Best Practices Info From NPE 2010

At the end of the roundtable discussions in each area, the facilitators provided a brief report to the group as a whole on the highlights of what had emerged within their topic areas. Below is the information written about each of the modules that the facilitators conducted.

Working Successfully With Property Managers

Jo Anne Corbitt is a property manager with The Mathews Company in the Nashville, TN, area, and has presented a seminar entitled ‘Working Successfully with Property Managers’ at the National Pavement Exposition. Property managers, like everyone else, have increasingly less time to spend evaluating any service provider. In the following, she offers her insight into the vital area of how you can work more successfully with property managers.

Better Equipping Your Sweeper Trucks

This info is from a National Pavement Expo focus group that provided a number of great ideas for better equipping a parking area sweeper.

The Value of Financing = Capital Preservation

In any business, whether small, medium or large, your goals are to increase revenue, maintain capital and secure a return on your investment. For most sweeping contractors, the two most important assets are cash on hand and equipment. Both are needed in order to operate a successful company. Here are some of the many advantages to a financing package structured just for your company.

Getting Involved in Local Volunteer Activities

The Town of Crawford holds an annual town cleanup day each year. This year a local sweeping company, East Coast Industrial Services, Inc., donated a sweeper and operator to the event. East Coast’s owner, Jay Presutti, also pitched in to help for the day, along with his 12-year-old son, Neil.

Hiring the Right People

One of the toughest tasks we have as managers is hiring the right people to do the job. Here are some of the best ways to find candidates.

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