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Up-Selling Scotchgard on the Home Front

Up-Selling Scotchgard on the Home Front

This freshly revised Special Report lays the roadway towards new and repeat add-on sales of Scotchgard and other high-profit services. Are you getting the full profit potential out of each carpet cleaning job? Would you like to transform your carpet cleaning technicians into motivated yet subtle salespeople? The answers are inside …

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“Toto, I don’t think we’re cleaning carpet in Kansas anymore!”

“Toto, I don’t think we’re cleaning carpet in Kansas anymore!”

What do Rock & Roll, Toto, and Facebook have to do with your cleaning business? Value conscious customers!! Big Billy Yeadon advises carpet cleaners to keep an eye on their company image in this new economic climate. So how and what are you contributing to your community?

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Hiring a business consultant for her carpet cleaning business Meg’s Story (Part 3)

Hiring a business consultant for her carpet cleaning business Meg’s Story (Part 3)

Meg and John Burdick have already built an exceptional business. Now they are looking to the future and recognize they need more outside help. So they are taking a scary step of bringing in a local consultant. Read on and ask if you too need more outside help and/or accountability in your life …

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Should I go with a “one stop package” carpet cleaning “business opportunity”?

Should I go with a “one stop package” carpet cleaning “business opportunity”?

When entering a new industry it can be an oh-so-very-overwhelming journey. So it is tempting to go the pre-packaged equipment route, especially if the company offers you a “protected territory” for your carpet cleaning business. But Steve says to be very, very careful. After all, you are putting one more link in the “supplier chain” …

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How professional carpet cleaners can get local small business consulting … FREE!

How professional carpet cleaners can get local small business consulting … FREE!

Even the Bible says that “in the multitude of counselors there is salvation”. And yet, being the stubborn, mule-headed entrepreneurs that we are, we continue to insist on going it alone. One SFS member shares a great idea on outside advice. Even better, this help is FREE!

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How should I price my cleaning work?

How should I price my cleaning work?

One perplexed cleaning newbie confesses that pricing is just one big confusing mess. Steve shares a few quick principles on setting prices and gives a “charge more” pep talk at the same time …

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10 Questions Every Cleaning and Restoration Business Should Ask!

10 Questions Every Cleaning and Restoration Business Should Ask!

Check out these 10 questions that just may keep you from joining the 80% of start-up businesses that fail within their first decade. Then share with your fellow board members other vital questions that have kept you safe, sane and profitable …

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Should carpet cleaners advertise in the “services section”?

Should carpet cleaners advertise in the “services section”?

A San Diego carpet cleaner is starting to feel desperate with an average of just one job per week since starting out two months ago. Steve shares the simplest, fastest and CHEAPEST way to get carpet cleaning business right now!

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