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I Spent a Month in Waco, Texas, USA with My Son, an Appliance Repair Technician

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Waco, TX, USA

As a Canadian boutique owner, you may be surprised to learn I spent a month living in a place very different than most Canadian cities, no other than the City of Waco, TX. Why was I visiting Waco of all cities, and why was I there for so long? This is what I’m, excited to share, because it’s very good news!

I wasn’t all that eager to go to Waco, but my son has been living in Texas for several years and he wasn’t doing too well financially. In fact he had been living in his car for two weeks, parking in random streets to sleep at night. So I looked at my savings account and decided to take a plane to Waco to help him. We stayed at a cheap motel while I helped him look for work. He was really ashamed to have a parent come to his aid, all the way from Canada no less, because he’s 34-years-old. But I told him there’s no shame in asking for help. It was actually kind of nice, staying in the motel together and job searching on the laptop. It’s been a while since we’d spent so much time together.

We got rather lucky off the bat, booking several job interviews on the first day of my visit. My son was shocked at how easy it could be if you sat down and focused. But the job interviews didn’t pan out, and he began to lose hope again, saying we were just wasting time. I told him the parable of the gold miner who was an inch away from finding gold before he gave up, and then we renewed our job search with renewed vigor.

Finally, we got him a job interview that panned out, with a company called Appliance Repair Waco. I waited outside in the car while he went in for the job interview, and I’ll never forget the look on his face when he came back to the car with a giant smile. He was smiling like he had just won the lottery. That night we celebrated, for the guys at Appliance Repair Waco told him there was a good chance he’d get the job, but they’d call in the morning to confirm. So we partied in our little motel room with our fingers crossed. I was so proud of my son next morning when we got the call and discovered he’d been accepted for the job!

Now, I’m back in Canada, working at my boutique, glad to know my son has a decent-paying and steady job with one of the top appliance repair companies in Waco. He didn’t have much experience in fixing appliances, but the company was looking for someone they could train and would stick around for a longtime. Now, my son is well trained in the art of repairing broken appliances and says he loves his job and the people he works with.

Reflecting on all this, I’m so glad I took the trip to Waco. It’s a city that you won’t find on any top destination lists for travelers, but it’s a quant city that brought me many nice memories, and I’m already planning to visit again later this year.

What We’ve Learned from Mold Removal and Appliance Repair

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Our business model of having a boutique hotel is a lot different than many of the business models we’ve already discussed, those being: mold removal and appliance repair. By not only discussing them but buy working with them as well, ordering their services for our business, we’ve learned a lot about them and today it’s time to appreciate all we have learned so far.

We’ve learned that although tow business models can be extremely different, the foundation remains the same: serve your customer. For mold removal, they serve us by remediating mold. For appliance repair, they serve us by fixing appliances. Both of these are very different then letting a guest stay in a hotel room. But we still serve our customer.

In other cases, a business model might not be to serve a customer outright, but rather to provide a product. If this product is of value, however, like selling a domestic dishwasher, then it’s still serving the customer. Providing a great product, like used clothing in our boutique, is still serving the custoemr and has the same busienss foundation as mold removal or appliance repair.

We will continue t keep learning as we expand our business in Canada, and we hope you learned something too!

Appliance Repair Kitchener Saves The Day

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A dear friend of mine who runs a hotel in Kitchener, Ontario, called in with a legendary tale to tell last night. I was so entertained and grateful to hear it that I thought of ways to relay the story to you dear readers on my blog. If you enjoy cute stories about helpful Canadians and quality services well rendered than this might be the good news you need to make the world seem less bleak in 2020.

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super hero from Appliance Repair Kitchener

Small companies in Canada are still working hard out there to do the best they can and help as many people the best way they can. That’s what this story testifies, as a small company called “Appliance Repair Kitchener” has helped my friend keep her struggling hotel business afloat by giving her free appliance repair services in return for a coupon to her hotel. The appliance repair company is also struggling as Covid has inspired people in their homes to learn how to fix their own appliances in stead of risking exposure to the virus by having a professional visit their home. But instead of being sly and finding ways to keep their business alive unethically, Appliance Repair Kitchener has decided to help as many people as they can so that their company might be remembered by locals in need of their services in the future. They have definitely gained the long-term loyalty of my dear friend who is just as excited as I am about hotels. But I bet you just want to hear the story by now, so let’s get to it.

Here’s what happened in point form.

  1. My friend found out that her kitchen dishwasher and two of her clothes washing machines had broken down in the same day.
  2. With having her handyman unavailable, she felt at loss of what to do because she couldn’t afford a big appliance repair bill right now.
  3. She called several different local appliance repair companies for help, learning that most of them didn’t even have technicians available because they were all on unemployment insurance due to Covid.
  4. She got lucky and called Appliance Repair Kitchener who listened to her story and offered her free services in return for a coupon because the staff might use the coupon in the future when family or friends visit town.
  5. My friend didn’t even have coupons, but she knew she would make them as soon as she said yes to their offer.
  6. All the broken appliances were repaired in the same day and now my friend is celebrating with her family, keeping the hotel business strong in these hard times.
  7. Now I’m here telling you this so that more people can have hope for the economy and friendlies of the businesses in the beloved country of Canada let alone the province of Ontario.

There are a lot of good hotels in Kitchener and a lot of them are struggling, but with more inspiring stories like this we might be able to get out of these hard times a little sooner. After all, hotels will always be a needed service in the future, and so will appliance repair companies.

Once again I hope this story has brightened your day and changed your perspective on the year 2020 for the better. For me I look at these hard times as opportunities to help people, and it feels nice knowing others out there think the same way.