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.
Title:Wells Sweeping is Leading California Contractors’ Fight Against California Air Resources Board Regulations
In the early 70s, guitar-playing Jay Wells says he kept seeing these odd-looking machines out late at night when he’d finish his band gigs. Interested, he talked to the drivers to see what it was they were doing. Then, he met Jack Rogers, inventor of the Nite-Hawk single-engine sweeper concept. Before he knew it, Wells said with a laugh, he was “in the parking lot sweeping business.”
Initially, fledgling Wells Sweeping handled only parking area cleanup. “There wasn’t much competition to speak of,” Jay said. “It was the golden days of sweeping. One of the manufacturers had an ad campaign about there being ‘gold on the streets.’ Looking back at it, in a way the ads were true. I didn’t realize how good we had it.”
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Title: Mid-State Industrial Service, Inc. Offers Certified Sweeping in Oregon
Title:Commercial Power Sweeping and Services:
Virginia Contractor Aptly Has
‘Power’ as its Middle Name.
Ray Confer, principal in C & J Sweeping and a contractor with 60 employees, says: “When it comes to running a sweeping company, including how you bid sweeping jobs, there’s no right and wrong way to do it if you have the facts you need. What’s important is that you work out a way that works — and makes money — for you.” Adapted from Confer’s presentation at a National Pavement Expo.
Title:Davidson-Macri Sweeping, Inc. and SweeperMarket magazine receive 2008 WorldSweeper.com Award of Excellence in Power Sweeping
Davidson-Macri Sweeping, Inc. was also the WorldSweeper.com Contractor of the Month for February, 2008
The average company loses half their customers in 5 years and half their employees in 4 years. This has significant impact to overall customer, employee, investor and supplier loyalty.
