Focus on your technician’s shoes!

Focus on your technician’s shoes!


If you are cleaning floors you must focus on the work AND the shoes you are wearing. Why? Because your client will be! So your technician’s shoes should reflect your company’s “Commitment to Cleanliness”.

"Listening" may very well be your best "Success Strategy".
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