Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: wind0wcleaner on July 25, 2009, 02:51:03 pm
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I have reposted my thread for you Ewan, as the previous one was locked, Ian Giles seemed to have his reasons for that, why he didnt just delete the replies I dont know, anyway mate....
Hi Ewan, I have noticed a few of your posts on here, and reckon that you are a guy who knows what he wants with his business. You seem single-minded and determined, I admire that. Its something I strive for continually in my work life.
Anyway, enough of that, can you give me a bit of background about your setup (customer numbers, domestic/commercial ratios etc, system, number of guys you emply etc) and working life, and what it is that drives someone someone like yourself so determindely.
Cheers.
Jan Grzebski
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hmm, I too am miffed as to why the "pointless posts" could not have just been deleted
So i will reply, my original post that was to the point anyway.
Many have asked this question and they are still left waiting, so good luck finding out.
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the replies were deleted, but the nature of this thread will almost certainly lead to replies that will need constant monitoring.
It is also a personal and direct message for Ewan, ergo it really isn't for anyone else to respond to as they cannot answer the questions asked! So any replies will freefall...this is really a question you should put in an email...
But we'll see if Ewan responds....
Ian
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the replies were deleted, but the nature of this thread will almost certainly lead to replies that will need constant monitoring.
It is also a personal and direct message for Ewan, ergo it really isn't for anyone else to respond to as they cannot answer the questions asked! So any replies will freefall...this is really a question you should put in an email...
But we'll see if Ewan responds....
Ian
Certainly agree, however no one knows ewens email addy as his profile has been left blank.
http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?action=profile;u=11403
so you have to either ask here, or not at all since there is no pm feature available at this forum.
However this post is pointless to the original question so please feel free to delete this post after its been read.
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But we'll see if Ewan responds....
he will respond, but it will be far too a clever reply for humble window cleaners to understand
we just will not get it ::)
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But we'll see if Ewan responds....
he will respond, but it will be far too a clever reply for humble window cleaners to understand
we just will not get it ::)
You were right Matt. Look at his answer in the "average price" post, after Malc Gold. Makes your eyes bleed, like reading Nostradamus.
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I thought it sounded OK !!!!!
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Thought you would
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why ?
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Leave the guy alone its really getting boring now, if you dont like his posts etc dont read them just skip them, its not really a wc thread is it as its personal, I feel like some people had a issue with him to begin with but now theres a lot more followers who will just post about him because everyone else does. I feel like im back at school.
Chris
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Because it doesn't matter what Ewan posts, he makes the reading count go up, this in turn makes the forum look like it's rocking on. Truth is I suspect, people want to see if he still gets away with belittling other members. That's why. All of us have weaknesses, some are aggressive most of the time. Some lose motivation etc etc. One of my weaknesses is, I find it hard to suffer fools. Ewan is a red rag to me, because he is condicending and arrogant to this trade and all (unless they have big contracts or more than one vehicle) who give advice on here.
If you think I am spitting out my dummy, that's up to you Dave, I just wonder when you mods' will be consistant, in Ewan's case.
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Cozy
I treat everyone the same, including Ewan, it is a bit hard to come down on someone who i see has being constantly harrassed by the same 4 or 5 posters every time he opens his mouth.
I see his post makes sense, he seams to have grasped in a short time what it took me hell of a lot longer to do.
Some things you just cant make up, you either know something or you dont
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I think theres a lot worse on this forum then Ewan with wasting post numbers, none of Ewans posts have ever bothered me and from the people having a go at him I think theres a lot more people who probs think the people who are always having a go at him are being a little silly, like dave said it is always the sameones.
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So from that bland whitewash of his post, tells you he knows what he is talking about? The same 4 or 5 posters are jumping on him, because they can't suffer fools either. I expect If you read Waterfed's question,would you then think it was really answered. All he really said was, at one point he had 200 to 300 custies and his biggest custy now is 8K, All you are doing Dave is helping him by backing him up. That's up to you. If you think I pick on him, why did you discribe him before as being like" Halfwit on BB"?
Slumpbuster did it in a nutshell, with "Forum cat being kicked".
By the way RWC, you are right, I may look silly. That's up to you to think what you want. But as I said, I have a weakness, and that's a problem for some people. I try not to offend window cleaners.
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No one braggs or swaggers more than me on here ewan.No one minds you disagreeing or having a contrary view.The issue is that you have no realistic comments on the actual job, or it's execution such as george or otherwise, systems, and equipment. Ie the suspicion is you are not a window cleaner. Not that that matters, but that is the perception problem.
if you wish to remain an enigma okay.
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We can all be who we want to be on here, we dont have to answer to anyone.
The halfwit comment wasnt an insult, it was an observation.
Now I feel i am being dragged into something over nothing ?
Dave
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half wit is extremly clever and sucessful.........i would take this has a compliment.
i dont see whats wrong with saying he had 200-300 customers and is biggest customer is £8k a year?
