Nilsson's Article May Be Best Yet

<p>No, this is not a shameless attempt to divert LawnSite traffic...I won't even give the URL here. <p>But if you get a chance, and can look beyond any past transgressions you believe Phil may have committed, give his weekly article a look.<p>His observations this week are, as I said, guaranteed to increase your profitability if you take them to heart. I know they made a difference in how I'll be approaching the few install jobs I still handle each season.<p>Ed<br>

 

Come on, just a hint where to find it? <p>----------<br>Mike Reynolds,<br>GrassRoots Lawn Care, Florida

 

keywords nilsson find article profits<br>locator<br>www.turfquip.com<p>A-1 auto response systems<p>

 

Nothing new that hasnt been discussed here many times before over the past several weeks. <p>Maybe A-1 should review the agreement Big Daddy signed:<br>Conduct & Appropriate Use <br>You agree to use LawnSite.com for lawful purposes only. You may not use LawnSite.com to:<br>(edited for brevity)<br>Post or transmit, or cause to be posted or transmitted, any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or other forms of solicitation; <br> <br>Y'know, just because your local Crack ***** decides to offer up a freebie doesnt mean its necessarily a good idea to take her up on the offer.<p>Bill<br><p><font size="1">Edited by: thelawnguy

 

Phil, your going a little crazy with this a-1 auto response BS.......it doesn't make any sense.....I don't want to hear anything a robot has to say!! And if the article their talking about is the one I read in someones weekly lesson at a certain used equipment web site.......Thats your best ever???? Wow....I should start writing too......Is there good money in it?? I get about 5 different Green industry mag's and I can summerize a bunch of BS articles and state facts in a weekly lesson too. I have a good one on Job costing/pricing! I'm not doughting your experience, or bashing you....I just didn't see anything special in that article that was worth a post mentioning it here. Sorry A-1!<br><p>----------<br>&quot;guido&quot;<br>David M. Famiglietti

 

<p>Guido:<p>A-1 didn't start this thread...and it doesn't matter to me what kind of technology Nilsson employs...why should it matter to you? I started this thread because the article had meaning to me. And since I extracted some benefit I felt that perhaps some LS members could benefit as well. Not all of course....a few seem to have an agenda. That's real clear now.<p>For me, out there still 'doing it' I've a tendency to fear blowing my prospects out of the water with high prices. Nilsson's article helps reinforce the notion that higher prices are possible. So, it's a personal mindset that the article addresses. Maybe for you it's something different.<p>You know what Guido, if you're mad at Phil for 'flip flopping' or whatever, I would refer to a recent post (not sure which thread) where you strongly uphold a certain posters' right to make uncensored, unedited, unpolitically correct comments. As I recall, you're the guy that went ballistic when Stone mentioned 'white slavery' as a possible labor source in the Stone Interview....am I right about that?<p>LawnGuy, you're always the first in line...rock in hand when Nilsson's name pops up..are you saying that whoever would offer up a freebie may be a crack *****? Does that apply to the new contributor to LS as well? While we are at it, would you kindly repeat your well worn axiom about consultants....thanks.<p>And who's Big Daddy? I know the Bengals signed a lineman a few years back so named...<p>Or, since you mentioned Big Daddy and crack whores in the same post, should we assume you run a cleaner stable of &quot;ho's&quot;? A case of self-aspiration?

 

GrassRoots asked where the site was, turfquip.com brought it up, A-1 auto response systems gave directions where to find it. Folks can go there to read and decide for themselves. <p>A-1<p><br> <p>

 

Good morning gentlemen ...<p>Nice sunny day, memorial day and thought I would intervene on this argument although I have better things to do today, I'm sure you do too.<p>Let me explain ...<p>A-1 is a real person who answers posts for Nilsson<p>A-1 auto response systems is a computer that answers posts based on key word input in posts via character recognition made possible by technology. A-1 auto response does not &quot;pick up&quot; on all words posted, it selects only a few words, key words found within posts. <p>When I post something, I sign with A-1<p>Guido, Bill, all others who feel they own the forum or possess a selfish interest,<br>the boards are not about any one individual.<br>Good people come here, bad people come here, the scum of the earth in spite of themselves<br>are strangely welcome as well. That's the downside, but their numbers are few. That's the upside.<p>A-1

 

It's as if he wants us to believe that his input into the industry is so important that he can't possibly answer all the posts by himself. Somehow the old guy has figured out a system whereby his computer automatically checks words in all lawn forum posts and responds to them. <p>Lets see what the robot responds to this: where to find that Nilsson is a phony?<p>See what that gets me?<p>&lt;B&gt;OR&lt;/B&gt; Maybe he realized that we were all laughing at him. I mean, how good can a consultant be who spends his entire day answering posts for free? The day of such a good consultant would be employed with many requests for paid consulting. So what to do? &quot;I love answering posts, seeing my own name up there, and having my head ballon in size - BUT...they're on to me!! HA! I'll create a bullshit robot and call it &quot;A-1&quot; - that will trick the dumb landscapers!&quot;<p>Speaking of being a dumb landscaper...reading his articles make me feel like I'm a dumb ass kid being explained nuclear theory to by a PHD in physics - until I shake my head and realize he's teaching common business sense that most of have anyway. At least &quot;this&quot; week &quot;he&quot; stopped &quot;using&quot; his &quot;annoying&quot; quotation marks &quot;in&quot; every &quot;sentenance&quot; he &quot;wrote&quot;.<p>What a joke.<p>

 

This A-1 thing. Reminds me of that Seinfield episode. Where Kramer starts that company called kramamerica or something like that. He hires an assistant. An intern from a college... That was a funny episode just like this. Well keep it up phil. Least this is some kind of intertainment during this sickening drought.