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    This year I put my foot down on pricing and it feels more like foot in mouth with two paid details so far all year long. Very discouraging but I know I need to advertise and seek new clients.

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    Re: Random thoughts thread

    Quote Originally Posted by 512detail View Post
    This year I put my foot down on pricing and it feels more like foot in mouth with two paid details so far all year long. Very discouraging but I know I need to advertise and seek new clients.

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    Well, it`s only the end of March, so you have 9 more months !

    Did you find the nicest Independent Shop that repairs really nice cars - like German cars - and go sell yourself to them ?

    Or go to the nicest, usually gated community, find their Clubhouse, or Yacht Club House, etc., and see if you can buy some Ad space in their monthly letter to the homeowners ?
    Or at the least, leave a bunch of your business cards there and sweet talk the lady into making sure they get out ?

    Eventually all those people you did work for will need it again and they will be by...

    Yes, it will take some form or a few forms of advertising now.. Good luck, Brandt, you can do this..

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    I told my 16 year old son, I`d like to wash the Buick, but it`s snowing. He said " you think the car is dirty even when it`s clean". Obviously he thinks I`m obsessed with cleaning the cars.
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    This was in the parking lot at work today. I would be livid.




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    Quote Originally Posted by SgtMajUSMC View Post
    This was in the parking lot at work today. I would be livid.




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    Wonder if all those PostIts ended up as litter, blowing around the parking lot, as some already have. The owner might not realize they`re a potential issue until running the windows down or using the wipers...hope there`s no residue/issue at all, maybe it`ll be OK.

    Actually, I *do* get the cutesy aspect/intent of it, just hope it`s something to chuckle about rather than rant (that residue issue). I know plenty of folks who wouldn`t be upset, so...eh, whatever.

    Quote Originally Posted by SgtMajUSMC
    I would be livid.
    You and me both...but then I suspect that people know better than to try that kind of thing on, uhm...some of us.

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    Imagine if they are those new extreme hold Post its they are advertising on TV now. They wouldn`t come off easily!
    Treat it like it`s the only one in the world.

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    Bill D- Unless that car has a good LSP I bet they`re not the tenacious ones..too many already blown off.

    We haven`t tried those yet, doubt we will so I hope they keep making the regular ones (Accumulatorette goes through a gazillion of the tiny ones with her copy-editing).

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    Quote Originally Posted by SgtMajUSMC View Post
    This was in the parking lot at work today. I would be livid.
    Can you tell us what that was about? Or don`t you know?

    Quote Originally Posted by Accumulator View Post
    We haven`t tried those yet, doubt we will so I hope they keep making the regular ones (Accumulatorette goes through a gazillion of the tiny ones with her copy-editing).
    Oh boy...those copy editors, I have some of those in my family...always correcting your sentence structure or wanting to add a footnote.

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    No idea. I thought maybe the red/pink on the windshield was supposed to be a heart? I say work as it was on base. Not MY specific work/area...

    And I am certain there are no worries of that happening to my car.
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    The cold, wet weather is really getting old. I`ve got yard work to do, cars that need to be washed/detailed, and I`m REALLY getting tired of driving on my winter tires!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Setec Astronomy View Post
    Oh boy...those copy editors, I have some of those in my family...always correcting your sentence structure or wanting to add a footnote.
    Accumulatorette is quite the authority on English by any standards ... and I simply *LOVE* it! Her perfect diction was one of the first things to get my attention all those years ago. Note she`s *NOT* a, uhm...pedantic [jerk] about it, but then I don`t give her reason to be and I`m every bit as strident a grammarian/etc.

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    I just got called a crook because I require a deposit to schedule jobs now.

    Too many no call no shows last year.

    I stand my ground on this.

    When people schedule my weekend and don`t show I am not only losing money from that job. I am losing money from not working OT at my day job and the subsequent loss that OT would have brought to my yearly bonus and 401k.

    I can actually make more working a half day of OT than I can doing a basic interior/exterior anyways.

    I even bent this deposit rule earlier in the year and got burned twice.

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    Stay strong Brandt. More time for your rides and OT
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    My wife said "You aren`t even listening are you?" I thought to myself, what an odd way to start a conversation.
    The devil made me do it the first time.
    The second time I done it on my own.

    The only good thing about getting old is no longer having to worry about dying young.
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