Not as much as I could be, but it’s there and heading in the right direction. I’ve never been one to shout about my abilities, but there’s a lot of loud mouth over confident types in this industry seemingly doing alright.
You know what mate, if you respond to enquires, give a competitive quote, turn up when you say you`re going to turn up and do a decent job, you won`t have " flat " periods for log.
We`ve got a minor fault on with our central heating ( about 1/2hrs work )
I know exactly what it is, I`ve got the part, it just needs fitting.
I`ve been trying for three weeks to get someone to do the job, including a mate, who seems to have gone underground.
Most don`t even reply to messages left on the phone number supplied or the email address supplied, on their business ads.
I appreciate it`s a little job, but where I live there`s a good few pensioners in our road, who are always asking me for tradesmen and I always recommend lads who`ve done a good job for me.
So, by turning out for a little job or even just politely responding to it, you could potentially be getting many more jobs locally.
If you multiply this by every job you do, pretty soon you`re phone won`t stop ringing.
My neighbour facing me, who is a pensioner, had a minor leak on his kitchen roof, it took him months to get anyone out to fix it. Now the little local firm that sorted it, does virtually the whole roads roofs - Victorian and Georgian houses, that always need minor work doing with damp and leaks.
I`ve said this before, but I don`t know how a lot of them are still in business.
