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?
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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!
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.
A desperate carpet cleaners cry for help!
If a business owner is to reinvent his or her business sacrifices may be needed. What sacrifices does this Spokane cleaner need to make?
Reply to “Unspoken Questions” with “Unspoken Answers”!
All customers have questions they don’t verbalize! Read here samples of “Unspoken Questions” that are screaming away in your customer’s mind right now.
Affluenza … where does it start? – Part 2
As ridiculous as this might sound, handling finances and financial success is a learned skill.
How to “clearly define” everyone’s expectations!
Someone always “owns the problem”! And if you didn’t create the problem you for sure don’t want the blame…
Maturing gracefully in business- Part 4
Successful companies, as well as business owners, recognize what their strengths are. Not only that, but they also recognize what makes them strong.
Maturing gracefully in business- Part 1
The greatest challenge small business owners face isn’t achieving success. It’s maintaining it once they achieve it.
Should you play “Simon says” in business?
Water mitigation expert Ivan Turner shares why blindly following the crowd is dangerous. Plus he shares some innovative restoration marketing ideas learned from the late Sam Walton…
Why (and how) to create a ‘Shared Vision’!
Employees “get on board” much more easily if they’ve helped design your “business choo-choo”. So bring one or more key people with you to our SFS seminar!
Are you “naturally curious”?
Guest contributor Ivan Turner weighs in with reflections on a dangerous proverb…
3 more “required skills” for entrepreneurs – Part II
Do you have what it takes to build a truly successful cleaning or restoration company? Chuck Violand shares three more essential skills…
Having problems? Don’t follow the lead of Corporate America
Great leaders don’t shrink back from responsibility. Chuck Violand offers an earnest plea to business owners: “Stop the whining and face reality”.
How to reverse “Owner Arrogance”
Chuck warns owners with 3 bad outcomes from executive arrogance. Then he shares specific tips on how to harness this negative energy for personal and business growth.