The intent of this article used to provide you with information that will assist you in both buying and selling a used sweeper or other vehicles. The approximately 17-minute audio interview with Mark Boyer is broken into two parts. The first covers best practices when you sell your sweeper; the second discusses best practices to utilize when you buy a used sweeper.
Title: Custom Maintenance Services’ Michael Nawa Helped Define America’s Contract Sweeping Industry
Michael Nawa
Michael Nawa has been involved in the parking lot sweeping industry almost since its inception. In 1976, Nawa founded Industrial Grounds Maintenance (IGM) with his father, Andrew. He ran that operation until 2002, when he quit over differences of opinion with his dad on the directions the firm should take.
When he sold his interest in IGM to his father, Nawa transferred his leadership skills to Custom Maintenance Services, Inc. That was a two-year-old company founded and still owned by Nawa’s wife, Judy. Today, ten years later, the company sweeps over 240 properties with its fleet of 18 sweepers, as well as provides an extensive property maintenance solution for many of those customers.
This article lists the importance of having a Facebook account for your business. It includes details on how to start a business account up, what a ‘vanity URL’ is and why it’s important to have, and includes a podcast interview with Marty Hugie of Clean Sweep Enterprises, a contractor who has set his business up with a page on Facebook.
Title: Iowa’s Crown Property Maintenance has Cleaned Commercial Properties for 8 Years – Without Sweepers
Through the years, we have showcased many dozens of sweeping contractors. The sweeper machines in their businesses have run from the largest street and municipal machines to the smallest of tow-behind and slide-in units.
Our featured contractor this month breaks new ground: Although the owner has been successful in running a parking lot sweeping operation for the last eight years, his company doesn’t have any machine sweepers machines whatsoever. None, nada, zilch.
