January 2nd, 2007 → 11:55 pm @ terry // No Comments
Today turned out to be quite a surprise. Inspection requests have slowed down a whole lot which is usual for the first of the month. In fact, I have done so little field work for the last week I have been able to complete many of my projects. I have finished some biggies at www.TheRepReport.com and I have started a new web site for the community which I will talk about at some time in the future.
Why was the day a surprise? Well, I was surprised, maybe you could say shocked, when I had conversations with not one, not two, but three people in the industry that I respect and let influence my actions and decisions. All three of these people showed a desire to make a positive influence on the industry. I was shocked to find three in one day. I often complain that there is not enough progress in the industry to satisfy me and to find all of these people pursuing their ideas for progess was a welcome sign of even better things to come. I almost got a little cocky when my prophecy of a fantastic 2007 was supported by all three also.
I really cannot tell you much about my conversations because I did not ask for permission to repeat any of the conversations. I will say though, that it appears all three will participate at www.TheRepReport.com and some of these people have some seriously big stuff underway that they will probably share with us at TheRepReport™. I did ask them for an interview in the future and their responses were positive.
A while back, one of you asked how many inspections we do here in our area. I am not going to give the farm away but I asked Vickie to give me some figures. It appears that the office staff is kind of swamped because she said that only the November numbers were ready. I asked for info on one company - not our biggest customer – and was told we did 1,163 inspections for them in November. That may give you some indication of how busy we are. Again I warn you to not take that as an indication of what you may do. If your town has a population of 3 people there will be a lot less work than we have.
On January 1st I raised the price of the manual back up to the original $65. There were not many manuals sold during the Christmas season even with the discount I offered but sales have picked up again now and I continue to update the manual just about every day. I have begun to put my updates in the manual and the web sites daily. I have found it is almost essential I do that. If I wait just a day or two, I can have too much information to update after a long day.
I’m going to call it a day for now. I really hope you had a wonderful day and tomorrow is even better. I’m going to look through my library for a good book and I’ll give you a report later next week. Secret code for today: (2•25)+(12•7.50)
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