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"10 Reasons Why Public Opinion Is Low For Professionals Who

By: Laura Bankston

Too many service professionals believe and rely on the common adage "50% of success is just showing up." In fact, they seem to act that, "If half of my success is just showing up, I don't really have to do anything and will get by just fine." You may be thinking that's totally insane! But what else could they be thinking? For, here are the 10 reasons why people distrust, hate, and avoid in-home service professionals like the bubonic plague:REASON #1: THEY DON'T RETURN PHONE CALLS--well, hey. Maybe that's even too generous. Half the time you can't even get someone to answer the phone. You'll find that only 90% of service business don't even answer their business phone. Most rely purely on voice mail or answering machines to take your calls. And you'll be lucky if ANY of those even return your call!Just a few weeks ago I was in need of a new lawn mowing service. I called EVERY lawn mowing service in the yellow pages. I got an answering machine for every phone number except one. On each answering machine, I left the message that I need weekly lawn service for my home and to call me to set up a time or let me know if they needed to see the place first.Did I get a call back? NO. Not one of them called me back and it's been over two weeks.And then, the one that I did get a "live" person--you know how that went? I called the number and got a "hello?" I thought maybe I had the wrong number. So, I asked if this was such and such business. The lady acted like she never heard of it. I double checked the phone number with her and it was the right number. I apologized and told her I was calling from the yellow pages and that they had the wrong number listed."Oh." She said. "He be back soon."You've got to be kidding me. Needless to say, I didn't invite them out to my home. But any other service that would have just CALLED ME BACK would have gotten my business. That's a shame.So, I decided to my service industry: carpet cleaning. I started down the list of 98 carpet cleaners in my area--after 20 answering machines. I just gave up.Why should anyone put with that? And for those that do finally call you back, why should they be PAID for such rude, inconsiderate, selfish, "I-Know-You-Need-Me-So-I'll-Call-You-If-And-When-I-Feel-Like-It" attitude?REASON #2: THEY DON'T SHOW UP ON TIMEWhen's the last time you had a service professional show up on time? After all, aren't you the one that re-arranged your whole schedule--had to take off work, have someone else pick up the kids from school, or whatever--just so you could have the "honor" of having them show up at your home when it's convenient for them?After all, that's how they act. Like it's somehow a privilege for you to have their service; rather than how it should be--a privilege for THEM to be serving YOU.But, again, I've been too generous. It's hard to even GET an exact appointment time for someone to show up on time. Don't you just love it when you call someone for service, and they say, "O.K. We'll be there between 1-5 p.m. on Tuesday." Geez, like you have nothing to do but take a whole unpaid day off just to get your stuff taken care of?My cable company--which happens to be the ONLY cable company in Anchorage--told me this when I needed service for a repair that was a problem with THEIR cable box in my home: "The tech will be there between 10a.m.-5p.m., so you'll need to be there when he arrives or you'll have to reschedule your appt." So, on the day appointed--I had to run to the store real quick. A 10 minute trip. I even called the cable company to let them know that I would be back in 20 min. Still, I returned home to find a tag on my door that I had missed service and to call to reschedule. I WAS TICKED!For all the money you pay, why should you have to but up with that?REASON #3: THEY DON'T SHOW UP AT ALLI'm sure that exact thing has happened to you more times that you can count on your finger and toes--even if you have four sets of each.Nothing is more aggravating than to go through all you have to just to be home for the appointment--and they never show up!!I bet this one has happened to you like it has me. You buy new carpet. You schedule with the installer for Tuesday--sometime during the day mind you, no specific time--and he never shows up. So you call at the end of Tuesday. After 5 tries, you finally get to him on his cell phone. "Oh," he explains. "This job took me much longer than I expected and I'll be there tomorrow for sure." No apology. No specific time for the next day.What, are you supposed to give your two weeks notice at work just to have service done?REASON #4: THEY SHOW UP LOOKING LIKE A 'JUST RELEASED' PRISON INMATELet's face it. Most women end up scheduling service appointments because they tend to take care of the stuff in the home. But the man is present at the appointment 99% of the time. Why? Because most service professionals look gnarly and untrustworthy. Women just don't feel safe being alone in their home with them.And since so many professionals show up looking like felons, TWO people have to take off work. The woman so she can show what she wants done and make sure it gets done to her satisfaction; and the man to act as the most advanced "protection" and "anti-scam" technology.Again, why should you have to PAY someone