Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: paul@ctcs on March 15, 2005, 09:42:42 am
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Hi Guys,
Following up from the thread discussing the networking Idea, I thought It may be worth testing the water and seeing who could come together in my neck of the woods to cover East anglia.
I can cover East cambridgeshire and West Suffolk, a 30 mile radius of Newmarket.
Regards
Paul
CTCS
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Count me in, Paul.
Long live the East Anglian Mafia. :)
Off now for more leafleting. Does anyone actually like doing this? I can't stand it, but it has to be done.
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Hi Mark
I didn't mind leafleting til last week.... got bit by two dogs and got a 1" blister on my foot for my efforts!!!!!!
Chris
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Is the ball rolling?
Carrot crunchers are first off, and you thought we were all interbled and slow!!!
I am happy to cover norfolk and north suffolk. Thats the coast around to kings lynn.
I Know of a few others in Norfolk, come on Matt, Stu and Dennis put your post up, and Ian its over to you for Kings Lynn.
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Hi Guys,
We don't crunch many carrots down here , more cockles but I'd be happy to do Southend and the surrounding areas.
I do get quite a few enquiries for Chelmsford , London etc which I would be happy to pass on.
Cheers,
Doug
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I'll do Yarmouth, Gorleston and North Lowestoft. I get nervous if I can't see my roof. ;D
Hi Mark
I didn't mind leafleting til last week.... got bit by two dogs and got a 1" blister on my foot for my efforts!!!!!!
Chris
You need 2 things for dogs, a pocket full of biscuits and a piece of wood. Drop a biscuit at your feet, when they go to get it, hit them with the wood. :o
(only joking dog lovers, I've got a dog myself)
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i can do braintree,witham,halstead,dummow areas
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i cover chelmsford and surrounding areas
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Herts & Beds
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Same here,
Herts & Beds.
Phil
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Northants and beds,yeah i know northampton dosnt show on the map,but you knew i was on the edge!!
Dave ;D
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Anyone want North Cambs???
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I'll do Wolverhampton and one mile out (who said P*ss off then)
Only joking
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I do sunny Clacton On Sea and surrounding areas ( Frinton, Walton on the Naze, Harwich etc). I'll even go to Colchester if I have to!
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hi there paul
we are based just south of Peterborough, so we could well be interested , we have just bought some more kit, and that will be on the road April 1.
regards
martin
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Paul
It has been know for me to go to Milton Keynes and Gloucester but your neck of the words far to far no motorways.
For now I only cover Greater London, Kent, Parts of Surrey, Parts of Essex, Middlesex, East Sussex, but if the price was right I could be persuaded.
Len
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i'd be up for norfolk ,norwich preferably,if we end up paying for this would it be done on a "who answered the phone first basis" ? or would we be aware of say for example... in my area 1 KARL 2 STU 3 ME ? and would we pay less if we were number 2 or 3 ?
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Anyone want North Cambs???
Don't mind it Paul....along with obviously Ipswich, Colchester and along the Suffolk coast (Felixstowe, Aldeburgh, Southwold and up to Lowestoft).
Although in truth, I'd go just about anywhere at the moment. :(
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Hi Mark
I didn't mind leafleting til last week.... got bit by two dogs and got a 1" blister on my foot for my efforts!!!!!!
Chris
Chris, there's obviously a knack you haven't yet mastered. Some of these dogs can be crafty little bleeders. They sneak up on you when you least expect it.
I went to put a leaflet through a letterbox, and it was one of those with the brush thing behind the opening where you've really got to put your hand all the way through to get the leaflet to drop onto the floor. Everything seemed fine, and I was just forcing the leaflet through the brushes. Had about half my hand through the box, when the dog on the other side thought now was a good time to attack! Fierce barking followed by a run up to the door.....I just escaped with my fingers intact as i heard this great thud on the other side of the door. That was far too close for comfort, so now when I get one of those letterboxes with the brushes, I open it fully and wait for a second. If a dog was behind there, it'd come at you as soon as it thought you were trying to get in.
Of course, if the dog's on the other side of the front door, then...... :(
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15 - 20 mile radious of ye olde norwich for me, i get a bit pannicky when i see signs for suffolk :)
stu
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I know what you mean Stu, I get like that around Bacton & Mundesley way. They always look at you funny as if they've never seen a van before. Or maybe it's just me :o
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I dont know I take a day off and you have carved it up.
I do North West Norfolk.
To the boarder of Lincs , Wisbech Littleport? Up A47 To Swaffham and then across to coat.
Problem as I see it is Part of two Yellow Page areas.
Matt You have made a very important point. Althgough Norwich and surrounding Areas has a large population there will be a problem in how leads are Generated and passed on.
Not sure if we would have Central Answering Service? To be blunt I would have reservations about this based on experience.
Or Perhaps a series of O800 Numbers O800 6666 Norwich 0800777 Norwich
08007777 Swaffham where you get your washin done for nothin. Yarmouth08002222
hev yurgot a lite boy etc
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We could use a telephone answering service, they answer as if they work in your office.
Once a call is taken an email and txt with call details etc are sent to the area manager, It costs around £70 a month. This info could then speedily be dealt with and passed on to CC local to that area.
We would have to insist on a number of standards to ensure a high quality of service is maintained across the hole area, with uniform, etc.
Paul
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I'm not sure I like all this talk of standards, uniforms, centralised phone centres, first off it needs policing and it will all cost and in my experience will end in tears. :(
Why run before we can walk?
Why don't we just start with a loose grouping of East Anglian cc's who network together, pass work around ad hoc, help out with cover for holidays/illness, help fix machinery and maybe have our own "sunny day out" somewhere central like Newmarket (get the beer in Paul).
We can see how it goes from there.
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Sounds good Dennis ;D I know a few nice pubs we could meet at nd put some ideas down.
Paul
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Dennis,
I 100% agree with you.
If I wanted to wear a corporate uniform I'd work for MacDonalds. ;)
It's no good trying to tell each other how to suck eggs.
Let's swap a few jobs etc
Cheers,
Doug
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You meen you dont already wear a uniform of sorts?? What I meen is we cant turn up wearing any old thing, I'm sure most of us on the forum come across as proffesionals with logo'd polo shirts, etc, but there are CC's that dont.
Paul
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and I'm not wearing a baseball hat for anyone, I look a total t*t. ;D ;D