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What can a carpet cleaner present at a “ladies club” meeting?

What can a carpet cleaner present at a “ladies club” meeting?

Wouldn’t it be great to get “up close and personal” with over 100 top prospects for your carpet cleaning services? That is where one Minneapolis carpet cleaner finds himself, but how can he make the best of his opportunity?

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How soon can I “escape” my carpet cleaning business?

How soon can I “escape” my carpet cleaning business?

An Alabama carpet cleaner is looking down the road 15 years or so and fretting, “How am I going to ‘get out’?” Steve says “Good for you”. Every carpet cleaning business should be managed for its eventual sale. The recipe follows …

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After 15 years as a “Lone Wolf” carpet cleaner, should I expand?

After 15 years as a “Lone Wolf” carpet cleaner, should I expand?

A Portland carpet cleaner is at a cross roads in his life. Get big by taking on employees? Stay small as an owner operator? Steve’s answer may surprise you …

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How can I raise my carpet cleaning prices without losing clients?

How can I raise my carpet cleaning prices without losing clients?

A Little Rock carpet cleaner has FINALLY gathered up his courage to raise prices. But how to do it and when to tell his repeat customers has him stumped. Steve shares his patented 5 step system to raising prices …

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Sick of being “on-call” 24-7 for water damage losses?

Sick of being “on-call” 24-7 for water damage losses?

Talk about a love-hate relationship! We all LOVE the big money of an “after hours” emergency water loss. (And aren’t they all “after hours” and usually at the most personally inconvenient time?) But an after hours call can sure play havoc with your personal life! A Nebraska carpet cleaner dumps on Steve and Steve dumps it right back!

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Browning on a Berber Carpet- now what?

Browning on a Berber Carpet- now what?

Nothing strikes more terror into the heart of a carpet cleaner than a beautifully cleaned berber turning ugly shades of brown! A Tucson cleaner cries for help to Steve who passes the ball to Big Billy Yeadon, a genuine technical guru.

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Help me, Steve! I’m striking out with your SFS carpet cleaning phone script!

Help me, Steve! I’m striking out with your SFS carpet cleaning phone script!

Any phone script needs tweaking now and then… Steve Toburen’s SFS carpet cleaning phone script is due for a little fine tuning of its own. With these modifications you now have the option of giving a price over the phone and STILL book the job!

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Can I increase my profit on carpet cleaning sales by peddling carpet spotter?

Can I increase my profit on carpet cleaning sales by peddling carpet spotter?

We all want to increase profit per job. But Steve warns against getting distracted peddling product for pennies when you could be making Cheerleaders (aka. word of mouth referral machines). How?? GIVE AWAY a bottle of “Free Lifetime Spotter” to every customer …

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