to look and act like that in YOUR home?REASON #5: THEY DON'T DO A GOOD JOBNow you can take away all your extra finger and toes and you probably can't even fill up your fingers with professionals that actually do a Good job. What about EXCELLENT work? No. We have to put up with less than good. Barely passable work.What happened to taking pride in work? What happened to honesty and integrity? Apparently it's becoming a thing of the past.Service Professionals do such a poor job at their work that they can't offer a guarantee of any kind. They'd go broke if they did that. They simply do a poor job, feeding on your necessity; forcing you to move on to someone else and "hope" for better next time.REASON #6: THEY LEAVE A MESSYou know, like the painter that doesn't bring a drop cloth, gets paint on your carpet, takes your money, and leaves...The plumber that fixes the leaky pipe in your crawl space, comes out, tracks mud and dirt on your carpet, takes your money and leaves...The cable installer that walks with shoes on in your home, drills a hole in your wall, goes back outside to hook things up, comes back inside, leaves sheetrock and dirt on your carpet, takes your money, and leaves.Maybe they must think their mess magically disappears or something. No. Obviously they expect you to clean up after them or they'd clean up themselves, right?You shouldn't have to pay for a service and then clean up their mess. But it happens over and over.REASON #7: THEY PLAY LOUD MUSIC, CUSS, AND MAKE A LOT OF NOISEHow someone can do that in your home is beyond me. It's YOUR home, and maybe you've even got small children. But they act like your stuff is theirs or that your not even around.Cleaners are especially guilty of this. Sure. I like to have music playing when I'm working; but what gives them the right to turn on your stereo--with or without asking--while working in your home?They are there as a paid employee to provide a service and leave. Not to be provided with every comfort that belongs to you.And what about your children? How dare someone use filthy language or off-color jokes that will poison the minds of the ones you so carefully molding? They should be kicked out of your home.And, how many times have you been on YOUR phone in YOUR home but can't hear because of the worker's noise or the cleaner turning on the vacuum right next to you? Really. That's just too much.REASON #8: THEY ARE UNPROFESSIONAL AND CAN'T COMMUNICATEThey're called "service professionals" because they're supposed to be professional. But they aren't. Maybe that's why we call them "workers"--just using the word "professional" in regards to them degrades the term.To deserve the honor of "professional", one should be clean-cut, polite, competent, credentialed, and literate.You may wonder if you know any "professionals" at all? Obviously most service workers don't look the part; and to add insult to injury, they can't talk it either.They can't talk in terms you understandThey can't even repeat the concerns you expressThey can't tell you what to expect from their serviceThey don't know the meaning of everyday words you useYou can't expect anything satisfactory from someone who can't even communicate on a rudimentary level.REASON #9: THEY SMOKE AND SMELL OF SMOKEIf you smoke, then this probably doesn't bother you. And so it may be news to you that most of us DON'T smoke and can't stand to have it blown in our face or even smell it on your clothes. And not only that, but those of us who DON'T smoke avoid it for our health. And breathing your 2nd hand smoke is downright UNHEALTHY--so we don't want to be around it.Really, I personally think this should be the #1 reason why service professionals are avoided like the bubonic plague. Because tobacco smoke kills you--just not as quickly.REASON #10: THEY USE 'BAIT AND SWITCH' SALES TACTICSOr sleezy ones, or dis-honest ones...whatever you want to call it."Bait and Switch" is probably the most common one. You know. The promise of one price--even from an estimate or coupon--and then being told the price will be higher because of...whatever.Like the carpet cleaning coupon you get for $9.95 a room. You clean 3 rooms, expecting a bill of $29.85; but you are handed one for $480.23."What's the deal?" you ask.And then you get the run-around that the $9.95 a room was only for rooms under 25 square feet and only for rooms that were cleaned with the basic process. And since all your rooms were over 25 square feet, and since all your rooms required more than the basic process, your rooms were cleaned at the rate of $1.25 per square foot.CONCLUSION:It's a wonder at all that their is an industry for service professionals. There probably only is due to the public need for it.But what if you were provided with a simple tool that let you avoid the service industry, you'd grab it, wouldn't you?Well, you have the opportunity to avoid the carpet cleaning industry. You don't have to give any carpet cleaner the opportunity to pull even one of the these 10 on you.For more information, please visit http://www.cleanmyowncarpet.com or e-mail laura@cleanmyowncarpet.com About the Author
Laura is owner of http://www.cleanmyowncarpet.com which provides teaching materials for consumer's to clean their own carpet better than any professional. She is certified by the IICRC and a member of ethicalservices.com

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