Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: ianharper on May 15, 2005, 05:48:55 am
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Hi Guys
First this is not aimed at anyone or any provider.
Whay cant machine and service providers use this forum to talk about their products and service? These people spend thousand in devoloping machines, services etc and at great personal risk in money terms to themselfs and families.
Advertising is everwhere. evan when you pay for a service say like a pay per view film you will get adverts. I think this view that then should not be able to at least talk about their machines, service, etc is old fashioned and we are missing out.
Why because these people are graet business men and can teach us many things. most have experances that would benifit us all.
I'll give an example. someone told me that joe polish is not coming to the UK any more, why? i think because of the lack of understanding. how would we ever get to know this man and what he is about if we dont talk to him? This is a great loss for the carpet cleaners and other service providers in the UK.
Has anyone got any idea what it takes to build a truck mount or portable? The portable that robert sells was designed by someone else that went out of business. why?
there are only about 2500 carpet cleaners in the UK, these people that serve us have a limited market place and we return all that they do for us by saying sorry but you cant talk about that on here or no advertising. I for one if things dont change would setup a forum where they and carpet cleaners can have free speach.
If you dont want to read advert type of message no one is making you
Respectfully.............................Ian Harper
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on one hand you are right th other hand says that if you have invested then you do have a reason to sell it to us.it does feel like a pyramid scheme,and perhaps you should sell it to others in that way,full on without the continuous references as to what it can do,i would purchase but not with conditions attached
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Can't say I'm either way on this one, but what about a poll to assess the wishes of the users of the forum.
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Sherlock
With due respect, THe issue that I am tring to get going is not any one service provider. its about the quility of these people.
HI Guys
Our market place is as big as we like. theirs is very small. we are little fish in big a pond and they are big fish in little pond.
Let me explane. about roberts portable. I know that one of the peole in that venture has put money from his retirement the company went out of business. his risk yes, but let say that they where around today and it happened, having this forum and this forum is only a small amount of carpet cleaners use it that are in business. so it would only be a slice of their PR.
I'll bet that some of these people have put everything up so as to devolop say a machine. homes, savings, etc.
A way aroung this carpet cleaner ego trip would be to have a live chat room then whatever was talked about would not be recorded in text. It the text that make it look like advertising.
I for one are thankfull for what these people do for me. and would like to tell them evan the ones that I dont do business with. thanks.
I have seen post about pricees of machine or products. all of them have value in some way. for such a small market place we treat the people that serve us badly. bad monthing them and their products. and not letting them answer us back. easy for us to nock them knowing that they cant answer back.
As per another post on this forum. anyone can log on and see what we are talking about. people wantting to start up, customers, people wantting to invest in services or products, machines, for us.
I also include the assocations in this, from NCCA, BICSc, and all the people that spend their time training us to a professional leval.
One last thing and that many people seek information on here but just view the messages and that dont have the confindance to post. in is in everyones interst that we provide information. because without it we produce dirt suckers.
An example someone knocks the NCCA so a newbe see this and thinks I will not bother becoming a member. now if the NCCA could answer in the first place I dint think that half of what is said would be and second, one person works to what they think should be ethical, now we know what that means!
We need to be accountable in some way, Sure nothing is perfect, but going forwards is much better that standing still, because if you stand still in business then everything around you moves forwards.
Respectfully...................Ian Harper
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Ian,
quote: A way aroung this carpet cleaner ego trip would be to have a live chat room then whatever was talked about would not be recorded in text. It the text that make it look like advertising.
There is a live chat feature on this site, though ive never seen anyone on there
regards
Martin
p.s. Whether the owners of this site would allow that is another matter which i would doubt as they have there own products to sell.