How to (gently) promote online reviews
Promoting “word-of-mouth” referrals has always been the most effective business marketing. Online reviews are even better!
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Tried and proven Techniques, Ideas, Procedures and Systems (TIPS) that have been submitted from Strategies For Success members. If you would like to join the fun you can submit your own as well!
Can you have the ‘best of both worlds’?
Can you find your profitable “Sweet Spot” in the cleaning and restoration industry without hiring full-time workers?
WHY (and HOW to) START building a ‘Critical Mass Business’
Steve offers 5 tips to start growing into a CMB today.
Are you STILL ‘hiding out’ on the truck?
How can you define your ‘highest and best use’ in business, and thus guarantee your family’s future financial security?
The why (and how) of the ‘Busyness Trap’!
Are you busy, busy, busy? If so, CONGRATULATIONS! ‘Busy’ for sure beats sitting around hoping/ praying that your phone will ring! But sorry that is not enough …
STOP procrastinating on firing a bad employee! Part 2
The TOP TWO REASONS to get loser people out of your business (and life) NOW!
STOP procrastinating on firing a bad employee! Part 1
Stop putting off important firings, vainly hoping the person will ‘improve’ (not gonna happen!) or at least quit on their own!
Keep your trucks clean and organized
Boost efficiency with clean and organized trucks/ techs. Here Steve offers 5 tips to make a difference right now!
Watch out for ‘internally ruptured’ hose faucets this spring!
Use this QuickTIP before your spring rush to avoid internal rupture faucet leaks that cause an “unpaid water damage loss” and very unhappy clients!
Analyze, Divide and CONQUER! (Part 2)
How you use your time matters. Steve offers 5 ideas for efficiently conquering your local market area.
Analyze, Divide and CONQUER! (Part 1)
Where are your energies best invested? Analyze with accuracy your profit margins to know where to direct your precious resources.
The why and how of ‘less’…
3 concrete recommendations to make the best use of short attention spans.
Closing the sale with Steve’s 3-step ‘AFO’ sequence
Steve offers his favorite 3 step “closing the sale” technique. Try it for a few weeks … what do you have to lose? Give it a try!
How to ‘Creatively Empathize’ with a Price Shopper
What options do you really have for dealing with ‘price shoppers’. Steve shares his only solid strategy.
Quit living ‘in fear of the few’!
Steve shares 3 tips to handle raising prices with repeat customers.