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Selina Scott - she was great in her prime - whatever happened to her?
Mind you I don't see the relevance of such stuff to a window cleaner except perhaps to help make oneself feel "more important".
Now if you want to hear or read a motivational guy read or listen to Steven Covey. Really top stuff.
She got old, I was shocked when I first saw her.
I had to go to this event and I didn't even know she was going to be there, but I listened to her, she talked about how she first got started, all about the setbacks she faced, most where from professionals who said her idea would not work in this country.
She then talked about how her business grew and the mistakes she made, the biggest one she made was bringing in professionals to manage her company, she then lost control and sold up.
She then went on to start up another sucessful business and now she writes books and gives speechs.
There was also a marketing guru who is a expert on networking and linkedin, he also gave a brilliant speech.
While all of these people might not be relevant to window cleaning, their knowledge and experence are useful for someone who doesn't want to clean windows for a job, but to have a sucessful cleaning business.
It's all "My dads a policeman" really Hydro. How do you get on at these Amway breakfast meetings? If they don't agree with what you say, do you talk them to death like you do on here?
I get on quite well at them thank you, unlike you and others they have an open mind, I don't tell them anything personal, just who I would like to meet or quote for, I have found that you cannot just ask for referrals for window cleaning, you have to be specific and you have to listen.
I listen and when they mention something that will work for me then I will ask to a referral into that company, for instance that how I got into the property management company I do a lot of work for, someone mentioned that they do business with them and I asked for a referral, this I got along with a testimonial into what I do, it worked and they started to give me little bits of work and as the years pass they have increased what they give me.
But its all a 2 way street, I listen to what they want and if I know someone I will pass on their contact details, it happened today, a customer wanted to know if I do deep house cleaning, well I don't but I know a company that does so I phone her up and passed my phone to the customer, he has now arranged for her to clean her mothers house who died, so he can sell it.
Its not all about getting work either, you meet loads of different people from all the trades, so if I want some advice about tax issues or employment law or where to apply for business grants and finance I know who to ask.
Of course none of this works, thats why 10's of thousands of businesses waste millions doing it
