Facing the challenge of hiring your first tech? (Part 12)
You’re not alone. John and Meg Burdick are working their way through expanding their cleaning business. Share their thrills (and challenges) in “Meg’s Story”…
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Meg’s Story: Moving forward by “letting go”! (Part 8)
Listen up owner-operators, our “front line correspondent” Meg Burdick, returns with exciting news on her personal AND business growth. Pay attention to these lessons in delegation, outsourcing and strategic planning.
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” …
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 …
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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.
General Ruminations on Business Reading (Part 1)
The difference between school and your ongoing education is you can choose what to read today. If you aren’t reading or listening to books on CD you are slipping behind.