An experienced contractor tells how to use the telephone to sell your services.
As customers continue to rely on the Web to help them screen local businesses, local businesses must take steps to ensure that they pop to the top of online searches and continuously manage the accuracy of contact information and the tone of customer reviews.
When World Sweeping Association’s Ranger Kidwell-Ross built in the 1990s what is believed to be the first power sweeping-related website, for sweeper manufacturer Schwarze Industries, Inc., there were about 100,000 websites in existence. In the summer of 2008, little more than 10 years later, Google announced the number of websites it catalogs had reached a billion: 1,000,000,000,000.
In this article, Ranger provides an overview of the basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO; think “promotion”) tips that anyone with a website should be employing.
With the ever-increasing demands on your time, the last thing you have room for in your schedule is professional development, right? Wrong! The power of the Internet brings professional-strength training as close as your nearest telephone and PC using the latest in audio conferencing. It’s easy, affordable, and effective.
Do you have a Local Search listing on major search engines like Google? It has long been important to create a local listing to go along with your website. Now, with increased search being done for local companies like power sweeping contrators, this has become a necessity!
In this article, World Sweeping Association’s Ranger Kidwell-Ross, provides an overview of the places where you should confirm your company’s information is correct and where you should ‘claim’ your listing information.
Think you don’t have a listing with Google? Think again! Google has independently catalogued most business entities in the United States. And, Google is now adding review features directly to your company’s listing, like it or not. Here’s how to get listed and control your information.
This article offers some ideas on how you can maintain a positive relationship with your customers. Doing so is a key to keeping your current customers, as well as to developing more business with them.
At times it seems as though quality customer service is a thing of the past. Some companies just don’t appear to care about keeping their clientele happy. If only they knew how damaging this is to their business.
Title: Valley Power Sweep Provides Quality Services in British Columbia, Canada
Jeff Lindhout purchased Valley Power Sweep in 1998 during an economic downturn. Plus, his purchase only included a single sweeper and a 1-ton truck.
Since then, he has slowly built the company through doing a good job for customers and responding to their requests and a growing clientele. Today, he operates three Schwarze sweepers, an S-348 and two A4000 machines, as well as an assortment of smaller, trailer-mounted sweepers and scrubbers.
The intent of this article is to provide you with tips and techniques on how to get paid by third-party vendors, i.e., aggregators. Although the basis for this article and audio interview were to help contractors get paid by third-party vendors, the information is also valid for getting paid by management companies and other clients.
