Measuring, Assessing and Increasing Your Sweeping Company’s Profitability

All too often, those in the sweeping business concentrate on income, cash flow and the number of accounts they have and the volume of business they do. When it comes down to it, the most important indicator of success in the long term can be summed up in one word: profitability. If you don’t have a good understanding of your Profit and Loss (P & L) Statement, you’re not analyzing what is typically the most important indicator of your business’ health.

Iowa’s Crown Property Maintenance has Cleaned Commercial Properties for 8 Years – Without Sweepers

Title: Iowa’s Crown Property Maintenance has Cleaned Commercial Properties for 8 Years – Without Sweepers Through the years, we have showcased many dozens of sweeping contractors. The sweeper machines in their businesses have run from the largest street and municipal machines to the smallest of tow-behind and slide-in units. Our featured contractor this month breaks new ground: Although the owner has been successful in running a parking lot sweeping operation for the last eight years, his company doesn’t have any machine sweepers machines whatsoever. None, nada, zilch.

(Reflective Vinyl) Signs of the Times

The quality you choose for your ‘moving billboard’ can pay you big dividends. Research by the American Trucking Association has shown that a local delivery truck makes a whopping 16 million visual impressions per year

Bidding The Job of Parking Area Sweeping

This article contains information focused towards understanding the fundamentals of the Power Sweeping business. It includes links to different topics and questions to help prepare you for a variety of circumstances.

Maximizing Your Company’s Value to Customers

Your customers’ perception of how important your services are to them are based upon a variety of factors. Although these vary from customer-to-customer, there are some factors that tend to remain the same throughout most customer interactions.

An Overview on The Issue of Noise: Actions to Take and More

Here are some tips about what to do when there’s a noise complaint. Taken from “Fundamentals of the Power Sweeping Business.”

The Katz Group’s Transition From Property Management to Sweeping Continues Tradition of Professionalism

Title: The Katz Group’s Transition From Property Management to Sweeping Continues Tradition of Professionalism Rich Katz grew up in the construction and property management business. So, it wasn’t much of a stretch for him to found – along with his brother, Daniel, and cousin, Brett – a firm to manage properties. However, when the crash of 2007 occurred, the trio found themselves scrambling for ways to continue their company’s historical profitability. “We decided one thing we could do was to provide sweeping on our own properties,” said Rich. “So, we bought a sweeper truck, hired an operator and put him out sweeping on our six properties. That worked out well, so we put up a website and have continued to expand from there.”

How to ‘Whitelist’ Email Addresses

With so much spam being sent these days, the automatic filtering by email providers has become increasingly tight. However, when someone you know and trust sends you an email you want to make sure you get it. Adding trusted email addresses to your ‘whitelist’ is the way to ensure you get those emails.

Customer Fuel Surcharges: When, How, and How Much?

In a time of fast-moving fuel prices, don’t let your margins erode because you haven’t added in a fuel surcharge to customers.

Florida’s Superior Property Maintenance Service “Shoots for the Stars”

Ethics; Perseverance; Honesty: These are all traits that describe Leon Nelson, owner of Superior Property Maintenance, Inc. A native Jamaican, Nelson’s first job when he came to Florida in 1997 was as a sweeper operator. After working for two different sweeping companies over the course of the next six years, Nelson then went into the sweeping business with a co-worker partner. However, as you will read, it wasn’t an easy road after that, either.