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So I found this post the other day on a forum called John Bridge Forums – TileYourWorld.com
Here’s what it said:
http://www.businessbeware.biz/index.php
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Matt
I don’t know that it would be very helpful to rant about “problem” clients? My issues with someone are likely to be different than the experience someone else might have; usually very specific to the project in question. Ragging on personality flaws makes, what should be a professional relationship, into a personal one. Doesn’t make sense to me.
Shaughnn
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Capua Custom Tile & Stone; Seattle, Washington
Member of National Tile Contractors Association
Member of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers Local #1, WA
Certified WEDI Board installer
I agree, Shaugnn, that wouldn’t be too helpful. Over the years I’ve been called in for estimates to complete jobs started by other installers. Usually just stay away from these. Most of the time it’s obvious why the installer was canned, but sometimes everything looks fine. Since you can’t ask who did the work and why they were fired, with this maybe you could get the installer’s story.
Or for subs to report slow paying g.c.s!
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Matt
http://www.johnbridge.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=73751 (check it out here, i did not alter a thing)
I just had to point this thread out to others, I could not stop laughing at it. It’s amazing what some people think and voice about ideas or things. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I can’t help but think ‘what is he thinking?” about the guy that said “If you are willing to complain publicly about one GC, you’ll rat them all out.” Who is ratting out the contractors? The site is geared towards contractors warning fellow contractors about deadbeat clients, and 85% of contractors do have a few stories to share with someone about how they were scammed by consumers….
Anyways, I’m sure these people had no idea this would be posted somewhere else like here, especially the site they were talking about, but don’t write things you don’t want others to see 
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I know this is common sense but why is it we still keep some of those same people in our offices that cause problems? There are always a ton of reasons but we all want to appeal to the customers and show that we do have good customer service. If your office person who answers the phone is constantly having a bad attitude when dealing with customers on the phone, that is going to rub the customer wrong and get them a little agitated at your business right off at the start. How mad do you get when you call a business and get a rude person on the phone that rubs you wrong when all you were doing was calling for their service??
If your office person does not have a great attitude, talk to them and remind them that their job is to “talk” to the customers. If they still don’t change, well then I would say there may be a few customers you lost because you kept them…. Also, if the person causes you some drama within the office, that’s what we call a tumor and you have to cut the cancer out! Keeping someone that causes drama and stirs things up in your office is only going to make a million things worse.
As you’re reading this short excerpt, you’re probably thinking well I already know that…. well if you do and you have one in your business, what are they still doing there? Make a move! Your business’s image reflects off everyone that’s on your staff….
How many times have you had a great idea and when you tell someone about it, they look at you like you’re crazy and then follow with ” that will never work…” I know some of you are shaking your head yes, and I can honestly say I have been told that many times already.
Any entrepreneur can tell you that you have to have thick skin when going after an idea or dream. There’s a difference between an entrepreneur and a non entrepreneur, which is when someone tells you that your idea won’t work, it makes you double your drive to make that idea come to life. Those who are not, will take it in, get mad and just stop as if they have been defeated and move to something else.
Think about how many people get told that their business idea won’t work or it’s not good enough, even some of the biggest businesses were once told that and they proved those people wrong. I love to hear about people’s stories when they talk about how they started out with their idea and how many people turned them down but yet they still made it because they believed in it and all it took was another to believe in it too. Like for instance, Stephenie Myers who wrote the Twilight series, she had this great idea for this book and she sent out numerous letters. She received many rejection letters that came back and she saved each one of them, making it drive her even more to succeed in getting that book published. And one day someone responded to her and picked it up and now look at it, it’s a best selling book and just had a movie about it. I love the part where she said she kept the rejection letters to drive her and don’t you think those ones that rejected her are kicking themselves right now??
Another story I love is the one about Tom’s Shoes. Blake in an interview was asked if there were people who thought his idea would work or not and he replied with “of course, I had so many tell me that this concept would more than likely not work.” But look at him now with what he and his company have done, where they give a pair of shoes away for each pair that is bought. That’s a pretty awesome concept and idea, he definitely proved those wrong.
There is nothing wrong with being pessimistic sometimes because it’s called realism in other words too. You have to have some that pull you back down out of the clouds but it doesn’t mean that you have to forfeit your dream or idea. I have learned that you take the good in with the bad and learn from it but use it to make you or your idea better. And when those tell it can’t be done, prove them wrong. And when you do prove them wrong, how much sweeter is it to go back to them and say “now what do you think about my idea?”
No idea is a bad idea, maybe you need to work out some of the kinks but never give up on a dream or idea because if you do, the world may miss out on something great.
-Ashley
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