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Dave, I didn't want to "Drag" anyone into a scrap. I've said it is a weakness of mine. There is nobody on here that I can remember sniping at or having an issue with. Surely if I control my weakness all of this "thing" I have with fools, then it will never be a problem. I will ignore Ewans posts and all will be well.
But you are right, nobody has to answer to anyone else. It was just me and my little weakness.
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Yes Ronnie, if you say so, my point was, the question wasn't answered.
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Lets all have a group hug, aaaahhhhhhhh ;D
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Lets all have a group hug, aaaahhhhhhhh ;D
Sod off, I'm sulking
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depends how you read it i guess but i think he has answered it really.
he is still learning i guess proberly always learning........
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Ronnie do you know what a 17'xtel is ? An slx? have you ever used one? do you know what a george average is?Can you adjust a digital varistream? what does tds stand for?
Chances are you do Ronnie, these are the sort of details that you would let slip when talking about something else, and they would add vericimalatude, or detail to what you were saying.Not to mention any of these things ever over two years, having no preference for side doors, cut out ports, leaflet wording or printing.No stories to tell about custies hacking you off or amusing anecdotes.In fact ronnie if the only comments you did make were on the comments of others, then i would say you have no background in this business.
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Slump
Each to there own :-\ ?
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so your saying you have read back through two years of posts?? and you doubt my background in this business???
please check my sites out and come and see my teams in action if you like!!!!
iv given advise to many but to be honest i got my self were i am now no one else and im not about to give my secrets away to every tom dick or harry.
hard work sweat tears has got me to be a succes in less than 4 years so i keep personal details to my self.
x tels and varistreams are commen knowledge why do i need to comment on them??
by the way i have a sl2 never used a 17 xtel i window cleanerpro do use a vari stream have two brodex systems.............
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stick wrong end Ronnie
;D
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explain dave please
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I think what hes saying ronnie is he knows your a window cleaner as you know the ansewer to these things and can advise people on them but Ewan has never ansewered a post about a slx, xtel, varistream etc not you :-\
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oops sorrry slumps stick and wrong end is correct dave.
i would like to say though i agree with ewan poles or parts might help our job but they dont make a succesful business
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No one braggs or swaggers more than me on here ewan.No one minds you disagreeing or having a contrary view.The issue is that you have no realistic comments on the actual job, or it's execution such as george or otherwise, systems, and equipment. Ie the suspicion is you are not a window cleaner. Not that that matters, but that is the perception problem.
if you wish to remain an enigma okay.
slumpy is right here ( you dont hear that often ;))
ewan posts can be interesting, but his answers are never direct and to the point, they allways skirt around the question and it ends up like a politicians reply to question time, his usual response was " you just dont understand, your not on the same level as me " or words to that effect, that seems to have stopped now ( does he give the common window cleaner a little more credit in the brains dept, i wouldnt think so ) now the response is even more " politicians waffle "
people go on about other giving ewan a hard time, i know i have been known to ( though i hope i am not classed as 1 of the culprits ), but he does give it out aswell and at times when he has a sidekick ( though he has ridden solo for a while ), it can be a little OTT
Slumpbuster are you running a window cleaning business? Because all we ever here about is equipment or equipment you say you have invented.
I personally do think you clean windows and make some money, (if that’s any consolation) possibly even pay some else to clean windows, but I’m not entirely convinced you are running what would be termed a recognisable business, please don’t be pedantic on this issue for example and say I pay tax, that’s not what I am talking about.
Well?
a classic reply
and a reply that means nothing
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i think everyone should have to fill this out..
cant see that happening.
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i have been busy tonight, i return to see another set of "politicians replies"
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but you don't like it Matt when i try to impose my values on you (hard working, successful, money is more important than a cuppa with an old lady who sees no one etc) And similary i sense ewan had his reasons. I just can't figure what they are.
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but you don't like it Matt when i try to impose my values on you (hard working, successful, money is more important than a cuppa with an old lady who sees no one etc) And similary i sense ewan had his reasons. I just can't figure what they are.
slumpy, but i am not ashamed of my value's, i dont hide them ( for the record i started to try and keep customer chats short now, i have found myself saying " i must get on, work to do " which is something i never did
ewan is very good at making "politicians replies" nothing is clear cut, its as if he has a hidden agenda or something to hide ( a few have questioned if he is a window cleaner at all, he recently mentioned his work, so i take that at face value and trust him that he is a window cleaner, i guess just a secretive / politician like window cleaner
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From your comments you don't use George How do you keep track of your round?
Did you sell your original 200/300 customers? how much did you get?
What do you do now?
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will posting on how you keep track of you round put you at risk, will it give competitors the edge over you if they knew how you keep track
you dont work for MI5 do you ? ? ? ?
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No just makes my eyes glaze over
;D ;D ;D ;D
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200 to 300 is a rediculous figure... is it 200 or 300? a proper buisness thats tuned in would know!
ewan I like your posts as they are very good in a way that helps us to see that to build a good buisness its no good just pricing low and taking on any type of work... and that its worth focusing on a target customer which will take a longer time , and sacrifice , but will be best in the long run...
