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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Lee Burbidge on January 27, 2013, 10:04:18 am
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For anyone that reads the Window Cleaning Magazine the latest issue is out now. Also there is a great magazine mash up between the US magazine and the UK magazine in JULY 2013 http://youtu.be/AQgB0Nl4y2Y
Is any one attending the Cleaning Show in March, if so we are covering that so come and have a beer :)
If you cant make it to the IWCA Convention and trade show in Florida US or the Cleaning Show, Birmingham, UK dont worry the Window Cleaning Magazine will bring you it all as we are covering both events for the magazine. We will make sure we get it on film for you too so that we can bring you all the new released products and business ideas for those interested in that.
Incidentally, how many are you going to the Cleaning Show?
(tried to upload the front cover of latest WCM but the folder is full, im told :( )
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Hi Lee
Great mag,look forward to reading it
one gripe....do you feel its necessary to have so much american coverage
bob
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I was going to post that point too Bob !
I thought for a minute that i had downloaded the American version ;D
We are not being racist are we Bob ? ;D ;D
Rich
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Hi guys - yeah it is something that has been mentioned to me before. Sometimes when I am planning the work and layout of the mag it has just fell heavy on US side a little but I will address the balance. The yanks have been keen to get in the mag for some reason?? Also I want to include other input from countries such as India, Australia, European countries.
Because we are online its viewed by the world. Did you know that there are only 3 window cleaning magazines in the world. 2 in the US and little old me in the UK.
One of the US magazine has been going since the early 70's and WCBO and WCM have way more readers for the short time we have been o n the market. Of course I think WCM is the best out of the lot and I intend to work on making it better..... love the feed back guys.
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Im going to the cleaning show and so are a few others from the "other " forum .
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I was going to post that point too Bob !
I thought for a minute that i had downloaded the American version ;D
We are not being racist are we Bob ? ;D ;D
Rich
not racist but we should take the colonies back :D
im not against the american stories i just felt the slant was going the wrong way has a article ever been done on mr gardiner? for instance
i suppose the problem lee has is keeping it interesting and varied so good luck to him
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hey lee, might try and get there to have a look around, and to try and get that beer we never had time for last time! lol
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its a free magazine so i think we should be happy with what we get. window cleaning can be pretty damn boring and if we just stayed in the UK for the inspirational stories it'd just be interviews with the same 5 guys. One thing ive learnt the most from is the American guys upselling of other services and packages. I think in the UK we dont really do much with that, whereas we are actually in a great position once our customers know and trust us to rinse our customers for 4 or 5 different services, rather than just a monthly window clean.
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Im going to the cleaning show and so are a few others from the "other " forum .
Cool will be great to meet you. ;D
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I was going to post that point too Bob !
I thought for a minute that i had downloaded the American version ;D
We are not being racist are we Bob ? ;D ;D
Rich
not racist but we should take the colonies back :D
im not against the american stories i just felt the slant was going the wrong way has a article ever been done on mr gardiner? for instance
i suppose the problem lee has is keeping it interesting and varied so good luck to him
Yes we did an article and interviewed Alex Gardiner in the first or second issue :)
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hey lee, might try and get there to have a look around, and to try and get that beer we never had time for last time! lol
That be cool dude, think Wulfy is going too. He lives in Bromi... ;D
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hey lee, might try and get there to have a look around, and to try and get that beer we never had time for last time! lol
That be cool dude, think Wulfy is going too. He lives in Bromi... ;D
Well that's if they let him in! Lol be good to see him again too!
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its a free magazine so i think we should be happy with what we get. window cleaning can be pretty damn boring and if we just stayed in the UK for the inspirational stories it'd just be interviews with the same 5 guys. One thing ive learnt the most from is the American guys upselling of other services and packages. I think in the UK we dont really do much with that, whereas we are actually in a great position once our customers know and trust us to rinse our customers for 4 or 5 different services, rather than just a monthly window clean.
yeah there is definite differences and that ( IMO) is what makes WCM more interesting. The diversity and styles of different approaches to work and markting your business to the products used for both this country and across the world is amazing and alot of ideas can easily cross borders.
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hey lee, might try and get there to have a look around, and to try and get that beer we never had time for last time! lol
That be cool dude, think Wulfy is going too. He lives in Bromi... ;D
Well that's if they let him in! Lol be good to see him again too!
The Cleanit up VanFest reunion LMAO ;D
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hey lee, might try and get there to have a look around, and to try and get that beer we never had time for last time! lol
That be cool dude, think Wulfy is going too. He lives in Bromi... ;D
Well that's if they let him in! Lol be good to see him again too!
The Cleanit up VanFest reunion LMAO ;D
Yer all 3 of us! Lol
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hey lee, might try and get there to have a look around, and to try and get that beer we never had time for last time! lol
That be cool dude, think Wulfy is going too. He lives in Bromi... ;D
Well that's if they let him in! Lol be good to see him again too!
The Cleanit up VanFest reunion LMAO ;D
Yer all 3 of us! Lol
lol - great vid this http://youtu.be/yxudd5sa-nw You made some changes Cluey?? :)
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hey lee, might try and get there to have a look around, and to try and get that beer we never had time for last time! lol
That be cool dude, think Wulfy is going too. He lives in Bromi... ;D
Well that's if they let him in! Lol be good to see him again too!
The Cleanit up VanFest reunion LMAO ;D
Yer all 3 of us! Lol
lol - great vid this http://youtu.be/yxudd5sa-nw You made some changes Cluey?? :)
Yer just a few lol, plus it's in the garage this weekend having work done on it, starter motor went on it Friday! Lol
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Bummer..... need to do some maintenance on mine and get licking windows this week!!
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Bummer..... need to do some maintenance on mine and get licking windows this week!!
