Title:Envirosweep Takes the High Road in Servicing Customers
In 1981 Robert Pitman started a commercial lawn care company known as Pitman Mowing Service. As time went on some customers requested parking lot sweeping services. Twenty years later, in 2001. Robert purchased his first parking lot sweeper, a slide-in AATACH. With that sweeper he started a parking lot sweeping company he named “Envirosweep.”
When he first started, Robert had just one sweeping account, which he personally handled every morning before going to work running his lawn care company. Now, in 2010, Envirosweep has over 300 customers, 22 sweepers and support vehicles, and 23 full time employees.
Title:West Michigan Sweeper Owner Stresses Hard Work, Accountability
Like so many sweeping contractors just starting out, Dennis Gillean had a job when he bought his first sweeper. And, as has also been the case with many other contractors, the small Minuteman unit that he ended up with – which had only a 3.5′ sweeping path – wasn’t the best machine for cleaning parking lots.
Throughout this problem, working two jobs and being enmeshed in a Michigan economy that is among the worst in the nation, Gillean persevered to develop West Michigan Sweeper, Inc. into a company with the kind of ethical standards that would make any business owner proud.
Title: McDonough and Sons Stress Environmentalism in Full Slate of Services
Thirty some years ago, when Pat McDonough started his own sweeping company, he was already a somewhat experienced hand at the job. That’s because as a newly-married nineteen-year-old he’d joined the father he’d never really known in a sweeping company in Minnesota.
Even though that didn’t last long, when McDonough started a business of his own over 10 years later, it was to found a parking lot sweeping company.
Title:Australian Contractor, Geelong Power Sweep, A Leader in the Greater Melbourne Sweeping Arena
Fourteen years ago, fed up with his work as a long distance truck driver, Australian contractor Glenn Laybourne bought a couple of PowerBoss sweeper scrubbers and used them to clean factories and warehouses.
Today, using a combination of innovation, GPS and personalized service, Laybourne’s Geelong Power Sweep provides roadway and construction sweeping throughout his Greater Melbourne market area.
Title:DSS Sweeper Service Uses Continuing Education and Looking Out for Customers’ Best Interests As Road to Success
Viki and Kevin Kroeger are in their 11th year of ownership of DSS Sweeping Service. As you will learn in the audio interview with Kevin, they looked for an extended period of time before they found a business to buy that fit their exact requirements.
From that point on, DSS Sweeping Service has seen significant growth due to the couple’s educated, involved and savvy operating techniques.
