4 smooth techniques to get your customer’s email address
All four of these options allow you to indirectly obtain your client’s e-mail addresses which of course let you stay in touch with them free of charge.
SFS Instructor’s Blog
The SFS / VAST team of Jeff Cutshall, Chuck Violand, Bill Yeadon and Steve Toburen share their insights into the best business practices and how you can make it alone in the Cleaning and Restoration Industry.
Jeff Cutshall finds inspiration for VAS in the sky
Similarities between airline travel and carpet cleaning?? You better believe it!
Reflections on making things happen … Meg’s Story (Part 6)
Meg Burdick is back with her latest installment from the front lines! While the Strategies for Success program is great for getting you all revved up and excited to start doing things different … the reality of daily business soon sets in. Meg shares her game plan.
The Burdicks build for their future by looking beyond truck mounts, RX-20’s and chemicals in “Meg’s Story” (Part 5)
The best industrial cleaning equipment, supplies and truck mounts are not enough. Even with the services of a local business consultant Meg and John Burdick are learning that growing a small cleaning business requires lots of hard work and planning …
Even carpet cleaners have to “start with the end in mind” … Meg’s Story (Part 4)
Hopefully you still feel becoming a professional carpet cleaner was a great career decision! Very probably you are making more money now than you ever believed possible. Congratulations! BUT far too many carpet cleaning entrepreneurs forget that eventually “everyone leaves”. In this installment of “Meg’s Story” the Burdicks start focusing on their “exit strategy” …
Should you do a Home Show?
Here are a few nuggets I have mined from our SFS member’s comments recently to make the best of your spring home show.
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 …
New vs. Repeat Carpet Cleaning Clients in “Meg’s Story” (Part 2)
The road to success in building any successful carpet cleaning business has its share of bombshells. Meg Burdick shares some surprising insights from her numbers on repeat customers. Read on for this thought provoking installment of “Meg’s Story” …
“Meg’s Story” (Part 1)- Real world dispatches from a “front lines” professional carpet cleaner.
Everyone gains from attending Jon-Don’s Strategies for Success seminar. Many students excel and a few actually transform their lives with the “SFS vision”. (This is not to say that their “journey to success ” is without challenges!) Read on and see why Meg and John Burdick are proving to be in this very select group of dynamic entrepreneurs …
Fuel costs considerations
There is no way to beat the system… But we can adjust our habits to lessen the damage.
Lessons in Infrastructure from the 3rd world
As most SFS members know, my family and I have spent many years in the Dominican Republic doing full-time volunteer work. I always say, “A wonderful place to serve … but a horrible place to live.”
$3,000,000.00 and they still don’t get it!
Soooo … if you were spending 3 million bucks on a single ad wouldn’t you try to hit your target audience at least as well as Big Ben hit Santonio in the end zone?
It always comes back to emotions …
The economic news continues bleak on a national level. But how bad is it for the AVERAGE person? Many FEEL that they are slipping into poverty.
Blogging with Billy in 2009!
Hopefully your 2009 resolutions for your business haven’t already been forgotten along with those exercise and weight loss goals.