Title:C&J Parking Lot Sweeping, Inc. – One of America’s Top Echelon Sweeping Companies
Ray Confer already owned a landscaping business in 1978 when he started into sweeping. His new venture resulted from a request by a property manager that was a client of Confer’s landscaping company. At a Rotary meeting, the mall manager asked if he knew anything about sweeping parking lots.
Ray confessed that he didn’t know anything about sweeping – especially how to bid it. The mall manager responded that his current sweeping contractor had come into his office yelling and screaming at him. “If you go out and get a sweeper,” the manager told him, “I have a contract waiting for you.”
This article shows how important it is to track your employees’ comp. premiums, as well as tips on making sure you are in the best classification.
Title:Commercial Property Maintenance Emphasizes Dependability, Pride and Communication
CPM’s founder, Windell Brent, started into this field because of a property manager friend’s lament that he couldn’t “locate a company to provide maintenance that will show up two times in a row or call me back.”
In the 23 years since then, Brent’s Commercial Property Maintenance company has built a reputation for doing that and much more. CPM has grown from three employees, two lawn mowers and one old sweeper to thirty employees, eleven industrial sweepers and numerous other pieces of landscape and power washing equipment, trucks and trailers.
Title:Sweeping a Big Part of Alaska Snow Removal’s Business
With a name like Alaska Snow Removal Services — known throughout its market area as simply ‘ASR’ — someone might think they know all the company does. However, in this instance that’s not the case.
Because of the large amount of snow abatement material the ASR team puts down during snow season, picking it back up again for clients takes a sizable sweeper fleet.
In addition to more snow removal, stacking, hauling and other snow-related services than most people in the lower 48 states can think of that has to do with snow and ice, ASR provides most any other pavement-related service around — even to designing the parking lots themselves.
This article consists of an audio interview with Joel Potts, vice-president of operations for Malco Services, Inc., a sweeping company located in Anaheim, California.
Doug Swatkowski is the son of an industry pioneer, Ray Swatkowski, who founded Florida-based Central Sweeping in 1967. Here is Doug’s advice after virtually growing up in the sweeping business.
Title:Brothers Cleaning Services Emphasizes the Personal Touch
In its 38th year, Oregon-based Brothers Cleaning Services, Inc. has garnered a positive reputation in a variety of service areas in addition to parking area sweeping. In part because the company’s president handles much of outside sales, the company has successfully kept in touch with its customer base through the years.
Today, the organization boasts an inside service team of over 100 in a relatively small market, so the company is clearly doing many things right.
Kramers, who has been the CEO of 8 different companies, possesses a wealth of information applicable to anyone who runs a business. During his 4-hour presentation, the dynamic Kramers described many proven techniques for improving business operations, sales and planning. Here are some of Kramers’ ideas about how to increase profitability.
After a couple of decades in the industry, here are some things now-retired sweeping contractor, John Davidson, says you should – and shouldn’t – do on the road to success.
