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”…

Meg’s Story: Focusing on our online marketing (Part 10)

Meg and John have made huge progress streamlining their internal operations. But all these changes are expensive. Time to get that phone to ring! Meg shares how they have done it …

“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.

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 …