Show appreciation to your commercial clients by making them look good to their employees AND give yourself a “burst of business” in your slow residential months of January, February and March.
WINTER strikes terror in the heart of most in our industry. Should you be worried? Not if you make these winter preparations.
Are you tired of being beat up by the “Great Recession”? Are your customers increasing their times between cleanings and/or having less done when they do call you? Many of our SFS members have implemented the “Stay Beautiful” residential “service contract” which guarantees your customer beautiful carpets forever AND they report great results. Download this FREE Special Report …
Commercial cleaning can be a great way to diversify and maintain an income year round if you know how to sell it.
Steve Toburen shares some “winter survival tools” that will let you not only survive but prosper with snow, ice and cold.
When rainy/snowy/generally nasty weather arrives the residential cleaning cancellations start rolling in. Here is a “preemptive strike” to stop the madness.
Steve gives his quick review of what the Stay Beautiful program is and how it works. Use this program to 1) retain your customers, 2) maintain cash flow and 3) raise the value of your business.
Restoration operations, building service contractors and carpet cleaning companies can all offer charitable efforts for the community. (And win a few new customers along the way!)
What can you learn from a 100 year old race to the South Pole or more recently on Everest? How can the leadership styles displayed there affect your business? Read on…
Most commercial prospects want just a PRICE from you. Here’s how to sell your contract cleaning services. How??? Use this Commercial Carpet Analysis.
So you finally muster up the courage to visit a great prospect for your regular commercial carpet maintenance. Even better, the owner agrees to see you! So NOW what do you do???
Regardless of your preferred season of the year, we can all agree that Winter offers it’s challenges to working in the Customer’s home. Try this technique to keep your productivity up …
Chaos sounds horrible. It brings to mind historic events such as the fall of Saigon or 9/11 and the horrors that ensued. But chaos can also lead to opportunity. In fact there is a Chinese symbol that stands for danger but also means opportunity. Which one will you choose?
Now I’m not going to flog my sojourn down in the trenches of remodeling but let me share one anecdote that includes a lesson for all of us in the service industries.
Here are a few nuggets I have mined from our SFS member’s comments recently to make the best of your spring home show.