I too havedone this ... I set out my plan and 17 yrs on I think I'M on my way to where I want to be...
althouh my plan is a lot diferent to yours ...
but EWAN... no one on this forum can enjoy gaining wisdom from your posts , because we cant take you seriously as you answer in riddles like a polotician...you never talk about window cleaning...its all buisness,,,
you may think were all nuts but we cant ALL be wrong in our opinions about you!
why dont you prove us wrong by answering the questions at the start of this thread!
unless of course your afraid to incase mr tax man is watching...of course a PROPER buisness would have nothing to hide ;D
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im getting all confused...........actually iv always been a little confused ;D
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im getting all confused...........actually iv always been a little confused ;D
thats because you dont understand it ;) ;)
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tell me a bout it some one comes on for personal advice from ewan and we end up with 4 pages of nothing all most................i dont think i realised till now why ewan got so much stick
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Actually Alex gives loads away he shipped 60 @ average £300 plus on day one. He has a website and is often away cleaning windows.
I could go on.
What really impresses me about alex is that he listens. You notice that if you pick an argument with most suppliers on here they argue back, but Alex takes on board what you say.
He phoned me up two days ago and introduced himself. I had just posted about his curent pr opps so I had no idea what he wanted. He started banging on about nuts and tensile stength, he certainly is very focused, I have to assume he phoned everyone up and went through the same speil. He's very impressive, a bit posh sounding, but all business.
I know that you are a diy weirdo Matt, and you probably work security somewhere with access pc ewan, but i can't tell you what i think to the size of his achievment. His product is fantastic and it will definitly make him a millionaire.
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I know that you are a diy weirdo Matt, and you probably work security somewhere with access pc ewan, but i can't tell you what i think to the size of his achievment.
eh, you think i work security somewhere ? ? ? ( do you mean as a security guard ? ? ? ), i can assure you, i am sat at home on my daughters / family PC whilst my wife has just watched a film on "fiver", she has just gone off to bed and the first episode of prison break has just come on ( funny watching it all again ) so unless this security job is in dixons / curry's and i can watch sky TV, your off the mark
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I know that you are a diy weirdo Matt, and you probably work security somewhere with access pc ewan, but i can't tell you what i think to the size of his achievment.
eh, you think i work security somewhere ? ? ? ( do you mean as a security guard ? ? ? ), i can assure you, i am sat at home on my daughters / family PC whilst my wife has just watched a film on "fiver", she has just gone off to bed and the first episode of prison break has just come on ( funny watching it all again ) so unless this security job is in dixons / curry's and i can watch sky TV, your off the mark
opppps i have read it again
i broke it down into colours, the security wasnt aimed at me
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sorry matt. i mean't ewan worked security with access to a pc (like joeuk). Glad you knew what i mean't with the diy bit.
But getting back to what we reveal about our selves Alex use's a customer card system, plastic hoselock reels, and cars instead of vans for wfp. He sells me £200 cox reels?
We are a funny bunch, and on that basis ewan is normal (okay i haven't got a clue what he does for a living).
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thats twice you have been miss read slumps
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sorry matt. i mean't ewan worked security with access to a pc (like joeuk). Glad you knew what i mean't with the diy bit.
i worked it out, no worries, its getting late is my excuse
But getting back to what we reveal about our selves Alex use's a customer card system, plastic hoselock reels, and cars instead of vans for wfp. He sells me £200 cox reels?
i guess if it works for him then no need to change
if its not broke and all that ;)
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Shut up haven't you got one of your rounds to make? We're slagging someone else off now.
You have a lot more in common with alex than i do.He's very good at what he does, brilliant in fact, but i'm not sure he believes any of it. He use's a drip tray rather than replace a leaky reel connection with a superior one.
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I reckon Ewan is Gayham Gould! Long-term members here know who I mean.
;D
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;D
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half wit is extremly clever and sucessful.........i would take this has a compliment.
i dont see whats wrong with saying he had 200-300 customers and is biggest customer is £8k a year?
Nor I. My only concern would be whether the business would look a bit light if that £8k customer ever cancelled. It sounds like he could cover it though from what he's written.
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If you google for any business forum and have a look round there, you'll see posts that you will suspect are put up by 'dreamers' or 'penis wavers' trying to show off.
Now window cleaning is a funny business in that the majority of us came to it because we couldn't be airline pilots; we probably didn't have much choice to do anything else if we wanted to earn a decent living; so I think there's a few shoulders with chips on round here.
So now what I tend to do is just read what I need and leave the dreamers and penis wavers alone.
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Ye gods.... :-\
All this thread required was a simple response from ewan...end of thread...simplse! ;) ;)
Instead there has been no end of attacks on him (which I think he enjoys judging by the way he then winds the attackers up) and we now have 4 pages of nothing...
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I knew I should have locked it after Ewan's 2nd reply... :-\
Ian
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Yes its all Ewans Fault ;D