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We offer Swimming Pool repair and remodeling throughout Houston TX., Sugar land TX., Richmond TX., Katy TX., Harris County, Fort Bend County and most surrounding areas.
To give you an idea of where I come from, let me start off by telling you a little about my background. I have been in the swimming pool repair industry for about 12 years now. While that doesn’t seem like a long time, rest assured, I’ve been through a lot. I started off selling hot-tub’s (spas) and above ground swimming pools. After a while of selling spas, I started to install and repair them. I gained a great deal of insight towards the various issues that could arise from running a pool and spa store. It was at this little hole in the wall pool store that I had my first drop of chlorine run through my veins.
After my first experience with swimming pools, I knew I had to have more. I ended up moving away, and looking for the first pool service job I could find. During my 3 days of training, I didn’t learn much, except that the person training me, shouldn’t have been training anyone. It didn’t take long before I was out there on my own servicing swimming pools. I was completely lost, so I did what any newbee pool guy would do, and I just improvised. After many green (and yellow) pools, and several copper stained (we used a lot of copper algaecide) pools, I decided I should probably get some training. It was with this in mind that I quit my pool service job and started looking to go somewhere else to gain some knowledge.
I ended up at a small chain of swimming pool supply stores. They had about 9 stores and they were a pretty reputable “Bioguard” dealer. It was training I was looking for, and it was training I got. I spent about 5 months attending various educational courses, seminars, schools, etc. After training was completed, I was promoted to assistant manager of one of their stores. During this time, I took it upon myself to learn even more. I started reading everything I could find and attending every seminar possible. With the newfound knowledge I had gained, I was quickly bumped up to store manager. So there I was, all alone again. Except this time I was a little more prepared. It was spring time and my store was getting busy, really busy. I learned a lot, and I messed up a lot, but I was having a great deal of fun. It was about mid-summer when I realized that the pool industry was the place for me. I continued to work for this company for a few years, until one day, I woke up and realized that I wasn’t going anywhere. I had to find a new job with more to offer.
I spent the next few years bouncing (and getting a lot more training) around the various pool stores looking for my calling. It was in the middle of winter when a guy comes into my store and asked if I knew of anyone looking for a job. I happily replied, yes, me. He went on to explain that he was a swimming pool builder and they were looking for some sales people. With some excitement and a little fear (I had never built a pool before), I went to the interview the next day. After hearing of my experience in retail sales and management, they reluctantly hired me. To my dismay, I took on the learning curve quit easily. It was only after a few months of training that I was out there on my own again. I enjoyed building pools, but it wasn’t my favorite thing to do. I liked marketing, and talking to different people everyday. Building pools was a little monotonous, and I didn’t get to talk to too many people. So, you can probably guess, it was time for a new job.
Houston Pool Repair and Remodeling
40 F.M. 1960 W. #110
Houston, Texas 77090
832-286-3408 |
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Pool Repair Company
I wanted back into retail, and I wanted some stability and opportunity. So, what better to do then go work for the biggest pool supply retailer out there. And so I did. At this time I was perfectly capable of running a pool supply store on my own, but, due to the corporate policies of this “largest pool retailer”, I started off as retail associate. After lots of red tape and training, I was then moved to assistant manager. It was a great experience, I’ve never been in such a high volume store before. But, when I was looking for stability and opportunity, I actually got a lot of red tape and corporate politics. I was miserable. So, again, I’m back in the job market.
It wasn’t long before I decided to call an old acquaintance that I had met while he was down doing some training. He was rep for a swimming pool chemical manufacturer. I was delighted to find out that they were looking for someone in my area. About a week later I met this acquaintance at Starbucks for an interview, and then three days later started working for him. It was the best job I had ever had, I was working for some great people. My territory was South Texas and South Louisiana. I got to attend trade shows and travel, a lot. I learned a great deal about how the swimming pool industry worked. We where rep’s for many well respected swimming pool product manufacturers. We had several pool chemical lines, a motor line, a zeolite product, some pool repair products, some pool builder products, and several other lines that were great. As much as I enjoyed working for these guys, I knew I had to have more. I wanted to start my own business.
I decided to open a pool service and "pool repair" business. To do this I began to study web design. I know what your thinking, a pool guy doing web design, whaaaat. Well, I actually picked it up pretty easy. I was quite good, believe it or not. So I built a website and started gathering my plan to start this pool service/repair company. After about 2 months I started receiving calls from my website, a lot of calls. Before I knew it, I was so busy taking calls, that I had to quit my current job as a manufacturers rep and do pool repair, full time.
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