>Everyone likes a good scrap, there's nothing like a bit of rivalry to get people's blood pumping. Adrian Brittain and Ian Longbottom know about that!Any suggestions then for the top 5 company rivalries in our industry, local or national.
>Some better news for the double glazing industry came out of www.double-glazing-forum.com recently, with their August tally showing the least number of company insolvencies since April 2009 on their records at 187. It's clear to me that our industry is now on the road to recovery. I still think it could be a slow and [...]
>Last Thursday I gained the order of a young couple who as well as ourselves had Everest in to quote them. Now as I've already written about before, we don't operate by giving false discounts or 'deals', Everest on the other hand do. But their take on this tactic seems to be the most extreme [...]
>I said in July that I would keep all that are interested up to date in how our new company website is coming along. In the last month, I've done absolutely...nothing! In the past 4-6 weeks I've not been able to snatch half an hour just to look over what I've done I've been that [...]
>I've begun to ask the question; whether there should be a loose set of rules or guide lines as to how double glazing salesmen and double glazing companies should be dealing with clients, especially for the larger companies out there.Is it right to stay until 11:30pm in a customer's house when they don't want you [...]
>I think I'm going to set up a blog/forum site for people and customers to tell us (me) about the bad experiences they have had when dealing with double glazing companies.Personally I find it quite frustrating that there are still so many cowboys and corrupt companies out there, giving the whole of the double glazing [...]
>According to reliable sources, the Bradford base of Safestyle UK has been shut down, one of their main offices for the North of England. The staff have been moved to the Doncaster branch, but those who are living in Bradford are having to travel to Doncaster to load up, then travel back to Bradford or [...]
>Some news fed in to us today. We've heard that Global Roof and Synseal seem to be up for sale. A figure of £2.5 million has been banded around, referring to how much the company is losing per month. Whether there is a cash flow or credit problem at the company, or whether the owners [...]
>Heard on the grape vine earlier this afternoon that there has been a spilt at the top at Alpine Windows. Seems one of the head salesmen, who was in partnership with the owner, has split (amicably or not I don't know) and taken office in one of the showrooms he used to run. It also [...]
>Something came through the post today which i found quite...well if i were a customer I'd think 'whats the point'?Everest sent a mailshot to where I live, with a flimsy small brochure and a two page cover letter. And it was at the bottom of the second page which left me a bit...well unimpressed to [...]
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