March 22nd, 2007 → 8:56 pm @ terry
I don’t know if I have ever mentioned Equicheck to you. They are one of my favorite companies and always a pleasure to work with. They called to see if I was available to inspect some industrial equiment. I certainly am. I’m looking forward to a little variety. You might want to visit Equicheck’s web site and read about their services. If you decide you like what you see, contact them about doing inspections.
My day started with an insurance loss inspection in the west part of the county. Since I was in the area, we put together a route consisting of the inspections we had in that area; there was sixteen of them. (1•25)+(16•6.50)
The first route was finished in time for me to have lunch at home and I picked up the paper work and headed out for another route. I worked more than usual today because I will taking care of some business tomorrow and will not work a route or even be in the home office until late evening. (36•6.50)
There was lots of exciting phone calls today from reps around the country. Some of the reps have offered to send some highlights of their accomplishments and I will probably post them as testimonials. Some of the new reps in Michigan are still unable to pick up any work; do you have any advice we can give the Michigan reps?
Well, I had planned on more of a post for tonight but it’s already late and I have to prepare for my trip tomorrow. I will be back with you on Monday.
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March 20th, 2007 → 9:38 pm @ terry
Another busy day and a long evening. My day was rather unusual in that we had nine 24 hour rush inspections come in on the fax during the night and our schedule was already full and planned out for pretty much the rest of the week.
Since these inspections were due within 24 hours, I decided to make up a route with just the nine inspections and I left before sunup in order to be at the first inspection at first light. I was back home by 8am, had breakfast and took off for my original planned route of the day, twenty six ocupancy inspections and two interior inspections.
I found it hard to believe but I was back at 1:00pm which was much too early to quit for the day so I picked up the route Vickie had prepared for me to run tomorrow and left to see how many I could finish before dark. Again, I was shocked because I finished the route of thirty-three and was home by 5:00.
Luckily all the routes were in densely populated zip codes so it is always relatively easy to finish a good number of inspections. (9•12) + (2•10) + (26•6.50) + (33•6.50)
I am still having problems with the javascript menu in the manual’s new version. I finally ordered Adobe Acrobat and will be converting the manual to pdf as soon as possible.
I had one telephone interview today and will have that to post in a few days over at TheRepReportâ„¢ so you can be looking for that.
Thanks for all the calls today. See ya’ll tomorrow.
March 14th, 2007 → 10:46 pm @ terry
Yesterday I commented how flexible the field services business can be. Well, today I flexed it a little too much. The route we put together for today had sixty-six inspections and was a combination of two areas that are dense and usually go pretty fast. So, what did I do? I waited until almost 9:30am to leave the house this morning.
Big mistake. Road construction, interior inspections, traffic jams and real talkative homeowners and neighbors. I thought I would be home by 3pm and actually did not get in until after 5pm. We were rushed getting to our routine Wednesday night out spot and I am just now getting to the blog.
So, this has to be short and sweet – gotta’ be, lots to do. More tomorrow. (66•6.50)