Title:Cantel Sweeping Strives to be “The Most Professional Parking Lot Sweeping Company in the Industry”
After 15 years of working up the corporate ladders at US Bancorp and PacifiCorp Financial Services, the latter company scrapped the division Wagoner was in. Along with 300 other people, he found himself out of work. Instead of just trying to land another job in his field of accounting and finance, Wagoner sought to find a business to run, one where he could “escape” from his suit-and-tie life of working for others.
That turned out to be the 1993 purchase of Cantel Sweeping, a six-sweeper operation. Since then, Wagoner says, he has only looked forward, never backward. In the interim, under his leadership Cantel Sweeping has become the largest parking area sweeping company in the Portland, Oregon/Vancouver, Washington area. It has done so, says Wagoner, by trying to fulfill its mission of being the best parking area sweeping company in America.
John Dubbioso, founder of 3-D Industrial Maintenance Corporation and WorldSweeper.com’s Award of Excellence in Power Sweeping award-winner for 2012, has been in the sweeping industry for well over 30 years. Here’s his advice for bidding on street sweeping in the Northeast part of the U.S.
Guy Gruenberg, is a frequent presenter at the National Pavement Expo of this seminar by the title ‘Revving Up Your Sales Engine.’ Guy is one of the American pavement industry’s top marketing ‘gurus.’
References are an important part of getting new business. However, there are some techniques that work better than others, as well as some pitfalls to avoid.
Noise levels – you want to keep them down. But reducing noise costs money. How do you decide whether your investment is cost-effective? Suppose an analysis shows that you could take measures to reduce your noise level from 79 to 72 decibels. That doesn’t sound like much improvement, does it? In fact, a noise level of 79 decibels (dB) is more than twice as loud as 72 dB, so this investment could reduce your noise level by better than half.
Title:Sweep All, Inc. Offers Two Decades of Quality Experience
Doyle Caffee bought his first sweeper for $13,000 in 1991. His idea was to start a sweeping company, run it for five years and then sell it and start again with something else. Twenty years later, he has no regrets about having stayed in the industry for the long run.
Are you facing falling customer orders? Slower renewals? Cancellations? Requests for ever-deeper discounts? Those are silly questions. Of course you are experiencing these recession symptoms. And you have probably cut budgets and jobs more than you like.
Title:Jacketta Sweeping Service “Does Sweeping Right”
Debbie Jaketta grew up in the power sweeping business founded in 1968 by her parents, Neil and Bonnie. Although at first she determined not to work in the company when she became an adult, eventually she started working there part time doing the books and, as is said, the rest is history.
This article contains links based on information provided by Kraig Kramers, which deal with how to run a sweeping company as well as how to grow your business.
