No truer words have ever been spoken!!! I TOTALY AGREE LOU!!!!!!
John you said "Anyone with half a brain can do either" IS THAT REALLY WHAT YOU THINK??????
People with half a brain Pressure Washing is whats giving this Industry a Black Eye to begin with, for crying out loud!!!!!!!!! Now you want to embrace Landscapers??????? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????
You also go on to say " I don't worry about landscapers" because " I specialize in a certain type of Pressure Washing " well thats GREAT FOR YOU BUT WHAT ABOUT EVERYBODY ELSE???????
" I'll Make Money " "Don't Effect Me At All" " I Have A Steady Customer Base" What about the other guys out there busting their tails having to compete against these Lowballing Idiots!!!!!!!!
I got to tell you John, I'm pretty disappointed to see you post something like this man, I hope theres not a mutual feeling on this subject with other people we know!!!
I agree with you on this Guy!
That kind of smug attitude with the arrogance is what makes others out there trying to make a living while dealing with the lowballers, hacks and lowbidders hate people like that. Instead of offering advice, help and their experience dealing with this while building their business, they take the other road and say how the hacks and lowballers do not hurt them.
People tend to forget that NOBODY isn't replaceable, ANYONE AND ANY COMPANY can be replaced at just about any time.
I have seen it happen in the Tree business, Landscaping, Plumbing, Electrical, Alarm business and sprinkler business. They cop the same attitude and sooner or later their glass houses start getting cracks in a "break-proof" friendship that helps keep them where they are living comfortable and then one day they are back out there with the rest of the commonfolk and dealing with what they bragged about a week earlier not having to deal with.
It can happen to anyone, any company or any group.
People generally do not like those people that have those attitudes, it might not be coming across like that but a lot of times it is.
This is what I have seen in my experience about people and companies with that arrogant attitude.
First you are doing great and then you start bragging and then when your confidence is at an all-time high and you are comfortable, one day one of your customers talks about getting bids because the upper management or accounting dept. wants it so they have to or the owner of the company has his wife bugging him about it or the sole proprietor is hearing this guy brag a little too much and is tired of it so he goes out and gets bids without the arrogant guy knowing about it.
The company owner actually finds a guy for less money that actually does a good job so the owner gives him more work and one day the arrogant guy finds out and goes and confronts the owner about this talking about how they have been friends for years, were in the same union, grew up in the same neighborhood (it is amazing how these words are becoming your words in your own head as you read them, you are also saying them to yourself as you read) in agreement, but the guy says that the economy is having a toll on his business and he has to cut back with some services and cleaning is one of the first to go a lot of times.
Now as you are reading this, you arrogant people are thinking that it can't or wont happen to me or my company but sure as you read this, it is happening all around the country, every day in every city to those who are arrogant. It is not really about being hungry or aggressive but about being the kind of person that people want to do business with.
I have seen it happen here to businesses here, even before the economy started to do it even more.
Those arrogant people, just keep on thinking how it can't or won't happpen to you, just keep on thinking like that because it is happening, you just have not seen it yet, probably until it is too late and too late to mend those fences that you thought you would not ever need again or were too good for. hahahahaa this is funny. hahahahaha
