Title:Clean Sweep, Inc. Offers Certified Services Throughout Greater Chattanooga, Tennessee
Pete Phillips, president of Clean Sweep, Inc., literally grew up in the parking lot sweeping business. His dad founded the company in 1984 with a single sweeper that ended up in an accident and was a total loss only three months later. In spite of such a rocky start, the company has progressed to being a market leader in Tennessee.
Phillips, a fixture at the yearly National Pavement Expositions, is one of those contractors who constantly works at finding better ways to operate his business. At the show, he not only attends a number of seminars where he can learn the latest about techniques and equipment, but also may be found among those savvy contractors who burn the midnight oil in productive bull sessions with other industry professionals.
Title: SDT Waste and Debris Services Takes Bull by the Horns in New Orleans
The many problems associated with hurricane Katrina have been well documented. As one might suspect, cleanup of the French Quarter and other tourist-related areas were key to getting the city back on its feet once again. One of the somewhat hidden success stories in that regard has its seed in the beginning of SDT Waste and Debris Services, LLC.
Sidney Torres
SDT’s founder, Sidney Torres IV, is a well-known real estate developer and Louisiana native who also saw self-described time as musician “Lenny Kravitz’s gopher.” Torres said that, after Katrina, he could see that the job of waste pickup and sweeping in New Orleans simply wasn’t being done well by Waste Management. Then, in the wake of new, post-Katrina contracts in New Orleans, Waste Management declined to bid, citing that they would be unable to meet the required specifications.
These seven ideas, provided by nationally-recognized business performance consultant, Gregory P. Smith, will all help you take your business to the next level.
One of the most frequent, and perhaps also the most fatal, mistakes that can you can make is to price your services at too low a rate. Start-ups, with their natural over-eagerness to gain new accounts, are especially prone to this. Even experienced contractors don’t always have a clear understanding of their actual costs per hour.
If you are at all uncertain about how you are pricing your accounts, do yourself and your family a favor and take time to make certain that your bidding includes all of the following areas.
Before his untimely death in a car accident in 2011, Dale McCaskill, owner of South Carolina-based Southco Sweeping and Maintenance, discussed in this article the many ways his company was using the WorldSweeper.com website and other Internet websites, as well as the computer in general, to make his business more competitive and profitable.
How do people deal with windshields broken, and ‘allegedly broken,’ as a result of sweeper action?
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:Progressive Sweeping’s Success Credited to Customer Response Times and Accurate Expense Tracking
Back in 1978, Mike Lucht was using his management degree to sell life insurance. After four or five years of that, Lucht says, “my entrepreneurial spirit kicked in and I looked around for something else. Tom Maish (longtime head of Ohio-based Contract Sweepers and Equipment) talked to me about sweeping parking lots. He was a TYMCO dealer and so knew about the concept. I ended up buying a TYMCO 210 from him — back then they didn’t even have dual tires on the back — and I was in business for myself.
Mike Lucht “Those might be called the ‘glory days’ of parking lot sweeping. I had great sales skills I had learned to sell insurance, where I was used to making 100 cold phone calls to get 10 appointments to sell one policy. With sweeping I could make 10 calls, get five appointments and sell three jobs. What a difference!”
Title:Cannon Pacific is a Southern California Powerhouse
Title:Covenant Sweeping Provides Faith-Based Integrity to All its Business Operations
Out of high school, Darren Lagana went to work for NASA. After a year with the space agency, though, at the age of 21 he decided he wanted to work for himself in the building and construction trade. He started out doing a wide variety of business-related services.
It wasn’t long before he found himself working on building high-end, custom homes. An inability to find quality landscapers led to Lagana’s first foray into another field. In 1997, he branched out to open a landscaping and design company.
