Tag Archive | "carpet cleaning financials"

Strategies for Success Seminar- March, 2010 (Jon-Don Chicago, IL)

Strategies for Success Seminar- March, 2010 (Jon-Don Chicago, IL)

49 business people spent 5 entire days learning how to make their carpet cleaning and restoration businesses more successful. They found out that making money in the cleaning business is about much more than equipment and supplies …

Read the full story

Posted in SFS Seminar MemoriesComments (0)

Commercial Production/Pricing Analysis Log

Commercial Production/Pricing Analysis Log

Commercial work is all about two things- A)Achieving “production per hour” and B) making a high “net profit”. Use this form to find both in different cleaning scenarios.

Read the full story

Posted in Practical PaperworkComments (0)

Carpet Cleaner “Pinching Pennies 101″: Office software

Carpet Cleaner “Pinching Pennies 101″: Office software

Five solid free software tools to make your cleaning business more productive. Did we mention they are all FREE?

Read the full story

Posted in SFS Instructor’s BlogComments (0)

Strategies for Success Seminar- August, 2010 (Jon-Don Seattle, WA)

Strategies for Success Seminar- August, 2010 (Jon-Don Seattle, WA)

With a focus on carpet cleaning and restoration businesses, 35 managers and business owners in the Northwest spent five days diving into the basics of finances, marketing, infrastructure and Value Added Service. See what they had to say…

Read the full story

Posted in SFS Seminar MemoriesComments (0)

Strategies for Success Seminar- May, 2010 (Jon-Don Atlanta, GA)

Strategies for Success Seminar- May, 2010 (Jon-Don Atlanta, GA)

Five days of concentrated attention on the basics of finances, marketing, infrastructure and Value Added Service for carpet cleaning and restoration businesses can do wonders. Just see what these 38 cleaners had to say about their experience last week.

Read the full story

Posted in SFS Seminar MemoriesComments (2)

Strategies for Success Seminar- September, 2010 (Jon-Don Chicago, IL)

Strategies for Success Seminar- September, 2010 (Jon-Don Chicago, IL)

Owner-operators and large multi-employee cleaning and restoration operations came to Chicago looking for answers. Would Jon-Don’s Strategies for Success Seminar meet the task? These class comment excerpts speak for themselves.

Read the full story

Posted in SFS Seminar MemoriesComments (0)

“Marketing decisions are so much easier when we have hard numbers”- Meg’s Story (Part 7)

“Marketing decisions are so much easier when we have hard numbers”- Meg’s Story (Part 7)

Meg and John Burdick find that making emotionally detached decisions can be difficult when you have built relationships with your vendors. Find out what carpet cleaning marketing strategies they decided to keep after analyzing their performance over time.

Read the full story

Posted in SFS Success StoriesComments (3)

What percentage of your carpet cleaning business is “repeat”?  Are you sure?  Really?

What percentage of your carpet cleaning business is “repeat”? Are you sure? Really?

All of us brag about our “imagined percentages” of repeat clients. Comments like this are common at every SFS seminar: “Yeah, over 90% of my clients are repeat business.” But honestly, have you ever put a magnifying glass on this claim? (Steve confesses he was guilty of this empty bragging too!) One very capable SFS member did and here is what they found out …

Read the full story

Posted in Steve's "Bleeding Hearts" Advice ColumnComments (3)