Success stories

[eliteagr]

We need some success stories of this business, because there have been so many times where I just wanted to give up on this business, and I keep referring to this "In The Chips" book by Martin Collins and he became a millionaire off this business, but it would be nice to hear of other stories for some motivation!

[Frank EU]

Why? It won't help. In my opinion it is even worse.....; it will attract even more guys, that is, to be honest, the last thing I would see happening.
Make your own real life story, work hard and smart an get rich yourself. If you succeed; well done. Did this help you?

[screenman]

In the time it takes to read a book you could talk to 100 new customers, get out there and have fun. I would imagine the guy made that much by selling books not on repairing windshields, mind you I have done over £1,000,000 in sales so what has the wife done with it all.

[t4k]

Why? It won't help. In my opinion it is even worse.....; it will attract even more guys, that is, to be honest, the last thing I would see happening.
Make your own real life story, work hard and smart an get rich yourself. If you succeed; well done. Did this help you?

I can't speak for the originator of this thread but you've got pumped up and highly motivated!!

[just chippen away]

The success was in the past when there were only a few folks that jumped in to a trade that not many people know of. Now we have a vender on damn near every corner cutting everyone's throat just to put a can of beans on the table.
Now we have guys that did:
Not take the time to see if it is already saturated with chip fixers and hackers.
Not take the time to research out a good system to use.
Not take the time to get decent training.
Not to take the time to make sure they have the money to pay bill till they up and running.

You see we have guys that have been working for an established shop, but thought their boss was making to much off them and thought they could just go off and start up their own service, but did not really know what went on in the back ground to keep the established shop open, that gave you your training and a good paycheck.

Look at this trade like a pie, Every shop gets a slice of the work, Now you have one or two new shops coming into town or staying in the same town just on the other end of town so you do not have to be seen by your old boss that made you what you are today. ( Oh sorry, I drifted a little).
Well, take that pie and now cut it up and each shop get a piece of the pie, But the slices are getting smaller, But you want to feed your family and did not have a pot of money saved up before you started up in the first place. You are now willing to drop your price just to get another piece of that pie.

That is not success to me.
We have so many under trained, throat cutters out there. That do not have a clue on how to even run a business. Now that you are self employed you can see this is not a 8 - 5 job.

The bad part is that the Income opportunity mag.s have stated that W/S repair businesses is the most lucrative business on the market now days, and everyone is just seeing a quick buck but don't do any research before jumping in.



My generic disclaimer:
I can read there are a few good success stories out there. But there are a few out there, that I am sorry they did not do their homework first before jumping in with both legs.
Please be advised, I am not necessarily talking about any one person, Just observation reading with new techs coming up.

[just chippen away]

Screenman
You forgot to hide half or say sorry dear, it was a slow day. I will do better tomorrow.

[Frank EU]

Wow, you pretty much coverred it all Just Chippen Away. Not to sound bitter here, but there are indeed too many folks out there messing with our trade. Not good.

[just chippen away]

That did feel good to get it off my chest. But I may be booted off now for speaking to open minded.

and No, I did not have a bad day at all. Just thinking out loud. Again.

[paulrsf]

Wow! Boys....Boys.... Why so cynical?

[D2D]

DUE DILLIGENCE

If you don't know what this means then you're wasting your time getting into this or any other business.

I am successful and continue to grow my WSR business but it would make no difference to anyone who doesn't have the ability to KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW AND KNOW WHAT YOU DONT KNOW.

I could lay out all my processes for everyone but less than 10% would understand it and less than 2% would act on it.

Just my over the top way of saying you have to pay your dues.

If you don't know how to repair windshields consistently well, then LEARN

If you don't know how to market a service business, then LEARN

If you don't know how to manage and track and guide the results of your efforts, then LEARN