Yer get mine back sometime tomorrow, I told my misses that I'm taking her car out tomorrow so kitted it out with barrels, pump, hose poles and trad gear so it should be fun!
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Bummer..... need to do some maintenance on mine and get licking windows this week!!
Yer get mine back sometime tomorrow, I told my misses that I'm taking her car out tomorrow so kitted it out with barrels, pump, hose poles and trad gear so it should be fun!
Bet she loved that idea lol Did you see the SNOW GAME in the Window Cleaning Magazine FB Group the other day?... was so funny. People had to guess the window cleaning equipment that were covered in snow. The winner was Tony and Daniel jointly from the US ( but it was very close ) they won a whole bunch of blue window cleaning cloths. Tony got extra. He dosent get Curly Wurlys over there so Im sending him a couple, he likes them lol. Think the Curly Wurlys raised the level of the game lmao
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Bummer..... need to do some maintenance on mine and get licking windows this week!!
Yer get mine back sometime tomorrow, I told my misses that I'm taking her car out tomorrow so kitted it out with barrels, pump, hose poles and trad gear so it should be fun!
Bet she loved that idea lol Did you see the SNOW GAME in the Window Cleaning Magazine FB Group the other day?... was so funny. People had to guess the window cleaning equipment that were covered in snow. The winner was Tony and Daniel jointly from the US ( but it was very close ) they won a whole bunch of blue window cleaning cloths. Tony got extra. He dosent get Curly Wurlys over there so Im sending him a couple, he likes them lol. Think the Curly Wurlys raised the level of the game lmao
In a way she didn't have a choice lol no didn't see that, is it still up to look at?
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Yeah it be there still :)
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Yeah it be there still :)
ill have a look in a bit then
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Hi Lee
I like the story about the the stuff in our poles, so lets hope Gardiners and Face lift give us a genuine Carbone Fiber poles. ;)
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Hi Lee
I like the story about the the stuff in our poles, so lets hope Gardiners and Face lift give us a genuine Carbon Fiber poles. ;)
The implication in your comment is that Gardiner Pole Systems do not perhaps manufacture poles which are genuine carbon fibre! That is quite a statement to make as you are saying that we may be selling a product under false pretenses and committing fraud - please correct me if I read you wrong :)
Whilst Perry Tait did provide a lot of educational information about the various types of carbon available it was all non-specific with no exact poles mentioned and he even held back from actually saying what composition his poles are. He did not say what modulus carbon his 'high-modulus' poles are made of. He also did not mention which of the hybrid sandwiches he uses on his poles. As a firm we have always considered providing the full 'carbon experience' to be of primary importance and have provided clear details as to the composition of our tube sections. We are also the only manufacturer (currently) to give the exact modulus material of our High-Modulus carbon fibre poles.
It was an interesting magazine issue though and quite informative throughout - one of the best issues so far I thought.
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Hi Lee
I like the story about the the stuff in our poles, so lets hope Gardiners and Face lift give us a genuine Carbone Fiber poles. ;)
That's brilliant from the man who tried to fob us off with "Magica One GO" and wouldn't/couldn't tell us what was in it.
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Lee
Why do I have to sign up every time, and I can never log in ?
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does many read it ? just interested..
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Hi Lee
I like the story about the the stuff in our poles, so lets hope Gardiners and Face lift give us a genuine Carbon Fiber poles. ;)
The implication in your comment is that Gardiner Pole Systems do not perhaps manufacture poles which are genuine carbon fibre! That is quite a statement to make as you are saying that we may be selling a product under false pretenses and committing fraud - please correct me if I read you wrong :)
Whilst Perry Tait did provide a lot of educational information about the various types of carbon available it was all non-specific with no exact poles mentioned and he even held back from actually saying what composition his poles are. He did not say what modulus carbon his 'high-modulus' poles are made of. He also did not mention which of the hybrid sandwiches he uses on his poles. As a firm we have always considered providing the full 'carbon experience' to be of primary importance and have provided clear details as to the composition of our tube sections. We are also the only manufacturer (currently) to give the exact modulus material of our High-Modulus carbon fibre poles.
It was an interesting magazine issue though and quite informative throughout - one of the best issues so far I thought.
Thats Great Alex, this statement from you prove that Gardiners are 1st class company . :)
P.S. 99% of my poles are Gardiners, i was one of the 1st few guys who bought your poles, beacuse of your standard. :)
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does many read it ? just interested..
I am sure you will find lots of window cleaners read it, there are lots of great writing in Lees magazine.
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Hi Lee
I like the story about the the stuff in our poles, so lets hope Gardiners and Face lift give us a genuine Carbon Fiber poles. ;)
The implication in your comment is that Gardiner Pole Systems do not perhaps manufacture poles which are genuine carbon fibre! That is quite a statement to make as you are saying that we may be selling a product under false pretenses and committing fraud - please correct me if I read you wrong :)
Whilst Perry Tait did provide a lot of educational information about the various types of carbon available it was all non-specific with no exact poles mentioned and he even held back from actually saying what composition his poles are. He did not say what modulus carbon his 'high-modulus' poles are made of. He also did not mention which of the hybrid sandwiches he uses on his poles. As a firm we have always considered providing the full 'carbon experience' to be of primary importance and have provided clear details as to the composition of our tube sections. We are also the only manufacturer (currently) to give the exact modulus material of our High-Modulus carbon fibre poles.
It was an interesting magazine issue though and quite informative throughout - one of the best issues so far I thought.
Hi Alex, that is all true and I agree re the 'Gardiners' comment. Really appreciate your kind words on the magazine. We hope to be just as if not more informative in the future. Thanks again.... ;D
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Lee
Why do I have to sign up every time, and I can never log in ?
Click on the forgot password button. That should sort you buddy.