Out of business
Much of my day is spent on the phone talking to customers, contractors & suppliers. Today I had an interesting call from a contractor who lived about 200 miles from me.
Several months ago he left his job working for a mobile home repair company to start his own business repairing mobile homes. Today he called and said he shut his doors. Out of business. Said he couldn’t get
enough business to survive, and our rainy cold spring didn’t help matters. Huh? Never heard of such a thing around here.
He didn’t know if it was the economy or what, but suddenly he had a lot of competition in the mobile home repair business, and those other guys were willing to work for about nothing.
I don’t know the contractor personally, so I’m unable to vouch for his quality of work. But on the phone he seemed like a nice guy. Maybe he just lacked business skills.
To the average worker, running a business may look easy. They see all the money their boss is making, and say, “Gees, that looks simple. I can do that.” In reality it isn’t all that simple. Just because someone is good at their trade, doesn’t necessarily make them a good business owner.
Again, I don’t know the whole story with this contractor, but I was surprised to find out the business didn’t work out for him. A few years ago I was looking for someone like him to take under my wings and show them the business. I never did find that person, and now I don’t have the time.
On another subject, I have a goal of installing a web cam in the store. That way you can all see that I don’t goof off too much! :wink: All I gotta do is figure out what software I need and how to connect it to the website. Heck, it might even make a good security tool as I can check on the store at night!
Mark