Sweeping contractors and municipalities need to realize that many younger workers frequent the Internet. Advertising for employees online offers a number of benefits in addition to lower costs.
Almost every small business owner has to wear many hats: leader, accountant, admin, and caffeine fetcher. Whether you are doing it yourself or learning more to make better decisions with your agency, here are some strategies to help.
In the three-hour seminar, each of the approximately 50 seminar participants had an opportunity to split out and contribute to three different topic areas. Each of the topic areas was facilitated by the owner of a substantial-sized sweeping company.
Title: Specialists in Providing the Best Sweeping in a Rainbow of Colors
by Ranger Kidwell-Ross
Although Tim Skinner has operated his sweeping company for over two decades, his first ride in the sweeper occurred almost twenty years previously. After dropping out of college and spending time at home, his stepmother gave him three choices: go back to school, get a job or join the Army during the Vietnam conflict.
One night he filled out an employment application with a company that swept the Chicago expressways. Half an hour later he had been hired as a labor and found himself bouncing down the Dan Ryan Expressway riding shotgun in an Elgin Pelican.
How often do you miss the opportunity to ask for a referral? Do you have a specific strategy and action plan to manage your referral process? Are you leveraging the support of your unpaid sales force – your clients who already know, like, trust and respect you?
Building lists of subscribers, prospects, and customers is one of the most important activities your business can undertake. Once built, permission-based email lists can create sales for your company for years to come.
Title: DC-Area’s Quiet Sweep, Ltd. Also Handles Many Other Event(ualities)
Eight years ago, Steve Dekelbaum had a good handle on the course that his future business life would take. He’d gotten his pastry chef certificate in 2004 and was utilizing it in the family business. At the same time, he managed the shopping center where their business was located. However, that’s when fate stepped in.
Our feature article on the company discusses how, in the seven years since Dekelbaum and his wife purchased the company, Quiet Sweep has grown from three beat-up sweepers and five accounts to a 21-sweeper, 200 properties cleaned per night operation. And, they’ve added a host of other services on the way to becoming a force for event cleanup in their Washington, DC, area.
Title:Clients Call on – and Count on – Professional Cleaning Co., Inc. for Whatever Services They Need
As a college student, Jim Weinberg spent a couple of summers working at the Arlington Park Racetrack for the housekeeping contractor who took care of cleaning at the track. As fortune would have it, just at the time Weinberg finished college in 1984 the contractor was expanding his business and needed an operations manager.
Armed with a newly minted college degree, Weinberg suddenly had a new management job to go with it.
This article is a guide to QR codes. It answers what they are as well as how to get one set up for your business. It also gives a brief outline on the importance of QR codes as a way of communicating information in today’s market.
How often have you shaved your bid to the very lowest level in order to be awarded a contract, perhaps in order to get the job away from your competitor or, these days, to meet the requirements of a third-party vendor organization? When this happens, it is a common mistake to not factor in the many expenses that are necessary to take care of the account properly.
