smile goes a long way

 

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Good Thread...........
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why the way back play back????
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SGK likes living in the past?
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