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"I can't agree about the product, the practitioner then merely becomes the tool to install the product, albeit professionally, it is the designer/client who chooses the product."
Don't you listen to your employees/sub-contractors' feed back information about products, tools and equipment when they return from site?
I'd love Stihl to join LJN.
We've tried to get them to come to Creating Landscapes but it's - as it is with a lot of the bigger machinery and product cos - as though they've thrown a firewall around their organisation.
Perhaps the power to get Stihl to join lies with us - the LJN members and end-users of their products ?
With the right contact/email details a large number of Stihl end users/LJN members could email and provide an "open" invite for Stihl to join us here on LJN.
Any responses or lack or response could then be posted for all to see on LJN and all on the WWW (including Stihl's HQ).
For Etesia, I simply put a short, well reasoned email to Les. He responded within hours to me and joined LJN shortly afterwards. The rest, as they say, is history. The benefits where immediate thank's to Les's colleague - Neil.
So, more power to Etesia. Clearly a forward thinking company who wish to engage with the 000's of small businesses that use their products and realise how powerful such forums can be to company's future and image.
Having just spent a bomb on new Stihl kit and machinery repairs I think I, like many others, deserve to see Stihl here on LJN.....
Now...where is Stihl UK's Managing Director's Email address .......:-)
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Nice one Graeme:)
New thread:
http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/who-would-value-s...
has been created to take the Stihl discussion further
Completely agree Gary.
One other point worth noting is that the companies that supply us also directly sell to our customers - I have plenty of customers with their own equipment that is often better than mine (well, they do tend to be a lot wealthier than me!). And these customers often ask for my recommendations on equipment to buy, as I use the stuff every day. Yesterday, for example, I was asked to recommend a ride-on, collecting mower for use on 4 acres of grass. So I am acting as an unofficial salesman for £000s worth of kit, as well as being an end-user myself. Companies really must bear this mind too when considering how they interact with us professional users of their products.
Gary @ Acer Paving & Landscaping said:
totally agree about acting as an unofficial salesman, - I get asked for recommendations day in, day out. I ONLY recommend things that I have used and liked, -
Liked being the operative word, as that doesn't mean, - worked first time for me, - it often means, - received enough customer service to see where any problems I had with the product were so that I could use it.
The way to get me to NEVER recommend something again, is to give me poor customer service.
In the case of Stihl, - I don't go back to the distributer I got my tools from, - he looked down at me, - a women buying hundreds of pounds worth of equipment, and only reluctantly showed me how to work them, and told me to try harder when I couldn't get the starter cord to work. (ignoring the fact that my arms weren't long enough to pull the cord out all the way!)
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