Shipwrecked by complacency?
Your comfortable, even boring routine can quickly bring on a “shipwrecked business” if you fall prey to complacency. Consider the tragic Costa Concordia disaster…
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Restoration: Breaking through the PSP barrier?
So how can a water damage restoration company “break through the clutter” of an adjuster’s day? How can you get him or her to focus on the superior value and savings you provide?
Painting Your Success- Part 2
As you reach for success, you must defeat the inner Critic that wants to control your mental palette of choices. It is time to prepare yourself mentally for success!
Painting Your Success- Part 1
Every day you wake up with a choice- will you create something totally original or just keep following the crowd?
“Where are all the good employees?”
Sooner or later most of you will hire an employee(s). Much of the time your new hire will be an unmitigated disaster! SFS member John Mapes shares a great hiring tip…
Can you help a “Just Starting Out” carpet cleaner?
Too many cleaners stumble through life flitting from one business model to another. So here’s a starting out checklist of business and life model options.
So what “Success Skills” are you lacking? (Part I)
Sure, nobody cleans better than you do. Wonderful! We salute your hard work! And yet, are you still struggling after all these years? In this series Chuck Violand shares a few possible reasons why…
Staying the course-Heads Up vs. Heads Down!
SFS instructor Chuck Violand reflects on the age-old entrepreneurial struggle between the important long-term vision and the urgent short-term reality…
I don’t want to be rich- will SFS help me?
Steve applauds a Florida carpet cleaners decision to focus on his family instead of searching for riches. So can the Strategies for Success seminar help a “little guy” that just wants to stay small?
How Mac W. Skiver found “Sawadee” at SFS!
Mac Skiver was starting out in carpet cleaning at 58! So he didn’t have 20 years to learn from the School of Hard Knocks. See how SFS brought Mac success AND the freedom to retire in just four short years!
WARNING! Nothing “Recedes Like Success”
One of our greatest threats is past success. Chuck shares two common “success pitfalls” for cleaners.
Do you have a personal “Disaster Plan”?
Steve is typing one-handed and is thankful he is still not “on the truck”. How about you? Can you clean carpet with one hand? If not, read on …
Get expert “local” marketing help
Too many cleaning and restoration professionals flounder with managing their business due to the demands of NOW! So how can you stay on top of your marketing, strategic planning and your long range vision?
“SFS changed my life”- Brad Macauley
Illinois carpet cleaner Brad Macauley found the push he needed to make a real change for the better in his business and life. How and why did he do it?
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Patrick Thompson’s path to new residential clients
So can a small family operation really compete against the big companies? In this dispatch a Chicago area owner-operator explains how SFS “Cheerleader concepts” transformed his business.