Experienced CC Vetrans

Well done Cleaner1... only you can make it happen. 

It was sure a love-in in this thread all blowing sunshine up the others butt...

I own 2 trucks no payments... I have a 500 psi portable...I have duct cleaning equipment.....I live in a nice house... I have everything I need except that 72" big screen. I started with a rag and a bottle of windex....nothing was handed to me.  I have high speed internet....

I think I have made it... and it all came from the sweat off my brow...

Most of you laugh at my subbing...I've made money at subbing... you laugh at my ad...my ad has covered itself.... you laugh at my ability..I'm more able than most...

so there you go cleaner1 it just goes to show you that you can't listen to anyone but yourself....

THANKS FOR THAT TED. I AGREE. ALOT OF OLD CELANERS HAVE BEEN SCREWED OVER BEFORE....INCLUDING ME....SO SOMETIMES WE ARE A LITTLE "GUN SHY" ....IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.......WE GET BURIED IN THE DAY TO DAY AND DONT TAKE A STEP BACK TO SEE WHAT IT TAKES TO GROW!!

ALSO, JUST BECAUSE ONE TIME YOU HIRE SOMEONE AND IT DOESN'T WORK OUT DOES THIS MEAN WE STOP TRYING?

IF I DID THAT I WOULDNT BE ON THIS BOARD TALKING ABOUT IT. EVERYONE KNOWS THE SECRET TO SUCESS AS MR. VALENTINE SAYS IS PERSISTANCE PEOPLE........PERSISTANCE....DID I QUOTE THE RIGHT GUY? MAYBE IT WAS STEMAER THAT SAID THIS.....ANYWAY IT DOESN'T MATTER...WHOEVER SAID IT WAS RIGHT AND I AGREE WITH TED...GO WITH YOUR GUT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS....I'LL LET YOU ALL KNOW HOW IT WORKS OUT.

Here we are back to Gunky Cleaning again.  Who really wants to tell their mother in Law they do cleaning or sell cleaning. (Noooo Body)  Now cleaning or selling carpet cleaning is not that bad a job, but today younger generations for that matter fine a stigma attached to it.  Now if you find that Super Sales Man we are all looking for who is soooo good, then why is he not selling computers etc. get the point? If he is this good and works for you, he will sooner or later steal your customers and employees.  It just seems to be the way it is time after time.

This appears to give me my answers why most carpet cleaning companies can't sustain growth.  The only way this could change would be if the investment to go into the carpet cleaning business were to be out of our reach of the unemployed.  The demand for less expensive cleaning equipment is now allowing welfare recipients to get into our industry. The biggest hardship is most carpet cleaners want to stay a one man operation until they find they are 45 or 50 years old and can no longer clean and then have nothing to sell.  Cheer up you could have been a coal miner.

The auto edit function here is interesting.  Big brother is alive and well, protecting us from ourselves...lol

Change your name Gary, it offends the machine.  Actually Gary (I call him Mr) Heac...(I'll spare the machine) only recently retired after cleaning since 1955.  Truely one of the GURUs of the industry, and sceduled to be host of Summerfest #7 next September in Portland OR.  He never fails to give friendly, accurate and innovative help to the industry when asked.

Thanks,

Lee

The group pic from Summerfest6 in Knoxville is a group of very good guys from all over.

from L Jaime Coehlo from MA,  Steven L Smith from TN, Jeff Cross from Cleanfax, Rick Gelinas from FL, Me (sans crutches!), Wayne Miller from MD,  Gary Hea*ock from OR, Larry Capitoni, and Bud Nutter both from Ohio.  If you don't get to know each one of them you are really missing something, good friends just a ring away.  Many of the brightest in the industry.

*ocky?  That's funny.  You sure don't know me.

Thanks,

Lee

ps. Thanks Ed, I wish more would take the opportunity to swing by Ann Arbor.

Fuuny thing is Lee is very real... Just enter his name in your search engine he is every where.. look I found his pic...