i show up to do estimayes in a clean shirt,jeans and sandles. i wear sandles year round. i have had plenty of home owners comment on my sandles."do you work in those?" when i tell them yes i think it lets them know i am the one installing the floor. hell,i had one homeowner take a picture of my feet,oh yeah i guess the floor was in there too but he focused on my feet. i am a laid back individual. when i show u to work i am dressed the same way. in lumber liquidators they have some pretty salesmen in there to represent the "in house" installer. they look nice,know the product but havent installed so much as a piece of trim. i have rescued more than one homeowner from the suit salesmen. imo

What. And share my secrets? It doesn't matter anyway...flooring guys don't understand the web like bayfloor. He knows where it's at. I offered to do some free videos for guys over at another flooring board when I was travelling earlier this year and dismal interest. Can't mention board name...they chase DIY'ers out.

I guess they think there's a catch. Here's another one I did (the only taker), but I'm not sure about Charlies method of business. He doesn't do email, has no cell phone, and his wife doesn't pick up call waiting when a business call comes through. Oh well, Charlie's a nice guy and that's his way of doing business. He was going to put it on his site, but I don't think he ever did.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhbLCebIIhI[/youtube]

A decent camera works pretty well. I did some other vid's when travelling while using a smaller Sony DSC-H9 (video below) instead of pulling out a large semi-pro Sony I bought in December. I was amaized at the quality. It's the way the video is rendered (format) to YouTube that brings out the quality...and other tricks. Windows has a buiilt in video edit program called Windows Movie Maker. It works pretty well. Come to think of it Keith's vid was done through that program and not the newer one I've been working with.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF4GW7sbs4w[/youtube]