Working With Third Party Vendors: Webinar by Richard Arlington

This WorldSweeper-sponsored webinar featured Richard Arlington, President of Rich Arlington and Associates. In the webinar, Mr. Arlington provided the background on the advancing trend of regional and national companies using 3rd party service providers.

Mr. Arlington is the Business Manager for 3rd party service provider, Affiliated Grounds Maintenance Group, Inc., and his company was featured in an article at WorldSweeper.com. In addition, Rich is President of Arlington Lawn Care, which provides a number of services including parking lot sweeping. Finally, as President of Rich Arlington & Associations, he is a nationally recognized consultant to the lawn care and snow removal industries.

Rich Arlington has worked with a wide variety of service contractors on how to improve their businesses, as well as how to evaluate and work with 3rd party service providers. He has extensive knowledge and experience with such topics as:

Richard provided a brief background about the trend by regional and national chain stores to use national service providers (also called ‘third party service aggregators’). He then discussed the value this type of system provides and what it means for service suppliers, such as sweeping contractors. Included is his list of “do’s and don’ts” when it comes to working with his and other third party service providers.

To access the audio file for the webinar, click on the podcast link shown below. You may want to download and follow along on either the Powerpoint version or the PDF version of the presentation Arlington used for the webinar.

You may reach Richard Arlington by calling 814-490-4700. The Affiliated Grounds Maintenance Group’s website is located at www.agmgus.com/.

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