Give your customer multiple ‘reminder options’
A huge problem for any service provider is clients forgetting/ blowing off appointments. Schedule these tasks for your office staff …
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Cell phone use by janitorial employees?
A Portland janitorial service manager deals with the frustrating plague of techno-addiction. What is YOUR policy on cell phones and their usage in the field? Steve gives his preferred guidelines.
Avoid negative cell phone Moments of Truth
You’ve worked really hard to polish your company image. Don’t let bad cell phone habits bring it down. Get started with these TIPS from the frontlines of a really successful carpet cleaning operation.
Include a “waiting time limit” in your voice mail
No amount of money will completely “heal the irritation” of an impatient customer waiting (and waiting and waiting) for your return call. So give your caller “hope”
Texting for “permission to call”
Do you respect your customer’s personal space? What about your employees? Steve analyzes how “personal space” includes the use of telecommunications.
Let your customer CHOOSE their reminder frequency and medium
Most clients postpone their cleaning because it is (at best) a “tolerated irritation”. This makes customer reminders all the more important. Here’s how to do it …
Did you know your carpet cleaning technicians are “addicts”?
You would never knowingly hire a heroin addict, would you? And yet you are allowing another equally insidious addiction to continue without trying to stamp it out. Steve shares one sure-fire (but very painful) “tough love” approach …