Gentleman,
As you can probably see from my number of posts to date on these forums - I can be considered a forum 'newbie'.
Even though i can see the overall point concerning, what i would call, 'lazy posts'. I would suggest that it is a relatively small number of such individuals 'leeching' information in this fashion.
I, like many of my industry collegues, have made my fair share of financial and business errors in the past. However, i do not suppose for 1 second that we all wouldn't have preferred the chance to avoid them if a forum like this was around at the time.
Nevertheless, in my short time on these forums i have read a vast proportion of posts on many interesting topics. It is a credit to those like Fox, Mr Ruggles and Mr Hanson (none of which i know personally)and a great many others i see regularly offer their experience to other less established indivduals. Without such contributions it is unlikely this forum would function at all.
I can see that from some of the posts on this topic that the general consensus leans more towards the unbridled 'leeching' of ideas, equipment function or procedures.However, i see this a little differently- perhaps the best reason of all to share such information willingly is that these frequent conversations can build strong business correspondences and possible collaboration in the future. I for one, am pleased to see that the site is mostly proliferated by business professionals, and people that aspire to be successful in our field.
It is clear to me that such sites and forums that contain a wealth of information as this benefit us all (agreed some more than others), and it is reasonable to assume that as our industry goes through inevitable improved changes - we all at some point or another will be glad of a place to overcome any business issues or hudles we may encounter without 'learning the hard -EXPENSIVE' way.
Cheer up Fox it's not all 1 way traffic
Respectfully
Gary Hennell
Pinnacle Professional Cleaning Ltd
